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A Good Place to Start: The IDS Knowledge Services Guide to Finding Development Information Online |
| This Insititute for Development Studies (IDS) guide provides links to a broad range of free online material on over 30 development themes, such as child labor, gender and conflict. Read the full annotation |
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| ABI/INFORM is a major comprehensive source of English-language business, accounting, and
economics information from around the world. Coverage includes both academic and industry sources, with access to nearly 3,000 publications, 2,000 of which are available full-text. Other content offered: 6,000+ case studies from key business schools, 7,000+ company annual reports, and 190,000 country reports from 195 countries. Read the full annotation |
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Aluka is an international and collaborative digital library of scholarly resources from and about Africa. Aluka includes high-quality scholarly
content from institutions and individuals across the
globe.
Scholarly
materials contributed by Aluka’s partners range from archival
documents, periodicals, books, reports, manuscripts, and reference
works, to three-dimensional models, maps, oral histories, plant
specimens, photographs, and slides.
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| Focuses on global poverty and policy-oriented research, especially of the United States and other industrialized countries, affecting development prospects in poor countries. Read the full annotation |
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| The research database of choice for economics majors. Provides citations and selected abstracts and covers topics including regional and international economics, urban economics, economic development, fiscal and monetary theory, business and public finance. Read the full annotation |
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| Billed as "the gateway to development information", this robust site is hosted by the Institute of Development Studies and co-funded by government agencies in the United Kingdom, Switzerland, and Norway. Read the full annotation |
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| Emerald E-journals includes full-text access to over 100
international peer-reviewed journals pertaining to: business and
management aspects of accounting, architecture, education, engineering,
environmental management, food and nutrition, healthcare, hospitality,
human resources, information and library, logistics and supply chains,
operations and production, public sector, quality, and training. Read the full annotation |
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| Europa World Plus incorporates the full text contents of some of the Europa World Year Book and the eight Europa regional surveys. This database provides authoritative and current analytical information about countries and international organizations. Country overviews include historic, economic, trade, and political information. Read the full annotation |
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| Portal to valuable, free Internet resources relevant to global business. Sections are divided into such categories as Country and Regional Data, Company and Industry Data, etc. All links are updated every 20 days, so this site is very current and very accurate. Especially valuable to locate industry information and market opportunities for all countries of the world, including the developing countries. Read the full annotation |
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| Web site of the Economic Freedom Network of 71 research institutes, including the Cata Institute and the Canadian Fraser Institute. Their annual "Economic Freedom of the World" report is available free as a pdf, along with extensive excel downloads of the data which ranks 130 economies on a 1-10 scale in five categories: size of govenment; legal structure/security of propertyrights; access to sound money; freedom to exchange with foreigners; and regulation of credit, labor and business. Read the full annotation |
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| General OneFile, formerly called InfoTrac Onefile, is a large, multi-subject database, with records from 1980 to the present. More than 11,000 sources are indexed, most with full-text coverage. Sources include U.S. and international newspapers, popular magazines, academic journals, trade and professional publications, multimedia, and general reference sources. Read the full annotation |
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| "GlobalHealthFacts.org, a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, provides free, up-to-date and easy-to-access data by country on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other key health and socio-economic indicators." Read the full annotation |
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"The Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) is a public database of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations. These GLIN members contribute the official full texts of published documents to the database in their original language. Each document is accompanied by a summary in English and subject terms selected from the multilingual index to GLIN. All summaries are available to the public, and public access to full texts is also available in participating jurisdictions."
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| JSTOR is a database consisting of only full-text articles from interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journals. Journals are included on the basis of number of subscribers the journal has, citation analysis, recommendations from
experts in the field, and the length of time that the journal has been
published. Coverage for each title begins with the first publication, with most titles ending coverage between three and five years ago. Read the full annotation |
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| LexisNexis Academic is an extensive set of full-text electronic databases of news, business, company, and legal information. It contains major archives of federal and state case law, media transcripts, and other full-text material. For more information consult the LexisNexis Academic help documents and/or search tutorial. Read the full annotation |
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| Provides "a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a vast compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD." Read the full annotation |
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| OneWorld brings together more than 1,500 organizations from across the
globe to promote sustainable development, social justice and human
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"The OECD groups 30 member countries sharing a commitment to democratic government and the market economy....Best known for its publications and its statistics, its work covers economic and social issues from macroeconomics, to trade, education, development and science and innovation."
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| Provides citations and abstracts to books, hearings, reports, gray
literature, government publications, Internet resources, and other
publications from 120 countries, as well as a fair amount of full text
access to periodicals. Read the full annotation |
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| Since its establishment in 1914, the Public Affairs Information
Service (PAIS) has chronicled issues in the public debate through
highly
selective coverage of a wide variety of sources. The PAIS International
database with the PAIS Archive provide historical perspective on many
of the 20th century's public
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| The African Development Information site has a list of many socio-economic research centers--private, university, governmental--with hot links. This can lead to many reports which often can then be located free of charge through a scholar.google.com or www.google.com search on the titles in quotes. Read the full annotation |
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| "an independent, intergovernmental organization of development countries." See research papers and policy briefs, publications by issue areas, and external links. Read the full annotation |
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The Hudson Institute, founded by well-known futurist Herman Kahn, conducts research and supports policy development in many areas of concern, including global prosperity, American culture, and others both domestic and worldwide. Its Center for Global Prosperity, at http://cgp.hudson.org/ publishes The Index of Global Philanthropy, available as a pdf at http://gpr.hudson.org/files/publications/GlobalPhilanthropy.pdf.
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Provides information on U. S. foreign policy strategies in four regions of the world:
Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and the Near East, Latin America and the
Caribbean, and Europe and Eurasia.
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| This site offers a wealth of analytical, theoretical and statistical information on world trade, key players and the position of developing economies. Read the full annotation |
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| The U.S. International Trade Commission is an independent, nonpartisan, quasi-judicial federal agency that provides trade expertise to both the legislative and executive branches of government, determines the impact of imports on U.S. industries, and directs actions against certain unfair trade practices, such as patent, trademark, and copyright infringement. Read the full annotation |
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The Wilson Select Plus database provides indexed and abstracted records with accompanying full-text periodical articles (1994 to the present) from over 2000 sources, including U.S. and international professional publications, academic journals, and trade magazines. Subjects covered include science, humanities, business, and education. Read the full annotation |
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| This site contains a list of core issues related to globalization with some supporting full-text reports. It also includes many significant and high quality video clips. Of particular value is YaleGlobal Online, which includes a history and definition, along with academic papers, book reviews and exerpts, links to external Web sites, and multimedia presentations. Read the full annotation |
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