Government: Other Nations

International Law

• ASIL: American Society of International Law - electronic guide to treaties
• EISIL: electronic information system for international law
• Foreign and International Law: Research Guide - from the Law Library of Congress
• Lexis-Nexis - includes some international legal resources. Select the tab "Legal", then select from the options in the right-hand column
• The International Court of Justice

United Nations

• U.N.HomePage
• U.N. Multimedia - links to media resources of the U.N.
• UN Web Site Locator (United Nations) - a web site locator for the U.N. system of organizations
• Missions - permanent representatives to the U.N. ("Blue Book")
• UN Pulse - the weblog of the United Nations Library. Notes and describes significant new online publications
• U.N. Common Database (UNCDB) - statistical information from many sources
• Official documents of the United Nations - includes documents from 1993, with older documents being added. Provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. Does not include press releases or UN sales publications.
• UN System Pathinder: from the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. An index to U.N. publications. Includes global studies and reports, handbooks, guides, bibliographies, statistical publications, treaty compilations and selected annual reports. Links to Internet versions of listed publications are provided whenever available.
• Dag Hammarskjöld Library - includes U.N. voting records, index of speeches, and selected documents. UNBISNET - Catalogue is the index to UN speeches, voting records, letters, etc.
• United Nations Scholars' Workstation - Developed by the Yale University Library and the Social Science Statistical Laboratory, this site is "a collection of texts, finding aids, data sets, maps, and pointers to print and electronic information. Subject coverage includes disarmament, economic and social development, environment, human rights, international relations, international trade, peacekeeping, and population and demography."
• United Nations documentation: research guide: an overview of the types of documents produced and how to find them
• UN-I-QUE: a ready reference internet database for the U.N.
• International Court of Justice Research Guide - (World Court)

Canada

• Canada Site: search for Canadian government information on the internet.
• Parliament of Canada
• Canadian Information by Subject - from the National Library of Canada
• Library and Archives Canada - About the collections as well as direct access to online resources
• Canadian Studies : A Guide to the Sources. Describes "a core collection of print and electronic sources suitable for use in Canadian Studies" with an emphasis on "accessible titles originating in Canada and dealing with cultural subjects."
• Canada Gazette - the official newspaper of the government of Canada, 1841-date.
• Politics and Government - Canada

United Kingdom

• UK Online Citizen Portal - links to information on more than 1000 official websites
• Official Yearbook of the United Kingdom
• inforoute -- HMSO - From Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO). A web-based gateway to official UK government information. Similar to other official gateways, such as the Government Information Locator Service (GILS) in the US and Info Source in Canada, "inforoute" will provide a centralized resource for locating and accessing documents and data sets published by government agencies and departments.
• Official Documents - The Stationery Office -- UK
• GIS - Government Information Service - the U.K. equivalent to our "FedWorld" - a directory to government web sites

Other Foreign Governments

(see also Reference: Countries and Embassies)

• Constitution Finder - a database of constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents for the countries of the world
• Diplomacy Monitor - news releases and primary source documents from government agencies
• Foreign Information by Country - a good portal to web resources, maintained by the Univ. of Colorado.
• International Governments - Librarians Index to the Internet : constitutions, consular services, human rights, etc.
• JURIST: world law - websites on foreign constitutional law and legal systems
• Government Gazettes Online - official publications of national governments
• Nations of the World - from the Law Library of Congress
• United Nations InfoNation : data on 185 countries
• Worldwide Governence Indicators - from the World Bank. Reports aggregate and individual governance indicators for 212 countries and territories over the period 1996–2006, for six dimensions of governance.
• League of Arab States
• Euroguide - to the European Union