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Social Sciences  :  Political Science & Government

CIAO Online (Columbia International Affairs)
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Materials on international affairs: papers, proceedings, briefs, indicators, plus journal & book abstracts. Dates/coverage vary.
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Academic Search Premier
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The world's largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.
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Expanded Academic ASAP
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Indexing, abstracts (summaries) or full text for articles from a large selection of scholarly & general interest publications. Strongest in humanities, social sciences, non-technical general sciences & current events. 1980- .
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Background Notes
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Background Notes (from the U. S. Dept. of State) are factual publications that contain information on all the countries of the world with which the United States has relations. They include facts on the country's land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and its relations with other countries and the United States.
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FactSearch
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Facts & statistics on topics of current interest. 1984- .
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LEXIS-NEXIS Academic Universe
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Full text of US & world news, company and financial news & information, industry & market data, state/country profiles, biographical, directory, legislative, legal & medical information. Updates/coverage vary.
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Political Risk Yearbook
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Offers reports on 106 countries, giving accurate political and economic risk analysis regarding finding developing markets, determining currency movements, preparing for capital investments, or making judgments about corporate security.
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CQ Weekly
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CQ Weekly, Congressional Quarterly's flagship publication was established in 1945 to be the publication of record on Congress . In 2005 it has expanded its editorial horizons to cover not only Congress but all the forces that shape legislation—the White House, federal agencies, business & industry, states, courts and K Street. A new mission evolved — to be the “magazine of government, commerce and politics.”
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New York Times (Historical)
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The historical backfile of the New York Times (1851 - 2001) presented in cover-to-cover full page images. The database includes access to the complete newspaper including articles, editorials and reviews, classified and display ads, photographs and other graphics, comics and editorial cartoons.
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Washington Post (Historical)
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The historical backfile of the Washington Post (1877 - 1990) presented in cover-to-cover full page images. The database includes access to the complete newspaper including articles, editorials and reviews, classified and display ads, photographs and other graphics, comics and editorial cartoons.
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Nat'l Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers
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NBER researchers initially report their findings in scientific papers aimed at other professional economists in academic institutions, business, government, and the business media around the world. Nearly 700 NBER Working Papers are published each year, and many subsequently appear in scholarly journals.
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World Factbook
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The U.S. government’s complete geographical handbook, featuring 268 full-color maps and flags of all nations and geographical entities. Each country profile tracks such demographics as population, ethnicity and literacy rates, as well as political, geographical and economic data. From the CIA.
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America: History and Life
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Abstracts (summaries) of articles, reviews, & dissertations about the history & culture of US & Canada. 1964- .
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Alternative Press Index
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Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change, mostly alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.
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Contemporary Women's Issues (CWI)
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Index with some abstracts (summaries) of women's issues on health & human rights; includes bibliographies selected from indexed items. 1995- .
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JSTOR
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The Arts & Sciences collections represent the building blocks of a single interdisciplinary archive of over 300 journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. For most titles, coverage is from the first issue of the journal up to the last three to five years.
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LEXIS-NEXIS Legal Research
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Full text federal, state & international legal materials: legislation, codes, cases & decisions, regulations. Also directories, law reviews & legal news. Updates/coverage vary.
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LEXIS-NEXIS Reference
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General reference sources: biographical information, country/state profiles, opinion polls, quotations & the World Almanac.
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Project Muse
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Full-text subscription access to over 150 journals; strongest in the humanities.
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Social Sciences Citation Index
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The Social Sciences Citation Index® provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,800 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines. It also covers individually selected, relevant items from approximately 3,300 of the world's leading science and technology journals. 1995- .
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Annual Reviews
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Provides full-text access to 13 of the 29 annual reviews (abstracts only for others) in the biomedical, physical and social sciences
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Encyclopedia of Politics
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Although the distinction between the politics of the left and the right is commonly assumed in the media and in treatments of political science and history, the terms are used so loosely that the student and the general reader are often confused. What exactly are the terms left and right supposed to imply? This two-volume encyclopedia features over 450 articles on individuals, movements, political parties, and ideological principles, with those usually thought of as left in Volume 1 and those considered on the right in Volume 2.
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Europa World Plus
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Europa World Plus covers economic and political information in more than 250 countries and territories.
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Political Theories for Students
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Provides in-depth information on major political theories and systems from all time periods. Each entry begins with a general overview of the system/theory followed by a discussion of the principal aspects of the theory, the theory's philosophy and an analysis of the historical context in which the theory was developed, including critical response.
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Masterfile Premier
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This multidisciplinary database provides full text for more than 2,000 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also includes more than 350 full text reference books, 84,074 biographies, 86,132 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of 107,135 photos, maps and flags.
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