HS-CompGov

Databases
[|Advanced Placement Source]
 * Designed to meet the needs of high school students in AP of IB courses
 * 5,550+ full-text academic journals and magazines

[|Global Issues in Context] > [|Image Quest]
 * Analysis of issues - social, political, military, economic, environmental, science related, health related, cultural
 * Focuses on broad issues, such as war, genocide, terrorism, human rights, poverty, famine, globalization, world trade, nuclear proliferation, and global warming, as well as more specific events and topics in the news that are related to these broader issues.
 * Detailed information on nations to provide a foundation for cross-cultural studies
 * Overviews summarizing background information, historical context, and contemporary stances
 * Expert perspectives analyzing an issue or event through multiple aspects
 * Reference documents providing background information on all issues and nations
 * Full-text international magazines, academic journals, news source, and primary sources
 * Statistics, including interactive graphs, tables, and charts
 * Two million plus rights-cleared images from over 50 of the best collections in the world (DK Images, Getty, National Geographic, et al).

[|JSTOR]
 * 1,000+ academic journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources in all academic areas.

[|MAS Ultra]
 * 500 popular, high school magazines
 * 360 full text reference books
 * 85,670 biographies
 * 107,000+ primary source documents
 * 510,000 photos, maps & flags


 * [|Points of View] **
 * Provides a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue.
 * 280+ topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument)
 * Topics covered include: affirmative action, cloning, DNA profiling, HIV/AIDS status disclosure, immigration, Iraq, Israel & the Palestinians, Katrina and FEMA response, nuclear proliferation, Torture, and women's rights.

=Selected Online News, Newspapers and Magazines=
 * [|Foreign Policy's Failed States Index] |**
 * [|Al Jazeera]** **| [|BBC] | [|Deutsche Welle]** **| [|Economist] |** **[|Guardian]** | **[|New York Times]** **[|United Nations News Service]**
 * =**Online TV**=
 * [|TED: Ideas Worth Spreading] | [|FORA.tv]**

The CIA Fact book: [] The BBC Country Profiles: [] Freedom House: [] Human Development Index: [] Governance Indicators from the World Bank [] Economic Freedom Index [] Corruption Perception Index [] Political Resources on the Net [|http://www.politicalresources.net] Inter-Parliamentary Union [|http://www.ipu.org]
 * =**Web Sites**=
 * UN Human Development **[|Reports]
 * UN Human Development Reports -** [|Statistics]