http://www.globalroadwarrior.com/directclient_index2.asp?c=uw

Pro­vides inter­na­tional trav­el­ers with infor­ma­tion on 175 coun­tries. Top­ics include coun­try facts, cli­mate, soci­ety & cul­ture, demo­graph­ics, money and bank­ing, points of inter­est, trans­porta­tion, maps, com­mu­ni­ca­tions, and much more.

http://www.worldtraderef.com/wtr_nl/WTR_site/login_transport_ip.asp?l=wtr09&p;=uw&loc;=main

A com­pi­la­tion of data sets and other types of infor­ma­tion on a wide array of top­ics relat­ing to inter­na­tional trade, includ­ing air trans­port; the basics of inter­na­tional trade (imports, exports, for­eign exchange, con­tracts); busi­ness enti­ties world­wide; com­puter terms, coun­try codes, coun­try and demo­graphic data; cur­ren­cies; U.S. cus­toms require­ments and rul­ings; U.S. import and export forms; the full text of NAFTA and related doc­u­ments; secu­rity data set (C-TPAT, FAST, PAPS, PARS, etc.); and much more.

http://glnd.alexanderstreet.com

Also avail­able through Alexan­der Street Press “Music online” inter­face and cross-searchable with other data­bases there:
http://music.alexanderstreet.com

The Gar­land Ency­clo­pe­dia of World Music Online is the first com­pre­hen­sive online resource devoted to music research of all the world’s peo­ples. More than 9,000 pages of mate­r­ial, com­bined with entries by more than 700 expert con­trib­u­tors from all over the world, make this the most com­plete body of work focused on world music. This release includes 1,208 essays and images from 10 sources and hun­dreds of audio examples.

http://hrd.idcpublishers.info/

Human Rights Doc­u­ments Online (HRDO) will ulti­mately con­tain all human rights doc­u­ments col­lected by the Human Rights Inter­net (HRI) in Ottawa in Canada since 1980.

These doc­u­ments emanate from 483 non-governmental human rights organizations(NGOs) world­wide, some of which have a uni­ver­sal scope, whilst oth­ers focus on the attain­ment of human rights in a spe­cific area of the world.

From the folks at Hoover’s:
http://washington.firstresearch-learn.com

Four new data­bases are avail­able from Green­wood Press:

Pop cul­ture uni­verse
http://pop.greenwood.com/
New tech­nol­ogy (iPods, gam­ing, gadgets)…Internet memes and chatspeak…movies, TV, radio…music…comics and graphic novels…sports and pastimes…fads, fash­ion, and fast food: pop cul­ture brings us together as a peo­ple. Pop cul­ture uni­verse is an author­i­ta­tive dig­i­tal library of infor­ma­tion on Amer­i­can and world pop­u­lar cul­ture, past and present—in a pack­age as dynamic as the topic it cov­ers. Built on hun­dreds of award-winning titles for all lev­els of researchers, PCU pro­vides a safe haven for inves­ti­gat­ing top­ics that appeal to students—without the bias, adver­tis­ing, sug­ges­tive con­tent, or ques­tion­able author­ship of com­mer­cial or fan sites.

The Amer­i­can Indian expe­ri­ence
http://aie.greenwood.com
The Amer­i­can Indian Expe­ri­ence (AIE) is a full-text dig­i­tal resource explor­ing the his­to­ries and con­tem­po­rary cul­tures of the indige­nous peo­ples of the United States. AIE offers access to an online library, fea­tur­ing more than 150 vol­umes of schol­ar­ship and ref­er­ence con­tent, hun­dreds of pri­mary doc­u­ments, and thou­sands of images. From Pre-contact to the present day, from the Inuit of the north to the Semi­noles of Florida, AIE is meant for any­one wish­ing to learn more about America’s Native Peoples

The Latino Amer­i­can expe­ri­ence
http://lae.greenwood.com/
A full-text data­base focus­ing on the his­tory and cul­ture of Lati­nos liv­ing in the United States includ­ing images, hun­dreds of pri­mary doc­u­ments, Spanish-language con­tent, a time­line, and vet­ted Web sites.

Daily life online
http://dailylife.greenwood.com
Daily life online is a col­lec­tion of pri­mary doc­u­ments, ref­er­ence works, mono­graphs, images, maps, illus­tra­tions, and time lines depict­ing essen­tial activ­i­ties of daily life across the globe and through­out history.