Edwin Ginn Library: Key e-Resources 

Full-text articles from business and management journals.

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Web index to United Nations Documents, most current 2 years.
See also Index to United Nations Documents and United Nations Official Document System.

Monograph series on strategic issues such as arms race, oil crisis, Iraq and Afghanistan.

Index to articles in military and aeronautical periodicals.

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Full text articles from magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.

Each issue is a collection of essays (literature reviews) covering primary research literature and principle contributions in the given science or social science field.

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Armed Conflict Database from International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) covers international and internal conflicts, as well as terrorism, refugees and returnees, Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs), weapons used and their flows, fatalities, costs, historical backgrounds, annual updates and timelines. Users can generate reports and download data.

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Contains information for approximately 444,000 international and U.S. national, regional, state, and local nonprofit membership organizations. Includes IRS data on U.S. 501(c) nonprofit organizations.

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Provides full text for over one hundred journals in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences.

Online version of the Chicago Manual of Style. Guidelines for citations, writing style, authorship, printing and publishing.

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International affairs site with working papers, conference proceedings, policy briefs, economic indicators, calendar of events.

see Web of Science
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Index and text of hearings, committee documents, Congressional bills, Congressional Record, CFR, Federal Register, public laws and legislative histories.

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Financial, political and economic risk ratings for 140 countries.

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Full-text resource from Congressional Quarterly Press with statistical and historical analyses, historic documents and primary source materials, legislative summaries and chronologies.

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In-depth reports by journalists on political and social issues, covering international affairs, defense, law, environment, technology and the U.S. economy.

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Coverage of the U.S. Congress with the status of bills, votes and amendments, and floor and committee activity. Archive back to 1983.

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Indexes, abstracts, full-text databases and journals in the natural sciences, social sciences, arts & humanities, and technology, including, among others: PAIS, EconLit, Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management, Water Resources Abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts and a number of Sage full-text journal collections.

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A current awareness database covering over 8,000 scholarly journals in Agriculture, Biology, and Environmental Sciences; Art & Humanities; Clinical Medicine; Engineering, Computing & Technology; Life Sciences; Physical, Chemical & Earth Sciences; Social & Behavioral Sciences.

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Database created by the Association of African Universities to provide access to African scholarly work. Each record has author, title, abstract, degree type and university contact information; all these fields can be searched.

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Collection of declassified primary documents on US foreign and military policy since 1945. The National Security Archive is a non-profit research institute and library in Washington, DC.

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Full-text access to all the Tufts University dissertations and theses published in the Dissertation Abstracts database from 1996 forward. To find ALL Fletcher dissertations, type sc(fletcher) as your search; or add sc(fletcher) to a keyword search for more specific results.

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A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world offering over 2 million titles, more than 930,000 of which are available in PDF format for immediate download.

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Monthly reports on development and environment issues in Latin America; archives back to 1998.

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Online version of Journal of Economic Literature Index; covers economic journals, books, and dissertations.

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Full-text online edition of The Economist magazine.

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Full-text Country Reports, Country Finance, Country Commerce, and Country Risk Service.

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Comprehensive and interdisciplinary coverage of all aspects of energy, as well as its relation to history, society, public policy, and international relations.

Sets out the present state of knowledge of the Islamic World. A source not only on the religion, but also on the believers and the countries in which they live.

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Indexing and abstracts for over 1000 environment journals, some dating back to the 1970s. Click on EBSCOhost to connect.

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Abstracts and citations from over 6000 sources: journals, conference proceedings, reports, books, and government publications.

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Electronic, full-text version of the print series. Covers politics, government, history, economics and international agencies for every country in the world.

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Index to journals in the social sciences, sciences, and humanities, with abstract or full-text for each entry, 1980-present.

Factiva from Dow Jones has over 14,000 news and business sources from around the world, including newspapers, magazines, wire services, media transcripts, company and industry reports, historical market data, and advanced charting tools.

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports (1975-1996) presents translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals and government statements from nations around the globe.

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Collection of indexes covering all subjects. Includes Dissertation Abstracts and WorldCat.

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Foreign Affairs magazine from 1973 to current.

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Gallup Organization polling results going back to the 1930s.

Gartner, Inc. is a provider of research and analysis on the global IT industry. It can be used to chart technology predictions, review vendor assessments and research technology career information.

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Index to business and management topics, with full-text or abstract for each entry; includes company profiles and analysts' reports, 1982-present.

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An international public health database for academics, practitioners, NGOs, policy makers, clinicians, etc. It includes significant unique and hard-to-obtain content, in the areas of tropical medicine and infectious diseases, community and public health, medicinal and poisonous plants, and nutrition.

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Backfiles of Global Health.

Global Insight provides comprehensive economic, financial, and political coverage of countries, regions, and industries. The information and analysis covers over 200 countries and spans more than 170 industries using a unique combination of expertise, models, data, and software within a common analytical framework to support planning and decision making.

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A search engine from Google designed to find scholarly material on the web. To take advantage of Tufts Libraries resources combined with Google Scholar, use this link to connect.

Index to U.S. government documents.

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Information on nutrition, public health, diseases, occupational health and safety, alcohol and drug abuse.

A comprehensive, image-based collection of legal periodicals, treaties, and the Federal Register. Every journal goes from its first published issue to current volumes.

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Scholarship on Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States: citations to articles, book reviews, documents, literary works, and other material in more than 500 international social science and humanities journals, published from 1970 to the present. Many citations are linked to full-text.

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U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents, as well as specialized resources, such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations, and local and state agencies.

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Comprehensive business database, including news, public and private company information, company fact-sheets, financial statements, market and IPO Data, industry overviews, competitive landscapes, and executive biographies.

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ICPSR provides access to an archive of social science data for research and instruction. Data files are raw data, not in report format, and are used with statistical software, such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata. There is a tutorial on the site and a Tufts University contact is listed to help with downloading.

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The Index Islamicus covers Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by the Islamic Bibliography Unit of the Cambridge University Library and indexes articles back to 1906.

[Access: CD in Ginn Library Reference area]
Indexes official documents from 1990 - present. Includes full-text of resolutions. Updated monthly. See also AccessUN and United Nations Official Document System.

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A group of databases, including Expanded Academic ASAP (journal articles), and several business indexes.

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Balance of payments, interest and exchange rates, trade and banking statistics; tables for every country.

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International biographical resource.

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Online database covering financial, legal, industrial and macroeconomic information, and daily news from emerging markets.

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Jane's periodicals and databases, with information on defense, security, weapons, terrorism, intelligence, and public safety.

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Fully-searchable database containing the back issues of scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields.

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Online access to Kluwer's scholarly journals in the fields of science, technology, humanities and law. Also includes access to selected Kluwer book and reference titles.

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Index to journal articles and monographs on with military and security affairs. Contains abstracts but no full-text material from 1986 -

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Legal periodicals index from Gale Group available through Massachusetts Social Law Library's online databases. (Click on the graphic "i" in the right hand navigation.)

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Academic version of LexisNexis with guided search forms.

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Allows users to construct business and financial reports in tabular form on 25,000 companies worldwide. Searchable EDGAR filings, country profiles and company news are also available.

Daily news from newspapers, TV, and radio, originating in Arab countries, Iran, and the Arab Media Diaspora, and translated into English. Includes searchable archives and email newsletter. From 2005-

Up-to-date figures and information on defense budgets, procurement totals, equipment holdings and military deployments.

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Complete backfile of America's oldest continuously published weekly journal.

see Digital National Security Archive

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General statistics from many sources provided with capability to generate graphs and maps.

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National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers back to November 1994.

Contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world's leading economists.

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Online version of The New York Review of Books includes archives back to 1963.

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Includes full-text and full-image articles dating back to the first issue of the NYT in 1851; the collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue in downloadable PDF(r) files.

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Collection of databases including MEDLINE, Biological Abstracts, CINAHL, and PsycINFO.

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A comprehensive source of articles on religious and political aspects of Islam and the Islamic world, including the Oxford Dictionary of Islam, the Oxford History of Islam , and a concordance and two translations of the Qur’an.

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Bilingual dictionaries and translators between English and French, German, Italian, and Spanish.

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Provides full-text access to the Oxford University Press journals.

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Access to 100 major Oxford University Press dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference works in the humanites, social sciences, foreign languages, science, technology and medicine, the performing arts, and religion.

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Index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and general social sciences. Covers journals, books, government documents, international documents, research and conference reports. 1972-present.

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Public policy research from major think tanks, research organizations, and university programs.

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Comprehensive collection of public opinion material from the United States and abroad. It contains the full text of some 400,000 questions and responses on 4,500 topics.

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Primary sources in U.S. Presidential history, including executive orders, speeches, manuscripts, and photographs.

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Scholarly journals online in the humanities and social sciences.

The Dissertation Express link is for ordering dissertations. The Digital Dissertations link is for searching recent dissertations.

A web-based reference/citation and bibliography manager. Allows users to keep track of and download citations from databases and indexes and then use these references in footnotes and bibliographies. This software also works with EndNote.

RGE Monitor is an aggregator of information on economic and geostrategic issues. The database features news, commentary, research, analysis, blogs and data for over 130 topics and 50 countries.

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The Sage full-text journal collection covers journals in the fields of communications studies, politics and international relations, and sociology.

Available only on computers in the Ginn Library and Mugar Computer Lab.
The S&P Emerging Markets Database (EMDB) provides comprehensive securities information and statistics on stocks that trade in developing countries.

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Database of over 1,000 journal titles, covering core journals in the life, physical, technical and social sciences. Full text access is available for thoses titles subscribed to by Tufts. For full text access to those titles which Tufts does not subscribe, consult a librarian. Table of Contents and Abstracts are available for all titles.

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Index to worldwide scientific, technical, medical, social sciences, economic and business literature, covering 14,000 scholarly titles. Full-text linking when available. Cited references included with links for tracking citations. Provides search and citation alerts. Abstracts go back to 1966.

Worldwide market data for a broad range of industries and regions. Click on "Databases Selected" in upper left corner or "Select Multiple Databases" to search additional regional Snapshots series.

SourceOECD provides online access to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development resources, covering trade, environment, agriculture, technololgy, economic development, and more. The books, reports, working papers and periodicals are full-text and the databases have extensive statistical information.

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Online version of American Statistics Index, Statistical Reference Index, and Index to International Statistics. Includes a selection of quick-access tables.

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In-depth coverage of Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans and the former Soviet Union by a network of independent regional journalists.

Search a variety of United Nations statistical databases

Comprehensive coverage starts in 1993. Selective coverage of General Assembly and Security Council documentation back to 1985. Access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. New and older documents are being added.

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Certified full text of treaties and status information is provided. The League of Nations Treaty Series is included.

To search the database, scroll all the way down and click on "Access to Databases."

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U.S. import and export data on 18,000 commodities traded worldwide. Statistics are annual (from 1992), monthly and cumulative year-to-date (from 2002), based on the 6-digit Harmonized System (HS) commodity codes. Includes value, method of transportation, shipping weights and port-level data.

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Current full-text file of The Wall Street Journal, covering the years 1984 to present, with daily updates.

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Abstracts from journals, books, conference proceedings, and technical reports from 1967-current.

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Includes Citation indexes to authors as well as keyword index. A cited reference search enables you to use a published work that you know to find other later works that cite it.

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Full-text legal research service with a broad collection of legal resources, news, business and public records information.

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Full-text access to 300+ journals published by John Wiley & Sons. Subjects covered are: Business, Finance & Management, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Science, Education, Engineering, Law, Life & Medical Science, Mathematics & Statistics, Physics and Psychology

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Statistical data for over 550 development indicators and time series data for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Data include social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators.

Successor to Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)

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Directory of learned institutions and societies, academies, museums, universities and colleges.

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Catalog of materials owned by libraries worldwide, including books, periodicals, manuscripts, videos, etc.

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Summary and analysis of World Trade Organization reports and arbitrations

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Up-to-date bibliographic information and research in political science, including international relations, law, and public policy. Covers over 1000 international journals.

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162 online reference resources from numerous publishers. Includes business dictionaries, language and bilingual dictionaries, quotation books, and resources for history, law, social sciences, science, technology, and the arts.