LibGuides: Country Studies: Reference Sources

Reference Books/E-Books

Below are a selected few reference books about Country Studies. Be sure to browse the reference shelves on the 2nd floor to find more materials:

Statesman's Yearbook This link opens in a new window
Print reference work McQuade [REF] JA51 .S7.
Online alternatives include Euromonitor, BSP Business Searching Interface, and Britannica Online.

Britannica Online This link opens in a new window
Free site available to all. See also Britannica sources provided by the Mass. Board of Library Commissioners for Children, Young Adults, Reference and Escolar Online.
Biography - Gale in Context This link opens in a new window
Find biographies of people, searching by occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth and death date, and of course by name. Courtesy Massachusetts Library System.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Search hundreds of reference sources - dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, quotations and atlases - for topic overviews and links to our other online resources. Includes mind map/concept map search feature.
Gale Ebooks, formerly GVRL Gale Virtual Reference Library This link opens in a new window
~ Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture
~ St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture
~ New Encyclopedia of Africa
~ Encyclopedia of Modern China
General Reference Center Gold, now in General OneFile - Gale This link opens in a new window
A general interest database that integrates a variety of sources in one easy-to-use interface. Use General Reference Center Gold to find articles from newspapers, reference books, and periodicals, many with full-text and images.
MasterFILE Premier - EBSCOhost This link opens in a new window
Search magazines, reference books, primary sources, and photos, maps and flags in this general multidisciplinary collection.