Sources for research into the 19th century, comprising tens of millions of records and providing access to finding aids for books, periodicals, official publications, newspapers, archives, and reference material.
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C19: The Nineteenth Century Index
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CADRE Gateway
Science gateway to standardized text- and data-mining services for large datasets. To access/query all versions of Web of Science (WoS) databases, institutional/organizational login is required. To do so, click “Log in to CADRE” below, then select CILogon on the next page. Please note that even if your institutional/organizational account is also a Google/G Suite/Gmail account, you still need to log in through CILogon to access WoS. CADRE is also open to anyone to access and query the Microsoft Academic Graph dataset.
View the CADRE LibGuide for more information about using this database.
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Cairn.info
An online collection of over 600 French language journals in the social sciences and humanities.
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Cambridge Archive EditionsHistorical reference materials related to the national heritage and political development of the Middle East, Russia and the Balkans, the Caucasus, Southeast Asia, and China and the Far East.
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Cambridge Core
Platform for Cambridge University Press's academic content. Includes leading journals, research monographs, reference works and textbooks. Indiana University Libraries subscribes to a variety of Cambridge University Press publications. Select “only search content I have access to” to view IU subscription content.
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Cambridge Structural Database (CSD)
Records bibliographic, chemical and crystallographic information for small molecule crystal structures of organic molecules and metal-organic compounds. Also includes structure visualisation and data analysis software.
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Campus Verlag Ebooks: Geschichte 2002-2012
Collection of German (and a few English) humanities and history e-book titles.
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Campus Verlag Ebooks: Sozialwissenschaften 2001-2012
A package of scholarly German ebooks in the social sciences.
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Canadian Poetry
Collection of full-text, English-language Canadian poetry
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Caribbean History and Culture, 1535-1920: Imprints from the Library Company of Philadelphia
Provides access to more than 1,200 books, pamphlets, almanacs, broadsides and ephemera cover the history of the Caribbean region from the 16th century to the early 20th century.
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Caribbean Literature
Fiction, poetry, manuscripts, archival content, interviews, photographs and other formats, representing writers from the entire Caribbean region.
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Caribbean Newspapers 1718-1876
Collection of 18th and 19th century newspapers published in the Caribbean. This resource is useful for researching colonial history, the Atlantic slave trade, international commerce, New World slavery and U.S. relations with the region back to the 18th century.
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Caribe Digital Archive
El Caribe (“The Caribbean”) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper published in Santo Domingo and is one of the Dominican Republic’s most influential and longest-running newspapers. Founded in 1948 under the repressive Trujillo regime (1930-1961), the newspaper has borne witness to decades of political uncertainty, economic development, and social change. Except for brief interruptions in publication for a month in 1962 and seven months in 1965, El Caribe has been a constant chronicle of national and international news, both for the Dominican Republic and the broader Caribbean region.
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Census CD Neighborhood Change DatabaseDecennial Census data for 1970, 1980, 1990, and 2000 with boundaries updated to 2000.
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Census Data
Platform to access data and digital content from the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Census.gov
Provides access to the U.S. Census Bureau's data collections. Serves as a leading source of quality data about the nation's people and economy.
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Center for Documentary Research and Practice
The Center for Documentary Research and Practice is a grant-funded research center that is dedicated to building work in the field of oral history while broadening the range of research projects to address the many ways that people remember, represent, and use the past in public and private life. The online collections offer a finding aid to the growing archive of oral history projects conducted to date by the Center.
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Center for Research Libraries Catalog
Online catalog of the Center for Research Libraries.
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Central and Eastern European Online Library
Full-text access to journals of the social sciences and humanities on Central and Eastern European countries.
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Central Asia, Persia and Afghanistan, 1834-1922: From Silk Road to Soviet Rule
Collection of Foreign Office files, including correspondence, intelligence reports, agents’ diaries, minutes, maps, newspaper excerpts and other materials. Covers the history of Persia (Iran), Central Asia and Afghanistan from the decline of the Silk Road in the first half of the nineteenth century to the establishment of Soviet rule over parts of the region in the early 1920s.
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Century Journals Social Sciences
Chinese journals from the social sciences.
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CHANT (CHinese ANcient Texts)
A browsable and searchable database that provides full-text access to Chinese classical works and excavated ancient documents.
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Chao Xing Qi Kan
Chinese language journal database with over 6,500 journal titles available in full-text, including 600 newspaper titles and over 1,200 core journal titles.
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Charles W. Cushman Photograph Collection
15,000 Kodachrome slides by amateur photographer Charles W. Cushman (1896-1972) about his travels in the United States and abroad.
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Chatham House Online Archive
Chatham House Online Archive contains the publications and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), the independent international affairs policy institute founded in 1920 following the Paris Peace Conference.
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Chernobyl Newspapers Collection
Includes access to 3 local Chernobyl newspapers – Prapor peremohy (Прапор перемоги, Victory Flag), Tribuna Energetika (Трибуна Энергетика, Energy Workers' Tribune), and Trybuna pratsi (Трибуна праці, Labor Tribune) – published in towns in the exclusion zone and its immediate vicinity.
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Chicago Defender (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Chicago Defender, African-American newspaper founded in 1905.
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Chicago Homer
Searchable database covering The Iliad, The Odyssey, Theogony, Works and Days, Shield of Herakles, Homeric Hymns in their original Greek and English and German translation.
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Chicago Manual of Style Online
The online version of the classic guide to documentary style. Access is for the 16th and 17th editions.
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Chicago Tribune (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
The full text of the Chicago Tribune from 1849-2011 with images of pages and articles; users can search and limit by date and article type. Additional access options for the Chicago Tribune are available.
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Chicago Tribune (ProQuest Recent Newspapers)
Digital access to the Chicago Tribune, 2008 – recent (coverage extends to within days of the current issue). Additional access options for the Chicago Tribune are available.
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Chicano Database
Bibliographic index covering Mexican-American topics and the broader Latino experience of Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants.
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Children's Core Collection
Catalog of children's literature for ages preschool through sixth grade. Includes references to book reviews, MARC records, and publisher directories.
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Children's Leisure Activities in Russia
Collection of about 270 early Soviet books and brochures geared to raising the first generations of Soviet children through plays and games
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Children's Literature and Culture
Primary source collection documenting children's literature and print culture. Includes titles from European publishers and some written in French or German but focuses primarily on American literature and culture.
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Children's Literature Comprehensive Database (CLCD)
Reviews of thousands of children's and young adult books, videos and software, with full MARC catalog records.
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China Academic Journals
Provides access to hundreds of Chinese periodicals related to literature, history, philosophy, economics, political science, and law.
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China and the Modern World
Series of digital archive collections sourced from libraries and archives across the world. Covers a period when China experienced radical and often traumatic transformations from an inward-looking imperial dynasty into a globally engaged republic. Includes access to monographs, manuscripts, periodicals, correspondence and letters, historical photos, ephemera, and other kinds of historical documents.
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China Core Newspapers Full-text Database
With an archive beginning in 2000, this database collects full-text articles from more than 350 core newspapers in China.
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China Data OnlineDatabases include monthly and annual macro-economy, monthly economic development, city statistics, county statistics, and industrial data
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China Digital Library
Chinese ebooks and eReference databases.
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China Doctoral Dissertations/Masters Theses Full-text Database
Searchable full-text database of dissertations and theses from Chinese institutions, covering a wide range of subjects.
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China Economy, Public Policy, and Security DatabaseProvides access to 'Pishu' (皮书, which literally means ‘cover-books’), high-value analytical reports intended to guide policy-making in the People’s Republic of China.
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China Statistical Yearbooks Database-English
China Statistical Yearbooks Database (CSYD) provides full text access to important statistical yearbooks published by Mainland China presses, covering various kinds of census and survey data.
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China Statistical Yearbooks Database-Simplified Chinese
China Statistical Yearbooks Database (CSYD) is a database of statistical data in China, which collects all important statistical yearbooks published by Mainland China presses, covering various kinds of census and survey data.
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China, America and the Pacific
Explores the cultural and trading relationships that emerged between America, China and the Pacific region between the 18th and 20th centuries.
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China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980
Primary source documents detailing China's interaction with the West from 1793 to the Nixon visits to China in 1972-74.
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China: Culture and Society
Spanning three centuries (c. 1750-1929), this resource makes available pamphlets from Cornell University Library’s Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia. It also features secondary resources, including scholarly essays, an interactive chronology, mini guides, and editors’ choices from the collection.
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China’s Cultural Revolution in Memories: The CR/10 Project
The CR/10 Project is an experimental oral history project. It aims to neutrally collect ordinary people’s authentic memories and impressions of China's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution, which lasted 10 years, from 1966 to 1976. Collection of interviews began in December 2015 and continues to the present on the University of Pittsburgh’s Digital Collections website.
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Chinalawinfo
Comprehensive and authoritative database for legal information, containing all laws and regulations and related legal information promulgated by the Chinese central government and most local governments since 1949.
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Chinese Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Contains a total of 49 colleges and universities' doctoral theses since 2004.
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Chinese Periodical Full-Text Database (1911-1949)
Chinese Periodical Full-Text Database, created by Shanghai Library, contains around 10 million pieces of writing in over 20,000 different kinds of periodicals published from 1911 to 1949. It includes journals of all disciplines and subjects published at the time. Includes access to Series 1 through 12.
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Choice Reviews Online
Source for reviews of academic books, electronic media, and Internet resources of interest to those in higher education.
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Chronicle of Higher Education
Published online every weekday, source of news, advice, and jobs for people in academe.
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Chronicling America
Access to information about historic newspapers and select digitized newspaper pages. Search historic newspaper pages from 1789-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.
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Church Missionary Society Periodicals
Publications from the Church Missionary Society (CMS), the South American Missionary Society and the Church of England Zenana Missionary Society (CEZMS) published between 1804 and 2009.
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Chymistry of Isaac Newton
New research on Newton's chymistry with an online edition of his manuscripts (at least 131 manuscripts)
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CIA Cold War Research Reports and Records on Communism in China and Eastern Europe, 1917-1976
Digital access to two major series of records: CIA Research Reports from 1946-1976 and records collected by Raymond Murphy on Communism in China and Eastern Europe from 1917-1958.
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CINAHL Complete
A comprehensive source of full text for nursing & allied health journals.
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Cincinnati Enquirer (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Provides full text access to The Cincinnati Enquirer from 1841 to 2009.
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Civil War, Part I-IVVarious perspectives, including soldiers, generals, and newspapers, on the American Civil War from mostly primary sources.
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Climate Science and Sustainability: Global Origins of Modern Environmentalism
Journal articles and reports covering the earth sciences, environmentalism, and sustainability, 1957-1995.
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CNN Video Collection
Access to CNN’s specials and feature programming on business, economics, technology, environmental studies, health, women’s studies, and human rights.
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Cochrane Library
Access to systematic reviews of primary research in human health care and policy.
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Cold War Intelligence
Collection of 2,360 formerly classified U.S. government documents (most of them classified Top Secret or higher). Includes declassified documentary records related to the successes and failures of the U.S. intelligence community in its efforts to spy on the Soviet Union during the Cold War.
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Cold War: Global Perspectives on East-West Tensions, 1945-1991
Brings together primary source documents related to the Cold War from around the world.
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Colección Puertorriqueña
Digital access to bibliographic collections of the University of Puerto Rico library.
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Collected Works of St. Thomas Aquinas
Translations of the work of influential Catholic theologian and philosopher, St. Thomas Aquinas.
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College Source
U.S. and international catalogs from colleges, graduate institutions, law, medical and specialty schools.
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Colloquium Digital Library of Life Sciences
Information resource for research communities in the biomedical and life sciences.
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Colonial America
Collection of material from the archives of the British government covering all aspects of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century American history and the early-modern Atlantic world.
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Colonial Caribbean
Primary source documents covering the history of the various territories under British colonial governance. Includes administrative documentation, trade and shipping records, minutes of council meetings, and details of plantation life, colonial settlement, imperial rivalries across the region, and the growing concern of absentee landlords.
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Columbia Gazetteer of the WorldA dictionary of countries, states, cities, and regions, including rivers, mountains and other geographical features.
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Columbia International Affairs OnlineA comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs, offering fulltext of working papers from research organizations, abstracts of foreign policy journal articles, etc.
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ComAbstractsAbstracts articles from major professional journals in the fields of communications, mass media studies, journalism, public policy, and speech communication.
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ComIndex Online
Bibliographic information for journal articles published in the primary professional literature of the communication(s) field.
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Commercial Pattern ArchivePLEASE NOTE: Users must register to access. The Commercial Pattern Archive database (CoPA), provides a unique tool for researchers and designers to recreate or date clothing.
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Communication Source
This resource offers worldwide full-text content pertaining to communication, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse, speech-language pathology, media studies and related fields.
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Communist Historical Newspaper Collection (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Digital access to Communist Party newspapers, covering workers’ rights, social issues, national and international politics, culture and Party activity.
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Compact Memory: Internetarchiv juedischer Periodika
German-Jewish periodicals published between 1806 and 1938.
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Complete Dictionary of Scientific Biography
Lives of scientists from classical antiquity to modern times.
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Computing and Artificial Intelligence: Global Origins of the Digital Age
Access to journal articles and reports covering computing and machine intelligence, 1957-1995.
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Conditions & Politics in Occupied Western Europe, 1940-1945
Full-text documents received in the British Foreign Office from all European states under Nazi occupation during World War II.
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Confederate Military Manuscripts and Records of Union Generals and the Union Army, 1854-1870
Digital access to Confederate Army records. Several previously unpublished collections of records of the Union Army are also included. Documents include papers of spies, scouts, guides and detectives, including a series on Allan Pinkerton; records on military discipline from courts-martial, courts of inquiry and investigations by military commissions.
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Conference Proceedings Citation Index
Citation database covering the published literature of significant conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions in a wide range of disciplines. Includes journal and book-based proceedings in science, social sciences, and humanities across 256 disciplines. Access is for both Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S) and Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH).
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Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966
Official British government correspondence concerning Africa from the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office.
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Confidential Print: Latin America, 1833-1969
This collection consists of the Confidential Print for Central and South America and the French- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean.
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Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969
Covers the countries of the Arabian peninsula, the Levant, Iraq, Turkey and former Ottoman lands in Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt and Sudan from 1839 to 1969. Materials include reports, dispatches, correspondence, descriptions of leading personalities, political summaries, and economic analyses.
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Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961
This collection consists of the Confidential Print for the United States, Canada and the English-speaking Caribbean, with some coverage of Central and South America, and covers such topics as slavery, Prohibition, the First and Second World Wars, racial segregation, territorial disputes, the League of Nations, McCarthyism and the nuclear bomb.
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Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, Africa and the Middle East, 1960-1969
Digital access to U.S. State Department Central Files, including documents relating to American diplomatic reporting on political, military, social, and economic developments in Africa and the Middle East.
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Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, Asia, 1960-1969
Digital access to U.S. State Department Central Files, including documents relating to American diplomatic reporting on political, military, social, and economic developments in China, Far East (general), Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, Laos, Philippine Republic, and Vietnam.
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Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, Europe and Latin America, 1960-1969
Digital access to U.S. State Department Central Files, including documents relating to American diplomatic reporting on political, military, social, and economic developments in the Federal Republic of Germany (West Germany); Germany (focusing on Berlin); Soviet Union; Cuba; Mexico; Panama; and Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru.
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Conflict in Indochina: Foreign Office Files for Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, 1959-1979
Digital access to documents covering key events across Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos during a period of political upheaval, civil unrest and escalating conflict. Includes correspondence, maps, photographs and memoranda. Documents reveal the growing intervention from foreign powers, as China and the Soviet Union sought to expand their influence over communist parties in the region.
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Congress.govComprehensive information on Congressional bills, laws, proceedings provided by the Library of Congress, the Congressional Record and information on Members and Congressional Committees.
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Consumer Health Complete
Provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. Includes content in 16 different languages.
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Contemporary Women's Issues (Gale OneFile)
A multidisciplinary, full-text database of articles about issues that influence women's lives around the world.
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Corporate Affiliations
PLEASE NOTE: Corporate Affiliations is no longer available. Currently, users may access the Nexis Dossier section of Nexis Uni to find similar information. To access Nexis Dossier, go to the “Menu" dropdown at the left of the Nexis Uni homepage, and select “Company Dossier.” Details corporate hierarchies and includes company addresses, personnel, and financial information on public, private, and international parent companies and their affiliates, subsidiaries, and divisions.
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Counseling and Therapy in Video
Counseling and Therapy in Video collection features 400 hours of training video. Provides a firsthand look at the realities of working with clients and the challenges associated with putting theoretical concepts into practice.
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Country Intelligence Reports/State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research Reports USSR (1941-1961)
This collection consists of research and intelligence reports prepared during 1941-1961 on USSR.
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County and Regional Histories & Atlases: Indiana
Digital collection of Indiana regional histories and atlases, covering thirteen cities and regions in 262 titles.
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Covidence
Please note: individual registration is required for access. Users can join the IU Covidence account using their IU email from any IU campus. For assistance with troubleshooting or problems associating an existing Covidence account with IU, users can reach out to rhinrich@iupui.edu or directly to Covidence support at support@covidence.org. Covidence is a web-based software that was originally designed to make systematic reviews as easy as possible to conduct and synthesize.
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CQ Almanac Online
Provides coverage of congressional legislation from 1945 to 2015. Provides analysis of legislation through Congress, including how bills are changed, derailed, or passed.
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CQ Congress Collection
A research and reference tool for historical analysis of members of Congress, their voting behavior, and the legislative process.
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CQ Press Library
An online reference tool on American politics, world affairs, current affairs, history, politics, public policy, and data analysis for the social sciences.
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CQ Researcher
Full text discussions of current, controversial public policy issues in a variety of areas.
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CQ Voting and Elections Collection
A research and reference tool for voting and elections at the state and federal level, including demographic data, bibliographies, and encyclopedia entries.
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CRC Handbook of Chemistry and PhysicsPhysical constants for over 12,000 of the most common chemical substances and many facts about the physical sciences, including conversion factors, health and safety information.
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Creation of Israel: British Foreign Office Correspondence on Palestine and Transjordan, 1940-1948
Access to British Foreign Office Political Correspondence files on Palestine and Transjordan, 1940-1948. Covers the modern history of the Middle East, the establishment of Israel as a sovereign state, and the wider web of postwar international world politics.
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Crime, Punishment, and Popular Culture, 1790–1920
Collection of primary source materials supporting the study of nineteenth-century criminal history, law, literature, and justice. Includes manuscripts, books, broadsheets, and periodicals.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text contains nearly 500,000 records selected from important sources within the discipline. This resource includes full text for over 315 magazines and journals.
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Criterion Collection/ Janus FilmsThe criterion collection is a series of important classic and contemporary films with high technical quality and award-winning, original supplements.
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Cross-National Time Series Data Archive
CNTS provides ranges of annual data from 1815 to the present for all countries for many variables of use to the social scientist researcher
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CSH ProtocolsContains new and classic research techniques covering cell and molecular biology, genetics, bioinformatics, protein science, and imaging.
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Cuban Culture and Cultural Relations, 1959-, Part 1: “Casa y Cultura.”
Primary-source collection of documents from the Casa de las Américas in Havana, documenting the culture and cultural relations of Revolutionary Cuba and countries in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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Culture.pl
The Adam Mickiewicz Institute’s web portal covering the whole spectrum of Polish culture with original contents.
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Current Biography Illustrated
Full text biographies, images, and obituaries from the entire run of Current Biography.
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Current Chemical Reactions
Contains single and multi-step new synthetic methods taken from leading journals and patents from 36 issuing authorities. The overall reaction flow is provided for each method, along with a detailed and accurate graphical representation of each reaction step.
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Current Contents Connect
Complete tables of contents and bibliographic information from the world’s leading scholarly journals and books; also includes relevant, evaluated websites and documents.
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Current Digest of the Russian Press
Full-text English-language online digital archive containing over 10,000 articles from the Soviet/Russian press, government documents and special interest journals from 1949 to present