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Article Databases and Indexes
Academic or Scholarly Articles Subject Indexes
| ADT: Australasian Digital Theses Program The aim of the ADT program is to establish a distributed database of digital versions of theses produced by the postgraduate research students at Australian universities.
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Africa-Wide Information    A compilation of databases covering African studies, including among others, the Index to South African Periodicals and South African National Bibliograpy. Contains data previously covered by "South African studies" and "African studies" databases
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| Aluka An international, collaborative initiative building an online digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. The Aluka website includes a wide variety of high-quality scholarly materials contributed by Aluka’s partners, ranging from archival documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant specimens, photographs, and slides.
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| Bibliography of Asian Studies References principally western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971 - broad, but not comprehensive.
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| China Academic Journals Full-Text 中国学术期刊网 China: Tsinghua Tong Fang, (Tsinghua University)
Index over 18 million journal article titles from over 5800 academic journals published in China since 1994; Select the Education section.
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| Digital Dissertations (online) Coverage:
1861 - present (Doctoral dissertations) 1962 - present (Masters theses). Description: Dissertations and theses from over 1000 universities. Doctoral dissertations are indexed for almost all North American graduate schools and many European universities. Masters theses from selected schools only. Provides bibliographic citations for older titles. Abstracts are included for dissertations since 1980 and for masters theses since 1988.
Some dissertations, beginning with 1997 publication dates, are available digitally.
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| Index Islamicus (online) Index Islamicus indexes worldwide literature in European languages on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Periodicals devoted solely to the fields of Islam are indexed completely. Other journals are indexed only for articles on Islamic subjects.
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| JSTOR Full text of academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR provides complete journal backruns from the date of initial publication. Note: It does NOT include the most recent 2 to 5 years.
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| Latin American Periodicals Table of Contents (LAPTOC) Includes articles from more than 800 Latin Ameri-
can journals included in the ARL Latin American Research Re-
sources Project. It allows for article searches by keyword, title,
author, and journal; and ILL requests
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| Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Complete coverage is also given to various fields of linguistics including descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
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| PAIS International Use this index for broad coverage of social science issues worldwide. Includes articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and book chapters.
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Catalogs & Indexes to Government Publications
| U.S. Department of State - Countries and Regions Home of the State Department's country-specific information on the web, this page links to lists of many kinds, such as country names and diplomatic lists, as well as Department authored reports.
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| UNdata This database provides international statistics on all major social and economic subjects. It replaces the older database "UN Common Database" which will be discontinued in mid-2008.
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| UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization The main objective of UNESCO is to contribute to peace and security in the world by promoting collaboration among nations through education, science, culture and communication.
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Catalogs and Bibliographies
Catalogs
| Center for Research Libraries CRL holds over four million newspapers, journals, dissertations, archives, government publications and other traditional and digital resources for research and teaching. Holdings include such diverse materials as 800,000 doctoral dissertations (including those of Albert Einstein, Dag Hammarskjold and other Nobel laureates), some of the earliest African-American newspapers and the 100,000-plus-page archive of Cambodia's Khmer Rouge security force. Emphasis is on materials produced outside the United States, and the Center has special strength in publications and archives from many developing nations. Detailed information on areas of the CRL collection is available from http://www.crl.edu/content.asp?l1=5&l2=23
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General Reference Sources
Country Studies
| World Factbook Published annually, this brief guide profiles the economy, government, land, demographics, communications, and national defense establishments of 191 nations and other political entities.
Prior years may be accessed via the guide World Factbook.
Tables of data items in each country's profile can be viewed from the Notes and Definitions link. Click on the term being defined and a table for all countries will appear.
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Periodical and Newspaper subscriptions
News Sources
| PressDisplay Full-page digital archive updated daily with current news from 650 national and international newspapers. PressDisplay is a rolling 90-day archive. Newspapers are color reproductions with photographs with some featuring translation and audio.
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| World News Connection Full-text summaries of foreign newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports. Formerly published as FBIS and JPRS Reports.
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Societies, Agencies, and Organizations
Official Agency & Organization Websites
| African Studies Internet Resources From Columbia University Libraries. Note section "African Studies Resources by Region & Country". (Some resources will be available only to those at Columbia University).
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| American Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers (AACRAO) "A non-profit, voluntary association of more than 9,000 admissions and registrar professionals representing approximately 2,300 institutions in more than 35 countries"
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| CERC Comparative Education Research Centre, University of Hong Kong [ more information ][ Add To myLibrary!] |
| Europa World of Learning: The International Guide to the Academic World For users seeking a quick, easy-to-use, one-stop source for information on academic institutions located around the world.
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| Institute of International Education: Atlas of International Student Mobility "Project Atlas tracks migration trends of the millions of students who pursue education outside of their home countries each year."
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| Inter-American Development Bank Information on the Bank and the region that it serves. It contains a database of basic socio-economic indicators for the 26 member countries eligible to borrow from the Bank.
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| International Association of Universities "IAU, founded in 1950, is the UNESCO-based world-wide association of universities."
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| NAFSA: Association of International Educators "NAFSA: Association of International Educators promotes the exchange of students and scholars to and from the United States. Our members share a belief that international educational exchange advances learning and scholarship, builds respect among different peoples and encourages constructive leadership in a global community."
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| Observatory on borderless higher education The Observatory was established in 2002 in response to the growing prevalence of cross-border developments in the higher education arena, and their significance for education leaders and policy-makers. By identifying emerging trends and analysing ‘best practice’ in policy, assessment and quality assurance frameworks, The Observatory strives to separate the ‘hype’ from reality by conducting high-level research and disseminating it to higher education policy-makers and leaders.
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| OECD - Organisation For Economic Co-operation And Development - Education Page This is the OECD's main education page. It includes links to statistics, country profiles and publications and reports on education.
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| OECD Washington Center This is the home page for the OECD Washington Center. The OECD Washington Center was set up in 1966 to market the publications of the OECD in the United States and to serve as an information center for the U.S. market. The Center is engaged in public outreach activities and acts as a liaison office to the US legislative and executive branches.
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| Open Doors Data and other types of information regarding international students studying in the US, and US students studying abroad.
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| SEAMEO: Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Timor-Leste, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, "The Southeast Asian Ministers of Education Organization (SEAMEO) was established on 30 November 1965 as a chartered international organisation whose purpose is to promote cooperation in education, science and culture in the Southeast Asian region".
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| World Bank Group: Topics and Sectors This is the home site for World Bank development projects. It's organized around broad topics such as debt relief and social development
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Statistics and Data
Statistical Resources
| HESA: Higher Education Statistics Agency The Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA) is "the central source for higher education statistics" for the United Kingdom".
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| International Education Statistics Websites Links to international sites with data, arranged by country.
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University of Minnesota
Related U of M Web Sites
| East Asian Library Web Page The East Asian Library contains books and periodicals in Chinese, Japanese and Korean languages.
-- In addition to library information, this site includes links to selected journals and Internet Resources.
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Library Information
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