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Assassinations and Executions Reference REF HV6278 .L45 2002

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Almanac of American Politics REF JK1012 .A44 Latest ed.

America Votes: A Handbook of Contemporary American Election Statistics. REF JK1967.A5

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CIAO

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A comprehensive resource for theory and research in International Affairs. Includes conference proceedings, maps and country data, policy briefs, working papers, journals, books, schedule of events and economic indicators. Includes the online edition of the CIA World Factbook.

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CQ Researcher

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CQ Researcher provides unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the economy. Reports are published weekly in print and online 44 times a year by CQ Press, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc.

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CQ Weekly

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1983+ - CQ Weekly is the largest news team on Capital Hill and it covers virtually every act of Congress, delivering nonpartisan news and analysis unavailable anywhere else. Reports are published weekly by CQ Press, a division of Congressional Quarterly Inc.

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CSA Social Sciences

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Provides access to these databases: EconLit, ERIC, National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts, Physical Education Index, PsycInfo, Sociological Abstracts and other databases are included.

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NCJRS Abstracts

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Contains summaries of more than 185,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.

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Lexis Nexis Congressional

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Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information from Congressional Information Service, Inc.

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Social Science Citation Index

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2001+. A multidisciplinary database of citations and abstracts from journal literature. It can be used as a conventional author-subject index, or it can be searched by cited author or paper. It covers an extremely large amount of social sciences literature including most social sciences disciplines. Older paper volumes, 1973-1976, 1985-1996, are shelved on the library's main floor in the abstracts area (016.3.So13) Access this CD-ROM database via a specific workstation in the reference area of the library. For more information, contact a reference librarian at: (605)688-5570 or stop by the library information desk for more information.

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Multi-Disciplinary Databases

Current Contents

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Covers Agriculture, Biology, and Environmental Sciences, Arts & Humanities, Clinical Medicine, Engineering, Computing & Technology, Life Sciences, Physical, Chemical and Earth Sciences, Social & Behavioral Sciences. Contains the tables of contents and abstracts of articles from thousands of journals.

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EBSCOhost

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This system of multiple databases covers a broad array of disciplines and topics. Many full-text articles are available via the system.

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JSTOR

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Provides electronic full text/image access to the back issues of more than 300 scholarly journals in many fields.

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Lexis Nexis Academic

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This database provides online access to full-text federal, state and international legal materials, as well as full-text and bibliographic information from newspapers, news and business magazines, newsletters, wire services, broadcast transcripts, and biographical sources. Includes many international news sources.

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MarciveWeb Docs

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Provides citations to United States government publications from July 1976 to the present.

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Project MUSE

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ProQuest

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This resource provides access to several different bibliographic and full-text databases covering a wide variety of disciplines and topics, including the humanities, international studies, law, multiculturalism and the social sciences.

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