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IBFD Portal to Cross-Border Tax InformationON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD) portal to comparative tax research, international tax information and business practices.


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IC Master
IC Master is a source of integrated circuits and miniature electronic equipment product information. Search by keyword or part, or browse by logo or manufacturer. The database provides complete contact information and Web site links.


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ICIS Global Chemical Suppliers Directory
Provides a database of purchasing information for chemicals and chemical services. Search by chemicals, services or suppliers.


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IEEE ConferenceSearch
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers' Conference database includes all meetings run by, or in association with, the IEEE.


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IEEE Standards Online
Index to the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers standards - print copies available in the Library of Congress Technical Reports and Standards Unit.


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IHS Global
Searchable index to technical standards, codes, specifications, Government/Military standards and specifications, and related documents.


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IKAR - Printed Maps before 1850
Contains bibliographic records of printed thematic and topographic maps, navigational and celestial charts, town plans, bird´s-eye views, globes, and atlases up to 1850 (worldwide coverage), as well as facsimiles, reprints and digital forms of these maps.


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ILOLEX - Database of International Labour Standards
Full-text database of ILO conventions and recommendations, ratification information, comments of the Committee of Experts and the Committee on Freedom of Association, discussions of the Conference Committee, representations, complaints, General Surveys, and numerous related documents.


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IMF Direction of Trade Statistics
The Direction of Trade Statistics (DOTS) database presents figures on the value of merchandise exports and imports by trade partners as well as area and world aggregates showing trade flows between major areas of the world.


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In Motion: The African-American Migration Experience
AAME presents more than 16,500 pages of texts, 8,300 illustrations, and 60 maps on the history of African-American migration.


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In the First Person
Index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories.


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IncyWincy
This invisible web search engine quickly locates technical reports and other gray literature.


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Index deutschsprachiger Zeitschriften 1750-1815
Collection of major primary source periodical literature of the German Enlightenment (1750-1815), covering all subjects.


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Index Herbariorum
Index Herbariorum is a detailed directory of 3000+ public herbaria of the world and the 8800+ staff and plant specialists associated with them.


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Index IslamicusON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
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 American Botanical Literature
The Index contains entries dealing with various aspects of extant and fossil American plants and fungi, including systematics and floristics, morphology, and ecology, as well as economic botany and general botany (publications dealing with botanists, herbaria, etc.


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Index to Current Urban DocumentsON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
ICUD contains reports and research generated by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies from more than 500 major cities in the United States and Canada.


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Index to Foreign Legal PeriodicalsON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
A multilingual subject index to legal articles and book reviews published in over 550 sources worldwide.


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Index to Hebrew PeriodicalsON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
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 PeriodicalsON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
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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Index to Nineteenth-Century American Art PeriodicalsON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Index to 42 art journals published in the United States during the 19th century covering articles, art notes, illustrations, stories, poems, and advertisements.


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Index to Printed Music : Collections & SeriesON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Use the Index to Printed Music to find individual pieces of music printed in standard scholarly editions.


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Index to ThesesON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Contains a comprehensive listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716.


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Index to Translations
Translations Index is a tool for identifying translations of scientific publications covering physics and related areas such as chemical physics, geophysics, and mathematics.


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Index Translationum
The Index Translationum, maintained by UNESCO, is an international bibliography of books translated in the world.


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IndexCat
The Index-Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General’s Office (Index-Catalogue) is a bibliography for materials covering the history of medicine, history of science, and clinical research.


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Indian Affairs : Laws and Treaties
Full text of documents dealing with the legal status and laws, government relations, and treaties of North American Indians. Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler.


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Indice de Hispania Sacra
Index to articles on church history and the history of the Catholic Church in Spain published in the periodical Hispania sacra (Madrid). Material is searchable by author, title, and keyword.


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Indice de la Revista de Indias
Index to the periodical Revista de Indias, published in Madrid since 1940. Material is searchable by author, title, and keyword.


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Indice de la revista Hispania
Index to the periodical Hispania, published in Madrid since 1940. Material is searchable by author, title and keyword.


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Info.com
From one search query, info com provides results from 14 search engines and pay-per-click directories, including Google, AltaVista, Looksmart, Fast, Overture, Inktomi, Yahoo! and Ask Jeeves.


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Infomine
Cooperatively built virtual library of both free and subscription academic and scholarly internet resources.


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Information Science & Technology AbstractsON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides references and abstracts from more than 450 publications covering the world's literature in librarianship, information science and related disciplines.


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InformaworldON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Multidisciplinary database hosting journals, eBooks, abstract databases and reference works published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, Psychology Press and Informa Healthcare.


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Informedesign
Database of articles for design and human behavior research from over 100 refereed journals.


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InfoTech TrendsON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides market data on computers, peripherals, software, storage, the Internet, and communications equipment.


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Ingenious
Ingenious: The NMSI NOF-digitise website, contains over 30,000 images which are used to illustrate over 30 different subjects, topics and debates to provide insights into the relationship between science and contemporary culture.


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IngentaON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Provides citations, brief abstracts, tables of contents, and some full text to articles in over 28,000 publications.


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INIST-CNRS : ArticleSciences
Search for technical reports, grey literature, books, articles and other related sources identified by the French scientific and technical information center. Provided by the Institut de l' Information Scientifique et Technique (INIST) in France.


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Insect and Spider Collections of the World
This web site is the clearing house of information on the insect and spider collections of the world.


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INSEE
Economic, census, and demographic statisical data for France gathered by the Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economiques.


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INSPECON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Includes abstracts and index terms for over 6 million articles published worldwide in all fields of physics, electrical engineering and electronics, computing and information technology.


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Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD)
Full text of articles and books concerning developing countries published or funded by OSTROM / IRD.


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Institute for Transnational Law Foreign Law Translations
English translations of French, German, Italian, Austrian and Israeli legal materials in the fields of constitutional, administrative, contract and tort law.


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Integrated Risk Information System
IRIS is an Evironmental Protection Agency (EPA) database of human health effects that may result from exposure to various substances found in the environment.


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Intellectual Property Digital Library Database
Provides access to intellectual property data, including patents and trademarks, hosted by the World Intellectual Property Organization.


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International Atomic Energy Agency
Search IAEA publications in the field of nuclear technologies covering safety, security, and environmental issues.


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International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements Database
IBIDS contains over 722,000 citations on the topic of dietary supplements.


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International Bibliography of Book Reviews ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
IBR contains over 990,000 entries about book reviews from over 6 thousand academic journals mainly in the Humanities and Social Sciences.


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International Bibliography of Periodical LiteratureON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
IBZ contains over 2 million journal articles from 11,000 journals covering all subject areas from around the world in German, French and English.


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International Country Risk Guide (select LOGIN to search)ON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The International Country Risk Guide (ICRG) rating comprises 22 variables in three subcategories of risk: political, financial, and economic.


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International Data Base : World Statistics
The IDB provides quick access to demographic and socio-economic statistics for 227 countries.


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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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International Dunhuang Project
IDP contains information and images of more than 100,000 manuscripts, paintings, textiles and artefacts from Dunhuang and other Silk Road sites.


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International Field Guides
Index to field guides used for visual identification of both plants and animals.


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International Index to Black PeriodicalsON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
IIBP contains current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers, and newsletters from the United States, Africa, and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of 40 core Black Studies periodicals (1998 forward).


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International Index to Music PeriodicalsON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
IIMP Contains citations to articles in nearly 400 current international music periodicals from over 20 countries; some citations as far back as 1874.


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International Index to the Performing ArtsON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
IIPA covers the arts and entertainment industry, including dance, film, tv, drama, theater, stagecraft, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic and more.


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International Plant Names Index
The International Plant Names Index (IPNI) is a database of the names and associated basic bibliographical details of all seed plants.


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International Relations and Security Network
ISN provides news and current affairs on international relations and security issues.


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International Trade Show & Exhibition Database
The J-messe database provides comprehensive information on trade shows and exhibitions around the world.


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Internet Archive
A digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form.


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Internet Broadway Database
IDBD provides records of productions from the beginnings of New York theatre until today.


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Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy
The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy (IEP) contains a collection of articles about philosophy, arranged alphabetically.


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Internet Library for Librarians
A portal designed for librarians to locate Internet resources related to their profession.


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Internet Public Library
Contains over 20,000 titles that can be searched or browsed by author, title, or Dewey Decimal Classification.


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Internet Resources - Health/Medical
Links to public internet sites in the areas of Health and Medicine.


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Internet Resources for Music, Theater and Dance
Links to public internet sites in the areas of: Performing Arts Libraries and Research Aids; Obituaries and Necrologies; Dance Sites; Theater Sites; Opera and Music Sites.


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Internet Resources in Science and Technology
Links to public internet sites in the areas of: General Resources in Science & Technolgy; Biography; Botany; Gardening; Chemistry; Climate and Weather; Engineering; Environment; Geology; Health and Medical Information; Inventions; Oceanography; Physics; Resources for Teachers; Science Fair Projects; and Zoology.


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Internet Sources on Local History and Genealogy
Links to public internet sites for Catalogs of Genealogical Libraries and Collections and Genealogical, Archival, and Historical Resources.


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Intute
Search for open access resources with original content in a wide range of subject areas.


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Intute: Science, Engineering and Technology
Search engine covering the physical sciences, engineering, computing, geography, mathematics and environmental science.


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Investopedia.com Dictionary
Dictionary of more than 4,500 business terms. Search or browse by category.


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Io-port
Io-Port is a bibliographic database covering literature in the field of Computer Science and Computer Technology containing about 400,000 citations.


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IP.com Prior Art Database
Online index to pre-existing documentation (prior art) that describes an invention.


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IQSS Dataverse Network
Gateway to social science research data collections. Researchers can search across or browse through one of the virtual data sets managed by a variety of academic, private and government institutions. (incl


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Islamic Finance Information ServiceON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
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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ISSN Online DatabaseON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
The ISSN (International Standard Serial Number) is an eight-digit number which identifies periodical publications as such, including electronic serials.


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ITC DataWeb
US International Trade Commission (ITC) Interactive Tariff and Trade database provides international trade statistics and United States tariff data.


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Iter Gateway to the Renaissance and Middle AgesON-SITE ACCESS ONLY
Covers all literature pertaining to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700).


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IUCN Red List of Threatened Species
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species provides taxonomic, conservation status and distribution information on taxa that have been evaluated using the IUCN Red List Categories and Criteria.


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IUPAC Compendium of Chemical Terminology
Collection of terms with authoritative definitions, spanning the whole range of chemistry compiled by the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry. The Compendium is also popularly referred to as the "Gold Book".


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