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Arts and Humanities Search Indexes leading arts and humanities journals worldwide. Search by cited author, cited work, or topic, 1980 to current. Previously Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online A selection of full-text books, conference reports, and working papers on international affairs. 
Directory of Open Access Journals This service covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. We aim to cover all subjects and languages. There are now 3303 journals in the directory. Currently 1076 journals are searchable at article level. As of today 175523 articles are included in the DOAJ service.
Dissertation Abstracts For an extensive project or thesis, use this catalog of dissertations and masters' theses published from 1851 to current.
EconLit Index for over 600 journals (400+ full-text), books, documents, and working papers in the field of economics. 1969 - present. List of Econlit Subject Descriptors. Go shortcuts = go/econlit (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/econlit (off-campus)
ERIC Database ERIC (Education Resources Information Center) is the world's largest source of education information, containing more than 1 million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles.
Historical Abstracts Major index to over 2,000 international journals, book reviews, and dissertations on the history of the world, except United States and Canada. Covers topics from 1450 (i.e. the Renaissance) to the present. Indexes publications published from 1955 to current.
Index Islamicus Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level. 1906 - present.
JSTOR Full-text archive of over 700 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences covering all issues published, except for the last 2 to 5 years. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. Shortcuts: go/jstor (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/jstor (off-campus).
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Academic Universe provides access to the full text of national and international newspapers, magazines, wire services, and more. It also includes business, financial, and legal information, including laws, regulations, cases, and EU law. The non-English language news link includes news in French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Go shortcut = go/lexis (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/lexis (off-campus)
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts Covers all aspects of the study of language, including anthropological and applied linguistics, second language acquisition, philosophy of language, non-verbal communication, and literary theory. Provides abstracts from articles, books, and other publications, 1960-present.
MESA - Middle East Studies Association Bulletin Journal of Review for the Middle east Studies Association
MLA Bibliography The major modern language index for literary criticism, linguistics, film and folklore. 1926-current. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted.
PAIS International Indexes journals, books, and documents covering global public policy and social issues in all disciplines. 1972 - current. For 1915 -1976, switch to PAIS Archive (click on Specific Database link to choose PAIS Archive). Go shortcut = go/pais
Periodicals Index Online (PIO) A database of millions of article citations published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years, from their first issues to 1995 with some to 2000. Includes journals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages--with links to full text, when available. Formerly PCI.
Project Muse Offers full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics from the 1990s to present. This is a subscription resource; for off-campus access, enter your Middlebury username and password when prompted. Shortcuts: go/muse (on campus), http://go.middlebury.edu/muse (off-campus).
Social Sciences Citation Index Indexes core scholarly social science journals worldwide. Search by cited authors or works, or search by words in the bibliographic citations. Go shortcut = go/wos Note: access through Web of Science
Universal Digital Library Access to over 1 million digitized books. Most titles are in Chinese or English, but other languages are included, such as Arabic.
WorldCat Use this union catalog of over 40 million books, documents, reports, and media from libraries worldwide to identify books to request via InterLibrary Loan. If we don't own the book and you want to borrow it from another library, click on the ILL icon from the record.
International Geographic Resources
Arab.net Portal site to historical and geographical information and news about the Middle East.
Columbia Gazetteer of the World A database of names, descriptions, and characteristics of over 165,000 places in the world.
Library of Congress Country Studies The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.
al-Bab: an open door to the Arab world Portal site introducing Arab culture.
Portals to the World Links to electronic resources from around the world selected by librarians at the Library of Congress. 
Research in Middle Eastern Studies (Harvard University) A research guide compiled by Harvard University Library
Yamada Language Guides Web Portal for numerous language related sites
Governments on the WWW Comprehensive database of governmental institutions on the World Wide Web: parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, city councils, public broadcasting corporations, central banks, multi-governmental institutions etc. Includes also political parties. Online since June 1995. Contains more than 17000 entries from more than 220 countries and territories as of June 2002. 
Literature Resource Center The Gale Literature Resource Center provides basic information about an author or a playwright as well as literary criticism from journals. When you do a search on the author's name, the first tab of results will be a link to a biographical profile of his/her life and works, while the second tab will give links to literary criticism and other articles. Other tabs will lead to additional resources.
RefWorks RefWorks will automatically generate bibliographies and format your research papers in any of hundreds of styles including MLA, APA, Chicago, and Turabian. Middlebury College students and faculty may use RefWorks by creating a RefWorks account. For more info, follow the RefWorks link or email refworks@middlebury.edu. Middlebury-specific RefWorks Guide located at http://go.middlebury.edu/refworks?midd.
Arabic-English Dictionary Ectaco Online Dictionaries - Arabic
MIDCAT List - Arabic Language Dictionaries Active catalog search. Note: Active catalog search
Your Dictionary Portal site for online language dictionaries and grammars.
Dissertation Abstracts Online Dissertation Abstracts Online is a subject, title, and author guide to American doctoral dissertations and masters theses from 1861 to the present, Canadian, British and European dissertations from 1988 to the present. Abstracts are included for entries after 1980
MIDCAT List -- Encyclopedias, Arabic Active Catalog Search Note: Active catalog search
Aljazeera Major news source in Arabic
Arabic Newsstand Portal site for news in Arabic.
Kidon Media Link Links to 18,776 newspapers and other news sources from almost every country and territory in the world.
Newspaper Direct 45 day archive of full-color, full-page scanned images of over 700 newspapers from 76 countries in 38 languages.
Newspapers24 12,000 newspapers, 24 hours news
World News Connection Full-text translations of world press and broadcasting, 1995 to current.
Arabic Bible MP3 audio of the Bible in Arabic - also links to text site.
Electronic Text Center: early Islam Several early texts, including the Koran, in English translation
Online Arabic Literature Arab cultural and social website. Provides a collection of Arab cultural information, books, Islamic resources and more
Radio-Locator Find radio stations by country
CIA - The World Factbook Produced by the CIA, country information including basic statistics.
International TV Portal site to TV stations from around the world
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