Contents:
The World : General
| World History & Culture
| Regions, Countries, & Cities
| Government, Politics, & Law
| Diplomacy & Int'l Affairs
| War & Peace
| Flags, Maps, & Gazetteers
| Nature & Environment
| Selected International Organizations
| PSU Related Sites
The World: General
World History & Culture
- AncientScripts.com [writing systems, phonetics, historical linguistics] (Lawrence Lo)
- Archaeology (Archaeological Institute of America)
- Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Dictionary of Contemporary World History (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)
- Eighteenth-Century Collections Online [contains histories, geographies, travel accounts, gazetteers, social history, religion and philosophy, arts and music, science, medicine, and technology published in the 18th century] (Penn State Users Only)
- Empire Online, 1492-1969 [images of orginal sources documenting history of exploration, cultural contact and colonialism] (Penn State Users Only)
- Encyclopedia of World Cultures [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Ethnologue.com [World languages]
- Global Gateway: World Culture & Resources (Library of Congress)
- Historical Abstracts (Penn State Users Only)
- History E-Book Project (Penn State Users Only)
- History of Science, Technology, and Medicine (Penn State Users Only)
- History of World Trade since 1450 [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- iLoveLanguages.com [languages of the world]
- Internet Ancient History Sourcebook (Halsall, Fordham)
- Internet Global History Sourcebook (Halsall, Fordham U)
- Internet Modern History Sourcebook (Halsall, Fordham)
- Internet Women's History Sourcebook (Halsall, Fordham U)
- ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (Penn State Users Only)
- MSU Global Access [searchable by a single category or by a combination of categories: World region or country, thematic area, constituency group (e.g., K-12 teachers, or business and labor), or resource type (e.g., maps, news sources, study abroad programs)]
- Oxford Companion to Classical Civilization (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)
- Times of London, Palmer Index,1790-1905 (Penn State Users Only)
- Women's History Online, 1543-1945 [page images] (Penn State Users Only)
- World Heritage List (UNESCO)
- WorldHistory.com
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Regions, Countries, & Cities:
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- AllRefer.com Reference: Country Study & Country Guide
- BBC: Country Profiles
- Cities Around the World ["over 6,100 photographic images from the slide collections of the American Geographical Society Library." (website, 4/25/2007)] (UWisc)
- Cities of the World [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- City Mayors: Running the World's Cities [includes government, politics, statistics, biographies, rankings, and all facets of urban life]
- Countries of the World
- Countries of the World and Their Leaders Yearbook [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Country Briefings (The Economist)
- Country Statistics and Reports (Population Reference Bureau)
- Country Studies [individual book-length coverage for 101 countries] (Library of Congress, Federal Research Division)
- CountryReports.org
- FDI.net: Foreign Direct Investment ["...web portal that offers free, on-demand country analysis and information on all things related to foreign direct investment in 175 countries." (website, 5/4/2007)]
- Global Resource Directory ["nation specific links including online business sources, travel guides, governments, historical and cultural information, news, weather services, maps, financial resources and local search engines"]
- GlobalEDGE (MSU)
- International Monetary Fund: Country Information
- Nationsonline: One World [info by continent, country, city]
- Portals to the World : Links to Electronic Resources from Around the World (Library of Congress)
- Specialized Country Profiles (FAO)
- U.S.Department of State Background Notes
- Virtual Library for Regional Studies
- World Factbook (CIA)
- Worldmark Encyclopedia of National Economies [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
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Africa:
- Africa: an Encyclopedia for Students [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Africa: Country Pages (UPenn)
- Africa South of the Sahara
- AfricaBib.org [bibliographic citations to periodical articles, some full text]
- African and Middle Eastern Portals to the World (Library of Congress)
- African Biography on the Internet (Columbia)
- African Literature and Writers on the Internet (Stanford)
- African Music Encyclopedia (africanmusic.org)
- African Publishing Companion: A Resource Guide (Hans Zell)(Penn State Users Only)
- African Studies Center [includes links to language resources, current events, maps, flags, Africa feeds, projects] (UPenn)
- African Studies Internet Resources [links to Africana librarianship, catalogs & archives, book dealers, organizations, projects, & publishers, films, sports, news, history & culture, human rights & governance, and more] (Columbia University Libraries)
- African Union
- African Writers: Voice of Change (UFlorida)
- Africana Digitization Project (UWisc Madison)
- ANC Historical Documents
- Contemporary African Database [database of people and institutions] (The Africa Centre, London)
- Digital Egypt for Universities (University College London)
- Eternal Egypt
- Internet African History Sourcebook (Halsall, Fordham)
- MBendi Information for Africa
- Middle East North Africa Internet Resource Guide (Joseph W. Roberts, Utah)
- Reuters Africa
- 16th-20th Century Maps of Africa (Northwestern)
Antarctica:
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Asia:
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Canada:
Europe:
- ABSEES Online: American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
- Archive of European Integration (Pitt)
- ARTFL [2000 texts in the French language, 18th-20th century] (Penn State Users Only)
- British History Online (University of London & History of Parliament Trust)
- CAIN: Conflict Archive on the Internet: Conflict and Politics in Northern Ireland (1968 to the Present)
- Civil War, 1625-1649 [England]
- Civilisation francaise (Marie Ponterio, SUNY Cortland)
- Cultural Map of Hellas (Hellenic Ministry of Culture)
- Dictionary of British Place-Names (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)
- Encyclopedia of 1848 Revolutions (Chastain, Ohio U)
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online(Penn State Users Only)
- Encyclopedia of European Social History [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture (Penn State Users Only)
- Encyclopedia of Modern Europe: Europe 1789-1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of Industry and Empire [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Encyclopedia of Modern Europe: Europe Since 1914: Encyclopedia of the Age of War and Reconstruction [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Encyclopedia of Russian History [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Erik Herron's Guide to Politics in East Central Europe and Eurasia (Herron, KU)
- Eurodocs: Online Sources for European History (BYU)
- Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Europa: the EU at a Glance
- European Minority Languages (Sabhal Mor Ostaig)
- European Navigator ["ENA is a multilingual, multisource and multimedia knowledge base that contains more than 12,000 documents on the historical and institutional development of a united Europe from 1945 to the present day." (website, 3/27/2007)]
- European Reading Room, Library of Congress
- FRANCIS ["...strong in religion, the history of art, psychology, and literature, with particular emphasis on current trends in European and World literature. FRANCIS represents a wide range of materials, including serials, journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, French dissertations, exhibition catalogs, legislation, teaching materials, and reports...;" from 1984- (from website, 1/30/2007)] (RLG)(Penn State Users Only)
- German History Sources (Weikart, CSUStan)
- Hellenic History on the Internet [from the Stone Age to Contemporary Greece] (fhw.gr)
- Histpop: The Online Historical Population Reports [online access to the complete British population reports for Britain and Ireland from 1801 to 1937]
- Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution [an EDSITEment "Best of the Humanites on the Web" recipient for 2003-04] (GMU)
- Monarchs of Britain (britannia.com)
- Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ["55,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2003." (from website, 4/16/2007)] (Penn State Users Only)
- Portals to the World : Europe (Library of Congress)
- REESWeb: The World Wide Web Virtual Library for Russian & East European Studies (Pitt)
- Russian Newspapers
- Seventeen Moments in Soviet History
- Virtual Finland
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Latin America:
- Arqueologia del Peru [in Spanish]
- Countries in Latin America and the Caribbean UTexas)
- Early Civilizations in the Americas Reference Library [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- FAMSI: Foundation for the Advancement of Mesoamerican Studies, Inc. [ethnography, maps, photographs, botany, cultural maps, language dictionaries, research, bibliographies, and more]
- HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index (Penn State Users Only)
- Hispanic Reading Room (Library of Congress)
- HLAS Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies (Library of Congress)
- Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Twentieth Century Latin America (Fordham)
- LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center (UTexas)
- Latin American and Caribbean Government Documents Project (Cornell)
- Portals ot the World : Iberia, the Caribbean, and Latin America (Library of Congress)
Near & Middle East:
- African and Middle Eastern Portals to the World (Library of Congress)
- Ancient Anatolia
- Arab American Chamber of Commerce
- Arab Culture and Civilization (National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education, NITLE)
- Dictionary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Encyclopedia of Modern Middle East and North Africa [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- Gulf/2000 Project (Columbia)
- Internet Islamic History Sourcebook (Halsall, Fordham U)
- Internet Jewish History Sourcebook (Halsall, Fordham U)
- Iraq Study Group Report (Baker & Hamilton, co-chairs)
- Islamic and Middle Eastern Music and Dance (Horace Mann)
- Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- Islam and Islamic Studies Resources (UGa)
- Judaism and Jewish Resources (shamash.org)
- Keele Guide to Government, Politics, and War in Iraq
- Keele Guide to Middle East Government and Politics on the Internet
- League of Arab States (al-bab.com)
- MENIC: Middle East Network Information Center [links to a full range of sites relating to the Middle East] (UTexas)
- Middle East and Jewish Studies (Columbia)
- Middle East North Africa Internet Resource Guide (Joseph W. Roberts, Utah)
- Middle East Virtual Library (MENALIB) (Halle)
- Near Eastern, Islamic & Arabic Studies: Selected Internet Resources (Yale)
- Question of Palestine (UN)
- TOCS-IN: Tables of Contents of Journals of Interest to Classicists [tables of contents of a selection of classics, Near Eastern studies, and religion journals]
- Useful Links, Resources, and Lesson Plans for K-12 Teachers and the Community (Middle East Center, UPenn)
- Women in the Middle East (Columbia)
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Government, Politics, & Law
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Diplomacy & International Affairs
- AccessUN (Penn State Users Only)
- All of the Embassies of Washington DC
- Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments (CIA)
- CIAO [international affairs books, papers, proceedings, journals, many full text] (Penn State Users Only)
- CQ Historic Documents Series Online Editions: International Affairs (CQ Press)
- Declassified Documents Reference System (Penn State Users Only)
- Diplomacy Monitor ["...monitor the global output of communiqués, official statements, press briefings, position papers, interview transcripts and news releases from hundreds of diplomacy-related websites in near real-time..." (website, 4/26/2007)] (St. Thomas University Law School)
- Eighteenth-Century Collections Online [contains numerous works on law published in the 18th century: "comprehensively covers a critical era in the development of Anglo-American law and legal practice" (from website, 12/18/06)] (Penn State Users Only)
- Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- FIRST: Facts on International Relations and Security Trends (SIPRI)
- Foreign Consular Offices in the United States
- Foreign Government Resources on the Web (UMich)
- From the League of Nations to the United Nations (United Nations)
- G8 Summit
- Inter-Parliamentary Union
- International Human Rights Instruments (UMinn)
- Israel & The States (jewishvirtuallibrary.org)
- Key Officers in Foreign Service Posts
- League of Nations Statistical and Disarmament Documents (Northwestern)
- Links to US Embassies and Consulates Worldwide (U.S. Department of State)
- Military History Encyclopedia on the Web (historyofwar.org)
- Multilaterals Project [texts of international multilateral conventions and other instruments, environmental agreements, treaties in the fields of human rights, commerce and trade, laws of war and arms control, and other areas, some historical, but most from 1945 and after] (Tufts University)
- NATO: North Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security [parallel history of NATO and Warsaw Pact]
- Permanent Missions to the UN and Other Organizations (ITU)
- Tagish: Diplomatic Missions Worldwide and Embassies Worldwide
- United Nations Treaty Collection (Penn State Users Only)
- Websites of U.S. Embassies and Consulates
- World Statesmen
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (Penn State Users Only)
- WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources (Elizabethtown College)
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War & Peace
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Flags, Maps, & Gazetteers
- All The Worlds Maps (Embassy World )
- Altapedia Online
- Borchert Map Library: Online and Interactive Maps by Subject (UMinn)
- Canadian Geographical Names
- Columbia Gazetteer of the World (Bartleby.com)
- David Rumsey Map Collection ["...over 14,800 maps online....rare 18th and 19th century North and South America maps and other cartographic materials. Historic maps of the World , Europe, Asia and Africa are also represented." (description from website, 12/22/2006]
- Digital South Asia Library: Maps (UChicago)
- Earth and Moon Viewer [maps and images] (John Walker, Fourmi Lab)
- Euroatlas [includes Periodical Historical Atlas of Europe, with antique, medieval and early modern history maps; a Physical Atlas of Europe; and 18th and 19th century European cartographies]
- Flags and Maps of the World (Public Library of Charlotte & Mecklenburg County)
- Flags of all Countries (immigration-usa.com)
- Flags Of The World (crwflags.com)
- Gazetteers and Place Name Guides
- Genographic Project: The Atlas of the Human Journey (National Geographic)
- GeoGratis (Natural Resources Canada)
- Geology.com [includes meteor crater map, state high points, Pangaea, Sahara Desert, plate techtonics, U.S.& World physical and political maps, & satellite images]
- Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names On Line
- Globalis [interactive World atlas thematically displayed]
- Google Earth ["Google Earth combines the power of Google Search with satellite imagery, maps, terrain and 3D buildings to put the world's geographic information at your fingertips." (website, 5/2/2007)]
- HEALTHmap: Global Disease Alert Map
- Historical Atlas of the 20th Century
- HyperHistory Online: Maps
- Index of Maps of the Ancient Greek World (Bernard Suzanne)
- Interactive Nolli Map Website [ancient Rome] (UOregon)
- Lanciani: Forma Urbis Romae, 1893-1901 ["a detailed map of all the ancient ruins in Rome as of 1893-1901 when it was first published....consists of 46 separate plates covering most of the central parts of Rome" (from website, 2/2/07)]
- Madaba Mosaic Map, VI Century A.D.
- Major World Crop Areas and Climatic Profiles
- Map History/History of Cartography (WWW Virtual Library)
- Map Links (Oxford)
- Merriam-Webster Atlas
- MSU Global Access: Map Tool
- Multimap
- National Atlas of Canada (Natural Resources Canada)
- National Atlases: Historical: 1870, 1880, 1890, 1970 (Library of Congress)
- NationalGeographic.com Map Machine
- NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) [official repository of standard spellings of all foreign place names]
- Odden's Bookmarks: The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping [links to thousands of electronic maps and atlases]
- Paleomap Project (scotese.com)
- Perry-Castenada Library Map Collection
- Place Name Sites (ASU)
- Planiglobe [interactive map creator]
- RLG Cultural Material [high quality digital versions of historical maps, photographs, objects, documents, art, sound, and motion pictures] (Penn State Users Only)
- 16th-20th Century Maps of Africa (Northwestern)
- UN Atlas of the Oceans
- Windows Live Maps [street maps, satellite images , 3D & terrain maps]
- World Atlas
- World Bank: An Online Atlas of the Millennium Development Goals
- World Factbook Reference Maps (CIA)
- World Flags (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)
- World Gazetteer
- World Maps (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)
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Nature & Environment
- Center for International Earth Science Information Network (Columbia)
- Chemists Celebrate Earth Day: Resources [links for websites about atmosphere, climate, and weather] (Stanford, ACS)
- Dictionary of Earth Sciences (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)
- Dictionary of Ecology (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)
- Dictionary of Geography (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)
- Dictionary of Weather (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)
- Digital Library of Earth System Education
- Earth & Sky: A Clear Voice for Science
- EMBL Reptile Database (embl-heidelberg.de)
- Encyclopedia of Earth
- Especies Fact Sheets: Electronic Fact Sheets on Over [Endangered] 50 Species (kidsplanet.org)
- Evolution (PBS.org)
- Geo-data: The World Geographical Encyclopedia [Gale Virtual Reference Library: select "Show All Publications"] (Penn State Users Only)
- geographic.org
- Geography Site (geography-site.co.uk)
- Geologic Time (William L. Newman, USGS)
- Global Climate Change: Research Explorer (exploratorium.edu)
- Global Crop Pests: Identification and Information (nysaes.cornell.edu)
- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- National Academies Press [full text books in agriculture, biology, earth sciences, energy, environment, space exploration, science & engineering, and other topics]
- Ocean Explorer (NOAA)
- Oxford Companion to the Earth (Oxford Reference Online) (Penn State Users Only)
- Real Time Data Sites [real time weather, air, space, environment, animals, water, and satellite information]
- Red List of Threatened Species (IUCN, World Conservation Union)
- Terrestrial Ecoregions of the World (National Geographic)
- USGS Earthquake Hazards Program
- Visible Earth: a searchable directory of images, visualizations, and animations of the earth (NASA)
- United Nations Environment Network [includes thematic portals for climate change, freshwater, GEO data, mountains, socioeconomic, and urban environment]
- Web Geological Time Machine (UCBerkely Museum of Paleontology)
- Wildfinder: Mapping the World's Species (worldwildlife.org)
- Wildlife Committee, American Branch, International Law Association: Treaties and Soft Law Agreements
- World Water Council
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Selected International Organizations
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See also these PSU Libraries' related pages:
Online Reference Shelf:
Arts and Humanities Library:
Earth and Mineral Sciences Library:
Maps Library
Social Sciences Library:
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