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Provides citations to literature related to the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Index covers 1,700 journals published since 1964.

The American Enterprise Institute is a public policy think tank dedicated to defending human dignity, expanding human potential, and building a freer and safer world. The work of our scholars and staff advances ideas rooted in our belief in democracy, free enterprise, American strength and global leadership, solidarity with those at the periphery of our society, and a pluralistic, entrepreneurial culture.
Contains biographical works on people from all eras who have influenced and shaped American history and culture.
Search full-page images from 1,500 American journals, magazines and newspapers published from colonial days through the early 20th century.
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.
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A full-text biographical resource, with coverage of more than 700,000 individuals, with links to related full-text articles and images.

Containing publications from the Commission on Civil Rights, legislative histories on landmark legislation, briefs from relevant U.S. Supreme Court cases, and more, this database covers civil rights in the United States as their legal protections and definitions are expanded to cover more and more Americans.
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Indexes more than 600,000 bibliographic citations from Latin American journals in the sciences and humanities.
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Contains short biographies of each member of the U.S. Senate and House, listed by state or district. Also lists officials of the courts, military establishments, foreign diplomats, and other Federal departments and agencies.
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Presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security institutions of countries throughout the world.
Formerly known as CQ Weekly, this publication provides expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering. Includes archives of issues back to October 1983.
Addresses controversial topics in a balanced, unbiased manner, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy.
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.
Access to over 30,000 ebook titles related to education, history, political science, and the fine arts.
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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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The most comprehensive index of unclassified federal publications, including books, reports, studies, serials and maps.
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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.
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Hansard (the Official Report) is the edited verbatim report of proceedings of both the British House of Commons and the House of Lords from 1803-2005.
This database features the complete print series Supreme Court of the U.S. Hearings and Reports on Successful and Unsuccessful Nominations of Supreme Court Justices by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Browse by Justice option allows the user to link directly to relevant content, articles, and bibliography as applicable to each justice!
Provides full access to the Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL), the nation's premier collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management.
Independent Voices is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
Includes over 3 million bibliographic references to journal articles and book chapters from over 100 languages and countries dating back to 1951.
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A digital archive containing the full-text and full-page views of hundreds of journals. JSTOR's Arts & Sciences Archive Collections (1-10) and Life Sciences Archive Collection are available at UNK.
LEXIS NEXIS Academic is now NEXIS UNI

Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
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Provides free online access to digitized historical documents, photographs, sound recordings, moving pictures, books, pamphlets, maps, and other resources from the Library of Congresss vast holdings.
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Search or browse the Nebraska Revised Statutes, State Constitution, and State Uniform Commercial Code.
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Search or browse the Nebraska Rules and Regulations.
LEXIS NEXIS Academic is now NEXIS UNI

Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
NOMOS is the annual yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. The ASPLP was begun in 1955 by Carl Friedrich to bring together a group of political scientists, philosophers and law scholars interested in exploring legal and political philosophy outside of their home disciplines. The main activity of the society is its annual meeting held on a topic chosen in advance by the ASPLP membership, at which three papers—one from each of the participating disciplines—are presented. The society publishes these papers, along with formal commentary and invited additional essays, in the NOMOS volumes.
Examines social issues from a variety of sources: pro and con viewpoint articles; full-text articles from magazines, academic journals, and newspapers; statistics and more.
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An index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.
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Covers over 300 controversial topics, each with a background overview and pro/con arguments.
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An index of conference proceedings worldwide.
Project MUSE offers 300+ journals from 60 scholarly publishers in the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.
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.

Funding for PQDT Global was made possible by the Office of Graduate Studies and Research of the University of Nebraska-Kearney.

This unique resource contains the most current and extensive listing of publications created by presidential advisory bodies. The companion database features not only the bibliographic listing of reports, but also related hearings, scholarly articles, and more!
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Search across a range of ProQuest’s specialist index and full-text social sciences databases, covering subject areas including Politics, Sociology, Education, Linguistics, and Criminal Justice

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Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is an open repository of papers, book chapters, and other published items, including abstracts and 500,000 full-text papers in business, the social sciences, literature, and music.
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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Includes facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent nations, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty.
To help researchers understand these rare but always fascinating historical events, HeinOnline now offers a new collection, U.S. Presidential Impeachment. Organized by the four affected presidents, this collection brings together a variety of documents both contemporaneous and asynchronous to each president's impeachment, presenting both a snapshot of the political climate as each impeachment played out and the long view history has taken of each proceeding.
This database includes complete coverage of the official U.S. Reports bound volumes, as well as preliminary prints, slip opinions, and books and periodicals related to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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The official handbook of the Federal Government, the United States Government Manual provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches.
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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.
This database enables legal scholars to research the constitutional and political development of every country in the world. It includes the current constitution for every country in its original language format and an English translation, as well as substantial constitutional histories for all countries.
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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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