POSITION PAPER RESOURCES: 

Use these and other resources to find the information for your Country Profile and Position Paper.

 

 

LIBRARY LINKS:

 

Try a New Resource from Infohio:  School Rooms

 


COUNTRIES OF THE WORLD

CIA World Factbook CIA website providing country profiles 

Country Studies From the Library of Congress

Country Watch Data on 190 countries and 260,000 news articles.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online Three encyclopedias (100,000+ articles), atlas, dictionary, images and video clips, reviewed Web sites, magazine articles & more.

Maps101  Map and geography information.

SIRS Discoverer Select “Countries” icon for country factsheets.

World Data Analyst Offers information on demography, national economy, transportation, communication, education, health, military, and vital statistics for individual countries.

 


MAPS

Atlapedia

Country Watch Data on 190 countries and 260,000 news articles.

InfoPlease Atlas

Maps101  Map and geography information.

Map Collections

National Geographic Society Choose “Maps and Geography” from guides listed on left side of homepage

 

CURRENT EVENTS

LOCAL & STATE

NewsBank Newspapers A collection of full-text newspapers available online. More than 15 titles are Ohio publications.

Cleveland.Com  Plain Dealer

WestLife

NATIONAL

CNN    

CNN Student News

New York Times

NPR - National Public Radio

USA Today

WORLD

Country Watch Data on 190 countries and 260

EBSCOhost Articles from more than 6,000 magazines and newspapers are indexed, most in full text, from children's magazines to professional research.

WorldNews Network

 

 

 

Reproductive Health

http://www.un.org/esa/population/cpd/comm2002.htm

International trade

http://www.un.org/esa/progareas/trade.html

Internally Displaced Persons (IDP)

http://www.internal-displacement.org/