Databases and Websites
Britannica Academic: An accurate, current, and comprehensive resource for college-level learners, researchers.
Gale in Context: High School: Encyclopedia, magazine, and journal articles, plus primary sources, images, video.
Explora Teens: Articles from reference books and academic and popular periodicals about health, arts and literature, biography, current issues, geography, history and more.
Britannica High School: Encyclopedia content plus multimedia, timelines, world data analyst, country comparison, and the Britannica blog.
CIA World Factbook: "The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities."
Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources: This resource is maintained by the Library of Congress. It offers electronic resources on the nations of the world, with links to outside internet resources as well.
Library of Congress: Country Studies: From the Library of Congress, comprehensive ebooks on over 80 countries, covering History, Society, Environment, Economy, Government, Politics, National Security, related images. These books, written by teams of social scientists, are several hundred pages long; originally published by the Federal Research Division.
Library of Congress: World Digital Library: This resource offers primary sources from countries and cultures around the world, search by time, place, topic or type of item (photos, maps, books, etc.).
Country Reports: This resource offers economic, financial news, projects and statistics by country.
Hennepin County Library Resources
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CultureGrams: Country histories, cultures, statistical data, embassy contact, images, maps, audio files and recipes. Includes U.S. state, too.
ProQuest: Includes current and historic magazines and newspapers, as well as, resources for business and industry research.