Middle+School+Country+Research

**Reference Resources for Country Project: **
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** Country profiles: **
World Book Online CIA - The World Factbook InfoPlease - Country Profile National Geographic - Countries Country Profiles: Fact Monster

Reference Resources by Topics

 * ** Issue ** || ** Resources ** ||
 * Background Information || ** Encyclopedia ** – a summary of information on any kind of knowledge
 * Facts on File**


 * [|Central Intelligence Agency] **

[|Foreign Service Journal]

[|Global Library]

[|**InfoPlease –**] Encyclopedia, Almanac, Atlas, Biographies, Dictionary… [|Counties], the United States

[|Nations Online] For each country, groups Web sites of government entities, search engines, and more. Very up-to-date, spotlights high-interest countries.

[|Search Engine Colossus] International search engine

Embassies - [|All the World's Embassies] || [|Central Intelligence Agency] [|Council on Foreign Relations] [|BBC World Radio and TV] [|CNN.com US edition] The Economist ( [|economist.com] + hardcopies in library) International Radio and TV Broadcast - [|WWW Virtual Library] [|European Search Engines] Focuses on Europe, often providing more resources in a country than others. Also includes handy links to national newspapers. ||
 * Interview Expert **
 * News and Current Events || [|Facts on File World News Digest]
 * Biographies || [|Infoplease.com] [|Almanac Biographies]

[|Encyclopedia Britannica] ||
 * Policy and other governmental documents || [|Central Intelligence Agency]

[|Columbia International Affairs Online]

[|International Affairs Resources – WWW Virtual Library]

[|Search Engine Colossus]

Constitutions ||
 * **Issues:**

Disarmament, Defense and Security Economics Energy and Climate Change Environment Global Health Human Rights Technology || CSIS – [|Center for Strategic and International Studies] [|Collected Courses] (The Hague Academy) [|International Relations and Security Network] [|Disarmament Resource Guide] (Library United Nations) JSTOR CIAO [|Arms Control Association] || East Asia and the Pacific South Asia Africa Americas Europe Middle East Russia & Eurasia || CSIS – [|Center for Strategic and International Studies] [|Council on Foreign Relations]
 * Regions:

[|Search Engine Colossus] International search engine [|Nations Online] For each country, groups Web sites of government entities, search engines, and more. Very up-to-date, spotlights high-interest countries. [|European Search Engines] Focuses on Europe, often providing more resources in a country than others. Also includes handy links to national newspapers. ||
 * Reading documents in foreign languages || [|Google Translate] ||

Embassies, Radio and TV stations, search engines and more
One of them is to visit its Embassy in Israel. List of Embassies : [|All the World's Embassies]
 * When gathering information about a country you have several options.

Another option to collect information online: [|BBC World Radio and TV] Brookings ( brookings.edu ) Center for Strategic and International Studies ( csis.org ) CIA World Fact Book ( cia.gov ) [|CNN.com US edition] Council on Foreign Relations ( cfr.org ) Current History (hardcopies in library) The Economist ( economist.com + hard copies of the magazine in library) Foreign Affairs ( [|see JSTOR in Online Subscriptions] ) Foreign Policy (JSTOR) [|Foreign Service Journal]  [|Global Edge] (currency converter, country comparator (until 2009), ranking countries (until 2010), and games)  [|Global Library] ( The global library is a reference collection of online texts for students of the social sciences. It links open-access texts from across the web. 'Subject guide' will bring up the global library's own directory. )

<span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none;">[|Google Books] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none;">[|Google Scholar] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">International Affairs (JSTOR) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none;">[|International Debate Educational Association] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">International Security (JSTOR) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Journal of Conflict Resolution (JSTOR) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none;">[|Potomac Institute of Policy Studies] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">RAND Corporation ( rand.org ) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none;">[|United Nations] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none;">[|United Nations: Member States] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; color: #0000ff; font-family: helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none;">[|United Nations Cyberschoolbus] <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">Wilson Quarterly (JSTOR) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">World Policy Journal (JSTOR) <span style="background-color: #ffffff; font-family: helvetica,arial,verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 15px;">World Politics (JSTOR) International Radio and TV Broadcast - [|WWW Virtual Library]

<span style="color: #000099; font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;">Search Engines and Helpful sites: <span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: small;"> Search Engine Colossus International search engine. Tool Kit for the Expert Web Searcher for American Library Association's Library & Information Technology Association (LITA) Nations Online For each country, groups Web sites of government entities, search engines, and more. Very up-to-date, spotlights high-interest countries. European Search Engines Focuses on Europe, often providing more resources in a country than others. Also includes handy links to national newspapers. ||

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