Key Country
Studies Databases:
PAIS
International (Public Affairs Information Service)
Provides selective subjects and bibliographic access to periodicals,
books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications,
Internet resources, and other publications from 120 countries.
PAIS
Archives (Public Affairs Information Services)
A retrospective database chronicling global public policy
and social issues. (1915-1972).
CIAO (Columbia International
Affairs Online)
A major source for theory and research in international affairs
including economic information, and map and country data.
Historical
Abstracts
The database covers materials treating all aspects of world
history, except the United States and Canada, from 1450 to
the present. The U.S. and Canada are covered in the companion
database, America: History & Life.
Social
Science Abstracts
A valuable index provides indexing and abstracting of articles
in the social sciences, including national social, political,
and economic cocerns.
General Databases:
Article First
A multidisciplinary database covering a wide variety of topics and fields.
JSTOR
A database which provides searching of a small number of excellent
core journals in sociology as well as in other fields. Full-text
PDF access.
Lexis-Nexis - Academic Universe
A major database for up-to-date news covering many parts of the world.
Project Muse
A major database covering
the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others. Full-text.
Proquest
Mostly full-text access to scores of scholarly journals in
a wide variety of disciplines, including anthropology. In
most instances, you should narrow your search by flagging
the option for scholarly or peer-reviewed journals only.
Primary Sources:
ICPSR
(Intercollegiate Center for Political and Social Research)
ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social
science data for research and instruction. This is a valuable
online storehouse of ownloadable data from surveys and qualitative
research.
World News Connection
A news translation service produced by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) for the U.S. Foreign Broadcast Service, a government agency which monitors and translates newspapers, radio and television broadcasts, and official statements of foreign governments.
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