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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.

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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.

Indexes more than 650 journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study; includes full text for 500 journals.

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.
Includes the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts and some full-text coverage of scholarly journals in criminal justice, law enforcement, and related fields.
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Features more than 10,000 journals in the physical sciences, social sciences, engineering, fine arts and the humanities.
An ebook collection of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference sources covering multiple subject disciplines.
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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.
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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Provides free online access to digitized historical documents, photographs, sound recordings, moving pictures, books, pamphlets, maps, and other resources from the Library of Congresss vast holdings.
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Freely available through the U.S. Department of Justice. Contains thousands of summaries of important law enforcement and criminal justice publications including books, government reports, research reports, journals, and unpublished research.
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Crime statistics as reported to Nebraska law enforcement agencies.
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An index of papers presented at conferences worldwide.
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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.

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

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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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The Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program provides data compiled from nearly 17,000 law enforcement agencies across the United States.
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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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