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Ministry of the Interior/Civil Protection (in German)
Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters
National Directorate General for Disaster Management (in Hungarian)
The Icelandic Meteorological Office
State Firefighting and Rescue Service
Geological Survey of Lithuania
Directorate for Civil Defence and Emergency Planning
Office of Civil Protection/MOI (in Slovak)
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General Directorate of Civil Defence
http://uspolicy.usembassy.be/aa/aafirst.htm
A service provided by the US Embassy in Brussels to assist you in keeping abreast of topics about the United States through articles that appear in American journals.
http://www.theatlantic.com/cgi-bin/o/issues/archive.htm
http://www.iwpr.net
This bi-weekly report of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting provides coverage of events in Kosovo, Serbia, Montenegro, and throughout the region.
http://www.basicint.org
BASIC is an independent research organization that analyzes government policies and promotes public awareness of defense, disarmament, military strategy and nuclear policies in order to foster informed debate. The BASIC Papers and Reports can be downloaded free of charge.
http://europa.eu.int/abc/doc/off/bull/en/welcome.htm
This Bulletin is published 10 times a year by the European Commission to provide an overview of current activities of the Commission and other institutions of the EU. It includes sections on economic, social, agricultural and political policy of the European Union.
http://www.cato.org/pubs/fpbriefs/foreignbriefs.html
http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cato_journal.html
An interdisciplinary journal of public policy analysis from the Cato Institute.
http://www.iwpr.net
This new service from the Institute for War & Peace Reporting provides inside reporting on the conflicts and other crises in the Caucasus, from Chechnya to Armenia, with additional reporting from Moscow.
http://www.baltinfo.org
The Official Newsletter of the Council of the Baltic Sea States.
http://www.cdi.org
The CDI Russia Weekly is an e-mail newsletter that carries news and analysis on all aspects of today's Russia, including political, economic, social, military and foreign policy issues. With funding of Carnegie Corporation of New York, the CDI Russia Weekly is a project of the Washington-based Center for Defense Information (CDI), a non-profit research and education organization.
http://www.theepc.be
This is the European Policy Centre's new (free) online journal. In collaboration with leading European academic and political institutes as well as with policy practitioners and a team of senior journalists, Challenge Europe aims to raise the level of public debate about the future direction and policies of the European Union.
http://www.iue.it/EFPB/Welcome.html
This Bulletin is published by the Academy of European Law at the European University Institute. It provides access to the full text of all official EU documents issued since 1985 in the area of foreign policy. The site may be searched by subject keyworkd or browsed by year.
http://data.georgetown.edu/publications/journal
A quarterly publication of the Georgetown University, Washington, USA.
http://www.nyu.edu/globalbeat
Published by the Global Reporting Network, a program of the Center for War, Peace, and the News Media at New York University's Department of Journalism and Mass Communication. Subjects include the Balkan conflicts, East Asian security, EU integration and enlargement, the Middle East, NATO expansion, nuclear weapons and proliferation, South Asian Security and US defense policy.
http://www.nyu.edu/globalbeat
Published by the Global Reporting Network, a program of the Center for War, Peace, and the News Media at New York University's Department of Journalism and Mass Communication. Subjects include the Balkan conflicts, East Asian security, EU integration and enlargement, the Middle East, NATO expansion, nuclear weapons and proliferation, South Asian Security and US defense policy.
http://defence-data.com
On this web site you will find the free Internet Defence & Aerospace News Daily, with facts and figures on defense equipment.
http://www.fhit.org/isis
ISIS Europe was established in August 1995 to provide factual information and analysis on issues of international defence and security to European parliamentarians, European Council and Commission officials and other interested parties in the security community. ISIS Europe aims to improve the quality, range and transparency of defence and security issues discussed within and between the institutions with competencies in foreign affairs and security policy in Brussels. One of the principal means which ISIS adopts to inform parliamentarians is the publication of briefing papers.
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itdhr
An Electronic Journal of the US Department of State.
http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Watson_Institute/Publications
Published by the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies at Brown University (Providence, Rhode Island), the Occasional Papers cover such topics as NATO, security and humanitarian intervention. They can be downloaded free of charge.
http://www.iews.org/rrrabout.nsf/pages/rrr+page
A weekly survey of political and social trends in the 89 regions of the Russian Federation.
http://www.iwpr.net
This weekly service of the Institute for War & Peace Reporting provides a concise summary of important events in and around the courtrooms at The Hague war crimes tribunal. Produced since 1995, the service has become an essential guide to the Yugoslav war crimes process and its impact on the development of international law and the International Criminal Court.
http://usinfo.state.gov/journals/itps
This Electronic Journal of the US Department of State presents writings reflecting the transformation of US foreign policy in recent years.
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http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/election.htm
The site has links to information on about 50 countries, as well as to the best general sites on the topic. It is maintained as part of the Political Science Resources page at the University of Keele in the United Kingdom.
http://www.agora.stm.it/elections
This site offers electoral results from over 180 countries dating back to 1992, along with links to parties, parliaments, and other election sites.
http://www.isp.msu.edu/cers/resources/herron/cee/maincee.htm
This collection of links is intended to facilitate research on political and economic developments in the states of Central and Eastern Europe. It is updated regularly to include sites that provide useful information in English and the languages of the region. Subject categories are Central Government, Ministries and Agencies, Institutes and NGOs, News and Media, Political Parties and Politicians. The site is sponsored by the Center for European & Russian Studies, Michigan State University.
http://www.isp.msu.edu/cers/resources/herron/eurasia/main2.htm
This collection of links is intended to facilitate research on political and economic developments in the former Soviet Union. It is updated regularly to include sites that provide useful information in English and the languages of Eastern Europe and Central Eurasia. Subject categories are Central Government, Ministries and Agencies, Institutes and NGOs, News and Media, Political Parties and Politicians. The site is sponsored by the Center for European & Russian Studies, Michigan State University.
http://www.gksoft.com/govt/en/
A comprehensive database of governmental institutions on the web, including parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, and city councils from more than 200 countries, plus political parties.
http://www.ipu.org/
The site for information on national parliaments of the world. You find for each country : general information on each of the Parliament's chambers; description of the electoral system; results of the most recent elections; and information on the presidency of each chambers. There is also a directory of web sites of parliaments for countries that have them.
http://www.politicalresources.net/
A comprehensive, annotated directory of political sites available on the web sorted by country, with links to political parties, organizations, governments, media and more from around the world.
http://www.ipu.org/french/home.htm
The site for information on national parliaments of the world. You find for each country : general information on each of the Parliament's chambers; description of the electoral system; results of the most recent elections; and information on the presidency of each chambers. There is also a directory of web sites of parliaments for countries that have them.
http://www.polisci.umn.edu/information/parliaments
This site provides links to national, international and regional parliamentary institutions. Maintained by the Department of Political Science, University of Minnesota.
http://db.eiu.com/
Ask the Librarian for user name and password
This site provides a full overview of the latest economic, political, and market conditions of the countries of Central and Eastern Europe. Information is updated on a monthly basis.
http://www.economist.com/
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The site includes the full text of The Economist each week and a searchable archive of back issues since 1995. It has all The Economist maps, charts, tables and diagrams in colour and incorporates links to other web sites.
http://www.globalbooksinprint.com/
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This comprehensive database of books, videos and audiocassettes features titles from the US, Canada and the UK. It offers one-stop access to more than 4 million titles as well as 250.000 publishers. In addition to full bibliographic details, web searchers will find cover images, synopses, awards, bestseller list placement, links to other titles by the same author, and links to other titles on the same subject.
http://www.janesonline.com/
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This site gives access to the Jane's Defence Magazine Library, which includes the full text of the following magazines : International Defense Review, Jane's Defence Weekly, Jane's Intelligence Review, Foreign Report etc.
http://keesings.gvpi.net/
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Published continuously since 1931, this site is the standard for thorough, objective coverage of events in every country in the world. Election results, government changes and new cabinets are routinely reported. Coverage also includes every recognized international organization.
This database includes searchable full text for nearly 1.840 journals; full text dating as far back as January 1990; abstracts and indexing for nearly 2.810 journals, many dating back to 1984, and much more. The database can be searched in combination with Military Library FullTEXT .
This database provides full text for over 230 military related periodicals and general interest magazines. It can be searched in combination with MasterFILE Premier.
http://archives.lemonde.fr/
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The online archives of the newspaper Le Monde are available in full text since 1987, or approximately 570 000 articles. The current edition is also available on the Internet.
http://www.swetsnetnavigator.nl/prod
This database offers you online access to the tables of contents, abstracts and/or full texts of journals held by the Library. It also gives you the opportunity to browse the tables of contents of over 15.000 different magazine titles.
http://www.worldgeography.abc-clio.com/
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This multimedia resource allows you to explore more than 200 countries. Country profiles and overviews, history, important statistics about population, climate, economics, culture, biographies, maps, flags, photos, current news, features and commentaries are all easily available.
http://www.armadainternational.com
http://www.chinaq.oupjournals.org
http://www.totaltele.com/cilive
http://www.taylorandfrancis.com
http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/elect.html
http://www.flightinternational.com
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/europress
http://www.lse.ac.uk/depts/intrel/millenn
http://carlisle-www.army.mil/usawc/parameters
http://www.atlanterhavskomiteen.no
http://www.wws.princeton.edu/world_politics
http://www.yourdictionary.com
Links to more than 500 dictionaries of over 140 different languages.
http://www.harcourt.com/dictionary
Harcourt and Academic Press have brought to the web an English language scientific dictionary of over 130.000 terms defined in 130 fields of science.
http://amosweb.com
Extensive database of economic concepts which currently contains 1.100 terms.
http://www.bartleby.com
This site gives free access to the Columbia Encyclopedia, 6th ed., the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 3rd ed., Roget's II : The New Thesaurus, 3rd ed., Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed., 1919, Simpson's Contemporary Quotations and much more.
http://www.cup.cam.ac.uk
Search Cambridge Dictionaries
http://www.russian-dictionary.org
The Comprehensive Russian Computer Dictionary : English-Russian, Russian-English. This dictionary contains 30.000 computer-related entries divided equally between the English and Russian languages.
http://www.computeruser.com/resources/dictionary/dictionary.html
More than 7.000 terms defined, with a list of recently added terms.
http://mel.lib.mi.us/reference/REF-dict.html
A meta list of dictionaries from the Michigan Electronic Library.
http://ctd.lerc.nasa.gov/dictionary/content.html
Dictionary originally published as NASA SP 7 in 1965. The update project is ongoing.
http://www.dtic.mil/doctrine/jel/doddict
All approved joint definitions are contained in Joint Publication 1-02, 'DoD Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms'. From this page you can either browse the dictionary or search for the definition and usage of individual terms.
http://www.twysted-pair.com/dictionary.htm
Dictionary of electronics.
http://www.encarta.msn.com
A cost-free online version of Encarta, containing more than 17.000 articles, multimedia, a world atlas and the Encarta World English Dictionary.
http://www.britannica.com
The site offers all 44 million words of the Encyclopedia, as well as news feeds and articles from 75 magazine titles including The Economist, Fortune and Time.
http://www.encyclopedia.com
This site contains over 14.000 articles from the third edition of the Concise Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia. It can be searched or browsed.
http://www.InstantWeb.com/foldoc/
More than 10.000 entries, cross-referenced to each other and to related resources elsewhere on the net.
http://www.currents.net/resources/dictionary/noframes/index.phtml
Contains terms in computer science and technology.
http://www.infoplease.com
Freely available on the Net, it offers an Encyclopedia, which gives you access to more than 57.000 articles from the Columbia Encyclopedia, 5th edition and general, entertainment and sports almanacs.
http://www.lectlaw.com//def.htm
The most comprehensive legal dictionary found yet. Thousands of terms. From the 'Lectric Law Library'.
http://www.m-w.com
This site provides free, searchable access to the Collegiate Dictionary and Collegiate Thesaurus, to word games, a word of the day, and many other English language and vocabulary reference tools and resources.
http://allserv.rug.ac.be/~rvdstich/eugloss/welcome.html
This glossary of common and technical medical terms is available in Danish, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish. There is an English language dictionary for term definitions. From the European Commission.
http://www.onelook.com
The ultimate Internet dictionary lookup site. It searches more than 500 general and specialized English dictionaries simultaneously, or selects the ones you want to search. More than 2 million words are now indexed.
http://www.online-dictionary.net
A comprehensive listing of English and non-English language, interest and professional dictionaries on the Internet.
http://www.onelook.com
The ultimate Internet dictionary lookup site. It searches more than 500 general and specialized English dictionaries simultaneously, or selects the ones you want to search. More than 2 million words are now indexed.
http://www.online-dictionary.net
A comprehensive listing of English and non-English language, interest and professional dictionaries on the Internet.
http://www.wcsu.ctstateu.edu/library/odlis.html
ODLIS, the online dictionary of library and information science provides a glossary of over 1.800 terms related to library and information sciences, with an emphasis on online library science. The site is maintained by the Western Connecticut State University.
http://www.graylab.ac.uk/omd
Contains more than 46.000 terms relating to biochemistry, cell biology, chemistry, medicine, molecular biology, physics, plant biology, radiobiology, science, and technology. It includes : acronyms, jargon, theory, conventions, standards, institutions, projects, eponyms, and history, if it has to do with medicine or science. Distributed by Cancer WEB under license from Academic Medical Publishing.
http://www.cadenza.org/search_engine_terms/
Terms used on the Internet, including information on portal sites. Links to French, German, Spanish, Dutch, Italian and Serbian translation of Internet terms.
http://www.sew-lexicon.com
This lexicon contains acronyms, abbreviations and terms relating to military technology, space and electronic combat, electronic warfare, command and control, weaponry, general warfare, information warfare, special warfare, non-lethal weapons, computers, the Internet, emerging technology, and kindred topics.
http://www.techweb.com/encyclopedia
More than 14.000 definitions of computer terms and concepts. The source for this encyclopedia is The Computer Desktop Encyclopedia. Very useful site for authoritative computer and Internet technology definitions.
http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual_home/
Selected chapters of the home edition are available on the Internet. These include the heart, infections, the eye, and gynecology and obstetrics.
http://dictionaries.travlang.com
Free online translation dictionaries in many language combinations.
http://www.webencyclo.com
A free and complete multimedia encyclopedia in French from the Editions Atlas. 11.000 articles, 7.000 photos and illustrations, 300 maps and 1.200 Internet links are available. Various thematic files are also published every month.
http://www.webopedia.com
This site is a dictionary of over 4.000 computer- and Internet-related terms, with links to related articles and resources.
http://www.whatis.com/
Hyper-linked definitions of more than 2.000 Internet and computer related terms.
http://www.wordsmyth.net
Integrated dictionary and thesaurus with rich searchability.
http://www.xlation.com
A repository of resources for translators with links to over 1.600 glossaries and over 60 online grammars.
http://www.esl-lab.com/
Tests and learning
http://geography.about.com/science/geography
This part of the 'about.com' site gives access to links to maps sites.
http://www.atlapedia.com
This site contains full color physical and political maps for regions of the world, as well as providing facts, figures and statistical data on geography, climate, people, religion, language, history, economy etc. for each individual country.
http://www.commondreams.org/kosovo/maps.htm
This site contains maps on Kosovo and the Balkans region.
http://www.maps.expedia.com/pub/agent.dll
This site allows you to get detailed street maps of the United States and road maps of Canada, Mexico, and Europe; to see the world with topographic maps of places around the globle and to get accurate directions to US addresses and cities throughout North America, with detailed turn-by-turn maps.
http://www.infoplease.com/atlas
This part of the 'infoplease.com' site contains maps.
http://users.aimnet.com/~ksyrah/ekskurs/maps.html
Maps of Russia and the FSU Republics.
http://www.maps.com/
Get directions to navigate anywhere in the USA, explore the Online World Atlas (featuring all 50 US States and over 190 nations) and Online Topographic Maps (the first interactive topo map of the entire United States).
http://www.mideastweb.org/maps.htm
Maps of the Middle East.
http://www.lib.utexas.edu/Libs/PCL/Map_collection/Map_collection.html
The Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection (University of Texas at Austin). One of the best maps sites.
http://www.reliefweb.int/mapc/index.html
Provides reference and thematic maps concerning current and past humanitarian emergencies and natural disasters.
http://www.startingpage.com/html/maps.html
This site provides links to maps sites : city maps, state maps, road maps, world maps, and map links.
http://www.un.org/Depts/Cartographic/english/htmain.htm
This United Nations site offers general maps, the latest deployment maps of peacekeeping operations, thematic maps and geographic resources and information.
http://www.ukraine.org/maps.html
Site offering maps on Ukraine.
http://www.etown.edu/vl/maps.html
Part of the WWW Virtual Library site offering links to maps sites.
http://www.liga.kiev.ua/maillist/
http://www.rada.kiev.ua/laws/pravo/all/mdpn.htm
http://weblist.gu.net:8101/Kyiv/
http://ukrainian.wunderground.com/global/stations/33345.html
http://www.swissair.com/qualiflyer/
http://www.flags.ndirect.co.uk//search.htm
http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
http://www.oanda.com/convert/classic