Sarlo Scholars Program

Country Reports

• Europa World Online 
  
• EIU – Economic Intelligence Unit 
  
• World Fact Book (CIA) 
• Background Notes (U.S. Department of State) 
• Freedom House Country Reports 
  

Country Statistics

• UNData  Keyword searchable database containing over 50 million records from the United Nations and its agencies. Includes demographic, economic, education, health, environmental, agricultural, and technology indicators.
• OECD iLibrary  Full text access to OECD statistical databases, outlook reports, journals, and working papers.
• Proquest Statistical Insight 
• Inter-American Development Bank - Statistics and Databases  
  
• African Statistical Yearbook  Offers a broad range of statistics including population, national accounts, agriculture, industry, transport and communication, tourism, foreign trade, prices, finance, and social statistics.
  

Development

• World Development Indicators (see also REF HC59 .W62 in Reference Room) More than 800 development indicators for 200 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to the present, where data are available.
  

Agriculture

• FAO: Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. 
  
• FAO's Organic Agriculture Country Data 
  

Health & Welfare

• United Nations Demographic & Social Statistics 
  
• United National Human Development Report Country Information Country fact sheets and statistical data for human development indicators such as maternal and child health, literacy, sanitation, and nutritional status.
• World Health Organization Statistical Information System (WHOSIS)  A database of core health statistics for the 193 WHO Member States, comprising more than 100 indicators.
• USAID DOLPHN Data Online for Population, Health, and Nutrition: An online statistical data resource containing selected current and historical country-level demographic and health indicator data.
• United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF)  
Statistics on mortality, immunization, child malnutrition, adult literacy, water supply, sanitation, iodized salt use, and net primary enrollments and enrollments by gender, plus the full-text version of The State of the World's Children.
• UNAIDS Country & Region Reports 
  

Education

• UNESCO Education & Literacy Statistics 
  

Environment

• EarthTrends from the World Resources Institute
  

Human & Civil Rights

• Human Rights Watch Reports  Includes the Human Rights Watch World Report, plus reports which can be searched by country, region, or theme.
  

Country Sources

• International Statistical Agencies Links to official foreign statistical agencies, with notes on languages available at each site.
  

Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)

• Intergovernmental Search Engine 
• United Nations 
  
• IMF and World Bank 
  

Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs)

• Nongovernmental Organization Search Engine
  

Databases for Newspaper, Magazine and Scholarly Journal Articles

• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts  Citations and abstracts to political science literature, 1975 to present.
• JSTOR  Full text archival issues of over 120 journals in the arts and sciences.
• Sociological Abstracts  Citations and abstracts to the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines.
• ProQuest  Current articles on nearly every topic. Contains a mix of full-text articles and citations/abstracts.
• Academic Search Premier Current articles in nearly every academic discipline. Contains a mix of full-text articles and citations/abstracts.
• OminFile Full Text  Current articles on nearly every topic. Contains a mix of full-text articles and citations/abstracts.
• Ethnic News Watch  Full-text articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press.
• LexisNexis Academic Full-text documents from over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications. To search for news relating to a specific country, try the following strategy:
  • Choose “Sources” link on side of page. Then choose "Browse Sources".
  • Step 1: select "By Publication Type"
  • Step 2: For “Filter by Country” select your country or region.
  • Step 3: For “Publication Type” select “News" or "General News Sources"
  • Open file folders and check the boxes of the publications you want to search.
  • When you’re done selecting sources, hit the red "Ok-Continue" button.
• HAPI Online Covers Central and South America, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. Contains citations to articles, book reviews (through 2001), documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
• HLAS Online  Bibliography on Latin America, contains citations to journal and magazine articles, book reviews, documents and original literary works. Most references are either in Spanish or English.

Books

• Ignacio This is the catalog of books available at USF.
• LinkPlus  If there is a book you want that’s checked out or that the library doesn’t own, check to see if it’s available on Link+. Items requested via Link+ arrive in approximately 4 days.