ABI/INFORM Complete is comprised of ABI/INFORM Global, ABI/INFORM Trade and Industry, and ABI/INFORM Dateline.
The electronic resource contains thousands of full-text journals, dissertations, working papers, key business and economics periodicals such as the Economist, country-and industry-focused reports, and downloadable data.
Full-text research reports, journal articles, and country specific and multi-country studies on business, government, economic, and social issues
Key indicators; charts; and graphs
Asia-wide statistics (Asia Development Outlook and Asia Economic Monitor)
Information providers include universities, think tanks, and policy institutes, such as the University of Hong Kong, East-West Center, Australian APEC Centre, and the Asian Development Bank.
A combination of Encyclopedia Britannica and the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary & Thesaurus with access to magazines, periodicals, biographies, news, and more .
This electronic resource searches 22 business sectors in up to 200 markets; includes company profiles, SWOT analyses, sector peer analyses, and curated news/research; gives the option to receive alerts for crucial market updates, and contains export bespoke data sets from across 2.3 million lines of data, with 10 year forecasts for 200+ markets.
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CBCA Complete contains 600 full text titles, is the most comprehensive Canadian reference collection available today. Accessible to readers and researchers at every level, CBCA Complete features a highly-respected, diversified mix of publications, including scholarly journals, trade publications, dissertations, books, newspapers and magazines.
Access in this electronic resource includes:
CBCA Complete: Business
CBCA Complete: Health & Medicine
CBCA Complete: History
CBCA Complete: Literature & Language
CBCA Complete: Science & Technology
CBCA Complete: Social Sciences
CBCA Complete: The Arts
This electronic resource offers full text of over 190 Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers. This full text resource includes the complete available electronic backfile for most newspapers, providing full access to the articles, columns, editorials and features published in each. Some backfiles date as far back as the late 1970s.
Scholarly materials on politics and international relations
Full text of working papers, policy briefs, conference proceedings and links to Web sources
Journal abstracts, book summaries, country data, and economic indicators
CIAO Focus is a monthly feature that highlights a current international issue with links to relevant documents.
Political, economic, social, and environmental data on 192 countries
Key country data; country flags; boundaries, and ethnic divisions
Thematic/political/physical maps; currency converter tools
International hotspots; daily news coverage and forecasts from regional sources/li>
Country rankings from the United Nation’s Human Development Index and Freedom House’s Freedom in the World
CountryWatch Elections Central focused solely on international elections.
Here, one can access:
A comprehensive list of past and upcoming international presidential and parliamentary elections around the world;
Election Profiles which cover dates 2009 to 2014;
Country Profiles with overview of the countries in which elections are held, including the current government structure; and, extensive coverage on elections in the United States, including the 2008 and 2012 elections.
Four periodicals are included in the East View Information Services electronic resource:
The weekly Current Digest of the Russian Press contains Russian-language press materials translated into English from 1949- present.
International Affairs: A Russian Journal of World Politics, Diplomacy and International Relations, is published six times/year with issues from 1954 - present. It offers analysis of foreign policy and international security issues.
Military Thought: A Russian Journal of Military Theory and Strategy is a quarterly publication of the Russian Federation of the Ministry of Defense, 1992 - present, and contains articles on Russian military reform, tactics and strategy of modern combat, counterterrorist operations, and international security.
Jiefangjun Bao (PLA Daily) is the official newspaper of the People’s Liberation Army, the military of the People's Republic of China, and is searchable from 1965 - present. Written in Chinese only.
Each week The Current Digest of the Chinese Press presents a digestible collection of articles from key Chinese newspapers on such topics as:
Politics, international relations, security, economics, business, public health, environment, education, culture and more.
Articles are selected from a wide variety of sources in China, all of which are explicitly targeted on a domestic – not foreign – audience.
Each article is carefully translated into English, with great attention given to conveying "the sense and spirit" of the Chinese text.
Intelligence, security, and counter-terrorism issues
Full text
Journal articles; reference material
Country reports, news feeds, and Web-based information on terrorism and security
Expert analyses and reports
Recent developments across the international political, military, economic, social and technical spectrum
Current biographies
**Access only to the following countries: China and Russia**
Current economic, political, and business news around the globe
ViewsWire: Highlights and analyses of more than 250 economic, political, and market developments around the world; navigatable by country; updated daily
Executive Briefing: Management analysis and advice
Risk Briefing: Analyses, forecasts, alerts, and background data covering a wide range of risk factors in 60 major markets/countries; updated daily
Industry Briefing: 5-year forecasts and news analysis for 8 key industries
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1956 - 1996 is an archive of foreign broadcasts and news, translated into English from media sources outside the United States.
FBIS is a comprehensive and fully searchable full-text database of openly available news and reports from:
Middle East and North Africa East Asia
Near East and South Asia/ Latin America
South Asia/ Eastern Europe
China/ Soviet Union & Central Eurasia
Asia and the Pacific/ Western Europe
Sub-Saharan Africa
A weekly publication, the Globalist, Naval War College Executive Edition, explores new trends and risks emerging in the global economy and looks closely at the agendas of pivotal nations and other forces that shape interactions between key global players.
Quick factual inputs; leading-edge analysis; assumption-challenging perspectives;out-of-the-box thinking; thought-provoking features
Information from more than 200 sources, ranging from leading newspapers and magazines to important government agencies, NGOs and think tanks
The Top 25:
Each week, the Globalist presents 25 new facts in six sections that have been carefully selected to cover key trends.
Global economy
American economy
European economy
Asian economy
In Focus: A special topic each week
Quote of the week
Politics, economics, culture, business, science, technology, and the environment
Translated into English from foreign broadcasts, news agency transmissions, wire services, newspapers, magazines, and government documents
Africa, Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Pacific Rim, Central and South America, and the Middle East
Content: 1996 to present
Country by country internal and external security and threat assessments
Defense news and analysis
Order of battle information for armies, navies and air forces worldwide
Information on military systems and equipment
Geopolitical and terrorism intelligence
Terrorist news updated daily and allows for the tracking of terrorist activity by region or country.
Search by region, country, terrorist group, tactic, target type, scale of attack, and target ownership
Attack records include details of damage, casualty statistics, and historical trends
Records of statements by terrorist/insurgent groups
Indicators and warnings issued by government agencies
Latitude-longitude geo-codes provided for mapping terrorist attack/threat patterns
This collection features English translations of foreign-language monographs, reports, serials, journal and newspaper articles, and radio and television broadcasts from regions throughout the world. It contains a wealth of hard-to-find scientific, technical, and social science materials translated from many languages.
An archive of scholarly journal literature in the humanities.
Academic disciplines that include history, political science, and law, as well as Middle Eastern, Latin American, Asian, African, and Slavic studies
Content includes the first issuance of each journal title included in the database
Current to within the last 2-5 years
National and international newspapers; business and legal information
Articles from thousands of domestic and international newspapers
Transcripts from domestic and international news wire services and media reports
Newsletters and magazine articles, law review articles
Securities and Exchange Commission reports and filings
References to the medical literature via the Medline database
Note: For defense & military-related magazine articles, it is best to search the ProQuest database
Military Thought is a quarterly publication of the Russian Federation of the Ministry of Defense, 1992-present, and contains articles on Russian military reform, tactics and strategy of modern combat, experience of counterterrorist operations, and international security.
Information focused on issues in North Korea, with daily updated exclusive news and analysis, full access to the KCNA Watch North Korea media monitoring suite, full access to the NK Leadership Tracker, and full access to NK News archives
Comprehensive resource from Oxford Press on Islamic studies with an emphasis on modern Islam
Qur’an verse lookup
A-Z reference entries
Primary source documents translated into English
Scholarly articles and essays
Timelines of Islamic and world events
Image library
Date converter from Western to Islamic
Suggestions for further reading
Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) is the bibliographic index to the social sciences
References to journal articles and books
Governmental documents and reports
Reports from public and private organizations
Statistics and directories
Some of the references are in languages other than English. An associated database grouped with PAIS is the Periodical/Publisher Information Database that provides periodical and publisher information for documents found in the PAIS database.
This resource focuses on business and financial news from the eastern hemisphere. It covers Asian business and financial information from key international publications.
This collection serves as the central resource for researchers at all levels. Covers more than 160 subject areas including business, economics, military, news and world affars, science, telecommunications, etc. through scholarly journals, newspapers, reports, books, magazines, trade publications and videos.
Includes: ProQuest Research Library; ProQuest Military; ProQuest Asian Business; ABI/Inform Complete; Wall Street Journal; OxResearch; and many more.
ProQuest Religion provides a wide range of primarily full-text, international periodicals for diverse religious and spiritual studies, covering formal theological studies of major religions, as well as the most recent trends and scholarly thought. Included are titles from religious publishing bodies and nondenominational organizations. The resource reflects a wide spectrum of religious belief systems and supports the global study of religion.
ProQuest Telecommunications includes over 140 titles, with more than 115 available in full text. Search more than 600,000 records, dating back to the early 1990's.
Topics covered include Telecommunications, Computer applications, Data communication, Data transmission systems, Electronic data processing, Information science, Information theory, Radio, Television, and Wireless communications.
Snapshots offers top-line international market research overviews focusing on 40+ industries in more than 40 countries worldwide, including regional summaries. It provides market size, share, forecasts and segments.
Country profiles
Topical and regional net assessments
Situation reports
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Stratfor Worldview is worldwide in scope and provides insights into international security issues, risk management, and global alliances.
Terrorism Research & Analysis Consortium (TRAC) is a comprehensive resource for the study of political violence of all kinds. TRAC provides researchers in the fields of terrorism studies, political science, international relations, sociology, criminal justice, philosophy and history with content that enables intellectual clarity on a highly complex topic.
-- Core analyses of 3,800 groups that have been known to aid and abet political violence or terrorist organizations.
-- Original, commissioned analyses of seminal terrorism topics.
-- Profiles of vulnerable regions and cities mostly likely to attract terrorist incidents.
-- Live intelligence repository: TRAC provides a publishing center for research of any length produced by its members.
-- TRAC continuously monitors important news and analysis sources and posts feeds to the site as events unfold.
-- Hot links that quickly navigate between concepts within articles, news feeds, and outside resources.
-- Access to political violence experts worldwide.
-- Hundreds of internet links to think tanks; government agencies; universities, community colleges and police academies offering courses in terrorism, criminal justice, and homeland security; government and private research centers.
World Politics Review (WPR) is a daily, online publication and resource for foreign policy professionals and readers with a serious interest in international politics and foreign affairs.
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