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Academic Search Complete
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Start your search with this interdisciplinary database of journals and magazines with full text available for many. Other Interdisciplinary Databases may also be useful. Specific subject databases are below. Use the drop-down menu above to select other databases by title.
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Business Source Complete
Remote Access
Business Source Enhanced Interface Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts. - Contains active, peer-reviewed, business journals with indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back to 1886. Fulltext is offered for more than 2,000 scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business and much more.
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Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAONet)
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts. - Searchable full text of working papers and other resources in international relations.
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CQ Press Electronic Library
Remote Access
- A federated search of titles from the CQ Political Reference Suite as listed below and the CQ Researcher
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CQ Press Political Reference Suite
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts. - Online access to the fulltext of CQ Press publications: Historic Documents, Politics in America, Political Handbook of the World, Congress and the Nation, and CQ Almanac.
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CQ Researcher
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts. - Produced by Congressional Quarterly Press with coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, environment, technology, and the economy. Each report provides an overview, background, chronology, current situation, statements from opposing positions, and bibliography.
- Gale Virtual Reference Library
Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts. - Search multiple encyclopedias and other reference works with a single search including Encyclopedia of World Cultures, Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations, and Encyclopedia of World Biography.
- Global Road Warrior Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts.- Practical information for business people and travelers about each country in the world
- Google Scholar Remote Access
Access to some full text restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts.- Search for scholarly works from a wide variety of disciplines
- GPO Government Publications Catalog
- Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including congressional reports, hearings, debates, judiciary materials and much more. Consists of records published by the Government Printing Office since July 1976. Also included are documents issued by executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, Office of the President, etc.). A bibliographic citation is included on each record.
- Homeland Security Digital Library
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers.- Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Office of Grants and Training and the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security, the HSDL collection includes homeland security strategy, policy and research documents published by federal, state and local government agencies, international governments and institutions, research institutions, universities, and think tanks.
For off-campus access to HSDL, St.Mary's students and faculty may request individual research accounts directly from the Homeland Digitial Security Library individual access page. Be sure to use your St. Mary's email account when you request your HSDL access.- International Labor Relations Statistics
- International Labor Relations statistical information on the web
- International Relations and Security Network
- Offers a wide range of fulltext materials on international relations, area studies, security and military studies, and human rights.
- International Security Resources
- A compilation of international security resources on the web
- JSTOR Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts.- A respected interdisciplinary database of leading academic journals in full text
- Lexis-Nexis Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts.- Legal codes and cases; company financial information; full text magazine and newspaper articles. Documentation and a source list for the database are available.
- Military and Government Collection Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts.- Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of these sites. The Military & Government Collection provides full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles. Publications covered in this database include Air Force Comptroller, Army Reserve Magazine, Defence Studies, Global Security Review, JFQ: Joint Force Quarterly, Military Technology, National Review, Combat Edge, FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin, Foreign Affairs, Naval Forces, and many more. Additionally, many full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color.
- NationMaster.com
- Compare statistics of many nations.
- OECD StatExtracts
- Complete OECD statistical data for OECD countries and selected non-member countries
- Project Muse Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's computers and computing accounts.- Searchable access to a selection of prestigious journals in the humanities and social sciences. The library's subscription includes fulltext access to a subset of the full collection.
- UNData
- A single entry point for many United Nations statistical databases. Contains official statistics produced by countries and compiled by United Nations data system, as well as estimates and projections. The domains covered are agriculture, employment, education, energy, environment, health, human development, industry, information and communication technology, national accounts, population, refugees, trade and tourism.
- World Bank Data
- Free access to a comprehensive set of statistics and data about development in countries around the globe
- World Development Indicators Data Query
- Free access to a segment of the World Development Indicators database, an extensive collection of data about development: 54 timeseries indicators for 207 countries and 18 groups, spanning 5 years. Choose several ways of displaying the data: index, percentage change, and graphs; export the result in standard formats.
- World History Collection Remote Access
Access restricted to St. Mary's and other TexShare institutions' computers and computing accounts.- Offers a global look at history with content from Africa, Asia, North and South America, Europe and the Middle East. World History Collection contains cover-to-cover full text for nearly 150 titles, including many peer-reviewed journals. Full text dates as far back as 1964.
- Global Road Warrior Remote Access
More International Relations Databases
- Amnesty International Library
- Search or browse the full text of documents from
Amnesty International on human rights abuses in various countries,
etc.
- Arms Trade Revealed: A guide for Investigators and Activists
- Information on arms trading and control
- Avalon Project (Yale University)
- Mounts digital documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government. Search or browse the Federalist Papers, the Nuremburg War Crimes Trial, Inaugual addresses of the Presidents, Colonial Charters and related documents, and hundreds of others from ancient to modern times.
- British Official Publications Collaborative Reader Information Service
- Searchable database of many of the publications of Her Majesty's Stationery Office, the U.K. government printing office. Can also be browsed by subject. Items from 1688-1995.
- Brookings Policy Briefs
- Full text of papers on national and international policies
- Canadian Politics on the Web
- Well organized information and links to Canadian government and politics.
- Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments
- Searchable by country; supplies names without addresses or other information
- CIA Electronic Document Release Center
- Previously classified documents of the CIA are available at this site
- Country Commercial Guides
- From the U.S. State Department, these guides provide information about the business and economic environment of many countries.
- Country Studies
- From the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress, these guides provide "description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world and examines the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors."
- Electronic Research Collection
- A joint venture of the Department of State, the Federal Depository Library Program and the University of Chicago at Illinois Library; select Search to search the documents or browse by subject.
- Encyclopedia of the Orient
- Original articles, photographs, graphics and other information on countries in Northern Africa and the Middle East.
- FAOstat Data
- Searchable data on production, trade, commodity balances, and other agricultural statistics from around the world.
- Fourth World Documentation Project (Center For World Indigenous Studies)
- Search the full texts of over 500 essays, position papers, resolutions, organizational information, treaties, U.N. documents, speeches, and declarations on the Fourth World (nations forcefully incorporated into states which maintain a distinct political culture but are internationally unrecognized).
- Global Gateway: World Culture and Resources (Library of Congress)
- A unified portal to the Library of Congress's digital international collections and resources. Of particular interest is Portals to the World, selective links providing authoritative, in-depth information about the nations and other areas of the world arranged by country.
- Handbook of Latin American Studies Index
- Searchable index to the Handbook of Latin American Studies
(Blume Library/Third Floor/F1408 .H25). The Handbook is a bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars.
- Harvard Institute for International Development
- " Publications on-site include an extensive compilation of Development Discussion Papers (1974-present) with selected full text on agricultural and food policy, education, taxation, economic reform, and environmental issues (1995-present). "
- Human Rights Watch
- News reports and world events in human rights. Includes the Human Rights Watch World Report for 1998 and 1999.
- Inter-American Human Rights Database
- Search or browse " documents in English and Spanish adopted by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights since its first session, celebrated in 1960. "
- International Monetary Fund Publications and Working Papers
- Over 200 full text IMF publications, listed by title, and over 130 full text IMF working papers, in no particular order.
- ISN LASE Search
- Searches and retrieves documents from 150 sites in the field of international relations and security. " ISN is a cooperative project to promote free flow of unclassified information in the fields concerned and to facilitate dialogue and networking within the international security community. "
- Latin America Network Information Center (University of Texas)
- Information on Latin American countries organized by country.
- Legislative Observatory
- Search the legislative dossiers and follow-up of the European Parliament.
- Political Database of the Americas
- Provides documentary and statistical political information on Latin America, including constitutions, electoral laws, legislative and executive branch information and election data
- Population Reference Bureau
- Data on population and other statistics for the U.S. and other countries
- Public Diplomacy Query (USIA)
- A searchable database of full text documents from the US Information Agency on US foreign policy and international issues
- Social Indicators (UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs Statistics Division)
- UN statistics on population, education, child-bearing, human settlements, unemployment, water supply, housing, health, literacy, income and economic activity from most countries.
- Social Indicators of Development (World Bank)
- Search a detailed data collection for assessing human welfare to provide a picture of the social effects of economic development for over 170 economies.
- Statistics & Indicators on the World's Women and Men (UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs Statistics Division)
- provides statistics and indicators on women and men in six specific fields of concern: population, health, work, families, education, and decision-making
- Trends in Developing Economics (World Bank)
- Search for brief reports on most of the World Bank's borrowing countries.
- United Nations CyberSchoolBus
- Site contains many country statistics and includes InfoNation, a database to view and compare the most up-to-date statistical data for the member states of the United Nations; Global Trends, where you can get a visual overview of the world in the form of charts and graphs, on topics such as literacy, population, irrigation, food production, infant mortality, and more; Country at a Glance, which has a brief description of each country; and more.
- United Nations Documentation: Research Guide
- Access to the documents and publications of the United Nations; many online in electronic format
- University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
- A collection of human rights bibliographies and documents from the U.N. and various regional human rights organizations; can be searched by keyword or browsed.
- World Factbook
- The US Central Intelligence Agency supplies this annual series of country information reference books. Data is available for over 250 countries. For each country, map and flag, geographic, population, government, economic, communication, transportation, military, and transnational issue information is provided for the latest year available.
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