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A digital collection of reference books from ABC-Clio containing 145 titles of dictionaries, encyclopedias and other reference works such as Legal Systems of the World: A Political, Social, and Cultural Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of Literature and Politics and American Political Scientists.

A collection of encyclopedias from Sage publication. The database allows users to search and browse titles by subject covering areas such as family studies, psychology, social issues and sociology. Titles include encyclopedia of African religion, encyclopedia of counseling, encyclopedia of gender and society, encyclopedia of human relationships, and encyclopedia of social Problems.

960 e-books in Business, Economics, Environment, Innovation & Technology, and Public & Social.

A bibliographic database containing about 85000 titles published between 1991 and 2006. It covers scholarly materials published by institutions in Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Great Britain, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

An international consortium of about 700 academic institutions and research organizations. It provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.
ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.

A source for discussion of social issues topics from the Greenhaven Press, Opposing Viewpoints series and other Gale and Macmillan reference resources. Includes viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. Gale. 2004-

Indexes and abstracts articles from over 1,400 political science and international relations journals. CSA. 1975-

A multidisciplinary database containing full text of nearly 3000 journals and magazines. Gale. 1980s-

A comprehensive digital library of public policy research containing over 30,000 documents. Center for Governmental Studies- Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis Library

Provides quick access to research in development policy, practice and research. selected content from over 7,500 development organisations - all available free to download. Funded by Sida, Norad, SDC and DFID.

Search the RAND archive of over 17,000 titles of occasional papers, technical reports, research brief, books and monographs . The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis. 1948 to present.

(IPL) and the Librarians Internet Index (LII) merged. features a searchable, subject-categorized directory of authoritative websites; links to online texts, newspapers, and magazines;

Provided by Social Science Electronic Publishing (SSEP), this site allows users to freely access thousands of abstracts and full-text research papers.

"The Google Public Data Explorer makes large datasets easy to explore, visualize and communicate. As the charts and maps animate over time, the changes in the world become easier to understand. You don't have to be a data expert to navigate between different views, make your own comparisons, and share your findings."

Created in 1995 by Alan Liu, a professor in the English
department at the University of California, Santa
Barbara.

An index to several Virtual Library pages related to biology, with links to biodiversity and ecology, biotechnology, botany, cell biology, medicine, zoology, and more.

It includes collections of open access journals such as DOAJ, BioMed Central, HighWire Press, and PubMed Central as well as journals in special programs such as AGORA program. The directory provides access to over 13,000 journals in sciences and other disciplines including agriculture, education, history, language and literature, philosophy, psychology, political sciences, social sciences and religion. The number of journals is growing steadily.