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International Studies

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Information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military and transnational issues for most countries.
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Digitized books that provide descriptions and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, and political systems and institutions of 80+ countries. Originally sponsored by the U.S. Army and written by researchers affiliated with the LoC’s Federal Research Division. Coverage: 1986-2015.
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This resource offers annual data for a range of countries and former empires. These data include economic, social and political variables. Coverage: 1815-present.
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Access to significant declassified primary source U.S. government documents central to U.S. history, policy, politics, and international relations since 1945. Each collection contains a diverse range of policy documents including presidential directives, memos, diplomatic dispatches, meeting notes, independent reports, briefing papers, White House communications, email, confidential letters, and other secret material. 

1945-present.

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Contains open access, scholarly journals in a wide variety of fields including science, technology, medicine, social science, and humanities in several languages.
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Find global development research for policy and practice including policy documents, reports, grey literature from governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGOs). Organized by key themes (nutrition, environment, children, education, health, etc.) and country/region.
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A comprehensive reference work cataloging all of the world's known living languages (over 7000). With the resource you can read and research each of these languages, get statistics (e.g. number of speakers), and discover other language information including location, dialects, linguistic affiliations and autonym.
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Economic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of territories, countries, and global regions.Includes contact information for political, business, media, and cultural agencies and officials. Coverage: 2006-present.
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This Dow Jones database contains news from thousands of international, national, and local newspapers, magazines, and trade publications. It also includes transcripts from major radio and television news organizations. Plus, it has investment, company, industry, and country reports.

Some news is provided in the original published non-English language. Coverage: 1980s-present. Access is provided by Anderson School of Management.

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One-stop resource for data on infectious diseases (over 2,000 pathogens). Provides information on diseases: history of outbreaks back to 1348AD, geographic spread, and treatment. Includes a visualization tool to create charts as well as a differential diagnosis tool. Information updated daily to provide the most current information.

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Digitized ethnographic collections covering aspects of cultural and social life. A repository of cultural knowledge for anthropological and cross-cultural research within and across disciplines that focuses on in-depth descriptive documents that have been subject-indexed.
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An open platform for sharing data across crises and organizations from the United Nation’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (OCHA). Included are UN data, Facebook public datasets, Red Cross, and 280 other organizations in various format (e.g. CSV, GeoJSON).

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Access to INIS (International Nuclear Information System) citations, abstracts, and some full-text, concerning the peaceful uses of nuclear science and technology.
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Country level macroeconomic and financial data including: World Economic Outlook, International Financial Statistics (IFS), Balance of Payments Statistics (BOP), Direction of Trade Statistics (DOT), etc. Coverage 1920-present.
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A directory of official statistical agencies of countries throughout the world. Compiled by the United Nations Statistical Bureau.
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Academic journals and magazines pertaining to all branches of the military and government. Useful to military members, analysts, policy makers, students and researchers.
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A resource of scholarly journals, books, and dissertations with main topics including literature, linguistics, language studies, rhetoric, composition, drama, theory, criticism, teaching, and publishing. Coverage: 1920s-present.

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Focused on public policy research and issues. Includes international journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, and publications of international agencies. Does not include newspapers. Coverage: 1915-present.

Leading newspaper published in Guatemala. Provides impartial reporting on local news and bringing to light transgressions of government and public figures. Archive includes content from 1951-2021 with online content added each year.
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Over 1,000 research methods ebooks, articles, case studies, and videos from Sage and other sources provide guidance on the process for conducting qualitative and quantitative research (e.g. research design, interviewing, focus groups, regression analysis, models, advanced statistics).
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A portal to United Nations' data sources, along with other international organizations. Data includes country profiles, and various social, health and economic topics. Data coverage years vary by source. Coverage: 1960s-present.
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Access to UN documents including documents of the Security Council, the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council and their subsidiaries, as well as administrative issuances and other documents. Coverage: 1946-present.
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A portal to World Bank data on various social and economic issues for countries throughout the world. Data include time series, microdata, and geospatial. Each dataset has different coverage years. Coverage: 1960-present.
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Provides the current constitutions of all countries, constitutional histories of select countries, scholarly articles on constitutions, hundreds of classic books on constitutional law and more. Provided by the UNM Law Library. Coverage: 1790-present.
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The premier World Bank dataset for economic development from major international sources. Coverage: 1960-present.
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Focus on the research literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, public administration, and public policy. 1975-present.
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