Databases - International Studies

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Academic Search Complete (ASC)
A scholarly, multi-disciplinary database that offers more than 6,100 full-text periodicals. In addition to full-text articles, Academic Search Complete provides indexing and abstracts for many more resources, including indexing for more than 10,100 journals, scholarly books, reports, conference proceedings, etc. It includes some searchable PDF content going back as far as 1887.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book collection
is an online collection of quality books in the humanities. These are works of major importance that remain vital to both scholars and advanced students, and are frequently cited in the literature.
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Aluka Database
Aluka is an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. Coverage includes African geography, plants, and freedom information. The online library contains archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides.
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ARTstor
ARTstor is a searchable repository of hundreds of thousands of digital images and related descriptive data. The database contains paintings, photographs, architecture, drawings, sculpture, and design work from a wide variety of cultures, civilizations, and time periods. Note that cookies and pop-ups must be enabled in your browser and the Java plug-in must be installed to use all ARTstor features.
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CountryWatch
Detailed reports for countries of the world. This database includes political, economic, investment, social, and environmental overviews, along with statistics, maps, and links to current news.
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CQ Public Affairs Collection
The Congressional Quarterly Public Affairs Collection is a reference tool that brings together reports on vital issues, statistical and historical analyses, historic documents and primary source materials, as well as a directory of key government, nonprofit, and private organizations in each of the major policy areas.

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Custom Newspapers (InfoTrac)
A collection of more than 650 national and international newspapers. Includes the Chattanooga Times/Free Press.
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Global Road Warrior
An extensive cultural, business, and travel database, Global Road Warrior provides general facts, maps, statistics, and travel tips for individual countries. It also offers information about visas and passports, social and business etiquette, transportation, communications and technology, security issues, health and medicine, religion, women's roles, money and banking, dating rituals, holidays and festivals, food and recipes, and much more.

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Hispanic American Periodicals Index
1970-present
Index to articles, book reviews and other material on Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the U.S.-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Covers more than 400 social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.

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Informe
1998 - present
Indexes 50 of the most popular magazines in Spanish. Investiga las noticias y eventos mas corrientes, la informacion de negocios del momento, los articulos de salud mas importantes, temas de cultura popular y muchas otras materias.
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Military and Intelligence Database
Large collection of material selected to meet Military and Intelligence content needs. Includes basic reference material like the Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia and the World Almanac and Book of Facts as well as over 7 million articles (80% full-text)
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Polling the Nations
1986 - present
A compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries from 1986 to the present. Each of the nearly 350,000 records reports a question asked and the responses given.

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Statesman's Yearbook Online
A reference tool that provides textual, statistical, and graphical information about world politics, economics, culture, and society.
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Westlaw's Campus Research
Campus Research provides access to news and business information and law-related resources. The resources in this database are designed specifically for use by students needing to research case law, state and federal statutes, administrative codes, law journals and reviews, and news information.
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Academic OneFile
Academic OneFile provides access to peer-reviewed, full-text articles from journals and reference sources. It also offers full text of the New York Times from 1995 to the present and includes transcripts and audio files from National Public Radio (NPR).
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America's News Magazines (NewsBank)
Provides full-text articles from various familiar magazines, such as Newsweek, Time, U.S. News & World Report, Fortune, and Foreign Affairs. Coverage includes news, business, entertainment, lifestyle, science and technology, and sports. Paid advertisements are excluded
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America's Newspapers (Newsbank)
A database of the complete electronic editions of more than 750 U.S. newspapers, including major newspapers such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution and regional newspapers such as The Knoxville News-Sentinel and The Tennessean.
Paid advertisements are excluded.
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Child Development & Adolescent Studies
1927 - present
A source for references to current and historical literature related to growth and development of children through the age of 21. This database includes book reviews, journal article abstracts, and an extensive bibliography of technical reports, books, theses, and dissertations. It provides references to the literature indexed in Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography, 1927-2001.

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Credo
An online reference library of hundreds of reference titles with the capability of searching through Squires Library's online catalog and databases. Credo includes general and subject-specific reference tools, as well as images, sound files, animations, and videos.
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DataMonitor 360/MarketLine

DataMonitor 360/MarketLine is a leading provider of quality information on companies, industries and countries. We offer a comprehensive and unique collection of information in a variety of user-friendly formats, including interactive reports and databases. Compiled by our global research team, these products are ideal for helping you build a thorough understanding of markets, whether you’re researching for qualifications, jobs or business.

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Education Full Text (H. W. Wilson)
Education Full Text, a WilsonWeb database, provides comprehensive coverage of an international range of English-language periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks. Indexing of periodicals goes as far back as 1983. Full text of articles from journals dates from 1996. The database covers a broad range of educational specialties.

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Expanded Academic ASAP
1980 - present
Coverage in the social sciences, humanities, sciences, and technology, national news, and general interest, with a concentration on scholarly journals.

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General OneFile
General OneFile is a source for news and periodical articles covering a wide range of topics. It includes full-text articles, along with some images and NPR transcripts and audio files. Updated daily.
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JSTOR
1800 to 3 years before present date.
A digital archive collection of scholarly journals starting with the first issues (many of which date from the 1800s).
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MarketLine/DataMonitor 360

MarketLine/DataMonitor 360 is a leading provider of quality information on companies, industries and countries. We offer a comprehensive and unique collection of information in a variety of user-friendly formats, including interactive reports and databases. Compiled by our global research team, these products are ideal for helping you build a thorough understanding of markets, whether you’re researching for qualifications, jobs or business.

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Points of View Reference Center
A full-text database of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. For each topic there is an overview along with positive arguments (point) and opposing arguments (counterpoint). Source materials include essays, political magazines, newspapers, news transcripts, primary source documents, and reference books. This database also offers guides to developing arguments and writing position papers.
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Project Muse
The full text from over 100 scholarly journals in arts and humanities, the social sciences, and mathematics.
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