Primary Political Science E-Books

Proquest Congressional U.S. Serial Set 1789-Present
Also Known as: LexisNexis Congressional Universe, U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection
Fulltext for House and Senate Documents and Reports, 1789-current, as well as other U.S. documents , such as Executive publications, often included in the Serial Set in earlier years. Still in progre...   [more]

U.S. Serial Set (via GPO)
Fulltext of U.S. Congressional reports and documents, 104th Congress (1995-1996) to present....   [more]
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Important Political Science E-Books

A Good Place to Start (finding development information online)
Identifies and describes web sites on development topics, including agriculture, aid, capacity building, children, climate change, conflict, conservation, corporate responsibility, debt, emergencies, ...   [more]
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Access Pennsylvania Digital Repository
Digital books, periodicals, and other materials from Pennsylvania libraries, archives, government agencies, and other organizations....   [more]
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ACLS Humanities E-Book
Also Known as: ACLS History E-book Project, ACLS History EBooks, American Council of Learned Societies
Major works in historical scholarship. A project of the American Council of Learned Societies....   [more]
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    ACLS Humanities E-Book: African titles

Adams Papers Digital Edition
Also Known as: Adams Papers
Includes: Diary and Autobiography of John Adams Earliest Diary and Autobiography of John Adams Diary of John Quincy Adams Adams Family Correspondence Legal Papers of John Adams Papers of John Ad...   [more]

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]

American Diplomatic Code / Jonathan Elliott
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
Early compilation of U.S. treaties and agreements, originally published in 1834....   [more]

American Foreign Relations since 1600
- from ABC-CLIO ebooks
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Holdings: 4th ed. & 3rd ed.
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    3rd Edition

American History Collection (American Founding Era, Antebellum, Civil War, and Recontruction, American Century)
Also Known as: rotunda
Allows simultaneous searching of the collected works of John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, George Washington, Dolley Madison and the Ratification of the Constitution....   [more]
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American State Papers
The American State Papers, comprising a total of thirty-eight physical volumes, contain the legislative and executive documents of Congress during the period 1789 to 1838. The collection includes docu...   [more]
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Archive of European Integration
An electronic repository and archive for research materials on European integration and unification. The AEI collects two types of materials: freely-available independently-produced research materials...   [more]
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Bibliography of the English colonial treaties with the American Indians
- from HeinOnline
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Bloomsbury Collections: Classical Studies & Archaeology
Also Known as: Bloomsbury Classics Collections, Bloomsbury Classical Studies and Archaeology, Ancient History Archive
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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 MI5 files on K.V. Krishna Menon, 1929-1955
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Cambridge Archive Editions
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Cambridge Companions Complete Collection
Also Known as: Cambridge Companions Online
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Cambridge Economic History of Latin America
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    Volume 1: The Colonial Era and the Short Nineteenth Century
    Volume 2: The Long Twentieth Century

Cambridge Histories Online
Also Known as: CHO
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Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations
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    Volume 1: The Creation of a Republican Empire, 1776¿1865
    Volume 2: The American Search for Opportunity, 1865¿1913
    Volume 3: The Globalizing of America, 1913¿1945
    Volume 4: America in the Age of Soviet Power, 1945¿1991

Cambridge History of Latin America
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Cambridge History of Science
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    The social sciences in Africa (from Vol. 7)

Chatham House Online Archive
Chatham House Online Archive Module 1 1920-1979...   [more]

Civil Rights FBI Case Files
FBI case files of events and groups involved in cases of racial violence. Includes files for: Ku Klux Klan, Louis Allen, Benjamin Brown, Henry Dee and Charlie Moore, Willie Edwards, Jr., Jimmie Lee ...   [more]
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Cold War International History Project Archive
The Cold War International History Project disseminates new information and perspectives on the history of the Cold War, in particular new findings from previously inaccessible sources on "the other s...   [more]
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    CWIH Working Paper Series

Collection of Neutrality Laws Regulations and Treaties of Various Countries (Deak and Jessup)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
Fulltext anthology of countries' neutrality laws and regulations and treaty provisions relating to neutral rights and duties for the nineteenth and and early twentieth centuries. Texts provided in ori...   [more]
Holdings: 1800-1938

Constitutional Sources Project
Also Known as: CONSOURCE
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Core Historical Literature of Agriculture
"The Core Historical Literature of Agriculture (CHLA) is a core electronic collection of agricultural texts published between the early nineteenth century and the middle to late twentieth century. Ful...   [more]
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Data and Metadata Reporting and Presentation Handbook
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Dictionary of American History , 3rd ed 2003
Also Known as: Dictionary of American History , 3rd Ed., 10v, 2003
- from Gale Virtual Reference Library
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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]
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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]

Election Statistics / Office of the Clerk of the House of Representatives
Also Known as: Statistics of the presidential and congressional election , Statistics of the congressional election
Fulltext (PDF and HTML) of biennial reports on results of U.S. congressional elections and quadrennial reports on U.S. presidential and congressional elections, 1920-present....   [more]
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Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know
- from ProQuest Ebook Central
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Holdings: 2010

Food Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know
- from EBSCOhost Ebooks
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Holdings: 2nd ed., 2013

Handbook of Defense Economics
- from Handbooks in Economics
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Handbook of Law and Economics
- from Handbooks in Economics
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Handbook of Public Economics
- from Handbooks in Economics
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Handbook on Planning, Monitoring and Evaluating for Development Results - UNDP
Provides detailed steps, with examples, for UNDP development project planning and evaluation. Annexes and other attachments supply checklists and templates for various evaluation situations and compen...   [more]
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Hannah Arendt Papers (Library of Congress)
The papers of the author, educator, and political philosopher Hannah Arendt (1906-1975) . Located in the Manuscript Division at the Library of Congress, they constitute a large and diverse collection ...   [more]
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HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
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Historical Dictionary of Afghanistan
- from Gale Virtual Reference Library
3rd ed....   [more]

Historical Dictionary of Pakistan
- from Gale Virtual Reference Library
3rd ed....   [more]

Historical Session Laws and Statutes at Large
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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]

IDRC: International Development Research Centre Books
IDRC Books is the publishing arm of Canada's International Development Research Centre. The online and print books are the results of IDRC-supported research on "global and regional issues related to...   [more]
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IMF eLibrary
Also Known as: IMF eLibrary: Books and Periodicals
- from IMF eLibrary
IMF eLibrary: Books and Periodicals...   [more]
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Indian Affairs Laws and Treaties (Kappler)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
U.S. treaties (1778-1871), laws (1871 and later), executive orders, and other documents relating to Indian affairs up to 1971. Originally published in 7 chronological volumes....   [more]
Holdings: 1778-1971

League of Nations Statistical and Disarmament Documents
PDF-format document collection produced by Northwestern University Library. Contains 260 League of Nations documents, 1926-1946. Includes Statistical Yearbook of the League of Nations....   [more]
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Legal Classics Library (HeinOnline)
- from HeinOnline
More than 1,400 works from some of the greatest legal minds in history, including Joseph Story, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin N. Cardozo and Edwardo Coke. In addition to many "classics", this collection in...   [more]

Life in the Eurozone with or without Sovereign Default
Wharton Financial Institutions Center...   [more]
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List of Indian Treaties
- from HeinOnline
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Holdings: 1 vol. - 1964

Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926
Also Known as: The Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926
Based on holdings of the law libraries of Harvard and Yale, and the Library of the Bar of the City of New York....   [more]

Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
Contains nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978...   [more]

Marxists Internet Archive
An archive of any and all writings which are Marxist or relevant to the understanding of Marxism and can be lawfully published. Texts offered in html, as well as PDF, ePub, and other downloadable form...   [more]
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McMaster University Archive for the History of Economic Thought
Fulltext for a large collection of significant texts in the history of economic thought. Includes representative texts of all of the major thinkers and schools of thought; and most of the sub-fields o...   [more]
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MDRC
Also Known as: Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation
Social policy research organization focusing on improving the well-being of low-income people, especially educational reform, children and family, including afterschool care and child care, workers an...   [more]
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    MDRC Publications (many in fulltext PDF)

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]

OECD Factbook
- from OECD iLibrary
OECD's statistical annual showing a wide range of key statistics for its member countries and major additional countries. For each indicator presented, there is explanatory text including a definition...   [more]

Oxford Handbooks Online: Political Science
Also Known as: Oxford Handbooks Online: Political Science
- from Oxford Handbooks Online: Political Science
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Oxford Scholarly Editions Online
Also Known as: OSEO
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Papers of George Washington Digital Edition
Also Known as: Papers of George Washington
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Papers of James Madison
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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]

Parallel History Project on Cooperative Security
"In response to the declassification of NATO records and the growing availability of documents from archives in Eastern and Central Europe, PHP as a cooperative undertaking of more than twenty partner...   [more]
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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)
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Penn Press e-books (via JSTOR)
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Pennsylvania Legislator's Municipal Deskbook
Covers basic topics of municipal government, with lists and links for municipal issues resources. Continually updated....   [more]
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People on War
Series of surveys on popular opinion in 13 countries that have experienced war on the basic rules of war and conflict behavior. Sponsored by the International Committee of the Red Cross....   [more]
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    PoW printed reports (via ICRC web)
    Public Perspective article on PoW
    Penn Library Web superseded page

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]

RAND Corporation - Books and Publications
Fulltext publications from the premier research and development thinktank....   [more]
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Red Mercosur
Also Known as: Red MERCOSUR de Investigaciones Economicas, MercoNet, Mercosur Economic Research Network, Rede MERCOSUL de Pesquisa Economica
La Red MERCOSUR de Investigaciones Economicas is an academic network created in 1998 to analyze the economies and the integration process of the southern American member countries (Argentina, Brazil, ...   [more]
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Russell Sage Foundation e-books (Project MUSE)
Searchable fulltext for a selection of Russell Sage Foundation books....   [more]
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SAGE Knowledge
SAGE Knowledge social sciences digital library is intended for students, researchers, and faculty. The SAGe Knowledge platform hosts 2,700 titles and includes scholarly monographs, reference works, ha...   [more]
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Selected Digitized Documents Related to the Holocaust and Refugees, 1933-1945 | Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library & Museum
This digital collection consists of documents selected from across the holdings of the Franklin D. Roosevelt Library archives. Selections reflect the Roosevelt administration's involvement in the even...   [more]
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Senate Executive Journals, 1789-1875
Records of the motions and actions of closed session meetings of the Senate, mainly dealing with nominations and treaties....   [more]
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Senate Executive Journals, 1954-2005
Records of the motions and actions of closed session meetings of the Senate, mainly dealing with nominations and treaties....   [more]

September 11th Source Books
"National Security Archive Online Readers on Terrorism, Intelligence and the Next War." Fulltext declassified document collection, with editorial content....   [more]
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Stalin Digital Archive
Also Known as: SDA
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Statute of Westminster 1931: With an Introduction, Notes and Index
- from HeinOnline
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Holdings: 1931

Synthesis Lectures on Nuclear Technology and Society
- from Morgan Claypool Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science
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Holdings: Selected content only

Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States of America (Miller)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
An early predecessor to Bevans, containing U.S. treaties and agreements through 1863. Includes notes and citations. Originally published in 8 volumes....   [more]
Holdings: 1776-1863.

Treaties and other international agreements : the role of the United States Senate
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
Summarizes international and U.S. law on treaty-making. Outlines the treaty-making process, especially focusing on the U.S. Senate. Useful glossary of diplomatic terms. Latest version of a U.S. Senate...   [more]

Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America 1776-1949 (Bevans)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
The most complete collection of U.S. treaties and agreements up to 1950, originally published in 13 volumes. Multilateral treaties are grouped separately from bilateral treaties. Volume 13 is a subjec...   [more]
Holdings: 1776-1949.

Treaties Conventions International Acts Protocols and Agreements (Malloy)
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
A predecessor to Bevans, being a compilation of U.S. treaties and agreements up to 1937. Originally published in 4 volumes, with volumes 3 and 4 also known as Redmond and Trenwith....   [more]
Holdings: 1776-1937

Treaties Defeated by the Senate
- from HeinOnline
subtitle: A study of the struggle between President and Senate over the conduct of foreign relations. Johns Hopkins Press, 1933....   [more]
Holdings: 1933

Treaties their making and enforcement / Samuel B. Crandall
Also Known as: HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library
- from HeinOnline
A historical survey of treaty-making procedures in the U.S. and foreign nations, including France and Britain. Originally published in 1904....   [more]

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.
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    Old URL, as DDRS

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]
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United States Statutes at Large
- from HeinOnline
Treaties Between the United States of America and Foreign Nations...   [more]
Holdings: 1 vol. 1867

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.
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World Bank E-Library
Fulltext PDF-format collection of more than 1,200 World Bank books, including all new titles and selected titles beginning in 1984. Topics covered include:agriculture, education, environment, finance,...   [more]

World in Crisis: Insights from Six Shadow Financial Regulatory Committees From Around the World
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Related Political Science E-Books

Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Secretariat
Also Known as: APEC Secretariat
Web site, with publications and working group documents, for APEC, the premier forum for facilitating economic growth, cooperation, trade and investment in the Asia-Pacific region. APEC has 21 member ...   [more]
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    APEC publications (free downloads, PDF and MS Word)

Directory of Open Access Books
Also Known as: DOAB
Searchable index to peer-reviewed, open-access monographs and edited volumes with links to the full texts of the publications at the publishers website or repository....   [more]
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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]
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    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

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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FLACSO
Also Known as: Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales
The Latin American Social Sciences Institute (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales or FLACSO) is an inter-governmental organization for Latin America and the Caribbean dedicated to social sci...   [more]
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Foreign Relations of the United States
This is the U.S. State Department's own site for The Foreign Relations of the United States series, which presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and...   [more]
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Foreign Relations of the United States facsimile
The digital facsimile of Foreign Relations of the United States is a project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago Libraries. It ...   [more]
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National Academies Press Books
Also Known as: NAP Books, Joseph Henry Press Books
Fulltext books published for the US National Academies. Topics include agriculture, behavioral science, biology, computer science, chemistry, earth science, education, energy, engineering, environment...   [more]
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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]
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United Nations Treaty Collection
Also Known as: UNTC, UN Treaty Series
Primary sources, fulltext and image for international treaties and agreements deposited or registered with the United Nations since 1946. Ratification and annotation information for individual tre...   [more]