Primary Political Science Databases & Article Indexes

PAIS International
Also Known as: Public Affairs Information Service, PAIS Archive
- from CSA Databases
Bibliographic citations (1915-) with indexing on contemporary public affairs and policy issues worldwide related to a wide range of topics: agriculture, banking, finance, business, demographics, educa...   [more]
Holdings: 1915-
Supplemental URLs
    Journal List (OCLC PAIS via Internet Archive)
    Broad Topics Classification (OCLC PAIS via Internet Archive)

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Also Known as: WPSA
- from CSA Databases
67% of the more than 1500 monitored journals are published outside the United States, and there are nearly 500,000 records beginning in 1975. Some of the records have fulltext links and coverage inc...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    Serials List
    Classification Codes (CSA)

Primary Political Science Databases & Article Indexes

Columbia International Affairs Online
Also Known as: CIAO
Covers theory and research in international affairs....   [more]
Holdings: 1991 -

FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index (1975-1996)
Contemporary coverage of political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events worldwide, relying upon international and local language news sources. The FBIS Electronic Index provides acces...   [more]

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Also Known as: IBSS CSA
- from CSA Databases
Bibliographic citations and subject indexing for the international journal article and book literature in anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology. Produced by British Library of Poli...   [more]
Holdings: Covers 1951 to the present in three separate files.
Supplemental URLs
    IBSS Journal Coverage List (LSE IBSS Web)

NationalJournal.com
Online fulltext access to National Journal periodicals and resources. Provides coverage of current US government activity and policy, as well as technology and health care issues. Additional resources...   [more]

OECD iLibrary
Also Known as: Source OECD, SourceOECD
Publications and statistical information from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) covering agriculture and food, education and skills, emerging economies and transition e...   [more]

PolicyFile
Also Known as: Policy File
Indexing with abstracts of U.S. and foreign domestic and international public policy research literature. ...   [more]

Important Political Science Databases & Article Indexes

19th Century British Library Newspapers Parts 1 & 2
- from Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
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Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
Broad collection of fulltext scholarly journals and related periodicals in all scholarly disciplines. Includes bibliographic citations, indexing and abstracting for more than 8,000 periodicals. A comp...   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.

Academic Video Online
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Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-1990
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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African Writers Series
Key texts of modern African literature with an emphasis on the history of post-colonial writing. Release Seven of this online edition includes over 230 volumes of fiction, poetry, drama and non-fictio...   [more]

Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals
Also Known as: AULIMP
Bibliographic citations to articles from English-language military journals....   [more]
Holdings: 1989-present. Quarterly updates.
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Backup site, via DTIC

Alt-Press Watch
Also Known as: AltPress Watch, Philadelphia City Paper, Philadelphia Weekly. Alt-Press Watch (APW)
Provides fulltext for U.S. alternative and independent newspapers, weeklies, magazines, and journals. Topics include the arts, media and popular culture, business and labor, literature and criticism, ...   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies, from 1990.

Alternative Press Index
Also Known as: Altpress Index
Indexes over 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. Includes selected abstracts from research journals. ...   [more]
Holdings: 1991 to present

America's Historical Imprints: Early American Imprints Series I and II, 1639-1819
Includes Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800; Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 ...   [more]

American History in Video
- from Alexander Street Press
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American Indian Law Collection
Also Known as: HeinOnline's American Indian law collection , HeinOnline American Indian law collection
- from HeinOnline
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American National Election Studies
Also Known as: ANES National Election Studies NES
Time series data from surveys conducted during U.S. presidential and congressional election years, 1948-present....   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    ANES data sets and codebooks (via ICPSRdirect)
    SDA interface to ANES 2000 data (crosstabs, subsetting, extracts)
    NES Bibliography
    NES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior
    ANES data sets and codebooks (alternative via ICPSRdirect)

Annual Review of Population Law
Summaries and excerpts of legislation, constitutions, court decisions, and other official government documents from every country in the world relating to population policies, reproductive rights and ...   [more]
Holdings: 1974-present.
Unrestricted Access

Argentina, 1975-1980: The Making of U.S. Human Rights Policy
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
[more]

Bibliography of Native North Americans
Also Known as: bnna
[more]

BOPCRIS
Indexing for selections among British parliamentary papers....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

British Cabinet Papers, 1915-1979
The Cabinet is the main body that controls policy and coordinates activities of governmental departments. It is chaired by the Prime Minister and consists of most of the ministerial heads of departmen...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

British History Online
A "digital library containing some of the core printed primary and secondary sources for the medieval and modern history of the British Isles." Includes sources for parliamentary, ecclesiastical and ...   [more]
Holdings: Access to freely available content only.

British Humanities Index: BHI
- from CSA Databases
An abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, BHI indexes over 320 humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as qual...   [more]
Holdings: coverage begins in 1962-

British Periodicals
Also Known as: Proquest British Periodicals
British Periodicals tracks the development and growth of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century through to the Victorian 'age of periodicals' and into the 20th ce...   [more]
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CEPR Discussion Paper series
Also Known as: Centre for Economic Policy Research discussion papers
Working papers of the leading pan-European economic research center. Separate series cover international macroeconomics, international trade, public policy, labor economics, financial economics, indus...   [more]
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Chatham House Online Archive
Chatham House Online Archive Module 1 1920-1979...   [more]
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Chile and the United States: U.S. Policy toward Democracy, Dictatorship, and Human Rights, 1970-1990
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960-1998
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
[more]

Chinese Civil War and U.S.-China Relations: Records of the U.S. State Department's Office of Chinese Affairs, 1945-1955
- from Archives Unbound
[more]

CIA Covert Operations II: The Year of Intelligence, 1975
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
[more]

CIA Covert Operations: From Carter to Obama, 1977-2010
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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CIA Family Jewels Indexed
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
[more]

Cold War: Voices of Confrontation and Conciliation
- from Archives Unbound
[more]

Colombia and the United States: Political Violence, Narcotics, and Human Rights, 1948-2010
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
[more]

Constitutions of the World Online
Also Known as: Constitutions of the World from the late 18th Century to the Middle of the 19th Century Online
[more]

CQ Budget Tracker
Also Known as: CQ BudgetTracker
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Current Digest of the Russian Press Archive (1949-2013)
Also Known as: Current Digest of the Soviet Press , Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press
- from East View Resources
[more]
Holdings: 1949-2013

Current Index to Legal Periodicals
- from HeinOnline
[more]
Holdings: 1945-

Dayan Center Bibliographical Database
Also Known as: ALEPH DAY Database
Indexing for articles, pamphlets, and occasional papers on the Middle East. ...   [more]
Holdings: 1979-present.
Unrestricted Access

Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Ops, and Genocide: Guatemala and the United States, 1954-1999
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
[more]

Digital Innovation South Africa (DISA)
Free online digital archive of South African apartheid-era works. Includes periodicals, trial materials, and other documents....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Digital National Security Archive
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
The database includes more than 94,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions.

DNSA contains forty collections as of December 2012, which are deta...   [more]

Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution
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Documents Online - World Trade Organization
Fulltext official documentation of the WTO, 1995-present, including Trade Policy Reviews and legal texts of WTO agreements. Includes selected Uruguay Round documents and GATT documents....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

E&E Library Online Collections Database
Also Known as: E & E Library Online Collections Database
Environment & Energy Daily (E&E Daily), Greenwire, Land Letter, and E&ENews PM...   [more]
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Early Republic: Critical Editions on the Founding of the United States
Also Known as: Documentary History of the First Federal Congress
Online edition of Documentary History of the First Federal Congress (Johns Hopkins Press). Primary material documenting the actions, debates, and thoughts of the First Federal Congress and its members...   [more]

Earmarks
US OMB-hosted database of funds provided by the Congress for projects or programs where the congressional direction (in bill or report language) circumvents the merit-based or competitive allocation p...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

EBSCO MegaFILE
General, multidisciplinary periodical database, covering all scholarly disciplines, with many general and popular magazines, and news sources. Includes bibliographic citations with indexing and abstra...   [more]
Holdings: Coverage varies: mostly 1990s to present.

Economist Historical Archive, 1843-2020
- from Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
[more]
Holdings: 1843-2020
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El Salvador: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977-1984
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
[more]

El Salvador: War, Peace, and Human Rights, 1980-1994
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
[more]

Electing the President: Proceedings of the Democratic National Conventions, 1832-1988
- from Archives Unbound
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Electing the President: Proceedings of the Republican National Conventions, 1856-1988
- from Archives Unbound
[more]

Electronic Surveillance and the National Security Agency: From Shamrock to Snowden
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
[more]

Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
- from ABC-CLIO ebooks
[more]

ESoP - Catalogue: Sciences Po, la bibliotheque
Also Known as: Economie, Social, Politique
Library catalog, including journal article indexing, for Bibliotheque de Sciences Po, the Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques / Intitut d'etudes politiques de Paris. Covers political science, ...   [more]
Holdings: 1990-present.
Unrestricted Access

EUR-Lex
Also Known as: Access to European Union Law
REQUIRES FREE REGISTRATION. Fulltext European Union / European Community legislation, case law, and preparatory documents. Includes treaties between EU member states, international agreements, seconda...   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Alternative access via LexisNexis Academic

FactCheck.org
Also Known as: Annenberg Political Fact Check
Monitors the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases...   [more]
Holdings: December 2003-present.
Unrestricted Access

Feminism in Cuba, 1898-1958
- from Archives Unbound
[more]

First World War: Propaganda and Recruitment
Also Known as: Adam Matthew First World War Databases
This database from Adam Matthew showcases a wealth of primary source material for the study of the Great War, complemented by a range of contextual secondary features.The First World War: Propaganda a...   [more]

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1941 - 1996
Also Known as: FBIS
Coverage of Africa, Asia, China, Europe, Latin America, and the Middle/Near East....   [more]

Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1929
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Foreign Office Files for China, 1930-1937
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Foreign Office Files for China, 1938-1948
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Foreign Office files for China, 1949-1976
Complete UK documents collection in searchable fulltext, being FO 371 (General Correspondence from Political Departments, UK Foreign Office): China and FCO 21 (Registered Files [F and FE series] from ...   [more]
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Foreign Office Files: India, Pakistan and Afghanistan
Also Known as: Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan , Foreign Office Files for India Pakistan and Afghanistan
Section I: Independence, Partition and the Nehru Era, 1947-1964
Section II: South Asian conflicts and independence for Bangladesh, 1965-1971
Section III: Afghanistan and the Cold War, Emerge...   [more]
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Francis
Also Known as: Bulletin signaletique
Francis covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities and social sciences. It is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature with emphasis on cur...   [more]
Holdings: 1984 to the present. Updated monthly.
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    FRANCIS via EBSCOhost (closed file)

Franklin D. Roosevelt and Race Relations, 1933-1945
Also Known as: Franklin D Roosevelt and Race Relations 1933-1945
- from Archives Unbound
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Gale Primary Sources (Law Resources)
Also Known as: Artemis Making of Modern Law, Artemis Primary Sources (Law Resources)
MOML 1; Legal Treatises 1800-1926 MOML 2: Primary Sources MOML 3: Trials 1600-1926...   [more]

GEOBIB
Also Known as: Online Geographical Bibliography, Current Geographical Publications
Bibliographic citations to the literature of geography, including travel and exploration, mathematical geography, physical geography, hydrology, oceanography, climatology, biogeography and human geogr...   [more]
Holdings: 1985-present
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    GEOBIB - no new entries as of december 2005

Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration and Cultural Exchange
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Global Development Finance
Also Known as: World Bank GDF Online
World Bank time series statistical data covering 1960 to the present, with forecast data for up to seven years, for the 210 countries reporting public and publicly-guaranteed debt. Data include extern...   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    old interface url

Health Poll Search
Searchable archive of public opinion questions on health issues, including abortion, alcohol an drugs, bioterrorism and biological weapons, political campaigns, elections, leaders and health, children...   [more]
Holdings: 1935-present.
Unrestricted Access

Historical Abstracts
Historical coverage of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada)....   [more]
Holdings: ca. 1974- present. Updated three times a year.

History of Bankruptcy: Taxation & economic reform in America, Part III
- from HeinOnline
Fulltext legislative histories, documents, treatises, and other materials relating to U.S. bankruptcy and related reforms....   [more]

Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL)
US government-sponsored database of policy strategy-related documents on homeland security. Topics covered include: borders and immigration, emergency management, infrastructure protection, intelligen...   [more]

House and Senate Journals, 1789-1875
Minutes of the legislative chambers. They include lists of the House and Senate's official work on bills, resolutions, and votes....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Independent Voices
Open access collection of the alternative press of the 60s, 70s and 80s, over 1000 titles from the special collections of over a dozen libraries. ...   [more]

Index to Legal Periodicals (Current and Retrospective, 1908 -)
combined search of Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (H.W. Wilson) and Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981 (H.W. Wilson)...   [more]

Index to Legal Periodicals and Books
Also Known as: Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (HW Wilson)
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Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective 1908-1981
Also Known as: Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective 1908-1981 (HW Wilson)
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India from Crown Rule to Republic, 1945-1949: Records of the U.S. State Department
- from Archives Unbound
[more]

India-Pakistan Conflict: Records of the U.S. State Department, February 1963-1966
- from Archives Unbound
[more]

International Financial Statistics Online
Also Known as: International Monetary Fund IFS, IMF IFS
- from IMF eLibrary
International Financial Statistics (IFS) is a standard source of international statistics on all aspects of international and domestic finance. It reports, for most countries of the world, current dat...   [more]
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    IFS via old IMF interface

iPOLL
Also Known as: Roper Center, RPOLL
REQUIRES FREE REGISTRATION. Question-level data from public opinion polls. Almost 400,000 questions from polls, 1935 to present, based upon Roper Center-archived surveys with US national adult samples...   [more]
Holdings: 1935 to present. Updated daily.

Iran: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977-1980
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
[more]

Iraqgate: Saddam Hussein, U.S. Policy and the Prelude to the Persian Gulf War, 1980-1994
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
[more]

Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1960-1976
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
[more]

Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1977-1992
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
[more]

Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, Part III, 1961-2000
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
[more]

Japan at War and Peace 1930-1949: U.S. State Department Records on the Internal Affairs of Japan
- from Archives Unbound
[more]

Japanese Data Archive
Also Known as: JPOLL Roper Center
REQUIRES FREE ONLINE REGISTRATION. Comprehensive question-level database of Japanese public opinion data, 1990-present. More than 10,000 questions with response frequencies translated from Japanese in...   [more]
Holdings: 1990-present
Unrestricted Access

Japanese-American Relocation Camp Newspapers: Perspectives on Day-to-Day Life
- from Archives Unbound
[more]

Jewish Underground Resistance: The David Diamant Collection
- from Archives Unbound
[more]

Johnson's Russia List (JRL)
this contemporary news blog focused on Russia, its politics and foreign relations is a project of the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian Studies (IERES) at The George Washington University's...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) 1957-1994
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JSTOR
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Issues are available both as images and as text, making searching poss...   [more]
Holdings: active
Embargo: 195 month embargo on full-text
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    JSTOR Title List (by title)
    JSTOR Advanced Search
    JSTOR Printing Help
    JSTOR Title List (by discipline)
    JSTOR on Mobile devices

King and the People in Morocco 1950-1959: U.S. State Department Records on the Internal Affairs of Morocco
- from Archives Unbound
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Law in Eastern Europe
- from HeinOnline
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Left Index
Bibliographic citations for the "literature on the left". Topics include anarchism, art and esthetics, community organizing, culture studies, ecology and environmental studies, economics, gay and lesb...   [more]
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    former interface

Lok Sabha, New Delhi: Online Catalogue (Articles)
Database reflecting contents of Parliamentary Documentation....   [more]
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March of Time, 1935-1967
Also Known as: The March of Time
- from Alexander Street Press
"With its first appearance on American motion picture screens in February 1935, The March of Time. startled journalists, filmmakers, and audiences alike with its controversial topics and unique approa...   [more]

Mexico-United States Counternarcotics Policy, 1969-2013
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
[more]

Middle East Online Series 1: Arab-Israeli Relations 1917-1970
- from Archives Unbound
A sampler of more than 1,000 documents providing more than 200,000 pages of documents from the National Archives UK covering Palestine and the Arab-Israeli conflict from the Balfour Declaration (1917)...   [more]

Middle East Online Series 2: Iraq 1914-1974
Also Known as: IRAQ 1914-1974: THE MIDDLE EAST ONLINE SERIES 2
- from Archives Unbound
A sampler of more than 3,000 documents from the National Archives UK selected to illustrate internal politics in Iraq, British colonial and foreign relations with Iraq, and Iraq in world politics duri...   [more]

Mideastwire.com
Also Known as: mideast wire, mideastwire
Daily email newsletter of concise, translated briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing in the media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspo...   [more]

Monthly Catalog (1951-)
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Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications, 1895-1976
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N-Lex: A Common Gateway to National Law
Access the official databases of national laws in 23 EU countries through a common interface maintained by the European Union. Includes Official Gazettes and other sources, where available....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

NATLEX
Abstracts of national labour, social security and related human rights legislation from more than 170 countries. Topics include: freedom of association, collective bargaining, elimination of child lab...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Newspapers of the French Revolution of 1848
- from Archives Unbound
[more]

Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic) (NYT & much more)
Also Known as: lexis/nexis, Lexis-Nexis, Lexis Nexis, LN Academic, LexisNexis Academic, Lexis Nexis Academic
Access to full-text national and international newspapers , including the New York Times, and the Times of London business and accounting information, biographical data, and some selected legal mat...   [more]
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Nicaragua: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1978-1990
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
[more]

North American Women's Letters and Diaries, Colonial to 1950
Also Known as: NAWLD
Fulltext of letters and diaries, published and manuscript, of American women during the Colonial period through 1950. Biographical information is provided for each writer. Primary source materials are...   [more]

Observatory on Borderless Higher Education
Tracks news, issues, and provides commissioned reports on higher education issues....   [more]
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    direct link

Papers of Alexander Hamilton
Also Known as: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton
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Papers of Andrew Jackson Digital Edition
Also Known as: The Papers of Andrew Jackson Digital Edition
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Papers of John Marshall
Also Known as: The Papers of John Marshall, Rotunda, American Founding Era
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Papers of Thomas Jefferson
"Since 1950, Jefferson's writings have been compiled in the ongoing project The Papers of Thomas Jefferson. Rotunda's digital edition brings together all thirty-three volumes published through 2006 in...   [more]

PARLIT
Also Known as: Parliaments and Literature
Bibliographic citations for books and articles on the role, structure and working methods of national parliaments, and on electoral systems, constitutional law, history and political science....   [more]
Holdings: 1992-present
Unrestricted Access

Past Masters Philosophy Fulltext
Also Known as: PastMasters
British Philosophy 1600-1900 (Francis Bacon, Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, Adam Smith, Edmund Burke, Jeremy Bentham, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, John Dewey, others)
...   [more]

Peace Research Abstracts
Bibliographic citations with abstracts describing all aspects of peace research, including the causes and correlates of conflict, case studies in conflict, tension, and war, international laws and con...   [more]
Holdings: 1964-present.

PERSEE
This is a documentary portal of French social and human science journals, created by the education nationale. Users must register before accessing this resource. Provides partial fulltext for Annale...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Peru: Human Rights, Drugs and Democracy, 1980-2000
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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POIESIS: Philosophy Online Serials
Contains the full text of current, recent, and back issues of 30 philosophy journals. Every word in each journal issue in the database is fully searchable, including all articles, book reviews, footno...   [more]

Policing the Shanghai International Settlement 1894-1945
- from Archives Unbound
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Political MoneyLine (formerly CQ MoneyLine)
Also Known as: CQ Money Line, Political MoneyLine
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Politics, Social Activism and Community Support: Selected Gay and Lesbian Periodicals and Newsletters
- from Archives Unbound
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Polling the Nations
Primary data, fulltext for approximately 250,000 individual questions and aggregated responses, often cross tabulated by respondent characteristics, compiled from public opinion surveys. Topics cove...   [more]

Presidential Directives on National Security, Part I: From Truman to Clinton
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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Presidential Directives on National Security, Part II: From Truman to George W. Bush
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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PROL - Political Research Online
REQUIRES FREE REGISTRATION. Electronic fulltext preprint archive for political science. Includes conference papers, preprints, syllabi, and center and institute reports....   [more]
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ProQuest Congressional
Also Known as: Congressional Universe, LexisNexis Congressional, Lexis Nexis Congressional
U.S. legislative publications and government information. Much of the material is fulltext. Includes pending bills, laws, legislative histories, committee reports and documents, Congressional heari...   [more]
Holdings: Varies with document series
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    new interface

Proquest Congressional CRS (Congressional Research Service) Reports 1916-Present
Also Known as: Congressional Research Service Reports, LexisNexis Congressional
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Holdings: 1916-

Proquest Congressional Hearings (1824 - present)
Also Known as: LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Retrospective 1824-1979
Digital access to the fulltext of over 150 years of U.S. Congressional hearings. Searchable by committee name, geographical location, topic, witness name or affiliation, and more. Includes abstracts, ...   [more]

Proquest Digital U.S. Bills & Resolutions 1789-2013
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ProQuest History Vault: Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century 1: Federal Government Records
Also Known as: History Vault , Black Freedom , ProQuest History Vault Black Freedom I Digital Archive
- from ProQuest History Vault
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Proquest History Vault: Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century 2: Organizational Records and Personal Papers, Part 1
- from ProQuest History Vault
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ProQuest History Vault: Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, Europe, and Latin America, 1960-1969
Also Known as: Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, Europe, and Latin America, 1960-1969
- from ProQuest History Vault
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ProQuest History Vault: NAACP Papers 2: The NAACP's Major Campaigns, Part 1 Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces
Also Known as: NAACP
- from ProQuest History Vault
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Proquest History Vault: NAACP Papers 3: The NAACP's Major Campaigns, Part 2 Scottsboro, Anti-Lynching, Criminal Justice, Peonage, Labor, and Segregation and Discrimination Complaints and Responses
- from ProQuest History Vault
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Proquest History Vault: NAACP Papers 4: The NAACP's Major Campaigns, Part 3 Legal Department Files
- from ProQuest History Vault
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Proquest History Vault: NAACP Papers 5: Special Subjects 1912-1972
- from ProQuest History Vault
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ProQuest History Vault: Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy, 1960-1975
Also Known as: ProQuest History Vault (Vietnam War) , Vietnam War
- from ProQuest History Vault
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ProQuest Legislative Insight
Also Known as: Legislative Insight
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Proquest Statistical Insight
Also Known as: Statistical Universe, lexisnexis statistical
Statistical Universe indexes statistical data published in federal, state, and selected privately published titles, at the table level. In some cases the fulltext of the document is also available....   [more]

Psychological Warfare and Propaganda in World War II: Air Dropped and Shelled Leaflets and Periodicals
- from Archives Unbound
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Public Library of U.S. Diplomacy (Wikileaks)
Also Known as: Wikileaks
More than 3 million U.S. diplomatic cables, including Kissinger-era and Carter-era declassified cables from 1973 to 1979 and Cablegate cables obtained by Wikileaks and not declassified from 2003-2010....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Race Relations Abstracts
Bibliographic records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. ...   [more]
Holdings: 1975-present.

Ralph J. Bunche Oral Histories Collection on the Civil Rights Movement
- from Archives Unbound
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Readers' Guide Retrospective
Also Known as: readers guide, reader's guide, wilson
Provides comprehensive indexing of the popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States, such as Time, Newsweek, New Republic, National Review, ...   [more]

Refworld
Fulltext documents collection from UN High Commissioner for Refugees....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

RePEc
Also Known as: Research Papers in Economics
Bibliographic information on economics articles, books, and working papers. Provides URLs for fulltext where available....   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    NEP - New Economics Papers (free e-mail announcement service)

Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Numeric data archive for public opinion polls. Access is mediated through requests from Penn Library to Roper Center. Related online resources include: Roper Center's online catalog of data sets; and ...   [more]
Holdings: 1936-present.
Supplemental URLs
    Roper Center Interactive Collection Map
    Topics at a Glance (inc. Presidential Approval)
    Roper Center Select Bibliography
    Roper iPoll
    Health Poll Database

SAFEHAVEN Reports on Nazi Looting of Occupied Countries and Assets in Neutral Countries
- from Archives Unbound
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SAGE Research Methods
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    Sage Research Method Cases
    Sage Research Method Datasets
    Sage Research Method Data Visualization
    Sage Research Method Doing Research Online
    

Sage Urban Studies Abstracts
- from OCLC FirstSearch ECO
Bibliographic citations with abstracts describing scholarly literature in all aspects of urban studies. Topics include trends in urbanization, urban history, architecture and urban design, housing and...   [more]
Holdings: 1998-2004

Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law
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Selected Papers of John Jay Digital Edition
Also Known as: The Selected Papers of John Jay Digital Edition
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Sign@l : Signalement des contenus de periodiques en sciences humaines et sociales
Also Known as: Somrev: Sommaires de revues; Fripes
Sign@l is a successor to the Somrev and Fripes databases. As of June 2014 it provides "339905 references d'articles, 18338 sommaires, 300 revues." Links to about 40% of the primarily history and socia...   [more]
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Social Science Research Network
Also Known as: SSRN
Recent research results through abstracts, fulltext working papers, and journal articles in economics, finance, business and economic law, accounting, and business. Professional job openings and annou...   [more]
Holdings: 1997-present. Updated daily
Supplemental URLs
    SSRN Conference Papers
    SSRN Partners in Publishing (publisher list)

Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) (WOK Web of Science)
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Sociological Abstracts + Social Services Abstracts (combined)
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Supplemental URLs
    SocAbs title list (ProQuest LibGuides)
    SocAbs classification codes (ProQuest LibGuides)

South Africa: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1962-1989
Also Known as: DNSA
- from Digital National Security Archive
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State Net (formerly LexisNexis State Capital)
Also Known as: State Capital Universe
State government information from all United States, including legislative statutory, and regulatory information, and news coverage about state governments....   [more]
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Tax Foundation Archive Publications
- from HeinOnline
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Taxation and Economic Reform in America, A Historical Archive
- from HeinOnline
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Holdings: 1781-2009

Terrorism Information Center - National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
Nonprofit clearinghouse dedicated to "doing everything possible to add value to the nation's war on terrorism."...   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    MIPT Terrorism Bibliography
    MIPT Mental Health Bibliography
    Terrorism Incidents and Significant Dates

The British Mandate in Palestine, Arab-Jewish Relations & the U.S. Consulate at Jerusalem
Also Known as: British Mandate in Palestine, Arab-Jewish Relations and the U.S. Consulate at Jerusalem
- from Archives Unbound
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The Quest for Labor Equality in Household Work: National Domestic Workers Union, 1965-1979
Also Known as: Quest for Labor Equality in Household Work: National Domestic Workers Union, 1965-1979
- from Archives Unbound
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The War Department and Indian Affairs, 1800-1824
Also Known as: War Department and Indian Affairs, 1800-1824
- from Archives Unbound
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Tiananmen Square and U.S.-China Relations 1989-1993
- from Archives Unbound
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Times Digital Archive (1785-2009)
Also Known as: Times Digital Archive, London Times, Times of London
- from Gale Primary Sources - Newspapers
The archive allows key word searching of articles appearing in the Times of London from 1785-2009. Click on "Home" and then "News Vault" to search all historical newspapers hosted by Gale Cengage and ...   [more]
Holdings: 1785-2009

U.S. and Iraqi Relations: U.S. Technical Aid 1950-1958
- from Archives Unbound
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U.S. Declassified Documents Online - DDRS Online
Also Known as: Declassified Documents Reference System
Primary sources, fulltext and image for declassified United States government documents from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. The collection provides coverage for domestic an...   [more]
Holdings: Declassified documents issued from 1941 through the 1990s. Documents have been declassified since 1974.
Supplemental URLs
    Old URL, as DDRS

U.S. International Trade Library : A Current and Historical Archive
Also Known as: U.S. International Trade Library
- from HeinOnline
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U.S. National Archives and Records Administration
Finding aids, catalogs, research guides, and digitized documents for curricular use from NARA....   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    ARC - Archival Research Catalog
    Microfilm Publications Catalog
    Guide to Federal Records in the National Archives of the United States
    Digital Classroom

UN ODS
Also Known as: United Nations Official Documents Search
UN ODS, also known as UN Official Documents Search or UN Optical Disk System, provides fulltext documents, official records, and resolutions of the United Nations covering all topics of concern to the...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

UNESDOC / UNESBIB
Also Known as: UNESCO Documents Collection
Fulltext or page image for UNESCO documents. Materials cover the subject areas of interest to UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization): education, communication and in...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Urban History Bibliography
- from Cambridge Journals
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Urban Studies Abstracts
Also Known as: Sage Urban Studies Abstracts
Bibliographic citations with abstracts describing scholarly literature in all aspects of urban studies. Topics include trends in urbanization, urban history, architecture and urban design, housing and...   [more]
Holdings: 1973-present.

Washington Post (1877-2004), ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Also Known as: Washington Post
- from Proquest Historical Newspapers
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Holdings: 1877-2004

Washington Post (Final Edition) (Proquest Recent Newspapers)
- from ProQuest Digital Microfilm
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Holdings: 2008-

Web of Science
Also Known as: ISI Citation Indexes, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, SSCI, SCI, AHCI, ISI, WOK, Web of Knowledge
Indexes journals in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Allows for cited reference searching. Includes Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index[more]
Holdings: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1945-present, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1956-present, Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI)--1975-present. Updated weekly.
Supplemental URLs
    Web of Science Tutorials
    Cited Reference Searching Tutorial

Women and the Law
Also Known as: Women & the Law , Peggy
- from HeinOnline
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Women in Politics Bibliographic Database
Bibliographic citations for books and articles on women's participation in political life worldwide. Produced by the Inter-Parliamentary Union with support from United Nations Development Programme....   [more]
Holdings: 1948-present
Unrestricted Access

World Bank Documents & Reports
Also Known as: World Development Sources, WDS
Page-image fulltext of more than 14,000 World Bank documents. Covers World Bank activities and interests worldwide in agriculture, economic policy, education and social protection, electrical power, o...   [more]
Holdings: 1960-present. Updated weekly.
Unrestricted Access

World Constitutions Illustrated
- from HeinOnline
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World Development Indicators
Also Known as: World Bank WDI Online
The World Bank's principal data source on the global economy. More than 550 time series, 1960-present, on more than 200 countries and 18 country groups, covering demographic, social, economic, financi...   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    old interface url
    old interface url

World Newspaper Archive
Also Known as: World News Archive, Latin American Newspapers, African Newspapers, Slavic & East European Newspapers,South Asian Newspapers
Searchable page image reproductions of pre-1923 newspapers, worldwide. Based largely upon the holdings of the Center for Research Libraries, these newspapers are released in regional collections....   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    African Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive)
    South Asian Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive)
    Latin American Newspapers (World Newspaper Archive)

World Treaty Library
- from HeinOnline
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Related Political Science Databases & Article Indexes

AP Photo Archive
Also Known as: AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive, AP Images
Image and Graphics Databases only available on this subscription. Contains over one million Associated Press photographs (with searchable captions) in two collections, downloadable as JPEG (jpg) image...   [more]
Holdings: Photos: 1826 to present. Graphics: 1999 to present. Audio files: 1920s to present.
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Bibliography of Asian Studies
All subjects (especially humanities and social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, South Asia, and Indian Ocean countries....   [more]
Holdings: 1971 to the present.

Chicano Database
Covers all types of materials relating to Mexican-American topics and, for materials published since 1992, broader topics relating to Latinos....   [more]
Holdings: 1967 to present.
Supplemental URLs
    New interface effective Sept 17, 2007

CLASE - Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades
CLASE is a social sciences and humanities database created in 1975 at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM). It contains more than 200,000 citations to articles, essays, book reviews, sta...   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text
Comprehensive indexing with abstracts of the scholarly literature and applied literature on criminology and related disciplines. Subject areas covered include: causes and correlates of crime, criminol...   [more]
Holdings: 1968-present.

Current Index to Statistics
A bibliographic index to publications in statistics and related fields. Draws from both core statistical jouranls and non-core journals with statistical content, and books. Most coverage is from 1975-...   [more]
Holdings: 1995 - present
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EconLit
Also Known as: Econ Lit CSA
- from CSA Databases
Covers accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labor, demographics, modeling, economic theory, and planning. Primarily English language, some foreign language publications included. ...   [more]
Holdings: 1969 to the present. Book reviews (1994- ), Dissertations (1987- ), Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics (1984- ).Updated monthly.
Supplemental URLs
    Journal List (AEA)
    JEL Classification Codes Guide (AEA)

EEBO: Early English Books Online
Also Known as: Early English Books Online; Short Title Catalogue; Wing; Pollard and Redgrave
Full-text page images of approximately 100,000 titles from the Short-Title Catalogue of English works 1475-1640, Wing's continuation for 1641-1700, and their revisions. Information is presented...   [more]
Supplemental URLs
    EEBO new platform

EEBO: Early English Books Online, Text Creation Partnership
The University of Michigan, the University of Oxford, the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR), and ProQuest Information and Learning are engaged in an partnership to create structured ...   [more]
Holdings: 1470-1700

EIU Country Commerce
- from EIU - Economist Intelligence Unit
Guide to regulations, operating conditions, and corporate practices in more than 60 countries....   [more]
Holdings: 1996 - Present

FAO Corporate Document Repository
Also Known as: Food and Agriculture Organization Document Repository
Fulltext electronic library of FAO publications and meeting documents and related publications from non-FAO sources. Topics covered include agriculture, economics and nutrition, fisheries, forestry, s...   [more]
Holdings: Dates vary. Mostly 1986-present.
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General Social Survey
Also Known as: GSS
Omnibus personal interview survey of U.S. households, conducted almost annually....   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    Quick download: GSS 1972-2010 datasets (Roper Express)
    GSS Bibliography
    GSS 1972-2010 Quick Tables (with charts) (Berkeley SDA Archive)
    NORC Official GSS Site
    Extracting Data from the GSS into SPSS

Global Books in Print
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Holdings: Updated weekly.
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Handbook of Latin American Studies
Also Known as: HLAS
Bibliography of works on Latin America selected by scholars and edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Covers anthropology (including archaeology, ethnohistory and ethnology), ar...   [more]
Holdings: 1935 to the present. Updated monthly.
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    rlg interface 03/01/05

Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Also Known as: HAPI
Subjects covered include anthropology, archaeology, anthropology, banking and finance, business, commerce, drama, drug trade, economic development, environmental issues, ethnography, folklore, geogr...   [more]
Holdings: 1970 to the present. Updated weekly.

Incites Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
Also Known as: ISI JCR
Journal Citation Reports provides journal comparison by accumulating and tabulating citation and article counts. It includes the JCR Science edition,and the JCR Social Sciences edition...   [more]

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
International law, comparative law, and municipal law of countries outside the US, UK, and Commonwealth....   [more]
Holdings: 1985 to the present. Updated quarterly.

ITER: Gateway to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Medieval (400-1500) and Renaissance (1300-1700) studies...   [more]

LAPTOC Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents
Also Known as: LARRP
Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents (LAPTOC): provides article titles from the tables of contents over 800 periodicals published in Latin America and the Caribbean. They cover...   [more]
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NBER Working Papers
Working papers in Economics for public policy makers, business professionals, and the academic community. Includes NBER Technical Working Papers and NBER Papers in Development of the American Economy...   [more]
Holdings: June 1973 No.1 - present

NCJRS Abstracts Database
Also Known as: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database
The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database includes abstracts of over 140,000 research reports, journal articles, and government documents relating to crime, law enforcement, a...   [more]
Unrestricted Access
Supplemental URLs
    NCJRS Thesaurus

NCJRS Abstracts Database (via Proquest)
Also Known as: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
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NCJRS Virtual Library
Also Known as: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Virtual Library
Identifies and links to fulltext U.S. federal publications on criminal justice....   [more]
Unrestricted Access

Newsbank Access World News
Also Known as: NewsBank National Newspapers , America's Newspapers , Access World News , News Bank
Searchable fulltext of international and U.S. national, regional, and local newspapers. Coverage for current issues (i.e., yesterday in most cases) with extensive backfiles. Business and Management, ...   [more]
Holdings: Varies with title, 1970s or more recent to present.
    NewsBank U.S. Newspapers

Periodicals Index Online
Also Known as: PIO,PCI,Periodical Contents Index,Chadwyck PCI,Periodicals Contents Index
Humanities and social sciences. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages. ...   [more]

Philosopher's Index
Also Known as: Philosophers Index
Provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics,...   [more]

Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext (formerly Dissertation Abstracts)
Also Known as: Digital Dissertations, Dissertation Abstracts, UMI, DAI, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses (PQDT), Proquest Dissertations and Theses Fulltext
Indexing (since 1861) and abstracting (since 1980) for doctoral-level dissertations completed at North American universities. Page images or fulltext of all available dissertations - including Penn d...   [more]
Holdings: Indexing 1861-present, abstracts 1980-present, page-image or fulltext PDF for available dissertations dissertations from 1997 to the present.
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RAMBI - Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
RAMBI, the Index of Articles on Jewish Studies, is a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish Studies and the study of the Land of Israel (Erets Israel), arranged by subjec...   [more]
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Sociological Abstracts
Also Known as: SocAbs soc abs
- from CSA Databases
Covers sociology, case work, demographics, policy studies, political science, family studies, feminist studies, and social security programs....   [more]
Holdings: 1963 to the present. Updated bimonthly.
Supplemental URLs
    Serials List
    Classification Codes (ProQuest LibGuide)

Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Also Known as: VTNA TV-NewsSearch CNN
Searchable abstracting service for national television network news broadcasts. CNN broadcasts available as RealMedia video streams, 1998-present. VTNA lends videotapes of broadcasts or item compilati...   [more]
Holdings: 1968-present.

VitalLaw (formerly Cheetah)
Also Known as: Blue Chip Financial Forecasts
Blue Chip Financial Forecasts (Excel) w/Archive (2001+) on VitalLaw platform OmniTax (Biddle Subscription starting in March 2022) on VitalLaw platform...   [more]
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World Law Index: Index to Hispanic Legislation
NOTICE: Access to the Index to Hispanic Legislation (World Law Index, Part I) through RLG's Eureka service ended on Saturday, June 30, 2007. Please contact the RLG Information Center with any question...   [more]
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