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Provides full text of an extensive number of current national and international newspapers. (As of August 2016, there were over 5000 newspapers from over 100 countries and in 60 languages.) The full text of the articles is searchable and the publications are browsable by country. The front page provides a collage of current stories that constantly change. When you select a newspaper, you can find a calendar which allows you to look at the past 60 days of that newspaper. Articles and areas of pages can be printed and also saved/sent to others. There are also mobile apps which allow you to access the newspapers on your phone or tablet.

Provides authoritative, reliable, concise information on international affairs topics and key world developments. Provides coverage of history, politics, economics, trade, and infrastructure for countries. The Statesman's Yearbook published annually since 1864, now offers this website. Key features include: extensive further readings, web links, a monthly Editor's Spotlight, focusing on major anniversaries in modern history, and a timeline of the main natural disasters that have afflicted the world in recent years. Updated regularly and provided by Palgrave MacMillan.

Provides indexing and access to scholarly and popular journals covering all aspects and regions of world history from about 1450 to the present. Selection of approximately 2 dozen scholarly journals complemented by about that many popular journals. Very focused selection of journals (a search for Chinese History returned 14 results), but a good starting point for topic discovery and information. Once there is a focused topic, use additional databases (like Historical Abstracts) to broaden the results and retrieve additional scholarly research articles. Search by keyword, subject, author, title or browse by topic. Gale Cengage.

Provides access to statistical data sources on "international religious composition." Data comes from a variety of sources including (but not limited to) statistical questionnaires returned by churches and national collaborators over the period 1982-2000; field surveys and interviews...in more than 200 countries...over the years 1965-2000...; unpublished documentation for all countries, etc. Information is readily available on religious activities, growth rates, religious literature, worker activity, and demographic statistics. Additional secular data is incorporated on population, health, education, and communications. Searchable by keyword. Useful to a wide variety of researchers of the development of World Christianity from the mid-twentieth century to today.

The International Year Book and Statesmen’s Who’s Who Online is an authoritative and esteemed source of information on all the countries of the world, including territories and federal states; all significant international and national organizations, from the United Nations to economic and trade organizations; comprehensive biographical profiles of over 6,000 of the most important people in the world today.

Index only to biographies of over 6 million people from over 57l biographical sources. Compiles biographical articles from printed reference works published from the 16th to the 21th century. Full text of almost all biographies available in microform in the Jones Library. Biographies of international persons are likely to be in that person's native language.