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As America transitioned from the Jim Crow era to the Civil Rights movement and beyond, the rest of the world paid close attention. In addition to providing unique viewpoints on Americas fight for racial justice, this collection also offers rare insight into race relations in Latin America, Europe, Africa and Asia.
Provides access to authoritative, analytic reviews of developments in the natural and social sciences. Includes all back volumes published from 1932-2009 and selected current volumes.
Provides full-text access to high-impact research journals in the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.
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Conducted every five years, the Census provides a detailed picture of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them. It is the only source of uniform, comprehensive agricultural data for every state and county in the United States.
Indexes more than 600,000 bibliographic citations from Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.
From the end of World War II to the early 1990s, the Cold War was the central driving force in global politics. In addition to nuclear arms races and shifting military alliances, the Cold War years had a critical impact on many of todays most intriguing research topics, from technology to terrorism, immigration to international politics. The Cold War: Global Perspectives on East-West Tensions, 1945-1991 brings together primary source documents from around the world to shed new light on this crucial period in world history.
Search or browse from nearly 600 encyclopedias, dictionaries, and reference titles in a broad array of subject areas.
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Features more than 10,000 journals in the physical sciences, social sciences, engineering, fine arts and the humanities.
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Searches across numerous publishers and institutional sources for reports, dissertations and theses, and scholarly publications. Using this link will indicate which Google Scholar results are available in full-text through UNK databases or other free/open-access sources.
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Indexes hundreds of journals, magazines, and other sources covering global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
Access to science journals, including Nature and Scientific American.
An index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.
An index of conference proceedings worldwide.
Full-text access to 2 million dissertations and theses published in North America and Europe, with searchable citations to 3.8 million works published since 1861. This database is the online counterpart to the print editions of Dissertations Abstracts International.

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Access to hundreds of full-text journals in aeronautics, astrophysics, aviation, biology, chemistry, computer technology, geology, and physics.
Revived in 2013 by ProQuest, this database provides a compilation of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Sources of data include the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and many other Federal agencies and private organizations.
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Provides free and open access to a comprehensive set of data about development in countries around the globe, including statistics on economics, education, environmental, gender, health, nutrition, and population topics.
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Published by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for over 250 world entities.

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