Database of the Week

Country Watch is available to all currently-enrolled SWC students, staff, and faculty. This database includes publications about every country -- including demographic, political, economic, business, cultural and environmental information.

Data can be viewed a variety of ways, including via thematic, physical, and political maps. You may also access CountryWire, which provides daily news coverage for every country in the world.

Source: Country Watch

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CountryWatch - Nigeria

This online resource brings together in a concise and useful form, a key set of political, economic, and business information for 192 countries worldwide. Countrywatch also provides news related articles from 12 international news services on a country by country basis as they occur. Within this resource is a Map Gallery that supplies regional and country maps in a variety of sizes and formats. In addition, thematic maps and indexes cover a variety of cultural and economic subjects.

Each month Countrywatch highlights a Featured Country. Nigeria is the featured country for April. The country report provides additional insight to Nigeria's significant budget deficit and dangerous economic situation. The country report covers not only economic information but also political, environmental, historical, cultural etiquette, a travel guide and health advisory for all 192 countries.

To use the CountryWatch online database visit our Articles and Databases website http://www.swccd.edu/~library/articles.htm. CountryWatch is listed with our other reference resources.

To access this resource from off campus locations you must be a currently enrolled student or staff member at Southwestern College. You can request the username and password for CountryWatch by using our Password Request Form at http://www.swccd.edu/~library/Passwordrequest

CountryWatch: Ireland

This online resource brings together in a concise and useful form, a key set of political, economic, and business information for 192 countries worldwide. Countrywatch also provides news related articles from 12 international news services on a country by country basis as they occur. Within this resource is a Map Gallery that supplies regional and country maps in a variety of sizes and formats. In addition, thematic maps and indexes cover a variety of cultural and economic subjects.

Each month Countrywatch highlights a Featured Country. Ireland is the featured country for January. The country report provides additional insight to Ireland's significant budget deficit and dangerous economic situation. The country report covers not only economic information but also political, environmental, historical, cultural etiquette, a travel guide and health advisory for all 192 countries.

To use the CountryWatch online database visit our Articles and Databases website http://www.swccd.edu/~library/articles.htm. CountryWatch is listed with our other reference resources. To access this resource from off campus locations you must be a currently enrolled student or staff member at Southwestern College. You can request the username and password for CountryWatch by using our Password Request Form at http://www.swccd.edu/~library/Passwordrequest

CountryWatch Database

CountryWatch Premium provides socio-demographic, cultural, historical, economic, political, environmental and investment information, along with news, analysis, maps, data and statistics on all of the world’s 192 countries and many non-sovereign nations. CountryWatch Premium is made up of four distinct features, the Country Reviews, Country Wire, CountryWatch Data, and Map Gallery, each complementing the other to provide maximum depth and coverage.

Country Reviews

A comprehensive online report for each country dynamically updated as major events occur

Access over 100 pages of detailed profiling of each county’s historical, political, economic, social, demographic, business and environmental issues

Features sections on foreign relations, political climate, economic conditions and cultural etiquette

Each country report is downloadable into Abode PDF format



Country Wire

A country-specific, real-time news feed to keep current with breaking news in each country

Access real-time, full-text news articles for each country

Real-time news from internationally recognized news services, or search through the vast, online, historical archive of over 180,000 news articles to find specific topics



CountryWatch Data

A storehouse of ten years of raw data for over 250 different variables for all 192 countries

Contains macroeconomic, economic, health, demographic, cultural, sociological and environmental statistics

Allows you to select multiple countries, regions and variables for cross comparison

Features functions for easy download into CSV format and GIS software to create charts and diagrams



Map Gallery

An online gallery of maps, integrating CountryWatch Data to provide an illustration of global trends

Contains over 170 thematic maps covering cultural, economic, macroeconomic, environment and indicators

Wide coverage includes standard of living, education, energy sector, manufacturing, crops, sector employment, inflation, trade balance, debt, greenhouse gas maps.

You can access CountyWatch from the library's Articles and Databases webpage. Currently enrolled students can also access this database from Off Campus locations.

CountryWatch

For up-to-date news and information on your favorite countries of the world visit the CountryWatch online database located on our Articles & Databases website http://www.swccd.edu/~library/articles.htm.

CountryWatch is a continuously updated online resource also provides geopolitical, economic, social, business and environmental information for countries around the world.

Online access is provide through the Southwestern College Library's website. Select the Access Off-Campus link for information on how to use this resource from off campus locations.