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ABZU from ETANA
Networked guide to open access information on the Ancient Near East and Mediterranean world.

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ETANA = Electronic Tools and Ancient Near East Archives. A collaborative online publishing project begun in August 2000.

Historical Abstracts from EBSCO
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The standard indexing service for academic historical writings on all areas of the world, except the United States and Canada. Covers items published from 1972 to present.
International Medieval Bibliography from University of Leeds
Index of articles, reviews, and notes on medieval studies. A comprehensive, standard source. 1967-2003.

Using familiar, multilingual terminology defined by professional medievalists for medievalists, this database employs 120,000 index terms classified into six types (subjects, persons, texts, places, manuscripts, etc.). Covers publications in over 30 languages. Relevant to Classics, English language and literature, History and archaeology, Theology, Philosophy, Medieval European languages and literatures, Arabic and Islamic studies, Art history, etc.. Coverage begins in 1967.
JSTOR from JSTOR
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Broad collection of full-text scholarly journals (approximately 2700 titles). Discipline coverage uneven and usually does not include the most-recent three years.
Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies from EBSCO
Index of primarily academic research on the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa, covering 1900 to the present. Contains some full-text.
PAIS Index from ProQuest
Search for a wide range of documents related to current events, public policy, and social sciences. 1972 to present.

Indexes books, pamphlets, and publications of the U.S. government and of international organizations, in addition to selected articles in 1400 periodicals.

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Border and Migration Studies from Alexander Street Press
Historical background on thirty plus worldwide border areas, including: U.S. and Mexico; the European Union; Afghanistan; Israel; Turkey; The Congo; Argentina; China; Thailand; and others.
Empire Online from Adam Matthew
Full-text digital reproductions of primary documents relating to the British Empire. 1492-1969.

Documents are organized under five themes: Cultural Contacts, c. 1492-1969; Empire Writing & the Literature of Empire; the Visible Empire; Religion & Empire; and Race, Class & Colonialism, c. 1783-1969.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports from Newsbank
Online full-text translations of foreign-language documents from around the world used by U.S. government agencies in their intelligence work. 1941-1996.

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