Brings together online versions of 100 well-known and trusted dictionaries and reference books such as the Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics, Dictionary of Political Biography, Dictionary of the Social Sciences, Concise Dictionary of World Religions, Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion, Dictionary of Buddhism, Oxford Dictionary of Islam, and Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy.

Publisher: Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1994.
Location: Firestone Library (F)
Call Number: HM136 .L46 1994

Publisher: Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1999.
Location: Firestone Library (F)
Call Number: JA61 .B43 1999

Publisher: New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC). Firestone
Call Number: JA61 .C665 1996

Publisher: New York, NY: Routledge, 1994.
Location: General and Humanities Reference (DR). Firestone
Call Number: GN496 .C37 1994

Publisher: Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 1997.
Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC). Firestone
Call Number: HM136 .B783 1997

Publisher: San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1999.
Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC). Firestone
Call Number: HM886 .E53 1999

Publisher: Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, 1997.
Location: Firestone Library (F)
Call Number: D842 .B46 1997

Publisher: Shaftesbury, Dorset; Rockport, MA: Element, 1997.
Location: Firestone Library (F)
Call Number: BL80.2 .I43 1997

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Publisher: Washington, DC: United States Department of State, annual.
Location: Government Documents Collection (DOCS). Firestone
Call Number: Y 4.IN 8/16:R 27/13/
URL: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/irf/rpt/
Mandated by Congress and issued each September by the U.S. State Department, this report describes the status of religious freedom in each of 195 countries throughout the world.

URL: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/bgn/
Factual publications prepared by the staff of the U.S. State Department that contain information on all the countries of the world with which the United States has relations. Each report contains information about the country's people, history, government, political conditions, economy, foreign relations, relations with the U.S., and travel and business. These reports are updated periodically.

Publisher: Washington, DC: United States Department of State, annual.
Location: Government Documents Collection (DOCS). Firestone
Call Number: S 1.138: (1986, 1989- )
URL: http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS1488 (1995- )

Congress requires the Department of State to provide a full and complete annual report on terrorism around the world as well as efforts by countries to assist the U.S. in counterterrorism programs.

Publisher: Washington, DC: United States Department of State, annual.
Location: Government Documents Collection (DOCS). Firestone
Call Number: Y4 .IN 8/16-15: ( )
URL: http://www.state.gov/g/drl/rls/hrrpt/2002/index.htm (1993- )
Congress requires the Department of State to provide an annual report on the human rights practices of all nations that are members of the UN and a few that are not, to assist the members of Congress in their consideration of foreign assistance legislation.

Publisher: Binghamton, NY: CSA Publications, annual.
Location: Firestone Library (F)
Call Number: 7560.729 (1928-1970)
Call Number: JF37 .P6 (1975- )
Current Volume: Social Science Ready Reference (SSRC)
Provides essential political information about every country in the world, including heads of government, cabinet members, leaders and programs of political parties, representation in national legislatures, news media, and membership in international organizations. The handbook's primary focus is on government and development of the country's political climate.

Publisher: New York: St. Martin's Press, annual.
Location: Firestone Library (F)
Call Number: JA51 .S7 (1876- )
Current Volume: General and Humanities Reference (DR)
Similar to the Political Handbook above, Statesman's Yearbook also provides detailed information about all the countries of the world. The yearbook's focus is more on social and development indicators. Each entry includes a small map for quick geographical orientation, as well as a list of references for further reading.

Publisher: New York: Press Pub. Co., 1923- 
Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC). Firestone
Call Number: AY67.N5 W7 (1956- )

Publisher: London: Minority Rights Group International, 1997.
Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC). Firestone
Call Number: JF1061 .W67 1997
Provides information on the conditions of minority communities throughout the world. The directory covers over 200 states and dependent territories, organized into eleven regional categories. Each entry provides information about the country's or territory's main minority groups, references to further reading, and in many cases contact information for minority-based and advocacy organizations.

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This international and interdisciplinary database indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change in the humanities and social sciences. Covers nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines with selected abstracts from research journals from 1991 to present.

Interdisciplinary full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press. Indexes over 170 titles from 1970 to present, providing viewpoints and perspectives that complement and challenge the coverage of the mainstream media.

This database provides a collection of major religious and theology full text journals representing all major religious faiths, denominations and language groups. Coverage in this collection dates back to 1949.

CIAO publishes online a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, NGO occasional papers, foundation-funded research projects, conference proceedings, books, journals, and policy briefs.

Provides full text access to news, culture, and history from over 240 publications of ethnic, minority and native press from 1960 to present offering additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.

This database has long been recognized as the leading bibliography providing unmatched coverage of world history (excluding North America) dealing with time periods from 1450 to the present. It covers approximately 2,000 journals, as well as books and dissertations published worldwide since the mid 1950s in history and related areas, including anthropology, genealogy, multicultural studies, political science, and sociology.

Produced by the Islamic Bibliography Unit at Cambridge University Library, this database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world from a variety of disciplines, including accounting, archaeology, the arts, economics, education, geography, history, Islam, law, literature, science, philosophy, politics, religion, theology, travel, and zoology. Records included in the database go back to 1906.

Covers international (public and private), comparative, and municipal law of countries other than the United States, the U.K., Canada, and Australia, with coverage from 1985 to the present.

Compiled by the British Library of Political & Economic Science of the London School of Economics & Political Science, this database provides bibliographic information from an international selection of publications (including over 2,600 journals) in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology. Indexing covers material published from 1951 to present.

Provides abstracts in English or French to articles selected from over 1,000 international journals. Topics covered include political science method and theory, political thinkers and ideas, governmental and administrative institutions, political process, international relations, and national and area studies. Index covers material published from 1989 to present.

Index of law reviews, legal newspapers and bar journals since 1980. Selected full-text is available.

OmniFile is a multi-disciplinary database that provides indexing, abstracts, and select full text of articles in a wide variety of areas, including art, education, the humanities, the social sciences, science and technology, popular periodicals, business, legal periodicals, and library and information science. Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994.

This database by the Public Affairs Information Service provides citations to articles, books, reports, and select government documents on public and foreign policy issues from 1972 forward. PAIS is generally considered to be a comprehensive index to policy literature. The print version of PAIS goes back to 1915, and is located in the Social Science Reference Center Index Shelves under call number 0487.739.

Publisher: Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, Inc. 1964-
Location: Pitney Collection (PITN). Firestone
Call Number: 576.7033 (1964- )
Current Volume: Current Periodicals Room (PR)
This is not an online database, but is a relevant index for the topic of international conflict resolution published six times a year by the Peace Research Institute- Dundas (in Ontario, Canada). Provides indexing and abstracts for books, journal articles, government publications, scholarly papers, major speeches and research studies concerning peace studies and international relations. Each issue has an author and subject index, with annual cumulative indexes in the last issue of each year.

Provides indexing and abstracts of research publications addressing the complete range of public policy research. PolicyFile draws its content from public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations, and trade publishers. The database consists of over 50,000 abstracts dating from 1990 to present, with some full text where available and links to organizational home pages.

URL: http://www.rand.org/Abstracts/abstracts.html
A nonprofit public policy research institution established after World War II to study national security, in the 1960s RAND added domestic policy problems to its research agenda. Current areas of research and analysis include national defense, education and training, health care, criminal and civil justice, labor and population, science and technology, community development, international relations, and regional studies. The publications database goes back to 1946, with online versions of many documents available generally as of 1998. See the RAND Publications Research Guide for more help in locating RAND publications held in Princeton libraries.

Provides access to the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied. The database includes abstracts of journal articles selected from over 2,500 journals, as well as books, conference papers, dissertations, and book reviews. Coverage of this database goes back to 1963.

Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science, including international relations, law and public policy. Indexing covers material from 1975 to present. Also provides references to reliable web resources.

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Provides indexing to the Daily Reports of the CIA's Foreign Broadcast Information Service. These reports include translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world focusing on political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events. Search by keyword, region and date. This index covers reports from 1975-1996, which are mostly available in microfiche with some in paper. Ask for help locating these reports at the Social Science Reference Center. For more recent material, see the World News Connection below.

Provides full-text access to news from across the U.S. and around the world. Coverage of most newspapers goes back to around the mid 1980s, but varies widely.

Provides indexing and full text of the Wall Street Journal (1984- ) and Barron's (1988- ), and abstracts only of the New York Times and USA Today (1989- ). After you click on the link above, pull down the database menu and select "News- ProQuest Newspapers" to search these titles.

Provides retrospective coverage of the New York Times going back to the first issue (1851-2001) in full text. Search by keywords and date.

Provides retrospective coverage of the Wall Street Journal going back to the first issue (1889-1986) in full text. Search by keywords and date.

Provides retrospective coverage of the Washington Post going back to the first issue (1877-1987) in full text. Search by keywords and date.

Continues coverage of the FBIS reports mentioned above from 1996 to present, and with full text. The search functions are similar (by keyword, region, and date) with a "latest headlines" feature for monitoring current news.

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URL: http://www.arda.tm/
The ARDA collection includes data on churches and church membership, religious professionals, and religious groups (individuals, congregations and denominations) in the U.S., with links to related sites in other countries.

A service of the Economist Intelligence Unit that provides international economic data and forecasts on a time series basis. Data are derived from national governments, trade associations, BIS, IMF, IFC, OECD, the World Bank, and EIU's own researchers. A related product, EIU Market Indicators and Forecasts (formerly EIU Country Indicators) provides more social and political risk data. EIU also provides detailed cost comparisons of major international cities in EIU City Data. All three are accessible from the link above. Once in, click on "EIU Data Services" at the top of the page and choose the desired database.

URL: http://first.sipri.org/
A free-of-charge service for politicians, journalists, researchers and the interested public, FIRST is a joint project of the International Relations and Security Network (ISN) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). The integrated database system contains clearly documented information from research institutes around the world covering areas in the field of international relations and security, such as hard facts on armed conflicts and peace keeping, arms production and trade, military expenditure, armed forces and conventional weapons holding, nuclear weapons, chronology, statistics and other reference data.

URL: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the ICPSR provides member colleges and universities with access to an extensive data archive, as well as training facilities for social scientists conducting quantitative analysis. Search by their data holdings by keyword or browse by thematic categories.

URL: http://www.cidcm.umd.edu/inscr/mar/
The MAR Project is a university-based research project that monitors and analyzes the status and conflicts of politically-active communal groups in all countries with a current population of at least 500,000. The project is designed to provide information in a standardized format that aids comparative research and contributes to the understanding of conflicts involving relevant groups.

Provides indexing and abstracts to federal, state, and international statistical publications as well as selected business and professional publications containing statistics. Many statistical tables are available in full text, and direct links to many web-accessible statistical sources are also provided. Statistical Universe is the web equivalent of the print American Statistics Index, Statistical Reference Index, and Index to International Statistics; and provides indexing for the corresponding ASI, SRI and IIS microfiche sets located on the C-Floor of Firestone. IIS provides abstracts for reports and other statistical publications issued by IGOs such as the United Nations, IMF, World Bank, and OECD.

Publisher: Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2001.
Location: Firestone Library (F)
Call Number: D214 .C54 2001

URL: http://devdata.worldbank.org/dataonline/
WDI Online is the web version of World Development Indicators, the World Bank's statistical appendix to the World Development Report. Select data by country, series and years.

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Related Princeton Research Guides:

URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~sbwhite/un/generalun.html

URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~rbivens/religion/

URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~sbwhite/sociwebb.html

Select Pages from Other Institutions:

URL: http://www.amnesty.org/
Amnesty International is a worldwide campaigning movement that works to promote all the human rights enshrined in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and other international standards. Amnesty International campaigns to free all prisoners of conscience; ensure fair and prompt trials for political prisoners; abolish the death penalty, torture and other cruel treatment of prisoners; end political killings and "disappearances"; and oppose human rights abuses by opposition groups.

URL: http://www.ceip.org/
Founded in 1910, this private, nonprofit organization is dedicated to advancing cooperation between nations and promoting active international engagement by the United States.

URL: http://www.hrw.org/
Human Rights Watch is an independent, nongovernmental organization, supported by contributions from private individuals and foundations worldwide that conducts fact-finding investigations into human rights abuses in all regions of the world. Human Rights Watch then publishes those findings in dozens of books and reports every year, generating extensive coverage in local and international media.

URL: http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/
INCORE was set up in 1993 by the University of Ulster and the United Nations University to undertake research and policy work for the resolution of ethnic, political and religious conflicts. Research focuses mainly on post conflict issues, issues of governance and diversity, and research methodology in violent societies. INCORE has a Policy and Evaluation Unit to ensure more effective utilization of conflict research by policy makers and practitioners, and addresses the issue of best practices in evaluating conflict interventions. INCORE produces a Conflict Data Service that provides current and historical information on all major on-going conflicts, theme sites on a variety of issues relevant to conflict, and information on conflict resolution institutions throughout the world.

URL: http://www.crisisweb.org/
The ICG is a private, multinational organization that conducts field research with the objective of strengthening the capacity of the international community to anticipate, understand, prevent and contain conflict. ICG reports cover diverse regions, including Africa, Asia, the Balkans, Latin America and the Middle East.

URL: http://www.library.ubc.ca/poli/international.html
This is an extensive list of web resources from the University of British Columbia Library. See the section on Nationalism, Ethnic or Religious Conflicts.

URL: http://www.osce.org/
Headquartered Vienna, the OSCE is made up of 55 participating states from Europe, Central Asia and North America. It is active in early warning, conflict prevention, crisis management and post-conflict rehabilitation.

URL: http://www.usip.org/
Established in 1984, the United States Institute of Peace is an independent, nonpartisan federal institution created and funded by Congress to strengthen the nation's capacity to promote the peaceful resolution of international conflict through an array of programs, including grants, fellowships, conferences and workshops, library services, publications, and other educational activities.

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