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Guide to Sources of Funding in International Democratic Development
www.ned.org/research/funding.html |
The National Endowment for Democracy provides a list of organizations that give funding to groups working in the area of international affairs. The list includes: contact information, mission statement, funding limitations, geographical focus, and specific awards. |
ResourceShelf
www.resourceshelf.com |
Gary Price maintains a growing compilation of links to the search interfaces of resources that contain data not easily or entirely searchable/accessible from general search tools like Alta Vista, Google, and Infoseek. |
EDIRC
netec.wustl.edu/EDIRC |
A long list of links to economics departments, institutes and research
centers around the world, listed by countries and fields. |
European Union Information Resources
www.eurunion.org/infores/euindex.htm |
This is an alphabetical index to information on all the web sites
of the European Union's institutions and specialized agencies. |
David Ettinger's International Affairs Blog
http://blogs.gelman.gwu.edu/blogs/elliott/category/Web-Resources/ |
WILG Associate David Ettinger provides links to general sites dealing with subjects of international relations. |
| Huridocs-tech listserv
Subscription information: contact Debra Guzman at debra@oln.comlink.apc.org
Past postings can be found at: www.hrea.org/lists/huridocs-tech/markup/maillist.html |
Huridocs-tech is a moderated list on the use of new technologies for human rights work. Terrific postings from NGO's in developing countries on their new publications and innovative uses of the Internet. |
International Business Resources
http://globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/ibrd.asp |
Directory maintained by the Michigan State University's Center for International Business Education and Research |
International Data Base (U.S. Census Bureau)
www.census.gov/ftp/pub/ipc/www/idbnew.html |
The IDB contains statistical tables of demographic and socioeconomic data for 227 countries and areas of the world, covering the period 1950-2050. Population pyramids showing the age structure for countries can be generated, as well as a ranking of countries by total population for any year from 1950 to 2050. Historical estimates of world population from 10,000 B.C. to 1950 A.D. are also provided. |
Internet Public Library
www.ipl.org |
WILG Associate Jim Cornelius recommended this general resource, noting the useful list of links to the online editions of newspapers from thoughout the world. Began as a project of the School of Information and Library Studies at the University of Michigan in 1995, IPL is a good starting point to explore any subject. It offers access to electronic resources under several collections (reference, maganizes and serials, newspapers, online texts, "especially for librarians," web searching, exhibits, teen, and youth), offering helpful annotations to the selected sites. |
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Latin American Network Information Center lanic.utexas.edu |
The premier academic gateway to information on Latin American countries
and regional organizations maintained by the Institute of Latin American
Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. Information is organized
by theme, region, and country, and is searchable. Notably, LANIC now
tracks elections, and also documents Internet trends in Latin America. |
Open Doors Web
http://opendoors.iienetwork.org/ |
This website contains data on international students studying in the U.S., and information on the destinations of American students abroad. Archived from 1994 to the present, almost any question about native language, state of destination or field of study can be answered from this site. |
Population Database
esa.un.org/unpp/ |
From the United Nations Population Division, the database provides estimates of population trends covering the period 1950-2000, and four projection variants for the period 2001-2050. Data is provided for world regions as well as for individual countries. |
PubList.com,
The Internet Directory of Publications
www.publist.com |
This a free database of over 150,000 magazines, journals, newsletters, & other periodicals. Here one can find in-depth information on familiar and hard-to-find publications from around the world, representing thousands of topics. For me, the real feather in the cap is providing URLs to publisher's web pages. |
ReliefWeb
www.reliefweb.int |
Established by the United Nations in 1996, the source for a variety of information on current humanitarian emergencies established by the United Nations in 1996. The site distinguishes between complex emergencies (or man-made disasters) and natural disasters, however, if unfamiliar with the jargon, access is available by country. Two valuable features are reports about the disasters from humanitarian agencies and news sources, and unique maps useful to such agencies. |
ResearchBuzz / ResearchBuzz Newsletter
www.researchbuzz.com |
Compiled by Tara Calishain, the ResearchBuzz Newsletter, is a free,
weekly e-mail with updates on what is happening in the ever changing
Search Engine industry. And not only the big name search engines like
Yahoo, but other smaller data sources, like FishBase
(a global database on fishes). On the web site you'll find an archive
of past issues of the Newsletter, as well as additional articles and
a Site Search Resource. |
Social Science Research Network Electronic Library
papers.ssrn.com |
Contains
over 4,000 full-text working papers on law, economics, finance, accounting,
and management. |
World Audit
www.worldaudit.org |
Though a slow loading
site, World Audit provides a wonderful ranking system which offers
a compendium of statistics and reports from Freedom House, Transparency
International, Amnesty International and The International Commission
of Jurists on: Freedom in the World; Press Freedom; Perceptions of
Corruption; Human Rights; and the Rule of Law in almost every country
in the world. It puts all the published measurements of freedom in
the world on one web site! |
