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Africa Bibliography (International African Institute)
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Publications on African and African studies that focuses on the social and environmental sciences, development studies, humanities and arts, with some coverage of the health and natural sciences.
- - African Bibliography is an authoritative guide to publications on African and African studies in the social sciences, arts, humanities, and policy studies, not including government publications and creative literature. It focuses on the continent and associated islands, with very selective coverage of the African diaspora. The database is searchable by region, country, and general subject (i.e., economic and social history, zoology). Abstracts are not included. Indexed materials are primarily in English.
    
    Access: On campus and remote
    Database provider: Cambridge University Press
  - Database Provider: cambridge
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African Newspapers (NewsBank)
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African newspapers.
- African Newspapers includes approximately 25 fully searchable newspapers published in a variety of African countries in the 19th and 20th centuries. The database is the product of a partnership between the Center for Research Libraries, its member institutions, and Readex, a division of NewsBank. Tutorials/Search Aids: None available Access: On campus and remote Database provider: NewsBank
- Coverage Dates: 19th and 20th centuries
- Updated: Monthly
- Languages: English and a variety of other languages spoken in Africa
- Database Provider: newsbank
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Columbia International Affairs Online
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Research papers on international affairs.
- Columbia International Affairs Online is an excellent resource for theory and research in international affairs. It gathers working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers from non-governmental organizations, foundation research projects, and conferences. Some items are in full text.
- Coverage Dates: 1991-
- Updated: Ongoing
- Database Provider: Columbia University Press
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Europa World
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Detailed information about countries and international organizations worldwide.
- The Europa World Online is an authoritative source of information about countries and organizations worldwide. Each country survey includes a statistical section and an overview of the country's political history; government, politics, and diplomatic representation; economics, industry, and trade; languages; religions; education; press and broadcasting; transportation; and tourism. Europa also contains information on the United Nations and other international organizations as well as an extensive directory of organizations within each country. A third section, Comparative Statistics, allows you to generate tables and charts comparing countries. Older Europa entries may be accessed under the online archive going back to 2006. The UGA Libraries have the print volumes of The Europa World Yearbook from 1960-2008 on the 4th floor of the Main Library at call number D2 .E892.
- Coverage Dates: 2006-present
- Updated: Monthly
- Database Provider: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
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Europa World
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Detailed information about countries and international organizations worldwide.
- The Europa World Online is an authoritative source of information about countries and organizations worldwide. Each country survey includes a statistical section and an overview of the country's political history; government, politics, and diplomatic representation; economics, industry, and trade; languages; religions; education; press and broadcasting; transportation; and tourism. Europa also contains information on the United Nations and other international organizations as well as an extensive directory of organizations within each country. A third section, Comparative Statistics, allows you to generate tables and charts comparing countries. Older Europa entries may be accessed under the online archive going back to 2006. The UGA Libraries have the print volumes of The Europa World Yearbook from 1960-2008 on the 4th floor of the Main Library at call number D2 .E892.
- Coverage Dates: 2006-present
- Updated: Monthly
- Database Provider: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
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Latin American Newspapers (NewsBank)
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Latin American Newspapers.
- Latin American Newspapers includes approximately 35 fully searchable newspapers (1.5 million pages) published throughout Latin America in the 19th and 20th centuries. The database is the product of a partnership between the Center for Research Libraries, its member institutions, and Readex, a division of NewsBank Tutorials/Search Aids: None available Access: On campus and remote Database provider: NewsBank
- Coverage Dates: 19th and 20th centuries
- Updated: Monthly
- Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese
- Database Provider: newsbank
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Political Science Complete (EBSCO)
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Citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields.
- Political Science Complete 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. The serials list of the new database is actively under construction, with a focus on expanding international coverage. Electronic full text may be available for records with ISSNs added to the database since January 2001.
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- Coverage Dates: 1920-present
- Updated: Monthly
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: EBSCO
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xwps-uga1
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Access UN
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Index to the Official Records of the United Nations.
- Access UN is an index to the Official Records of the United Nations. It includes citations to the draft resolutions, meeting records, and the UN Treaty Series. Several thousand full-text UN documents are also included in the database. The index supports access to the microfiche and paper collections of United Nations documents held by the Library.
- Coverage Dates: 1944-
- Updated: Monthly
- Database Provider: readex/newsbank
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xaun-uga1
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American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES) (EBSCO)
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North American research on East-Central Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union.
- The American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES) has been compiled continuously since 1956 under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), and is maintained at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. ABSEES contains North American (U.S. and Canadian) scholarship on East-Central Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. It provides bibliographic records for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications. It includes a mixture of humanities and social science topics. EBSCO, the provider of this database, intends to digitize the earlier print records back to 1956.
- Coverage Dates: 1990-
- Updated: Monthly
- Title List
- Languages: English, Russian
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xabs-uga1
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American State Papers (1789-1838)
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U.S. Congressional and Executive Department documents from 1789 to 1838.
- The American State Papers include approximately 6280 numbered publications, largely Congressional but also Executive Department materials, covering the areas of foreign relations, Indian affairs, finance, commerce and navigation, military affairs, naval affairs, the post-office department, public lands, and claims. Unlike the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, the publications in the American State Papers are not divided into reports and documents and do not include House and Senate journals. Approximately two-thirds of the publications cover the first 14 Congresses (1789-1817), whereas the remaining third chronologically overlap with the Serial Set from 1817-1838.
- Coverage Dates: 1789-1838
- Updated: Monthly until all years have been entered
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: Readex/NewsBank
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=ame7-uga1
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CQ Homeland Security
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Homeland security legislation and news.
- CQ Homeland Security is a Web-based intelligence service that provides up-to-date and comprehensive homeland security information. The database includes real-time daily news, tracking of homeland security legislation, and analysis of the latest homeland security spending and policy issues.
- Coverage Dates: 2002- (107th Congress-)
- Updated: Daily
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: CQ Press
- Ten concurrent users.
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Encyclopedia of World Poverty (2006) (SAGE)
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Contains entries on poverty in individual countries, definitions and measurement techniques of poverty, causes of poverty, antipoverty organizations, and the political environment.
- The Encyclopedia of World Poverty contains entries on poverty in individual countries, definitions and measurement techniques of poverty, causes of poverty, antipoverty organizations, and the political environment. Each entry is accompanied by a bibliography. Appendices include “U.S. State Economic Data” and “Country Economic Profiles.”
  Access note: On and off campus. Unlimited simultaneous users allowed.
  Database provider: SAGE.
- Database Provider: sage
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Global Market Information Database (now Passport GMID)
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Extensive statistics about consumer markets and economies of many countries.
- Passport GMID (formerly Global Market Information Database) contains statistics and analysis on more than 300 consumer products as well as thousands of industry sector reports and economic time series for eighty countries.
- Coverage Dates: Economic statistics, late 1970s- Consumer market statistics, 1990s-
- Updated: Ongoing
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Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL)
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Materials for homeland security research
- Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) provides access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized sources such as theses and reports from universities, organizations, and local and state agencies. Also includes journal articles. HSDL supports the curriculum of the Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
- Coverage Dates: 1990-present (some older documents)
- Updated: Daily
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Ten concurrent users.
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=home-uga1
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International Security & Counter-Terrorism Reference Center (EBSCO)
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Articles, reports, and background summaries on security and terrorism.
- International Security & Counter-Terrorism Reference Center provides the full text of both primary and secondary publications, with articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers; books; analyst reports; government documents; country reports; background information summaries; blogs; images; and news feeds. Topics covered include terrorism and counter-terrorism, regional conflicts, homeland security, risk management, bioterrorism, cyberterrorism, public health threats, WMDs, civil liberties, disaster planning, and related law and policy.
- Coverage Dates: 1980s-
- Title List
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=inrr-uga1
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JSTOR
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Access to back issues (from the date of first publication) of selected, core journals.
- JSTOR provides electronic access to back issues (from the date of first publication) of selected, core journals. The goal of the project is to build a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. The journals are organized into the Arts and Sciences Collections I & II, the General Sciences Collection, the Ecology and Botany Collection, the Business Collection, the Language and Literature Collection, the Mathematics and Statistics Collection, and the Music Collection.
- Coverage Dates: 1800s- (dates vary)
- Updated: Ongoing
- Title List
- Database Provider: jstor
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Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies (EBSCO)
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Index and abstracts of journal articles and books on a mixture of humanities and social science topics relating to the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa.
- Built on some earlier core bibliographies for the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa, such as the School of Oriental and African Studies Library Catalogue, Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies covers primarily journal articles and books on a mixture of humanities and social science topics, including anthropology, history, economics, international relations and political science.
- Coverage Dates: c. 1900 -
- Updated: Ongoing
- Title List
- Languages: Arabic, English, French, German, Hebrew, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=mida-uga1
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OECD iLibrary (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development)
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Full text access to OECD publications, 1998-present.
- OECD iLibrary provides access to the full text of publications from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, a group of major developed countries. Covers all OECD books and periodicals published 1998-present. Contains extensive statistical data which can be downloaded into spreadsheets. The database is especially rich in annual economic surveys of member countries, industry reports, and statistical reports.
- Coverage Dates: Varies
- Updated: Weekly
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: OECD
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xoec-uga1
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Peace Research Abstracts (EBSCO)
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Indexes and summarizes articles related to peace research.
- Peace Research Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs and law, peace psychology, diplomacy, arms control, international organizations, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 245,000 records which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline, including Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Journal of Refugee Law, and others. Thirteen core journals are indexed and abstracted in their entirety (i.e. cover to cover). Selected articles from an additional 107 journal are also indexed and abstracted.
- Coverage Dates: 1964-
- Title List
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=peac-uga1
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Policy File
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Full text and citations of works covering all public policy issues.
- Policy File covers all public policy issues and provides bibliographic citations to the work of 300 public policy think tanks, university research programs, and non-governmental research organizations. Examples of the contributors include the American Enterprise Institute, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), RAND, and the United States Institute of Peace. Links are provided to organization web sites and full-text reports.
- Coverage Dates: 1990-
- Updated: Weekly
- Database Provider: chadwyck_healey
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Polling the Nations (public opinion)
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U.S. and international opinion polls on major issues, politics, and society.
- Polling the Nations is a database of opinion polls taken on a variety of subjects all over the world. Each record in the database consists of one poll question and the participants' responses. Records are indexed by subject matter, publication year, general and specific location, and survey method. Other information provided includes: source name and contact information, sample size, and notes on the sample population.
- Coverage Dates: 1986-
- Updated: Monthly
- Languages: English
- 4 concurrent users
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ProQuest Congressional (formerly LexisNexis Congressional)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Coverage of U.S. Congress; hearings, prints, reports, bills, Congressional Record, CRS Reports, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations
- ProQuest Congressional provides extensive historical indexing of Congressional documents. It also provides the full text of recent hearing transcripts, committee reports, bills, bill tracking reports, the Congressional Record, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Code, and public laws, as well as the complete historical archives of CRS (Congressional Research Service) reports and Committee Prints. Additional coverage includes biographical profiles of congressmen and senators, committee assignments, voting records and financial data.
- Coverage Dates: Dates vary
- Updated: Ongoing
- Database Provider: proquest
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ProQuest Statistical Insight ((formerly LexisNexis Statistical Insight))
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Statistics published by the U.S. government and other agencies.
- - ProQuest Statistical Insight consists of,
    Search Tables Base Edition:
    selected statistical tables drawn mainly from sources published by the U.S. government since about 1998.
    Search Abstracts:
    American Statistics Index (ASI) abstracts (1970-) and full text (ca 2004-) of Federal government sources
    Statistical Reference Index (SRI) abstracts (1980-) of state and private sources
    Index to International Statistics (IIS) abstracts (1983-) of international and intergovernmental sources
    Coverage ranges across many topics including income, production, retail and wholesale trade, interest rates, economic indicators, demographics, energy, environmental protection, agriculture and fisheries, crime, medicine, and education.
  - Coverage Dates: 1970s-
  - Updated: Biannually
  - Database Provider: proquest
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U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1994)
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Reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Congress from the 15th Congress (1817) through the 103rd Congress (1994).
- The U.S. Congressional Serial Set consists of the all the Reports, Documents and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives from the 15th Congress (1817) through the 103rd Congress (1994), including some post-1816 content published in the American State Papers (a retrospective collection of materials originating from 1789 through 1838 but published in the second quarter of the 19th century). During much of the 19th century, especially in the pre-Civil War era, the Serial Set also included key Executive Department publications that were published only or primarily in the U.S. Congressional Serial Set. The Serial Set constitutes a rich collection of primary source material on all aspects of American history, including approximately 52,000 maps.
- Coverage Dates: 1789-1994
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: Readex/NewsBank
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Broader Databases

Academic Search Complete
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Articles from some peer-reviewed journals as well as monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and other sources.
- Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database is updated daily and features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.
- Coverage Dates: Dates vary. Some content goes as far back as 1865.
- Updated: Daily
- Title List
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbac
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Humanities International Complete (EBSCO)
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Index to articles from diverse humanities subject areas.
- Humanities International Complete is a database covering journals, books and other important reference sources in the humanities. Produced by Whitston Publishing (an imprint of EBSCO Publishing), Humanities International Index provides cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 2,200 journals and contains more than 2.71 million records. Formerly the American Humanities Index, this database contains bibliographic records from a multitude of U.S. and international publications. Humanities International Index provides citations and abstracts for articles, essays and reviews, as well as original creative works including poems, fiction, photographs, paintings and illustrations.
- Coverage Dates: 1909-present
- Title List
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: ebsco
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Index Islamicus (EBSCO)
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Index to journal articles, conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim World, from 1906 to the present.
- Index Islamicus The Index Islamicus online database indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by an editorial team working at the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, established to transmit knowledge about Islamic and Middle East studies, which have traditionally been part of the curriculum of SOAS. Records included in the database cover almost 100 years of publications on the world of Islam. Material cited in the Index Islamicus includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level. Browsable indexes are available for the following fields: author, descriptors, journal name, personal name, publication type, and review author.
- Coverage Dates: 1882-present
- Updated: Quarterly
- Languages: English and non-English
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=indm-uga1
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JSTOR
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Access to back issues (from the date of first publication) of selected, core journals.
- JSTOR provides electronic access to back issues (from the date of first publication) of selected, core journals. The goal of the project is to build a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. The journals are organized into the Arts and Sciences Collections I & II, the General Sciences Collection, the Ecology and Botany Collection, the Business Collection, the Language and Literature Collection, the Mathematics and Statistics Collection, and the Music Collection.
- Coverage Dates: 1800s- (dates vary)
- Updated: Ongoing
- Title List
- Database Provider: jstor
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Web of Knowledge
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Provides access to the Web of Science suite and Journal Citation Reports.
- Web of Knowledge contains a suite of research tools, including:
  - Web of Science (Arts and Humanities Index, Science Citation Index, and Social Sciences Citation Index)
  - Journal Citation Reports (1999-)
  - Also, links to discipline-specific databases, Biosis Previews and Zoological Record.
  Education & Training Materials
- Coverage Dates: Last 5 years (Current Contents Connect); 1999- (Journal Citation Reports); 1945- (Science Citation Index); 1956- (Social Science Citation Index); 1975- (Arts and Humanities Citation Index)
- Updated: Weekly
- Languages: English and non-English
- Database Provider: isi
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=webf-uga1
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