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Academic Search Complete  (EBSCOhost)
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Provides full text for nearlymore than 5,000 scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. Click here for a journal title list.


International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center  (EBSCOhost)
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Offers information on all aspects of security and counter-terrorism and is designed to inform the analysis process. Content includes hundreds of full text journals and periodicals, hundreds of thousands of selected articles, and proprietary Background Information Summaries that pertain to terrorism and security. Combines background from scholarly writings with expert commentary from a variety of organizations, as well as timely reviews of recent developments across the international political, military, economic, social and technical spectrum.


Military & Government Collection  (EBSCOhost)
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Indexing and abstracts of journals in medicine. 1966 -. Updated monthly. Connections to Library catalog.


JSTOR  (JSTOR)
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JSTOR is an archive of complete full-text backfiles. The current collection includes journals from the Art & Science Collections I - V and the Arts & Sciences Complement and covers most academic disciplines. This collection is growing and currently has more then 500 titles.


Data for Research  (JSTOR)
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A new way to search the JSTOR database! Provided by JSTOR for use by the research community. It provides a set of web-based tools for selecting and interacting with content from the JSTOR archive. The service also provides the ability to obtain data sets via bulk downloads or using a REST API. Features provided by the site include: Full-text and fielded searching of the entire JSTOR archive using a powerful faceted search interface. Using this interface one can quickly and easily define content of interest through an iterative process of searching and results filtering. Online viewing of document-level data including word frequencies, citations, key terms, and ngrams.


CIAO  (Columbia International Affairs Online)
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Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. You can receive monthly updates about new content on CIAO, by joining the the CIAO mailing list. To join, simply send a message to ciao-request@columbia.edu with "subscribe"in the message field. Be sure to send the message from the e-mail address at which you would like to receive the CIAO updates.


Project MUSE Basic College Collection   (John Hopkins University)
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The Basic College Collection is an interdisciplinary collection of scholarly peer-reviewed journals designed for institutions acquiring extensively in the humanities and social sciences. Titles in this collection are chosen based on a number of criteria, including the journal's presence in appropriate high quality indexes, inclusion in archival collections, and current usage in MUSE. The collection consists of over 130 journals including The Catholic Historical Review, ELH, The Henry James Review, Journal of the History of Ideas, and World Politics.


Campus Research: Law  (Thomson West)
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Campus Research is a research service for news, business and law related information. It includes full-text information and access to both current and archived materials. Campus Research includes thousands of news databases arranged geographically and topically, with hundreds of newswires as well as business, trade and professional journals and publications. It is especially useful for law-related resources, including both primary law and secondary legal analysis.


GPO Access  (FirstSearch)
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GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of importantinformation products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted." --GPO Access


World Factbook  (Government)

The World Factbook is prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency for the use of USGovernment officials, and the style, format, coverage, and content are designed to meettheir specific requirements. Information was provided by the American GeophysicalUnion, Bureau of the Census, Central Intelligence Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency,Defense Nuclear Agency, Department of State, Foreign Broadcast Information Service,Maritime Administration, National Imagery and Mapping Agency, National MaritimeIntelligence Center, National Science Foundation (Antarctic Sciences Section), Office ofInsular Affairs, US Board on Geographic Names, US Coast Guard, and other public and private sources. --The World Factbook


Polling the Nations
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Polling the Nations is a comprehensive collection of public opinion, with information from not only the United States but also more than 100 countries around the world. Polling the Nations has collected more than 500,000 questions, from 14,000 surveys on 5,600+ topics. Subjects such as gun control, abortion, government, women, race relations, the economy, and children are covered. All told, more than 700 organizations are represented by the polls at this site. Among the polling sources are: Gallup, Harris, Roper, the Detroit Free Press and NYT/CBS News.


Thomas: legislative information on the Internet  (Government)

"Acting under the directive of the leadership of the 104th Congress to make Federal legislative information freely available to theInternet public, a Library of Congress team brought the THOMAS World Wide Web system online in January 1995, at theinception of the 104th Congress...Enhancements in the types of legislative data available, as well as in search and display capabilities,have been continuously added." --Thomas

E-BOOKS

Ebrary
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Ebrary is a growing collection of electronic books and other documents. At present through the Academic Complete Collection Salve Regina University patrons have access to over 22,000 titles. Included in these titles is a collection of more than 1,050 historical and geopolitical maps of academic interest. More than 180 different academic publishers have contributed material to the Academic Complete Collection. Most titles in the collection have been published within the last two years.
Ebrary includes a rich collection of titles in many subject areas, ranging from Business and Economics, Computers and Technology, Life and Physical Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences, to Law and General Reference, that are not available in any other collection.

DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Credo Reference
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Offering access to over 1 million individual entries, Credo Reference (formerly xreferplus) contains all types of reference books : dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, and books of quotations, and subject-specific titles covering everything from the arts to accountancy and law to literature.

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