African & Middle East Studies
ABZU : Guide To Resources For The Study Of the Ancient Near East
Searchable site providing access to the increasing amount of data on the web dealing with the ancient cultures of Egypt, Mesopotamia and other lands of the region.
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Africa Research Central : a Clearinghouse of African Primary Sources
Gateway to the archives, libraries, and museums with important collections of African primary sources.
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Africa South of the Sahara
An annotated guide to resources on the internet focusing on all aspects of Africa.
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Africa-Wide NiPAD 
Incorporating South African Studies and African Studies, Africa-Wide NiPAD contains over 2 million records with full-text links on all aspects of Africa.
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African Development Bank
Provides economic analysis and reviews of political and social developments in African countries.
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African Index Medicus
International index to African health literature and information sources.
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African Journals Online
AJOL is a database of African-published journals, publishing in a range of academic disciplines.
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African Studies Abstracts
Provides an overview of articles from leading journals and edited works on Africa in the field of the social sciences and the humanities available in the library of the African Studies Centre in Leiden.
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Africana Digitization Project
A project at the University of Wisconsin offering free access to searchable online copies of published sources for West African history, with a focus on the Atlantic Slave Trade era.
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AllAfrica
Contains the full text of over 1000 stories daily in English and French from over 125 African news organizations.
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AMED Links to Countries, Regions, and Languages
Provides links to research resources that include a country's political, economic, social, and national security systems.
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Anthropology Plus
Contains index to articles and essays in over 5,000 sources published in English and other European languages on anthropology and archaeology, including art history, demography, economics, ethnology, material culture, psychology, religious studies and sociocultural anthropology.
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Archaeological Settlements of Turkey Database
The TAY Project database provides a central inventory documenting all archaeological sites within Turkey.
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Bibliography of The Hebrew Book
Includes over 120,000 titles and 13,500 authors covering 500 years of books published in the Hebrew language.
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Columbia International Affairs Online
CIAO contains theory and research on policy issues and current events in international affairs.
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Compact Memory
Internetarchiv jüdischer Periodika is a digital collection of some of the most important German-language Jewish periodicals of the 19th and first half of the 20th centuries.
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Constitutions of the Countries of the World (Use "Connect via IP Access")
Contains the full text of constitutions from over 190 countries, including English translations and introductory and comparative notes that review recent amendments and provide historical, economic, and political information.
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Cooperative African Newspapers Project
The African Newspapers Union List (AFRINUL) Project is designed to create an electronic database of holdings information for newspapers (all formats and all languages) published in sub-Saharan Africa.
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Country Studies
Prepared by the Library of Congress Federal Research Division, these studies describe and analyze the political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions for over 100 countries and regions.
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Deutsche Bibliothek
Contains records of monographs, periodicals, microforms, dissertations, visual materials, maps, printed and recorded music, and electronic publications from the National Library of Germany.
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Directory of African NGOs
The directory of African NGO's (non-governmental organizations) gives general information, including the name of the organization, the year of creation, the type of organization, the contact person and address.
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EIU City Data
Contains global price levels covering over 330 cost of living prices for 140 cities worldwide from 1990 to the present.
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EIU Country Data
Contains annual, quarterly and monthly economic indicators and forecasts covering 150 countries and 45 regions.
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EIU Country Profiles
Provides background and historical context of current economic and political events for over 200 countries provided by the Economist Intelligence Unit.
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EIU Market Indicators & Forecasts
Provides in-depth coverage of 60 key markets worldwide and includes more than 400 different variables per country to help gauge international demand for products and services.
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Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative
An online catalog of research findings and other shared resources, the
Electronic Cultural Atlas Initiative was formed to encourage the sharing of data among researchers who emphasize the relationships between place, time and topic in the study of culture and history.
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Electronic Text Corpus of Sumerian Literature
Comprises Sumerian text, English prose translation and bibliographical information for each composition.
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Encyclopaedia Judaica
Encyclopaedia Judaica, 2nd edition, features Jewish history and life in all eras, culture, holidays, language, scripture, and religious teachings.
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Encyclopaedia of Islam
Online Version of Brill's 11 volume Encyclopaedia of Islam, 2nd Edition, containing more than 13,000 articles on every aspect of Islamic civilization and culture, from 'Abābda to Zurna.
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Europa World
Online version of the Europa World Year Book (published since 1975).
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FRANCIS
The International Humanities and Social Studies database covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (67%), social sciences (30%), and economics (3%).
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GBV Online
GBV includes the International Bibliography of Periodical Literature covering all subject areas from around the world in German, French and English.
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German Exile Press 1933-1945
Contains journals from the holdings of the German Exile Archive in Frankfurt/Main and from the collection of the Exile Literature, Leipzig during the NAZI era.
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Global Gateway: World Culture and Resources
A list of links, databases, and resources which provide an entry point to the scale and depth of the international collections held by the Library of Congress.
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Global Legal Information Network
GLIN is a database of laws, regulations, and other complementary legal sources covering international law.
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Humanities E-Book
ACLS Humanities E-Book Project contains hundreds of full text works of major importance in history, area studies, and the humanities.
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Index Islamicus
Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere (including the Arabs in Spain).
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Index to Hebrew Periodicals
The Index to Hebrew Periodicals includes only Hebrew material, except for Hebrew reviews of books in other languages.
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Index to Jewish Periodicals
Index to Jewish Periodicals provides a comprehensive guide to English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories in more than 160 journals devoted to Jewish affairs.
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International Country Risk Guide (select LOGIN to search)
The International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) rating comprises 22 variables in three subcategories of risk: political, financial, and economic.
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International Directory of African Studies Scholars
IDASS is an updated international directory containing records of individuals who have identified themselves as being involved in any aspect of African Studies.
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Islamic Finance Information Service
IFIS contains detailed information on Islamic finance markets and securities providing top news, company information, financial markets data, research reports, legal and current affairs, deal details and league tables and Sharia rulings.
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ISS Database
Contains the full text of African-related documents produced by international and regional organizaions.
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Jewish Data Database
The database contains more than 170,000 records about Jewish history and genealogy.
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JewishEncyclopedia.com
Contains the complete contents of the 12-volume Jewish Encyclopedia, which was originally published between 1901-1906.
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Middle East Media Research Institute TV Monitoring Project
MEMRI's TV monitoring center focuses on political, cultural, religious, and other developments and debates in the Arab and Muslim world and in Iran.
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Middle East Review of International Affairs
Contains the full text of the MERIA Journal, a quarterly refereed academic journal on Middle East issues.
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Middle East Virtual Library
MENALIB is an information portal for Middle East and Islamic Studies providing access to online information and to digital records of printed and other offline media.
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Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies
MECAS is a bibliographic index of research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa.
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NewspaperDirect PressDisplay
Library PressDisplay provides online access to today's newspapers from around the world in full-color, full-page format.
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Newspapers via ProQuest
Full text of 300+ United States and international news sources.
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OACIS for the Middle East
OACIS for the Middle East (Online Access to Consolidated Information on Serials) is a union list of serials from or about the Middle East maintained by Yale University.
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PAIS
Chronicling global public policy and social issues, the Public Affairs Information Service provides access to over 3,600 periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, Internet resources, and other publications from 120 countries.
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PAIS Archive
Retrospective database chronicling global public policy and social issues from the early twentieth century through the mid-1970s.
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Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature
Index of over 300 selected periodicals (mostly scholarly) which are acquired regularly by the Library of Congress from 29 African countries.
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RAMBI: Index to Articles on Jewish Studies
Selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel.
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ReferenceUSA International Businesses
Reference USA OneSource International Business contains in-depth company profiles on 3 million international companies, including key executives and detailed financial information.
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Responsa Project (Select Login)
The Global Jewish Database (the Responsa Project) ia an electronic collection of Jewish texts in Hebrew, embodying thousands of years of Jewish learning and rabbinical literature.
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SourceOECD
Contains the full text of all Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) studies and reports from both serial and monographic publications, as well as time series databases.
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Southern African Freedom Struggles 1950-1994
Contains fully searchable text from 40 journal titles, bringing together selected resource on the socio – political history of South Africa during the last half of the 20th century.
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Treaties and International Agreements (Select: Connect via IP Access)
TIARA contains accurate versions of over 11,500 treaties and international agreements.
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World News Connection
Full-text summaries and translations of international newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals, non-classified technical reports and local media sources from the Foreign Broadcast information Service (FBIS).
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
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.
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Yizkor Book Database
Database containing over 1,000 English translations of texts of Yizkor books (memorial books) of Jewish communities in Eastern and Central Europe destroyed in the Holocaust.
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