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Columbia International Affairs Online
Comprehensive source on international affairs.
PAIS Index (ProQuest)
Covers global public policy and social issues.
International Political Science Abstracts (EBSCO)
Indexes and abstracts articles from leading international political science journals.
IBSS International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (ProQuest)
References and abstracts for social science research.
JSTOR
Digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.

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United Nations Digital Library

World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
The official open access repository for research outputs and publications of the World Bank.
OECD iLibrary
Economic, social, and government policy and statistics for the 30 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
IMF E-Library
IMF publications from its founding in 1945 to the present.

World Health Organization
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Eldis

Foreign Aid Explorer
Statistics on U.S. aid flows to developing countries from USAID. Data available from 1946 on.

ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest)
Covers business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, and management techniques, as well as competitive and product information, both in the U.S. and internationally. Includes the following collections: ABI/INFORM Dateline, ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
EconLit (ProQuest)
The American Economic Association's electronic bibliography of economics-related literature, including the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL).
Making of the Modern World (Gale)
Economic history of the Western World from the mid-15th century to the mid-19th century. Content from the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library and the Kress Collection of Business and Economics at the Harvard Business School along with supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University and from the libraries of Yale University.
World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
The official open access repository for research outputs and publications of the World Bank.
OECD iLibrary
Economic, social, and government policy and statistics for the 30 member countries of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
IMF E-Library
IMF publications from its founding in 1945 to the present.

Military Database (ProQuest)
Covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications and civil engineering.
Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) (ProQuest)
Comprehensive collection of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Includes the following collections:
Declassified Documents Reference System (Gale)
Database of declassified documents from various government agencies, including the White House, the CIA, the FBI, and the State Department, ranging from immediately after World War II through the 1970s. Covers the Cold War, Vietnam, foreign policy shifts, the civil rights movement, and more. The Firefox browser is recommended for use with this database.
Foreign Relations of the United States (Hein Online)
Presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports
Foreign news broadcasts and transcripts translated into the English language. Coverage: 1974-1996.

PubMed
Database provided by U.S. National Library of Medicine that includes over 17 million citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles dating back to the 1950s.
Access note: Must use this special URL for CU Full Text links to appear in article abstracts.

WHO (World Health Organization)
United Nations office working to improve personal health and the environment around the world. Includes information on programs and partnerships, and a data repository.
World Development Indicators
Comprehensive set of global development indicators which include demographic, economic, financial, environmental and social statistics.

World Bank Open Knowledge Repository
The official open access repository for research outputs and publications of the World Bank.
Human Development Report
Reports and statistics providing an overview of key aspects of human development. Includes the Human Development Index (HDI) ranking for countries and regions.
Web of Science, Web of Science database
Interdisciplinary index that provides citations for high impact journals. Useful for forward citation searching. Includes some indexing and full-text linking for ProQuest Dissertations and Theses.
Access note: To access the API, set up your account and select "Web of Science API Lite" at Step 3 “Subscribe to an API.” For research support using the API, please contact the Center for Research Data & Digital Scholarship.

Anthropology Plus (EBSCO)
Indexes journal articles, essays, reports, commentaries, and edited works in the fields of cultural, biological, and linguistic anthropology as well as ethnology, archaeology, folklore, and material culture from the late 19th century to the present.
AnthroSource
Contains articles from American Anthropological Association (AAA) publications including journals, newsletters and bulletins. It has the current issues for many of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications, and a complete electronic archive of all AAA journals through 2003.
Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials (EBSCO)
Content in all fields of religion, representing all major religious faiths, denominations, and language groups.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA) (ProQuest)
Includes descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical, and geographical linguistics.
eHRAF World Cultures
In-depth information organized by cultures. Focuses mainly on pre-industrial cultures from around the world and on North American immigrant groups.
Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest)
Periodicals of ethnic and minority presses. Articles written primarily by Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian & Pacific Islander, and Jewish people.
Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest)
Abstracts and citations to international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Sociology Collection (ProQuest)
Provides abstracts, indexing and full-text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers relating to sociology, social services and related fields. Includes the following collections: Applied Social Sciences Index & Abstracts (ASSIA), Sociological Abstracts, Sociology Database
Communication & Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)
Comprehensive research resource for communication and related disciplines.
International Encyclopedia of Communication
Spans the breadth of communication studies, including coverage of theories, media and communication phenomena, research methods, problems, concepts, and geographical areas.

EISIL
Authenticated primary sources and other materials across the breadth of international law.
Hein Online
Comprehensive law library, with coverage of most sources from their date of first publication.
Nexis Uni
Comprehensive source for local, regional and national newspapers in the United States, plus some international sources. Strong source for legal, company (including private), and country research.
EUR-Lex
European Union law and documents and the daily edition of the Official Journal of the European Union, from 1951 to present.
Foreign Law Guide (Brill)
Citations to law by country and topic and translations when available.
GlobaLex
Provides research guides to foreign law by country, international, and comparative law.

Sage Data (Data Planet)
Repository of officially sourced statistical data with visualization, search, and analysis capabilities.
World DataBank
Analysis and visualization tool with time-series statistics from the World Bank on economic, environmental,and social topics. Includes World Development Indicators.
International Historical Statistics
Covers a wide range of historical socio-economic topics from 1750 to 2010.
International Statistical Yearbook
Collection of statistical databases from domestic and international institutions.
Statista
Statista aggregates statistics and studies from market researchers, organizations, specialist publications, and government sources.

UN Data

Gallup Analytics
Analyze data from the U.S. and over 160 countries on topics related to economics, politics, and well-being. Data spans many decades and includes U.S. daily tracking and the Gallup Poll Social Series. Microdata from the World Poll not included with subscription.
Access note: Access limited to 1 concurrent user.

Africa/Middle East

Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies (EBSCO)
Index of research, policy, and scholarly discourse on the peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia, and North Africa, from 1900 to the present.
Middle East & African Newsstream (ProQuest
Collection of current news sources from the Middle East and Africa. Titles include The Jerusalem Post, the Gulf Daily News, Kuwait Times, Cape Times, and Yemen Times.

Europe

ABSEEES Online (EBSCO)
North American scholarship on Slavic, East European, and Eurasian issues from 1989 to the present.

U.K. Parliamentary Papers
Rich historical record of Britain, its former colonies, and the world, covering 1688-2008.

The European Library

EUR-Lex
European Union law and documents and the daily edition of the Official Journal of the European Union, from 1951 to present.

Latin America

Hispanic-American Periodicals Index (HAPI)
Spanish-language journal articles from and about Latin America, the Caribbean, and Latinx people in the United States.
Latin American Regional Report: Brazil & Southern Cone
Source for political, economic, and security analysis on Latin America.
Latin American Newspapers (Readex)
This resource provides a wide range of viewpoints from diverse Latin American cultures, offering coverage of the people, issues and events that shaped this vital region during the 19th and early 20th centuries. Includes eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative information, letters, poetry, advertisements, obituaries and other items.

Latinobarómetro

HLAS Online: Handbook of Latin American Studies Citations to Latin American journal articles and books

Latin Americanist Research Resources Project

Asia

Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) (EBSCO)
The most comprehensive index of Asian studies in the humanities and social sciences, with coverage from 1971-present.
China Academic Journals Full-Text Database
Comprehensive database of Chinese journals from 1915 to present.
Digital South Asia Library
Information from the colonial period through the present.