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Royalty-free world, continent, country, and state maps, including political maps, physical maps, outline maps, population maps, precipitation maps, climate maps, and other thematic maps....
Offers a good starting point for research on nearly any topic, covering most areas of academic study and containing full text for 5,500 periodicals, including 4,600 peer-reviewed publications....
The China Data Center at the University of Michigan is a national center designed to advance the study and understanding of China....
In-depth reports and analysis on political and social issues, each covering a single theme and providing solid background information, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U....
Original documents, primary source material, essays, and biographical information realted to empire studies, with an emphasis on the British Empire....
One of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories....
GEOBASE® is a database of indexed research literature on the earth sciences, including geology, human and physical geography, environmental sciences, oceanography, geomechanics, alternative energy sources, pollution, waste management and nature conservation....
GeoScienceWorld hosts 40 peer-reviewed geoscience journals from 26 global publishers, which are fully integrated with the American Geological Institute’s GeoRef, an abstracting and indexing database in the field of earth sciences....
Perspectives on issues, including global news, primary sources and media....
Journal impact factors and citation data for 7,500 scholarly and technical journals....
JSTOR is an archive of more than 1,000 scholarly, interdisciplinary journals, with full coverage for all but the most current 3-5 years....
Provides full-text documents from over 5,900 newspapers (including the New York Times), magazines, business, legal, medical, and reference publications, including US federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news....
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Full text for nearly 1,750 general reference periodicals with information dating as far back as 1975....
References to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more....
compilation of 14,000+ public opinion surveys conducted in the United States and 80 other countries from 1986 to the present....
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
This database is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses, spanning from 1861 to the present day and offering full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997....
Social Sciences Citation Index
Part of the Web of Science, covers high impact research journals in each field of the social sciences and offers cited reference searching as an option for tracing scholarship....
Covers the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research....
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
The database provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy....
