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Academic Search Premier: A multi-disciplinary index to periodicals that covers over 8,000 scholarly and popular periodicals, and includes full-text for more than 4,500 of these. Designed specifically for academic institutions, ASP spans most areas of study. Coverage varies, but most titles begin in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO): CIAO is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. Coverage is from 1991 to the present.
JSTOR: Full-text back files of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR includes journals in the areas of African, Asian, Latin American, Middle East, and Slavic studies. Note: coverage varies by title, but the most recent 2-5 years is not available.
LexisNexis Academic: A collection of databases with information on a wide range of topics, including news, business, politics and government, law, state and country information, biography, references works and dictionaries, health and medicine, and taxes and accounting. Most articles are in full-text. Covers 1980's to the present.
OmniFile Full Text Mega: Collection of Wilson full-text databases, including Social Sciences Full Text, a good resource for finding scholarly undergraduate-level journal articles. Indexing begins in 1983; full text of selected articles in 1995.

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Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database: This English language database indexes over 33,000 articles from over 280 English language and multi-lingual journals and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African continent. Coverage is from 1974 to the present.
Clase and Periodica: CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American and Caribbean journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities, while PERIODICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. Both databases are considered significant sources of reference for those interested in what is published in or about Latin America and the Caribbean.
Country Studies: The online versions of books previously published (1988-98) by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress. The series, covering 101 countries and regions, presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions for the countries.
Europa World Yearbook: An excellent source for basic country information. Covers recent history plus the current political and economic system in each country of the world. Includes some statistics, information on political parties and political structure, and media information.
Global Legal Information Network (GLIN): A searchable online database containing the legal documents in the categories of laws, judicial decisions, legislative records, and legal literature for jurisdictions spanning the globe. GLIN members (governmental agencies and international organizations) contribute original-language, officially published, full text documents in electronic format.
Handbook of Latin American Studies: A selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Works reviewed include books, journal articles, book chapters, and conference papers. Coverage is from 1984 to the present.
NationMaster.com: A massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. You can interactively generate maps and graphs (including country rankings) with ease on all kinds of statistics that cover several hundred categories.
Official Documents System of the United Nations: Includes all UN resolutions from the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, and Trusteeship Council from 1946, the origin of the UN, to the present. The system also offers UN documentation comprehensively from 1993, with selected coverage of earlier years.
Oxford Reference Online: Politics & Social Sciences: Oxford Reference Online includes full-text of more than 125 titles from Oxford University Press. The collection includes authoritative dictionaries, encyclopedias, and reference works in more than 20 subject areas in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.
Project Muse: Full-text from nearly 250 academic journals in the humanities and social sciences. Includes several journals in the area of politics and policy studies. Coverage varies by title.
World Factbook: Data about countries around the world, including government, geography, transportation and economic statistics, collected by the CIA.
World News Digest: Facts On File World News Digest@FACTS.com presents the full text of Facts On File World News Digest since 1940, plus a live news feed from Reuters and thousands of in-depth features, images, charts, and primary documents.

Last updated September 4, 2008