Encyclopedia of World Cultures Information on cultures around the world including marriage customs, language, religion, history, economy, kinship etc. and bibliographies. There are maps showing cultural groups in each region. The Encyclopedia of the Third World Entries on countries cover political parties, labor, economics, agriculture, freedom and human rights, ethnic composition and language, constitution and government, colonial experience and an extensive bibliography.
Entries have useful cross-references and bibliographies.
A selection of literature on women available in the United Nations Library in New York and Geneva. Coverage begins with sources from 1992. Full-text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad range of subject areas, includes academic and scholarly journals as well as government and ngo reports, magazines and newspapers. Citation database for sociology indexes journals, conference papers, books etc. Print periodical index for journal articles since 1972 on women's studies and related subjects.