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Amnesty International: The worldwide campaigning movement for human rights. Search or browse the online library for reports and news on countries and campaigns.

Biography Online: An online database of 25,000 greatest individuals, past or present.

CODEP Database: Conflict, Development and Peace network. Contains information on organisations, agencies, institutions, government departments, networks and individuals who are working in the fields of conflict, development and peace.

EBSCOhost: Academic Search Premier searches more than 3,500 full text publications covering a broad range of general reference subjects including arts, business, humanities, social sciences, and the sciences. Business Source Premier almost 3,000 business and management full-text publications. Applied Science & Technology Abstracts contains more than 700 core scientific and technical publications covering engineering, chemistry, computers, physics, telecommunications and more. [Intranet] Quick Guide | Demo

Factiva: Global news and business information service that combines the content sets of Dow Jones Interactive and Reuters Business Briefing. Covers real time news from 8,000 worldwide publications, news pictures and company financials. [Intranet] Quick Guide | Demo

FindArticles.com: A vast archive of published articles that you can search for free. Constantly updated, it contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals. FindArticles is a content-distribution partnership between LookSmart, which provides the search infrastructure, and the Gale Group, which provides the published editorial content.

Global Market Information Database: This database covers statistics and analysis reports published by Euromonitor in the following modules: Detailed Market Size Data, Consumer Lifestyle Data, Country Marketing Parameters, Marketing Forecast Data, Brand and Company Information, Business Information Sources, Marketing Profiles, Full Text Market Analysis. [Intranet]

Infomine Multiple Database Search: An "academic" search engine, focusing on scholarly resource collections, electronic journals and books, online library card catalogs, and directories of researchers.

Ingenta Journals: An e-journal service which provides access to the article content of the journals produced by a selective range of publishers.

Keesings Records of World Events: An electronic archive of the influential monthly digest of news information worldwide, distilled from a variety of English language and international sources. The archive now incorporates hundreds of graphics produced by the Reuters News Graphics Service. Most of these images are in full colour and illustrate world events from May 1990 to December 1994. [CD-ROM] Please borrow CD-ROM from Reference Counter.

ProQuest Digital Dissertations: A database for doctoral dissertations and master's theses from UMI. The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. Some 47,000 new dissertations and 12,000 new theses are added to the database each year. Free "guest" access privileges allow users to search citations and abstracts for all titles in 1998 and 1999. Only institutional subscribers have access to the entire database.

SelfGrowth.com : A self improvement site which provides free newsletters, discussion board, advise from self help experts, inspirational Quotes and IQ & EQ tests.

The Social Science Information Gateway (SOSIG): Provides easy access to quality information sources over the networks. All of the resources that appear on the Gateway have been described, classified and entered into a searchable database.

United Nations Statistics Division: Social indicators, eg population, unemployment, education, income & economic activity of various countries

World Factbook: Central Intelligence Agency. Useful for its country profiles which include such topics as government, economy, communications, transportation and transnational issue. Includes country listing, field listing and reference maps.

Yearbook Plus of International Organizations and Biographies:  Provides 45,000 descriptions of organisations in 13 languages. Along with biographical information it also provides bibliographical information e.g. 15,000 journals and other major publications produced by international organisations and a bibliography of studies of international non-profit organisations. [CD-ROM] Please borrow CD-ROM from Reference Counter.

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