Business and Government Documents Center

This new database from the PRS Group provides access to one of the world's best commercial sources of country risk ratings and forecasts. Data is available for more than 150 countries, including risk ratings and economic data from International Country Risk Guide, as well as forecasts, economic, political, geographic, and social data from Political Risk Services. CountryData is updated monthly and is the gateway to all current and historical data from The PRS Group.

You can find it in the Economic and Statistical or Country sections of the Virtual Business Library.

The United Nations Treaty Collection recently redesigned their website. The site is a great source for finding out the status of recent treaties as well as being an access point for treaties already in existence.

NYU Libraries provide a link through the "Articles via Databases" page. Once there just go to "U".

In particular, you can now search through the UN Treaty Series by name, title or participant. The site also provides access to the League of Nations Treaty Series.

Because the site is so new, please be advised that it still has some bugs so do check back if its not working properly. Once those are fixed it looks like it will be a welcome page for anyone researching UN Treaties.

1. U.S. Census Bureau, International Data Base, Country Rankings (IDB)

2. Foundation Center: Top 100 Foundations by Asset Size

Source: ResourceShelf

In October 2008, the New York 3Rs Association launched its digital heritage Web site, a research portal for students, educators, historians, genealogists and others who are interested in the New York’s history.

Since launch, more than 2000 items have been added with 5000 more expected to be added by summer.

The gateway connects more than 160 digital collections from around the state, contributed by more than 100 libraries, archives, museums and other cultural institutions throughout New York. It also builds on existing digital repository services administered by each of the nine reference and research library resources councils.

Direct to New York Heritage Collection (access is free)

Source: Resource Shelf (Posted April 15, 2009)

The World Digital Library recently went "live" providing access to literally thousands of cultural artifacts and primary sources from around the world and dating back to 9000 BC.

This database is supported by the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO).

It is searchable across 5 different categories and available in 7 languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, Spanish and Portuguese):

Place
Time
Topics, such as Technology and Language
Type of Item
Institution