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Introduction to Library Research
Search the UNC-Chapel Hill Libraries' Catalog
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Academic Search Premier
Abstracts & references for articles from more than 1,500 scholarly, trade & general publications, & references for The NY Times.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Provides information from a wide range of academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides an image archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the sciences.
GEOBASE
GEOBASE covers worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology, and related disciplines.
GenderWatch
A full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues.
Use the check box on the search screen to indicate that you want only scholarly journals.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Provides indexing and abstracts of the international journal literature in political science and related fields, such
as public administration and policy, law, and international relations.
Index Islamicus
"The international classified bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world".
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Broadly covers the social sciences, indexing over 2,700 journals and about 7,000 books each year.
Art Full Text
Art Full Text indexes and offers full text for a wide array of journals in the fields of art history, architecture, craft, design, landscape architecture, museology, photography and video, and much more.
MLA International Bibliography Plus Full Text
A major full text index for literary criticism, linguistics, folklore & cultural studies.
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ARTstor
ARTstor provides curated collections of art images and associated data for noncommercial and scholarly, non-profit educational use.
CAMIO
CAMIO offers offers rights-cleared, high-quality art images for class projects, art history and studio art programs, course Web sites, lectures, presentations, and research resources.
FilmFinder
Search the films available in the Media Resources Center, located on the lower level of the R.B. House Undergraduate Library.
LexisNexis Academic
Provides full-text access to general, regional and international news, company news and financial information, legal information,
and other topics such as biographical information.
Global Newsbank
Provides full text of news summaries, broadcasts and transcripts from hundreds of international sources
Ethnic NewsWatch
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
Blogs
A list of blogs dealing with the Middle East from Technorati.
Community Histories by Youth in the Middle East (Chyme)
Chyme is a collection of digital narratives created by young people in the Middle East.
Human Rights Watch: Middle East and North Africa
General information from the Human Rights Watch about human rights issues in the Middle East and North Africa.