NYU Journalism Toolbox (Bobst Library)

Digital national security archive
Database contains comprehensive collections of declassified documents, and new collections will be added yearly. Data is owned by the National Security Archive.

Declassified documents reference system
The database ranges from the years immediately following World War II, when declassified documents were first made widely available, through the 1970s. Nearly every major foreign and domestic event of these years is covered: the Cold War, Vietnam, foreign policy shifts, the civil rights movement, and others.

Foreign Relations of the United States. US Dept of State

• http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/frus.html
• http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/

Thomas
Provides free access to a wide range of legislative information on the Congress, including the full text of the Congressional Record and bills for the 103rd to the present Congress, a directory of congressional committees and members of Congress, the weekly floor schedule for the House, and a schedule of daily committee hearings. Includes text of “How our laws are made,” by Edward F. Willett Jr.

Government Information, International Documents Research Guide

NYU law library,foreign and int’l legal databases
International law databases - summary list from NYU law homepage

Governments on the WWW
Comprehensive database of governmental institutions, including parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, city councils, & multi-governmental institutions (Gunnar Anzinger).

Foreign Governments
Comprehensive directory of foreign government offices, including key ministries and departments. (Northwestern University).

Election World on Wikipedia

Oceana law treaty index
With the Quick U.S. Treaties Index, you can search for index records of over 10,000 U.S. treaties. Search treaties by: Treaty Name, Country, Year Signed, or Subject.

Thomas - Treaties search page
US treaties. Help with searching treaties in Thomas: http://thomas.loc.gov/home/treaties/trhelp.htm

United Nations Treaty Collection
Includes online versions of the print publications: Multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General, which incorporates the detailed status of over 485 multilateral treaties, and: (United Nations) Treaty series, which contains the texts of over 30,000 bilateral and multilateral treaties in their authentic language(s), along with a translation into English and French, as appropriate, for those treaties registered with the Secretariat.

Thanks to Gretchen Gano, Librarian for Public Administration and Government Information for compiling this info!

 Non-governmental organizations (NGO) research guide
This subject guide from Duke University explains how to locate information on NGOs.

Use these free resources to identify international organizations and NGOs.

• Directory of Development Organizations
• InterAction.org
• Worldwide NGO directory

AccessUN [NYU Only]
Provides access to current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications. Articles appearing in UN periodicals are individually indexed. Indexing of the bilateral and multilateral treaties in the UN Treaty Series is another unique feature of the Index.

UNBIS Net
“Catalog of UN publications and documentation indexed by the United Nations’ Dag Hammarskjöld Library in New York and the Library of the United Nations Office at Geneva. Also included are non-UN publications held in the collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library.” NOTE: NYU Libraries has a very large collection of U.N. documents located on the 6th floor of Bobst Library and open to the public. Use UNBIS Net to identify the documents.

UN Data
From the United Nations Statistical Division. Statistical data from countries from around the world.

Thanks to Gretchen Gano, Librarian for Public Administration and Government Information for compiling this list!

If you have questions about how to go about using the FOIA, try consulting How to Use the Federal FOI Act–a free online booklet from the The FOI Service Center, a project of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.

Here are some sources for finding information and stats about a country:

CIA World Factbook **Free**
Contains basic profiles on countries; facts on geography, government, history, and basic demographics.

Europa World Plus
Contains profiles of regions and countries; lists organizations affiliated with regions; includes bibliographies and research tools.

EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit)

Country reports
Covers 200 countries, with an emphasis on economic statistics. Updated monthly.

Country profiles
Covers 200 countries. Reports outline a country’s economic and political status and background. Updated annually.

Country risk
Updated monthly, these are country reports from a financial risk perspective.

City Data
Contains pricing information on more than 160 products and services in 123 cities worldwide, including rent.

Additional country information sources are available via the Virtual Business Library.

Below are some sources for locating international news sources. Note that some sources include wires, some include translated materials, and others include foreign-language press.
LexisNexis

• Includes newswires from international sources; some are in English (ex. Agence-France Presse); includes some foreign language newspapers. Does not support non-roman character searching. Does not include Russian, Chinese, or Arabic language newspapers.

Factiva

• Includes both English and non-English newspapers and newswires. Covers more languages than LexisNexis.
• Supports non-roman character searching
• Search by Region (Country) to see all of the stories about that country/region; includes stories from all sources (English and non-English).
• Search by Sources to identify and search sources from a specific region/country.
• Be sure to change languages to ALL Languages if you want to pick up non-English. (The default is English.)

World News Connection

• 1995-present
• Offers translated and English language news and information that is provided to the National Technical Information Service by the Open Source Network (formerly Foreign Broadcast Information Service). Compiled from non-United States media sources, covers political, environmental, scientific, technical, and socioeconomic issues and events. Contains information derived from full-text and summaries of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports.

Access World News

• Includes over 600+ U.S.news sources and 700+ international news sources—newspapers and wires.
• English-only.
• Provides a convenient map for browsing news sources from a country or region.

Kidon Media Link**FREE**

• Links to online versions of newspapers around the world
• Search by country.