Databases A-Z
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Policy Commons
Policy Commons makes local, state, regional, and national government data available alongside research produced by IGOs, NGOs, and think tanks. It's a comprehensive database for policy grey literature. JHU subscription includes these modules: Policy Commons Global Think Tanks, Public Health and Social Care, World Cities, and World Governments. -
Policy File Index
PolicyFile is updated weekly with additions of approximately 250 records per week. Currently, users may access over 91,000 records from 1995 to current, most of these with links to the full-text documents. This resource for difficult-to-find gray literature covers all foreign and domestic policy papers produced by an impressive and growing number of nongovernmental agencies, research institutes, and think tanks in the U.S. The 387 organizations included in PolicyFile are reviewed daily to gather the most recently published papers, reports, and documents for inclusion. All records have subject indexing and abstracts, and the vast majority of PolicyFile records include links to the full-text documents.
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PolicyMap
An easy-to-use web-based Geographic Information System (GIS), use Policy Map to create maps of the United States down to the Census block group in many cases. Available data includes demographics, home sale statistics, health data, mortgage trends, school performance scores and labor data like unemployment, crime statistics and city crime rates.
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Political Extremism and Radicalism
A compilation of rare and unique archival collections covering a wide range of fringe political movements. This archive is one of the first digital archives covering such a broad assortment of both far-right and left political groups. It offers a diverse mixture of materials, including periodicals, campaign propaganda, government records, oral histories, and various ephemera. The collections cover a period of just over a century (1900s to 2010s) when the world saw the formation of several civil rights movements for the rights of minorities, women's rights, and gay rights. It also encompasses the rise and fall of a number of peripheral groups deemed ‘extreme’ or ‘radical’ by contemporaries, such as anti-Catholic, anti-Semitic, anti-war, communist or socialist, creationist, environmentalist, hate, holocaust denial, new left, survivalist, white supremacist, and white nationalist. It is global in scope, however, the majority of the materials are largely from the US and Britain. -
Political Handbook of the World
Comprehensive country profiles chronicling national history, government, and political parties, as well as profiles on intergovernmental organizations, development banks, and the agencies and specialized bodies of the United Nations. -
Polling the Nations
A compilation of questions and responses from more than 12,000 national, state, local and special surveys, conducted by 700 polling organizations in the United States and 70 other countries from 1986 through the present. Each record in the database consists of one poll question and the participants answers. Only 4 simultaneous users can access Polling the Nations.
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Popular Culture in Britain and America, 1950-1975: Rock and Roll, Counterculture, Peace and Protest
Popular Culture explores the dynamic period of social, political and cultural change between 1950 and 1975. The resource offers thousands of colour images of manuscript and rare printed material as well as photographs, ephemera and memorabilia from this exciting period in our recent history.
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Popular Medicine in America, 1800-1900
This unique collection showcases the development of 'popular' medicine in America during the nineteenth century, through an extensive range of material that was aimed at the general public rather than medical professionals. Explore an array of printed sources, including rare books, pamphlets, trade cards, and visually-rich advertising ephemera.
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Post-War Europe: Refugees, Exile and Resettlement, 1945-50
This online archive delivers essential primary sources for the study and understanding of the challenges facing the European peoples in the aftermath of World War II. It covers the politics and administration of the refugee crisis in Europe after World War II as well as the day-to-day survival of the refugees themselves. -
Poverty, Philanthropy and Social Conditions in Victorian Britain
Discover what life was like for the poorest communities in Victorian Britain, and explore the government policy, social reform movements and philanthropic efforts of charitable institutions that sought to alleviate poverty.
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Power to the People: Counterculture, Social Movements, and the Alternative Press
Showcases a range of ideas, initiatives, and social movements devoted to people-powered politics and organizing from the nineteenth through twenty-first centuries. Ranging beyond a few specific movements, the archive paints a broad picture of the counterculture and many disparate organizations that represent this moment in modern Western history. Although the archive concentrates mainly on the United States and the United Kingdom, it also covers events and topics from around the globe. -
Pravda (2010-current)
Pravda has been a newspaper of record since the dawn of the Soviet era, and remains a prominent news source in today’s Russia. -
Pravda Archive, 1959-1996
Articles published by Pravda during the Cold War and the years immediately following, from 1959 to 1996, collected and translated into English by the CIA. -
Pravda Digital Archive, 1912-2009
Pravda (Truth) was the official voice of Soviet communism and the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1918 and 1991 and the most important newspaper of the Soviet era. Founded in 1912 in St. Petersburg, Pravda originated as an underground daily workers’ newspaper, and soon became the main newspaper of the revolutionary wing of the Russian socialist movement. Throughout the Soviet era, party members were obligated to read Pravda. Today, Pravda remains the official organ of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, an important political faction in contemporary Russian politics. -
Preprint Citation Index
Preprint Citation Index is a multidisciplinary collection of preprints from a wide range of leading preprint repositories. Coverage includes research areas in the life sciences, mathematics, computer science, engineering, social science, and humanities.
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Press Reader
PressReader delivers an endless stream of top news stories to read, discuss and share. Get full issues of thousands of top magazines and newspapers, just as they appear in print. -
Primary Search
Primary Search provides full text for more than 70 popular, magazines for elementary school research. All full text articles included in the database are assigned a reading level indicator (Lexiles), and full text information dates as far back as 1990. -
PrivCo - Private Company Financial Data Authority
PrivCo is a key source for financial, operational, and competitive information on over 120,000 major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies. The database also includes details on thousands of financing arrangements of all sorts, inlcuding venture capital, private equity, and mergers and acquisitions.
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ProceedingsFirst
A database of over 19000 citations to every congress, symposium, conference, exposition, workshop and meeting received at the British Library. This database is on the FirstSearch platform. -
Project Euclid
Project Euclid's mission is to provide powerful, low-cost online hosting and publishing services for theoretical and applied mathematics and statistics scholarship worldwide. As a non-profit community-driven international partnership of academic libraries, independent and society scholarly publishers, and scholars, Project Euclid actively supports broad, sustainable access to this scholarship.