Subject guides: Media and Communications: Journalist's Toolkit

Other useful guides

U.S. Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets
U.S. Department of State Country Relations Fact Sheets
World development indicators: WDI online
WDI Online provides access to statistical data for over 550 development indicators and time series data and includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators
The World Factbook
Central Intelligence Agency provides information on the history, people and society, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.
Data Store: Guardian News Online
World Government Data Search - the Guardian
The Statesman's Yearbook
The Politics, Cultures and Economies of the World

Australian Geographic Place names
Australian Government: Geoscience Australia
Perry-Castenada Library Maps
University of Texas. Includes a large collection of freely available online maps.
Online Maps of the World

World Association of Non-Governmental organizations
Worldwide NGO Directory
International Government Organizations
Northwestern University Library extensive map collection is complemented by geospatial services supporting the use of GIS software for data analysis and visualization.

The World Bank - doing business project
View an economy profile + ease of doing business for each country.
The World Bank - country profiles
The World Bank - open data
OECD country pages
Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
IMF country information page
International Monetary Fund
US Commercial Service - Country Commercial Guides
Guides are written by US Embassy trade experts worldwide.
Central Intelligence Agency - World Factbook
Produced for US policymakers. Each country profile covers: geography; people and society; government; economy; energy; communications; transportation; military and security; and transnational issues.
globalEDGE country profiles - Michigan State University
Access a country risk assessment via the left-hand menu of each profile page.

The Author's Guild
The Economist Style Guide
The Guardian and Observer style guide
Society of Professional Journalists: Writing resources
ABC Editorial Standards
The ABCs editorial policies, the corrections and clarifications page, published content reviews and resources – including the ABC Pronunciation and Style guides.

National Film and Sound Archive
Do a site search for Australian speeches.
PM Transcripts
Collection of transcripts from Australian Prime Ministers contains approximately 23,000 individual speeches, media releases and other transcript items dating from the early 1940's through to the end of the Turnbull Government in 2018.
American Rhetoric
Site dedicated to Public Speeches and Speakers of all kinds and includes a Speech Bank, Movie Speeches, Audio Figures of Speech, The Top 100 American Speeches etc.
History Channel Famous Speeches

OECD iLibrary
To access country specific publications and statistics by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), select Browse by Country from the menu across the top of the page.