GSU Library Research Guides: World Affairs Council of Atlanta Library Resources: Country Information and Newspapers Originated in a Specific Country

Country Information

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Find country reports by clicking on the "Country Reports" link on the panel on the right side of the page. Then browse for your country.

Country Resources on the Web

globalEDGE
A comprehensive research tool for academics, students and businesspeople.
CIA World FactBook
Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
Export.Gov Country Commercial Guides
Export.gov brings together resources from across the U.S. Government to assist American businesses in planning their international sales strategies and succeed in today’s global marketplace. Their Country Commercial Guides provide detailed foreign market intelligence,
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development:
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development: a unit of United Nations that deals with trade, investment, and development issues. UNCTADstat provides detail information on country profiles and data research.
Centre for Interculture Learning
Country Insights with business etiquettes and cultures.
Georgia Department of Economic Development
The Georgia Department of Economic Development (GDEcD) plans, manages and mobilizes state resources to attract new business investment to Georgia, drive the expansion of existing industry and small business, locate new markets for Georgia products.

Factiva Video Tutorial

This video will walk you through the process of finding articles from a particular country in Factiva.

Factiva

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Factiva will be your best option for finding articles from your country. It provides access to thousands of news sources from around the world. It allows you to limit your results to sources by region.

Searching Factiva for International News

Use the Search Builder screen
Click on Source
Select Source By Region
Choose your country
Enter search terms and run your search
Keep in mind that Factiva assumes you are doing a phrase search. Remember to use Boolean Connectors (and, or, not) to combine terms.

Verifying that your article is from your country

At the topic of each article in Factiva you will see the source name. If you click on the source name, a box will pop up giving you information about the publication, including In this example, the article was from the Nikkei Report.

The ensuing pop up box will look like this. The country of origin will be listed in the description of the source.