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    PAIS Index

    PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) indexes articles, books, studies, selected official documents and other resources on public policy issues, public administration, law, politics and government.

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    Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement

    Collection consists of materials from the years 1913 through 1998 that document African American author and activist Amiri Baraka. Includes poetry, organizational records, print publications, articles, plays, speeches, personal correspondence, oral histories, and personal records. The materials cover Baraka's involvement in the politics in Newark, N.J. and in Black Power movement organizations such as the Congress of African People, the National Black Conference movement, the Black Women's United Front. Later materials document Baraka's increasing involvement in Marxism.

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    Passport GMID: Global Market Information Database

    Please note: Euromonitor allows access to IU faculty, staff, and students only.  Authorized users may utilize the information obtained from this resource for academic, non-commercial purposes only, and only during the time of official affiliation with IU. Global market research database encompassing historical and forecasted statistics, reports & interactive tools on industries, economies and consumers in 210 different countries and territories. Passport also tracks the effects of COVID-19 for 50 different countries

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    Past Masters Philosophers

    Collection of primary source full-text electronic editions in philosophy. Includes full corpora of figures in the history of the human sciences, including published and unpublished works, articles, essays, reviews, and correspondence. Works are in the original languages, with some translations included. 

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    Patrologia Latina

    Electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. Covers the works of the Latin Fathers from Tertullian in 200 A.D. to Pope Innocent III in 1216. Includes the complete Patrologia Latina, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes. Migne's column numbers, essential references for scholars, are also included.

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    Peace Research Abstracts

    Bibliographic database with materials on peace and conflict resolution research. Indexes thousands of journal articles and other sources covering peace-related topics, including nonviolence, war, international affairs and peace psychology. 

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    Pennsylvania Gazette

    The Pennsylvania Gazette covered colonial America, the revolution and the early republic. Includes articles, editorials, letters, news items and advertisements. Also included in the Gazette are the texts of such important writings as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Letters from a Farmer, Thomas Payne`s Common Sense, The Federalist Papers and other documents.

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    People's Daily Database

    Please note: select “please click here to enter if your library/institution subscribes the database” to access database. Daily newspaper providing a platform for the central government and the Communist Party of China to announce their respective policies and disseminate governmental, political, and economic messages to the public and the world. People's Daily is the official voice of the central government of the People's Republic of China. 

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    Perdita Manuscripts

    Provides digital access to manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, sourced from archives and libraries across the United Kingdom and the USA.

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    Periodicals Index Online

    Index to millions of articles published in over 6,000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. Encompasses three centuries of scholarly publication in over 60 languages and dialects, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages.

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    Peterson's Test Prep

    Includes over 100 practice tests and courses and information on over 4,000 accredited schools. PLEASE NOTE: Users must create individual accounts to take practice tests.

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    Philosopher's Index

    A bibliographic database with abstracts covering scholarly research in philosophy since 1940. Cites works in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese and Japanese.

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    PhilPapers

    PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers.

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    Pinkerton's National Detective Agency Records, 1853-1999

    Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, the oldest company of private investigators in the United States, pursued some of the nation's most notorious criminals including Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Jesse James, Alfred Brady, John Dillinger, and countless others. The collection consists of an Administrative File, Criminal Case Files, and the Family Directors File. 

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    Pitchbook

    Please note:  New users must first register from a computer on campus. IU users must create an individual account using their iu.edu email. After registering, users may access the database from anywhere on or off campus via the Library link. Users must re-register in June of each year to reconfirm affiliation. Access to data, research and technology covering private capital markets, including venture capital and private equity.

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    PIVOT

    The Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the IUPUI Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research jointly funds Indiana University's subscription to Pivot for all IU campuses.  Pivot is a database of funding opportunities for research.

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    Play Index

    Indexes classic and historical plays, along with the works of contemporary playwrights. Includes new editions and translations, as well as descriptive annotations to summarize the plot and indicate musical requirements.

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    Policy File Index

    Resource for U.S. public policy research. Users are able to access timely, updated information from over 350 public policy think tanks, nongovernmental organizations, research institutes, university centers, advocacy groups, and other entities.

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    Political Extremism and Radicalism

    Primary source documents related to unorthodox (by contemporary standards) fringe groups from both the right and left of the political spectrum. Content supports scholars and students answering questions on philosophical, social, political, and economic ideologies as well as on contemporary issues surrounding gender, sexuality, race, religion, civil rights, universal suffrage, and more.

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    Political Philosophy: Machiavelli to Mill

    Texts in political philosophy, including the major works of: Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Thomas Paine (1737-1809), David Hume (1711-1776), John Locke (1632-1704), John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), John Jay (1745-1829), James Madison (1751-1836), and Jean-Jacques; Rousseau (1712-1778).

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    Political Science Database

    Access to political science, public policy, and international relations journals. Also includes thousands of recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country reports, policy papers and other sources.

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    Politics Collection

    Covers international literature in political science and public administration/policy, along with related fields. Includes abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, country reports, dissertations, think-tank reports, working papers, government documents and more.

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    Polling the Nations

    Public opinion surveys conducted by polling organizations in the United States and other countries. Aggregated from more than 1,000 sources, these polls cover breaking-news events, and various topics, including affirmative action, criminal justice reform, drugs, foreign policy, immigration, race relations, the United Nations, and voting rights.

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    Posada and the Mexican Imagination

    A collaborative curated digital exhibition on the work of master printmaker José Guadalupe Posada (1852-1913). Posada's work covered a broad variety of themes and genres ranging from humorous social commentary and political satire to juvenile stories, recipes and patterns, folklore, popular religion, and sensational news.

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    Pravda

    Digital archive of Pravda (Правда, Truth), the central daily of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Coverage is 1912-2009. 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.

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    Pravda Ukrainy Digital Archive

    Established in 1938 in Kyiv, Pravda Ukrainy (originally Sovetskaia Ukraina) was a Russian-language Soviet Ukrainian daily and a newspaper of record, serving as the official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine and Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR. As such the newspaper was the Ukrainian Communist Party’s leading print media agent in the dissemination of the party’s opinions about politics, culture, economics and other important issues.

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    Preprint Citation Index

    Multidisciplinary collection of preprints from a wide range of preprint repositories. Each record contains standard bibliographic metadata such as author, abstract, keywords, descriptor terms, and more. Enhanced metadata includes full author addresses, grant funding and cited references. Coverage includes research areas in the life sciences, mathematics, computer science, engineering, social science, and humanities.

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    Primary Search

    Primary Search is a full text database providing popular children’s magazines, easy-to-read encyclopedic entries and an image collection containing relevant photos, maps and flags.

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    PrivCo

    PLEASE NOTE: INDIVIDUAL REGISTRATION WITH AN OFFICIAL INDIANA UNIVERSITY EMAIL ACCOUNT IS REQUIRED TO ACCESS THIS RESOURCE. PrivCo is a source for business and financial data on major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies.

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    ProcurementIQ

    Access to procurement reports covering a multitude of indirect purchasing lines. Reports range from 15-20 pages, cover product/service pricing dynamics, product characteristics that affect the purchasing decision, supplier benchmarking and supply chain risks, and negotiation questions and tactics.

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    Progressive Era: Reform, Regulation, and Rights, 1872-1934

    Access to digital collections on the Progressive Movement. The collections cover women's right to vote, the Standard Oil monopoly case, the efforts of journalist Henry Demarest Lloyd, the University Settlement Society of New York City, prohibition, reform of law enforcement, the Teapot Dome bribery case regarding petroleum reserves on government lands, and regulation of food and drugs.

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    Progressive Era: Robert M. La Follette Papers, 1879-1924

    Digital access to the papers of Congressman, Governor, and United States Senator, Robert Marion La Follette, one of the crucial figures of the Progressive Movement of the early twentieth century. La Follette’s papers focus on his fight to reform corruption and injustice in the political system of the state of Wisconsin. They include correspondence with Andrew Carnegie, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and other major figures of the Progressive Era.

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    Progressive Era: Voices of Reform, 1875-1945

    Digital access to correspondence, writings, speeches, diaries and photographs of five leading members of the Progressive movement: John R. Commons, Charles R. Van Hise, Richard T. Ely, Edward A. Ross and Charles McCarthy. Covers the growth of industrialization following the Civil War in areas like employment and child labor, education, taxation, elections, conservation, and regulation of food, public utilities, and corporations. 

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    Project Gutenberg

    Free, full text, downloadable ebooks for books out of copyright in the U.S. Project. Project Gutenberg has the goal of making information, books, and other materials available to the public in forms that are easy to read, use, quote, and search. Includes  access to electronic text listings, recent releases, newsletters, articles, and other archives.

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    Project Muse

    Provides full text access and indexing for e-journals and e-books from a variety of scholarly publishers. Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

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    Project Syndicate

    News commentaries intended for a global audience. Features contributions by prominent political leaders, policymakers, scholars, business leaders, and civic activists from around the world.

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    Projekt Dyabola

    Access to Projekt Dyabola: The Archaeological Bibliography (formerly known as the Subject Catalogue of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Rome).

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    ProQuest Business

    Allows users to search across six ProQuest business databases: ABI/INFORM Complete‎, EconLit‎, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)‎. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global: Business, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Wall Street Journal, and The Women's Wear Daily Archive.

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    ProQuest Central

    Periodical resource bringing together complete databases across all major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, as well as core titles in the Performing and Visual Arts, History, Religion, Philosophy, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.

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    ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global

    Comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, including millions of works from thousands of universities.  Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637.

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    ProQuest History Vault

    Archival collections documenting topics in eighteenth- through twentieth-century American history. Provides access to digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and many more primary source materials taken from the University Publications of America (UPA) Collections.

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    ProQuest Statistical Insight

    Access to statistical content  information produced by U.S. federal agencies, states, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. Includes tables, statistical reports, publication abstracts, and datasets. Results are ranked by relevance. Faceted search results can then be filtered by document type, source, date published, geographic area, and more.

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    Prowess_dx

    REGISTRATION REQUIRED FOR INDIVIDUAL USERS. Prowess_dx delivers data for about 34,000 Indian companies. This includes listed companies, unlisted public companies and private companies. All companies listed on the National Stock Exchange and the Bombay Stock Exchange are covered. The coverage includes companies of all sizes and ownership.

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    PsychiatryOnline

    Online access to psychiatric textbooks, journals, and professional development tools. Includes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders fifth edition.

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    Psychology Database

    Access to abstracts and indexing for key psychology titles, many which are available in full text. Coverage ranges from behavioral, clinical, cognitive, developmental, experimental, industrial and social psychology, along with personality, psychobiology and psychometrics.

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    PTSDpubs

    Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, PTSDpubs provides citations and abstracts to the international literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental health sequelae of traumatic events.

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    Public Health Archives: Public Health in Modern America, 1890-1970

    Documents the rise of the twentieth-century public health system in the United States through correspondence, reports, pamphlets, ephemera, and more. Includes primary sources covering the evolution and impact of public health legislation, policies, and campaigns at the local, national, and federal levels.

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    Public Health Database

    Access to core literature in the field of public health. Subjects covered include: nutrition and dietetics, physical fitness and hygiene, population studies, social services and welfare, statistics, biology - genetics, drug abuse and alcoholism, special education and rehabilitation, environmental studies, industrial health and safety, communicable diseases, allergology and immunology, nurses and nursing, and pediatrics

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    Publicly Available Content Database

    Brings together or links to full text for publicly available scholarly content from a number of different sources from around the world. Includes content from major subject repositories such as arXiv as well as open access journals. Content includes journal articles, pre-prints, books, conference papers and reports.

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    PubMed

    Free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally.  Contains more than 30 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature.

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    punctum books

    Access to freely available e-books in the fields of humanities, social sciences, fine arts, and architecture & design.  punctum focuses on authors who want to publish books that are genre-queer and genre-bending and take experimental risks with the forms and styles of intellectual writing.

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