Need some information about a global issue? Global Issues in Context is the database for you. You can browse lists of current global issues sorted by category, or look up information about a specific country. To try it out, enter a keyword into the box above. To get an idea of the issues covered in this database, check out the Speaking Globally blog, written by the editor of GIIC.

Other new databases:

TableBase will help you find tabular data on companies, industries, products, and demographics. This database covers 90 industries and contains thousands of tables.

History Resource Center: U.S. covers U.S. history from pre-colonial times to the present. It provides comprehensive coverage of more than 50 of the most-studied topics in U.S. history, and contains many primary source documents, including books, pamphlets, first-person accounts, etc.

History Resource Center: World covers world history topics from pre-antiquity to the present. It contains over 1600 primary sources, full text articles from more than 150 academic journals, newspaper articles, reference books, and more.