International Documents and Govn’t Info

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

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

Treaties/Law

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!

International Organizations and NGOs

 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

Country Information

Good starting places

• 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.

Media Systems

• Europa World Plus
  From within a country profile, click on “Directory: Society and Media.” Provides a directory for newspapers, periodicals, and telecommunications in that country.
• World Press Encyclopedia
  PRINT SOURCE: Available in the 1s t floor Reference Area. Provides an overview of the press for each country.

Economic and Political Info

• EIU Country reports
  Covers 200 countries, with an emphasis on economic statistics. Updated monthly.
• EIU Country profiles
  Covers 200 countries. Reports outline a country’s economic and political status and background. Updated annually.
• EIU Country risk
  Updated monthly, these are country reports from a financial risk perspective.
• EIU 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.

Statistics

• World Bank
  Click on Data and Research

Additional Resources

• World Press Bibliography from Poynter.Org
• World Bank elibrary

Organizations

• Overseas Press Club
• International Press Institute
• Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting
• International Reporting Project

Finding International News Sources

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.