LibGuides: Globalization: Databases & Searching for "Global Issues"

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History / Global Issues

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World History: The Modern Era This link opens in a new window
1500-1700 (Emergence of Modern Europe); 1500-1776 (The World Beyond Europe); 1700-1800 (The Age of Reason); 1776-1825 (A Time of Revolutions); 1776-1914 (Spheres of Influence); 1815-1914 (The Rise of Nationalism); 1800-1914 (The Rise of the Industrial Revolution); 1914-1945 (The World at War); 1945-1991 (The Cold War); 1991- Present (A New Millennium)
Global Issues in Context This link opens in a new window Global Issues in Context offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of these issues. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal. Use Browse Issues and Topics, Country Finder, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.
History Reference Center This link opens in a new window
CIAO Columbia International Affairs Online This link opens in a new window
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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World Geography: Understanding a Changing World This link opens in a new window
Britannica School This link opens in a new window
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
The National Archives (UK) This link opens in a new window
Free resource. 1,000 years of records
DPLA: Digital Public Library of America This link opens in a new window
Free resource. Explore 16,501,850 items from libraries, archives, and museums
WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources This link opens in a new window

Online "Google" Searching Tips

Example: I need information about the impact of free trade and fair trade on Thailand's economy

Keywords

"Fair trade" "free trade" economy thailand

SO create a Search String using Boolean terms to use in a Search Box:

"fair trade" OR "free trade"thai* econom*

"fair trade" OR "free trade" thai* econom*

THEN limit the results to a certain domain:

"fair trade" OR "free trade" thai* econom* site:.edu

"fair trade" OR "free trade" thai* econom* site:.org

"fair trade" OR "free trade" thai* econom* site:.th

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DP: Academic Journal Articles - Open Source

Academic Journals Academic Journals is a broad-based publisher of peer-reviewed open access journals. Academic Journals currently publishes 111 open access journals covering art and humanities, engineering, medical science, social sciences, biological sciences, physical sciences and agricultural sciences.
arXiv Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics
BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine BASE provides more than 100 million documents from more than 4,000 sources. You can access the full texts of about 60% of the indexed documents for free (Open Access). BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.
Berghahn Open Access
eBooks & Journals: Anthropology, Archaeology, Cultural Studies, Environmental Studies, Film & Television Studies, History, Refugee & Migration Studies
Britain and the European Union - London School of Economics Library Resources
Data Repositories
Open Access Directory--ALL subjects
DOAB: Directory of Open Access Books
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
EconBiz EconBiz is a search portal for economics and business studies. It offers: A literature search across important German and international databases; Access to full texts on the internet; Acalendar of events for scholarly conferences and summer schools; Reference service Research Guide EconDesk which answers your questions about the search for literature and statistical data.
Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene Atmospheric Science Earth & Environmental Science Ecology Ocean Science Sustainability Transitions Sustainable Engineering
ERIC
Institute of Education Services
Gapminder
GoogleScholar Multidisciplinary
MDPI - The Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute Based in Switzerland, is a publisher of more than 110 peer-reviewed, open access journals covering arts, sciences, technology and medicine.
Microsoft Academic "Semantic search" responds with results based on more than keywords
National Bureau of Economics Research a private, non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to conducting economic research and to disseminating research findings among academics, public policy makers, and business professionals. NBER-affiliated researchers study a wide range of topics and they employ many different methods in their work. Key focus areas include developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, and analyzing the effects of public policies.
Open Access Library
OpenGrey - Grey Literature System for Information on Grey Literature in Europe, is your open access to 700.000 bibliographical references of grey literature (paper) produced in Europe and allows you to export records and locate the documents. Examples of grey (gray) literature include technical or research reports, doctoral dissertations, some conference papers, some official publications, and other types of grey literature. OpenGrey covers Science, Technology, Biomedical Science, Economics, Social Science and Humanities. The site includes preprints from the GL conferences (GreyNet International) in full text.
PhilPapers Some are open source. However, when you click on a topic it provides a good overview and keywords, people, dates.
PLOS One
10 years (2018)
RefSeek RefSeek's unique approach offers students comprehensive subject coverage without the information overload of a general search engine—increasing the visibility of academic information and compelling ideas that are often lost in a muddle of sponsored links and commercial results.
Springer Open Offers a roster of more than 160 peer-reviewed, open access journals, as well as their more recent addition of free access books, covering all scientific disciplines.
SSRN: Social Science Research Network SSRN's eLibrary provides 706,268 research papers from 325,723 researchers across 24 disciplines.

ADS: Astrophysics Data System The ADS is operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory under NASA Cooperative Agreement NNX16AC86A
Agris Agriculture and Technology
arXiv Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics
ASDL: Analytical Sciences Digital Library ASDL, collects, catalogs, links and publishes peer reviewed web-based discovery materials pertinent to innovations in curricular development and supporting technical resources in the analytical sciences.
BioMed Central UK-based publisher of 258 peer-reviewed open access journals. Their published works span science, technology and medicine and include many well-regarded titles.
BioOne BioOne is a nonprofit publisher that aims to make scientific research more accessible through a growing portfolio of products including its full-text aggregation, BioOne Complete, and open-access journal, Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene. Established in 1999 by five founding organizations—the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), The University of Kansas, the Greater Western Library Alliance (GWLA), and Allen Press, Inc—BioOne serves a community of over 140 society and institutional publishers, 4,000 accessing institutions, and millions of researchers worldwide.
The Clay Mathematics Institute The Clay Mathematics Institute (CMI) is a privately funded operating foundation dedicated to increasing and disseminating mathematical knowledge.
The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein
Copernicus Publications An open-access scientific publisher in Germany since 2001. They are strong supporters of the researchers who create these articles, providing top-level peer review and promotion for their work.
De Gruyter Open One of Germany’s leading publishers of open access content. Today DeGruyter Open (DGO) publishes about 400 owned and third-party scholarly journals and books across all major disciplines.
EDP Open France-based scientific publisher with an international mission. They publish more than 50 scientific journals, with some 60,000 published pages annually.
Elementa: Science of the Anthropocene Atmospheric Science Earth & Environmental Science Ecology Ocean Science Sustainability Transitions Sustainable Engineering
Europe PMC A database of biomedical and life sciences literature with access to full-text research articles and citation. Europe PMC includes resources from PubMed and PubMed Central (PMC), projects developed at the NCBI in the USA. Europe PMC is part of a network of PMC International (PMCI) repositories that also includes PMC Canada.
GMD - Gohn Metabolone Database The Golm Metabolome Database (GMD) facilitates the search for and dissemination of reference mass spectra from biologically active metabolites quantified using gas chromatography (GC) coupled to mass spectrometry (MS). GC/MS profiling studies aiming at the identification of compounds from complex biological mixtures depend on the comparison of observed mass spectra and retention times with reference libraries such as the GMD. The GMD comprises mass spectra and retention time indices of pure reference substances and frequently observed mass spectral tags (MST: mass spectrum linked to chromatographic retention) of yet unidentified metabolites.
Mathematics & Statistics Open Select
Taylor & Francis Online
NASA: National Aeronautics and Space Administration PubSpace PubMed Central (PMC) is a full-text, online archive of journal literature operated by the National Library of Medicine. NASA is using PMC to permanently preserve and provide easy public access to the peer-reviewed papers resulting from NASA-funded research.
Open Science Directory Contains about 13,000 scientific journals, with another 7,000 special programs titles.
OSTI - Office of Science and Technical Information U.S. Department of Energy. The Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) is the Department of Energy (DOE) office that collects, preserves, and disseminates DOE-sponsored research and development (R&D) results that are the outcomes of R&D projects or other funded activities at DOE labs and facilities nationwide and grantees at universities and other institutions. The information is typically in the form of technical documents, conference papers, articles, multimedia, and software, collectively referred to as scientific and technical information (STI).
PubChem U.S. National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Heath and Human Services.
SciELO - Scientific Electronic Library Online SciELO is a bibliographic database and a model for cooperative electronic publishing in developing countries originally from Brazil. It contains 985 scientific journals from different countries in free and universal access, full-text format.
Science.gov Science.gov searches over 60 databases and over 2200 selected websites from 15 federal agencies, offering 200 million pages of authoritative U.S. government science information including research and development results. Science.gov is governed by the interagency Science.gov Alliance.
Science Direct
ScienceOpen
Scientilion )perating and used in over 20 countries worldwide. A search engine with a difference, Scientilion was built with a commitment to aid scientific research through an easier and faster interface. Within a short while Scientillion turned into a popular research search engine providing holistic academic and scientific content in all arenas of work. Our main focus is on quantitative science
SciTech Connect
Semantic Scholar - Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence singular focus of conducting high-impact research and engineering in the field of artificial intelligence, all for the common good. AI2 is the creation of Paul Allen, Microsoft co-founder, and is led by Dr. Oren Etzioni, a world-renowned researcher and professor in the field of AI and computer science.
WorldWideScience.org Global science gateway comprised of national and international scientific databases and portals. WorldWideScience.org accelerates scientific discovery and progress by providing one-stop searching of databases from around the world (Architecture: What is under the Hood). Multilingual WorldWideScience.org provides real-time searching and translation of globally-dispersed multilingual scientific literature.

CIA World Factbook
The World Factbook provides basic intelligence on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, terrorism, and transnational issues for 266 world entities.
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations
Model UN: UNA-USA's Resource Links
OAPEN: Open Access Publishing in European Networks The OAPEN Library contains freely accessible academic books, mainly in the area of humanities and social sciences.
SSRN (Social Sciences Resource Network)
U.S. Department of State, Bilateral Relations Fact Sheets
The Women's Library @ LSE Primary sources. London School of Economics

Global "Search" for "Global Issues" - Websites

ASEAN: Association of Southeast Asian Nations
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Political Security Community
Economic Community
Socio-Cultural Community
The Commonwealth iLibrary
Titles are organized by series, year and alphabetically, and search and discovery of complete publications or even their components – articles and chapters – is a click away. You can READ but not download or print articles and books.
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"The Commonwealth Secretariat’s publications are a key part of the organisation’s mission to work as a trusted partner for all Commonwealth people as a force for peace, democracy, equality and good governance; a catalyst for global consensus-building; and a source of assistance for sustainable development and poverty eradication."
Global Oneness Project
Photo essays, stories, films
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The Global Oneness Project produces multicultural stories for classroom use. The stories released each month are presented through short videos, photo essays, and articles. Each story includes a lesson plan ....The topics address global themes such as cultural sustainability, architectural heritage, changing ecosystems, community, and language. Users can search for lessons by subject, media type, theme, or standard.
OECD Library
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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Books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data
TED: Global Issues
UN iLibrary
United Nations publications. Browse by Theme, Country, and Theme & Country!
WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs
Eizabethtown College, PA. Comprehensive resource for free International Affairs research. Start HERE!