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Political Science Complete covers global political topics with a worldwide focus including comparative politics, humanitarian issues, international relations, law and legislation, non-governmental organizations and political theory. The database includes top-ranked scholarly journals plus reference books, monographs and conference papers, which includes those from the International Political Science Association.

Features thousands of full-text journal articles covering a broad range of topics including national and international current events, government, politics, public policy and law as well as topics in areas such as science, social science, the humanities and many other fields.

Historical Abstracts indexes academic history journals covering the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from the 15th century forward. Journals are indexed from 1955 to the present.

America: History & Life indexes academic history journals covering the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

Describes the culture, climate, customs, food, medical care, holidays and festivals, language, national symbols, points of interest, and religion for 175 countries from around the world. Maps, news feeds, and security briefings for each country are also available.

The World Factbook provides information and statistics on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 countries and other world entities.

Provides information about major world developments from 1750 to the present, with close attention to social, economic, cultural, and political topics. It contains articles on world events; countries; organizations; regions; ethnic groups; and themes such as social history, politics, economics, culture, education, science and technology.

Covers cultural groups in Asia, Europe, the Americas and Africa. Each volume is organized by continent, covering history, politics, customs, religion, education, human rights issues, teen life, and more.

US Newsstream searches current US news content, and archives back into the 1980s. Features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format. US Newsstream provides key national and regional news sources from the U.S. and includes exclusive and preferred access to top titles, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune.

Newspaper Source provides full-text access to U.S. regional newspapers, TV and radio news transcripts, and selected international newspapers. Available publications include: USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, and The Times (London) plus transcripts from CNN, National Public Radio, CBS News, Fox News, CNBC, etc.

Indexes and provides full-text access to the following nationally-oriented newspapers: Chicago Tribune (1996-present), Los Angeles Times (1985-present), New York Times (1980-present), Wall Street Journal (1984-present), Washington Post (1987-present).

Indexes and provides full-text access to articles published in the New York Times from 1980 to the present.

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The Catalog indexes historical and current U.S. government publications issued by all branches of the federal government, including Congress, the Supreme Court, the Office of the President, the State Department and other executive branch departments. Many documents published in recent years are available in full-text through a direct link.

The American State Papers contain the legislative and executive documents of Congress during the period 1789 to 1838. The collection includes documents that cover the critical historical gap from 1789 to the printing of the first volume of the U.S. Serial Set in 1817.

Reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately 13,800 bound volume.

Published by the Office of the Historian in the United States Department of State, Foreign Relations of the United States is a book series which provides the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.

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Search thousands of dictionary and encyclopedia articles across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

ebooks in history, literature, music, philosophy, religion, theatre, and other areas of the humanities.

Access 16,000+ academic works from Oxford University Press, covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law.

Online publication produced at the University of Oxford that shows how living conditions are changing. Covers a wide range of topics across many academic disciplines: Trends in health, food provision, the growth and distribution of incomes, violence, rights, wars, culture, energy use, education, and environmental changes. Includes analysis and visualizations.

The UN Statistics Division compiles and disseminates all manner of global statistical data. Commodities, Demographics, Population, Social Indicators, National Accounts, etc.

The World Bank provides free and open access to a comprehensive set of data about development in countries around the globe. Inclusive of social indicators.

PolicyMap is an online data and mapping application that gives you access to over 15,000 indicators related to demographics, housing, crime, mortgages, health, jobs and more. Data is available at all common geographies (address, block group, census tract, zip code, county, city, state, MSA) as well as unique geographies like school districts and political boundaries. Data comes from both public and proprietary sources.

The Pew Research Center’s Global Attitudes Project conducts public opinion surveys around the world on a broad array of subjects ranging from people’s assessments of their own lives to their views about the current state of the world and important issues of the day.

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