Also see the Research Guide on Math, Statistics, & Research Methods, and the guide on Finding Statistical Information.
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Academic Search Complete
EBSCOhost. Our largest interdisciplinary database containing full-text and bibliographic content from a wide range of academic disciplines.
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Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals (abstracts only)
Indexes articles, news items, book reviews and editorials from 63 English language military and aeronautical periodicals.
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BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (partial full text)
Indexes open-access academic resources including journals, institutional repositories, and digital collections. About 60% of the sources are available in full text. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.
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Black Freedom Struggle in the United States
ProQuest. Features select full text primary source documents related to critical people and events in Black Freedom and African American history.
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CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
Full text documents and articles from research organizations, think tanks, university analysis centers, and scholarly journals devoted to international politics and related fields, including security studies, global finance, diplomatic practice, humanitarian law, global governance, development studies, and environmental studies.
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Congress.gov
Provides access to Congressional reports, legislation, congressional records, and other legislative information.
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Congressional Research Service Reports
Contains reports from the Congressional Research Service, which provides valuable insight and non-partisan analysis of issues of public debate.
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Google Scholar
The academic form of Google, Scholar will search for scholarly articles and books instead of websites. This includes a large number of scholarly eJournal articles subscribed to by Murrell Library. To get full text articles, you must go to “Settings” and select Missouri Valley College in the “Library Links” the very first time you use Google Scholar on your computer. Your computer will save this information and you will not have to enter it again. Click here for a guide to setting up Google Scholar.
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GovTrack
Contains status of federal legislation, information about representative and senators including voting records, and original research on legislation and congressional oversight & investigations.
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Masterfile Premier
EBSCOhost. An interdisciplinary database with provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals. Selected full-text dates from. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books andand many primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.
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Missouri Code of State Regulations
Site which has current and archived Missouri state regulations. Updated each year.
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Missouri House and Senate Joint Bill Tracking
Search by Bill Number, Keyword, or Sponsor-Co-Sponsor to track actions on bills in the Missouri Legislature.
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Missouri State Publications
A collection of selected Missouri State Government publications from Missouri State Agencies contributed to the Internet Archives by the Missouri State Library.
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Public Affairs Index (abstracts only)
EBSCOhost. Abstracts of articles on global contemporary public policy issues including public health, the environment, housing, human and civil rights, international conflict, and natural disasters. This database draws on a diverse array of scholarly publications, conference papers, government documents, and current reference works.
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AgEcon Search
Full text scholarly research in the broadly defined field of agricultural and applied economics including sub disciplines such as agribusiness, food security and supply, energy and natural resource economics, environmental economics, policy issues, international trade, and economic development. Content includes conference presentations, working papers, journal articles, government documents, theses, and dissertations.
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America History & Life (abstracts only)
EBSCOhost.An annotated bibliography focusing on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Includes article abstracts, reviews, and citations to dissertations.
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BASE: Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (partial full text)
Indexes open-access academic resources including journals, institutional repositories, and digital collections. About 60% of the sources are available in full text. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.
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Catalog of Nonprofit Literature (abstracts only)
Maintained by Candid, this is a searchable database of the literature of philanthropy. The Catalog contains citations to materials collected by Candid's libraries and other sources. The Catalog was formerly known as Literature of the Nonprofit Sector.
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Data.gov
The home of the U.S. Government’s open data. Contains data, tools, and resources to conduct research, develop web and mobile applications, design data visualizations, etc.
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Historical Abstracts (abstracts only)
EBSCOhost. Abstracts of articles (exclusing the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women’s history, history of education, and more. Indexes more than 2,300 academic historical journals in over 40 languages dating back to 1955.
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Humanities International Complete
EBSCOhost. Full text of over 1,200 journals and eBooks, as well as indexing for over 2,300 journals. Includes all data from the Humanities International Index.
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Independent Voices (JSTOR)
Alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries. These periodicals were produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
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IssueLab
Candid's online catalog of research reports, case studies, issue briefs, literature reviews, and annual reports published or funded by U.S. foundations. Links to the full text reports are provided. Covers 1971-present.
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Issues & Controversies (Facts on File/InfoBase)
Balanced coverage of international topics and how historical events and conflicts have influenced U.S. and world history. The database is divided into four sections—American History Eras, World History Eras, History Regions, and History Subjects. Includes videos, teacher lesson plans/handouts, primary sources, encyclopedia articles, editorial cartoons, court cases, and timelines.
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News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive (featuring Newsweek)
Full text of 15 major magazines dealing with current events, international relations, and public policy. Coverage: 1918 – 2015. Titles include: Americas, Church & State, Common Cause Magazine, Dollars & Sense, Europe, Fellowship, In These Times, NATO Review, New Internationalist, Newsweek, State Legislatures, UN Chronicle, The Unesco Courier, Whole Earth, and The World Tomorrow. Also contains thousands of open-access journal titles from the Publicly Available Content Database.
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Newspaper Source
Provides cover-to-cover full text for hundreds of national (U.S.), international and regional newspapers. In addition, it offers television and radio news transcripts from major networks.
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New York Times Online
Contains current issues as well as past issues and archives dating back to 1851. You will need to create your own unique login the first time that you access the New York Times. Mobile app available. You must be on campus or in our WiFi when you create your login.
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Regional Business News
EBSCOhost. Full text coverage of more than 80 regional U.S. business publications.
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Regional Business News
EBSCOhost. Full text coverage of more than 80 regional U.S. business publications.
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USA.GOV Data & Statistics
Contains a variety of government statistical information.
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American Archive of Public Broadcasting
Streaming access to over 7,000 historic public radio and television programs along with data records for approximately 2.5 million items.
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Archival Films and Newsreels
Historical and archival films from multiple sources, including: The Prelinger Archives – U.S. cultural and social history; The WPA Film Library – over 2,800 clips and newsreels since the late 1800s; The United Newsreel collection – World War II newsreels from the U.S. Office of War Information; The Universal Newsreel collection – 7 to 10 minute newsreels, released twice per week between 1929 and 1967; Recordings from the National Archives and Records Administration of historic speeches and events.
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C-SPAN Video Library
Video programming of floor proceedings of the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, public affairs events, congressional hearings, press briefings, speeches, and news conferences related to public affairs.
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Credo Reference eBooks
Full-text reference eBooks, images, audio & video files, real-time research on controversial issues, and pro/con arguments. Includes special tools such as a Mind Map, topic search, and image search.
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eBooks from EBSCO (eMO)
Full text eBbooks, including academic, general, science, K-12, open dissertations, and nursing/health books.
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Films on Demand (InfoBase)
Full-length streaming videos in a variety of core subject areas.
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Open Dissertations
EBSCOhost. Provides citations to graduate theses and dissertations from the early 20th century to the present. Incorporates the American Doctoral Dissertations database.
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Overdrive eBooks, Audiobooks, Video
eBooks, audiobooks, and streaming video. Materials include popular fiction, literature, career materials, and a variety of academic titles including nursing, business, and computer science. Use Overdrive may be used on computer or tablet. For mobile use, download the Libby App from the Apple App Store, Google Play, or the Microsoft Store. Overdrive and Libby App instructions are available here.
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Sage Knowledge eBooks
Over 5,100 titles, including scholarly monographs, reference works, handbooks, series, professional development titles, business cases studies, and streaming video. Find Sage eBooks by searching MVC's Avalon library catalog, or directly on the Sage site.
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Salem Press eBooks
eBooks from Salem Press.
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Springer Open Access eBooks
983 eBook titles from Springer.
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Taylor & Francis Open eBooks
Over 1,650 eBooks from a prominent publisher.
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Harvard Dataverse NetworkA rapidly growing collection of social science research data, used by many authors and journals to host their replication data. Also includes pointers to holdings in ICPSR.
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Qualitative Data RepositoryProject hosted at Syracuse University that curates and hosts data from qualitative social science projects. In addition, the site provides detailed guidance, written specifically for social science researchers collecting qualitative data, on key topics such as data management, research involving human participants, and teaching with qualitative data.
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Attribution
Many of the links and resources listed in this guide were compiled by Jeremy Darrington, Politics Librarian at Princeton University Library, https://libguides.princeton.edu/prf.php?account_id=231.