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
Print reference work McQuade [REF] JA51 .S7.
Online alternatives include Euromonitor, BSP Business Searching Interface, and Britannica Online.

Britannica Online
Suite of reference sources, including a dictionary/thesaurus, atlas & country comparison tool, historical timelines and primary documents, and current BBC world news.
Biography - Gale in Context
Find biographies of people, searching by occupation, nationality, ethnicity, birth and death date, and of course by name. Courtesy Massachusetts Library System.
Credo Reference
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
~ 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
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.

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https://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/mlin_n_merrcol?db=ITOF
MasterFILE Premier - EBSCOhost
Search magazines, reference books, primary sources, and photos, maps and flags in this general multidisciplinary collection.