Mrs. Reeve’s Research Pathfinder
Information Resources:
Countries
Print Information Resources
Books
Europe
Asia
Middle East/Africa
Latin America/South
America
Greece Turkey
Japan
N.
Korea
Iraq
Iran
Bolivia
Mexico
Russia
S. Korea
Poland
China
Saudi
Arabia
Guatemala Honduras
Hungary
Vietnam
Serbia/Yugoslavia
Philippines
Cambodia
Kuwait
Nicaragua Panama
Cuba
Haiti
Electronic Information Resources
Databases
Biography Collection Complete offers a comprehensive collection of full-text biographies
supporting history, science, the arts, music, literature, multicultural studies, gender studies,
business, government & politics, sports, entertainment and many other areas. This database
features more than 177,000 full-text biographies from many different sources.
This database provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas.
History Reference Center offers full text from more than 1,620 reference books,
encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for more than 150 leading history
periodicals, nearly 57,000 historical documents, more than 78,000 biographies of historical
figures, more than 113,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical
video.
Kids Search offers students and easy-to-use and geographically appealing interface, with an
emphasis on searching by topics, such as geography, arts & music, health, or sports.
Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500
popular, high school magazines. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full
text reference books, 85,670 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and a School
Image Collection of photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back
to 1975) for key magazines.
Designed specifically for public libraries, this multidisciplinary database provides full text for
nearly 1,700 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as
1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier 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. This database is
updated daily via EBSCOhost.
Middle Search Plus provides full text for more than 140 popular, middle school magazines. All
full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles). Full
text is also available for thousands of biographies and historical essays. Middle Search Plus
also contains 84,774 biographies, 105,786 primary source documents, and a School Image
Collection of photos, maps and flags.
Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school
research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator
(Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990.
Searchasaurus is a full text database for school research and reading.
The Student Research Center provides students in secondary education with the most
appropriate research tools for easily obtaining the information that they seek from their
EBSCO databases. Through the Student Research Center, users can easily pre-determine
which content sources (e.g., Magazines, Newspapers, Biographies, Country Reports, Film &
Video) will be included with their search. They can also search their databases by topic
heading, make use of an online dictionary and encyclopedia, as well as explore the top
searches of the day.
The World Book Web is a suite of online research tools that includes encyclopedia articles,
primary source collections, educator tools, student activities, pictures, audio, and video,
complemented by current periodicals and related Web sites.
Internet
Website
CIA World Factbook
National Geographic’s Find
People and Places
Time for Kids Around the
World
The World Almanac for Kids
BBC Country Profiles
The U.S. Department of
State
NationMaster
The International Monetary
Fund
The McKinsey Quarterly
World Health Organization
GeoHive
Description
The CIA World Factbook lists population, government, military, and economic
information for nations recognized by the United States
This site allows you to do just that. It has facts, photos, videos, and maps, and you can
even e-mail your friend a postcard.
This site takes you on a tour of countries and even a couple of U.S. states through
sightseeing guides, folktales, quizzes, and more.
This site doesn’t just give facts and figures, it tells the stories of kids from around the
world. See how different your life is from the life of a student in India, Japan, or Peru!
This site is similar to the CIA World FactBook, but it’s easier to navigate and gives a
clearer outline of each country’s background, leaders and media.
This site provides a thorough and up-to-date overview of every country you would
research with its Background Notes.
This site compiles data from sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN and OECD, and
makes it easy to compare data from one country to another.
This site offers recent economic news and data about countries and other territorial
entities around the world.
This quarterly is a periodic report, prepared by one of the world’s leading consulting
firms, about economic and sociological developments in countries around the world.
This organization reports on health conditions and matters in all of its member countries.
This site breaks down census numbers by country and by topic. It’s a good site for a more
sophisticated report.