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Multi-disciplinary article databases
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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Search for journal articles on most topics. This multi-disciplinary database is a good place to start if you don't know where else to begin. (EBSCO)
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ProQuest (All Databases) This link opens in a new windowSelect a subset of ProQuest databases to cross-search them at once. (ProQuest)
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Search for journal articles on topics in the arts, humanities, social sciences and some math/science. Most journals have volumes/issues dating from the 19th century to within 3-5 years of present day. (ITHAKA)
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Project Muse This link opens in a new window
Search for journal articles on topics related to the arts, humanities, and social sciences. (Project MUSE)
Subject databases
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Military & Government Collection This link opens in a new windowSearch for journal articles on topics related to the military and government. (EBSCO)
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Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new windowSearch for journal articles, dissertations books, book chapters, and conference papers on sociology and related topics in social and behavioral sciences. (ProQuest)
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SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new windowSearch for articles from journals specializing in sociology and related topics, including abortion, criminal justice, demography, ethnic and racial studies, gender studies, marriage and family, political sociology, religion, rural and urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, substance abuse and other addictions, violence, and more. (EBSCO)
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Social Science Research Network (SSRN) This link opens in a new window
Use the database in two ways: 1) Search the open access database for working papers that are posted here before being published in an official journal. 2) Request an account to specific networks by emailing Carrie Ludovico. These networks provide access to articles from subscription journals on specific topics. UR has access to the Accounting Research Network, Corporate Governance Research Network, Economics Research Network, Entrepreneurship Research and Policy Network, Financial Economics Network, Information Systems & eBusiness Network, Innovation Research Network, Management Research Network, and Social Insurance Research Network. (Elsevier)
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Political Science Complete This link opens in a new windowSearch for journal articles on topics related to political science, political theory, political behavior, public policy, law, international relations, comparative politics, and non-governmental organizations. (EBSCO)
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EconLit This link opens in a new window
Search for journal articles in all fields of economics, including the American Economic Association journals, working papers, and many non-English journals in economics and finance. (ProQuest)
SOC 315: Making America's War (Payne)
Books
U Military Science
UA Armies: Organization, distribution, military situation
UB Military administration
UC Maintenance and transportation
UD Infantry
UE Cavalry, armor
UF Artillery
UG Military engineering, air forces
UH Other services
D World History
D25-27 Military and naval history
D51-90 Ancient history
D111-203 Medieval history
D204-475 Modern history (1453-)
D251-271 Thirty Years' War, 1618-1648
D274.5-6 Anglo-French War, 1666-1667
See here for much more
E-F History of the Americas
E11-143 America
E151-909 United States
E181-182 Military history, naval history
F1-975 United States local history
F1001-1145.2 British America (incl. Canada)
F1170 French America
F1201-3799 Latin America, Spanish America
More here
Reference sources
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Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Search for literature reviews that capture current understandings of topics, including what is well-supported and what is controversial. These articles also set the topic in historical context, highlight the direction of future research, and outline the general significance of the research to society. Subjects are wide-ranging from the science to law to social sciences to politics. (Annual Reviews)
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Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowAccess CRS reports from 2004-present. (Please note the menu in the database itself does not accurately list the years we have purchased.) These reports were established within the Library of Congress to provide members, committees, and congressional staff with nonpartisan, objective research and analysis on all public policy issues. (ProQuest)
Grey literature resources
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Policy Commons This link opens in a new window
Search this database of grey literature that includes millions of reports, blogs, papers, and podcasts from thousands of think tanks, IGOs, NGOs, research agencies, cities, and governments. (Coherent Digital)
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Policy File Index This link opens in a new windowSearch for information on public policy issues from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers, including the Hoover Institution, International Monetary Fund, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, RAND Corporation, and the World Bank. (ProQuest)
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Policy ArchiveComprehensive digital library of public policy research containing over 30,000 documents.
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Congressional (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowSearch for Congressional hearings, reports, testimony, bills, laws, and regulations from the first Congress to the current Congress. (ProQuest)
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CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online This link opens in a new windowSearch for ebooks, journal articles, policy briefs, reports, and case studies on topics related to international politics and policy. The content is written by scholars, research institutes, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and think-tanks. (Columbia University Press)
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United Nations Digital Library (UNDL) This link opens in a new window
Access official UN documents and selected UN maps, as well as speech and voting records. (United Nations)
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World Bank Documents and Reports This link opens in a new window
Search for reports and working papers published by the World Bank on international and country-specific economic, development, and environmental issues. (World Bank)
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Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports (ProQuest) This link opens in a new windowAccess CRS reports from 2004-present. (Please note the menu in the database itself does not accurately list the years we have purchased.) These reports were established within the Library of Congress to provide members, committees, and congressional staff with nonpartisan, objective research and analysis on all public policy issues. (ProQuest)
Think tank lists and information
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Think Tank SearchA Google Custom Search of more than 1,200 think tanks and research centers. Hosted and maintained by Harvard Kennedy School.
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Think Tanks & Policy InstitutesComprehensive list and partisan classification of think tanks and policy organizations.
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U.S. Think TanksAlphabetical listing of think tanks operating in the United States. Hosted and maintained by Harvard Kennedy School.
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Open Think Tank DirectoryGlobal collection of think tanks and related organizations. Hosted by On Think Tanks (OTT), which is a program funded by the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation, the Robert Bosch Stiftung Foundation, and the Open Society Foundations.
Primary sources
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Civil War: Antebellum Period to Reconstruction This link opens in a new window
Search a wide variety of primary source documents from the Civil War period, including newspapers, Congressional documents, broadsides and ephemera. (Newsbank/Readex)
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Cold War Intelligence: The Secret War Between the U.S. and the USSR, 1945-1991 This link opens in a new windowAccess this database to find formerly classified documents (most at Top Secret level) that showcase the successes and failures of the U.S. intelligence community in its efforts to spy on the Soviet Union during the Cold War. (Brill)
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Political Extremism and Radicalism This link opens in a new windowSearch primary sources on peripheral groups deemed "extreme" or "radical" by contemporaries on both the right and the left from the early 1900s to the present. Find sources on anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, anti-war, communist or socialist, creationist, environmentalist, hate, holocaust denial, new left, survivalist, and white supremacist/nationalist groups. Most materials come from the US and Great Britain, but a few are from Australia and other countries in Europe. (Gale)
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Refugees, Relief, and Resettlement: Forced Migration and World War II This link opens in a new window
Search for primary source documents on plight of refugees and displaced persons across Europe, North Africa, and Asia from 1935 to 1950. Documentation offers a record of the response of governments to various crises and shifts in policy; a chronicling of the aid work undertaken by NGOs and charities seeking to provide relief and aid in resettlement; and a recognition through individual narratives of the daily reality of the refugee experience. (Gale)
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Women, War and Society, 1914-1918 This link opens in a new window
Search for primary source documents that illuminate the broad scope of British women's activities during World War I. The database includes materials from the Imperial War Museum in London, such as charity and international relief reports, pamphlets, photographs, press cuttings, magazines, posters, correspondence, minutes, records, diaries, memoranda, statistics, circulars, regulations and invitations, and interpretative essays from leading scholars. (Gale)