Britannica High School Edition provides full-text encyclopedia articles on specific countries and is a great place to start gathering information on the government, culture, key figures, and important facts about a country.

Credo Reference provides full-text entries from subject-specific encyclopedias, biographies, chronologies, and dictionaries and is a great place to start building a foundational understanding of a country, topic, person, or event.

Academic Search Premier provides academic journals for scholarly research on cultures and country political, economic, governmental, and religious systems.

Biography in Context provides biographical information people from around the world and throughout history and is a great place to learn more about key players of an event, country, or time period.

Culture Grams provides country reports for over 200 countries and includes the information on history, population, customs, family, lifestyle, recipes, economy, geography, maps, flags, and symbols.

History Reference Center World Edition provides full-text history periodical articles, historical documents, biographies, photos, and maps on the world's social, political, and cultural history from 1893 to 1985.

Historical Reference Electronic Book titles covering global topics from the ancient world through today.