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• Europa World: The Europa World Year Book online   Provides detailed surveys of over 250 countries.
• FACTS.com  (1940+)  Provides digest of major news stories around the world.
• Nations of the World Basic information on governments, including the constitution, and different branches of government. from the Law Library of Congress
• State Department Background Notes by the U.S. State Department; contains information on all the countries of the world with which the United States has relations.
• EIU Country Profiles and Reports  (1996+)   Background reports covering economic, political, and social conditions of countries.

Journal Articles in Databases

        Princeton databases, see: http://library.princeton.edu/catalogs/articles.php

           Databases in Latin American Studies (complete list)

• Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS)  (1936+) Annotated bibliography and index to books, artiles and a variety of other materials. Updated monthly.
• Latin American Newsletters   Source of current information on political and economic developments in Latin America and the Caribbean. Includes the Latin American Weekly Report, Latin American Economy & Business (monthly), Four regional reports (monthly), Latin American Security & Strategic Review (monthly), Latin American Special Reports, Latin American Monitoring Centre (includes Country Reports and Election Watch service).
• Latindex: Sistema Regional de Informacion en Linea para Revistas Cientificas de America Latina, el Caribe, Espana y Portugal   Extensive directory of Latin American and Iberian academic journals, and gateway to hundreds of electronic journals available on the web. Contents of listed journals cannot be searched simultaneously.

• Academic Search Premier (1975+) Multi-disciplinary database providing abstract and indexing with select full text for many core scholarly journals as well as popular press periodicals
• ProQuest Research Library (Mid 1970s+. (Highly selective earlier coverage))

  Description
  Abstracting, indexing, and select full text of many core scholarly journals, magazines and major newspapers for information on a broad range of subjects.

• EconLit  (1969+)   Indexes international economic literature. Includes major journals, articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, full-text book reviews, dissertations, and working papers.
• World Bank e-Library   Online access to World Bank publications. Useful for research in international social and economic development.
• Index to International Economics, Development, and Finance   Online catalog of the holdings of the publications contained in the joint International Monetary Fund/World Bank Library. Journals are selectively indexed. Great source for finding publications of the IMF and the World Bank.
• International Political Science Abstracts  (1989+) Provides abstracts in English or French to articles selected from over 1,000 international journals.
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts  (1975+) Provides citations and abstracts in political science, including journal articles, books and book chapters, dissertations, and reviews
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences  (1951+) Provides bibliographic information from an international selection of publications in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology.
• PAIS International  (1915+) Provides citations to articles, books, reports, and select government documents on U.S. and international public policy issue. Generally considered to be a comprehensive index to policy literature.
• JSTOR full-text scholarly journals; last 3-5 years not available
• PolicyFile  (1990+)   Draws its content from public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations, and publishers. Covers all aspects of public policy

Articles in Newspapers