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Library Databases for Country and Culture Information

CultureGrams Online This link opens in a new window
Cultural information for countries, states, and provinces.
Cultural information for over 200 countries is included in the World Edition. U.S. States and Canadian provinces are also covered. In addition to the country/state/province reports, the database includes a photo gallery with thousands of images, downloadable slideshows, downloadable and streaming videos, interviews with native children and adults from countries around the world, five recipes for each country, short biographies of five to ten famous people for each country, maps and flags, sound files providing national anthems and country name pronunciation, state bird sound files, and more. The database is keyword searchable.

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Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Online reference library that provides access to a growing selection of reference books.
Online reference library that provides access to a growing selection of reference books. Includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, books of quotations, and a range of subject-specific titles from art to accountancy and literature to law. Credo Reference generates a network of cross-references that provide an easy-to-follow trail to related information contained anywhere within the library.

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Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
A leading multidisciplinary research database. It provides acclaimed full-text journals, magazines and other valuable resources.
Academic Search Premier includes 4645 magazines and journals in full text, of which 3855 are peer-reviewed. The database indexes and abstracts a total of18,999 magazines & journals.

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Access World News This link opens in a new window
Articles from local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers, as well as international newspapers from around the globe.
Five full text databases are included. NewsBank Academic Library Collection provides contemporary articles from national and international newspapers, wire services and magazines from 1986 forward. Newsbank Retrospective covers 1970-1991 and focuses on contemporary American History. MOREnet offered Full-Text Newspapers includes local, regional and national newspapers in one searchable database. The Kansas City Star covers 1991-Current and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch covers 1988-Current.

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General OneFile (Gale) This link opens in a new window
News, magazine, and periodical articles on general interest topics.
General OneFile iincludes news, magazine, and periodical articles across a wide range of general interest topics and academic disciplines. Millions of articles are available in both PDF and HTML full-text.

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MasterFILE Premier This link opens in a new window
Periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, and multicultural issues.
MasterFILE Premier™ contains full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals covering general reference, business, health, education, general science, multicultural issues and much more. This database also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and over 164,400 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 502,000 photos, maps & flags. MasterFILE™ Premier offers PDF backfiles (as far back as 1975) for key publications including American Libraries, Foreign Affairs, History Today, Judaism, Library Journal, National Review, Saturday Evening Post, etc.

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Open Websites for Country and Culture Information

BBC Country Profiles
Includes audio/video clips
CIA World Factbook
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. The "ECONOMY" section of a country provides information on GDP, labor force, latest available unemployment rate, population, budget, public debt, taxes and other revenues, exports, etc.
Live Science articles on customs and culture, different countries - LiveScience
Scroll down the list to read a general article, “What Is Culture?” By Kim Ann Zimmermann, LiveScience.
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