Foreign Language Research Guide:

• ABYZ News Links   Gateway to newspapers, news media, news sources worldwide
• Audiobooks (NetLibrary)   Hundreds of electronic audiobooks for academic and young adult audiences. These can be downloaded to your computer and transferred to portable devices.
• Biography Reference Bank (Wilson)   Contains biographical information on ~500,000 people, from antiquity to the present, with thousands of images. It contains the articles from >100 volumes of Wilson biographical reference books, including Current Biography, the World Author Series, Nobel Prize Winners, World Artists, World Film Directors, American Reformers, & biographical books on musicians & composers. Also included are thousands of biographies from Macmillan UK, Greenwood, Houghton Mifflin, Harvard University Press and others.
• CIA World Factbook   Country information divided into the following areas: Introduction, geography, people, government, economy, communications, transportation, military, transnational issues.
• Country Studies   Library of Congress guides to countries and regions.
• CultureGrams Online   Extensive cultural reports for 190+ countries, states and provinces. Each report includes information about the country & its climate, people, customs & courtesies, lifestyle & society. There are World, Kids, State and Provincial editions.
• Dragonsource Chinese Magazines   The premier Chinese language online periodical resource.
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)   ECCO contains English-language and foreign-language titles published in the UK between 1701 and 1800, plus thousands of important works from the Americas. 150,000 printed works (33 million pages) covering the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Industrial Revolution.
• Embassy World   Directory & Search Engine Of The World's Embassies & Consulates
• Encyclopedia of Multicultural Education (ebrary)   ebrary reader required
• Exploring Ancient World Cultures   An on-line course supplement for students and teachers of the ancient and medieval worlds. Includes histories for the Near East, India, Egypt, China, Greece, Rome, Early Islam and Medieval Europe, as well as an index of Internet sites.
• Factiva   A global news & business information service that combines Dow Jones Interactive & Reuters Business Briefing. It includes business newswires, The Wall Street Journal, and hundreds of foreign language news sources.
• JSTOR   Back issues of nearly 800 scholarly, peer-reviewed journals. Coverage is from the first issue to 3-5 years prior to the current year.
• MLA International Bibliography   Subjects include literature, language & linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, historical aspects of printing & publishing. Listings on rhetoric & composition and the history, theory & practice of teaching language & literature are also included. Coverage: 1926-present.
• NewspaperDirect PressDisplay   Full-page digital images of 800+ newspapers and magazines from 81 countries, in 38 languages. Shows issues from the last 60 days.
• Oxford Reference Online   Over 120 dictionaries (English and foreign languages) and reference titles in science, business, humanitites, social sciences and more.
• Radio-Locator   The most comprehensive radio station search engine on the internet. Links to 10,000+ radio station web pages and 2500+ audio streams. Listen to live streaming audio from stations in the U.S. and around the world.
• SYB World; Statesman's Yearbook   Current authoritative information on the government, politics, geography, history, economics, social policy & culture of every country in the world.