The AidData database provides free access to the world's
largest database of individual foreign aid projects, accompanied by a variety of
innovative software applications to analyze these data, and a blog for discussion of
international development. Hosted by the College of William and Mary, Brigham Young University and
Development Gateway.
Background Notes include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and
foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty.
The CIA no longer prints The World Factbook. The Agency has made a decision to focus Factbook
resources exclusively on the World Wide Web online edition, which is updated with new material every
two weeks. Please look for the newly redesigned Factbook Web site coming in spring 2009.
From the Library of Congress, these profiles offer brief, summarized information on a country’s
historical background, geography, society, economy, transportation and telecommunications, government
and politics, and national security.
Six categories of information: How the European Community works; Citizens
Europe; The single market; Common Policies; Economic and monetary union; and
the Union's external relations.
The FIRST system offers researchers, politicians and the media an authoritative and structured
factual reference system oninternational relations and security trends.
The International Documents Taskforce (IDTF) focuses attention on problems and concerns related
to international and foreign national government information.
Guide designed to assist the researching seeking information about and from
the Council of Europe (CoE) which deals with strengthening democracy, human
rights and the rule of law.
Created in 1919, the International Labor Organization (ILO), a UN agency, focuses on worldwide employment policy, human and labour rights, working conditions, labor statistics, and much more.
The Organization of American States (OAS) brings together the nations of the Western Hemisphere to
strengthen cooperation on democratic values, defend common interests and debate the major issues
facing the region and the world.
FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service) provides full text and summaries
from newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts,
periodicals, and non-classified technical reports. This is a subscription
database and must be accessed within the Dimond Library with a username and
password from the Government Information Department. When this department is
closed, users can get the login information from the Reference Department.