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R2 Digital Library

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Large collection of full-text online books in health sciences disciplines. Many titles allow limited simultaneous users.

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Based at Fisk University from 1943-1970, the Race Relations Department and its annual Institute were set up by the American Missionary Association to investigate problem areas in race relations and develop methods for educating communities and preventing conflict.

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Rafu Shimpo

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Rafu Shimpo is the longest running Japanese American newspaper in the United States. The paper began in 1903 supporting the small but growing Japanese community in the Little Tokyo area of Los Angeles, California. The Rafu Shimpo Digital Archive contains all obtainable published issues from 1914 through 2017.

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RAMBI - The Index of Articles on Jewish Studies - is a selective bibliography of articles in the various fields of Jewish studies and in the study of Eretz Israel.

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RAND State Statistics

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This database is sponsored by RAND, the nation's leading think tank. Contains four State Collections by geographic region. 200 Social Science databases covering all 50 states, plus 80 detailed databases on California, 30 on New York, and 60 on Texas.

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Contains nearly 200 Social Science databases covering all 50 U.S. states. The California (CA) collection contains these 200 U.S. databases, plus about 80 detailed databases on California. The Texas (TX) collection contains these 200 U.S. databases, plus about 60 detailed databases on Texas.

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Rarebooks.stanford.edu is a resource for scholars, students, librarians, book professionals, and collectors. Here you can search across and within the full text of over 100 rare book bibliographies, library catalogs and sales catalogs. Subjects cover early printing, world literature, natural history, science, medicine, theology, cultural and area studies, Judaica, music, theology, art and architecture, among others.

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A global registry of research data repositories and contents. This registry can be used to search for a data repository or datasets. Good for identifying data repositories for your own data or finding raw datasets.

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Readers'€™ Guide Full Text Mega includes indexing of over 450 periodicals as far back as 1983 and searchable full text of articles from over 250 journals as far back as 1994.

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Readers'€™ Guide Retrospective: 1890-1982 provides indexing of over three million articles from more than 550 leading magazines, including full coverage of the original print volumes of Readers'€™ Guide to Periodical Literature.

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Reaxys

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Find data and full-text articles and patents on chemicals and chemical compounds, including properties, reactions, and structures.

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PDF scores of the Recent Research series from A-R Editions: Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque, Classical, Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries, American Music, Oral Traditions, and Yale University’s Collegium Musicum.

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This database, and its collective online catalog CER.ES, brings together information and images from the collections of more than 100 participating museums in Spain. Searchable by subject, museum type and location. Basic and advanced searching available.

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Reference Universe

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Contains millions of index terms to specialized subject encyclopedias, compendia, and scholarly handbooks.

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Refworks

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RefWorks is a Web-based bibliography and database manager that allows users to create their own personal database by importing references from text files or online databases. Researchers can use these references in writing their papers and automatically format the paper and the bibliography in seconds.

First time users can create an account on refworks.proquest.com and select the “Create Account” link and use your USC email to start the account.

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REHABDATA, produced by the National Rehabilitation Information Center, describes over 70,000 documents covering physical, mental, and psychiatric disabilities, independent living, vocational rehabilitation, special education, assistive technology, law, employment, and other issues as they relate to people with disabilities. The collection spans 1956 to the present.

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Religions of America

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Discover the history and unique character of religious movements that originated in the United States and Canada.

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This a visualization of research data repositories from re3data.org. You can use this visualization to find a data repository near you.

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RePEc (Research Papers in Economics) is a collaborative effort of hundreds of volunteers in 73 countries to enhance the dissemination of research in economics.

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Revolution and Protest Online explores the protest movements, revolutions, and civil wars that have transformed societies and human experience from the 18th century through the present. Organized around more than thirty events and areas, representing a variety of time periods, regions, and topics, this collection will include at completion 175 hours of video, 100,000 pages of printed materials.

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Provides single gateway to Fulltext of journal articles, theses & dissertations of Korea, as well as holdings of university libraries.

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A searchable international registry indexing the creation, location and growth of open access institutional repositories and their contents. Good for identifying data repositories for your own data or finding raw datasets.

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Rock's Backpages

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Curated selections of popular music writing, sourced from the music and mainstream presses since 1960.

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Presenting the manuscript collections of the Wordsworth Trust, this digital collection offers students and researchers of the Romantic period unique access to the working notebooks, verse manuscripts and correspondence of William Wordsworth and his fellow writers, including Dorothy Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Thomas De Quincey and Robert Southey. The resource is provided by Adam Matthew.

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Provided by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University, Roper iPoll is the largest collection of public opinion poll data with results from 1935 to the present. Roper iPoll contains nearly 800,000 questions and over 23,000 datasets from both U.S. and international polling firms. Surveys cover any number of topics including, social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, science, the environment, and much more. When available, results charts, demographic crosstabs and full datasets are provided for immediate download.

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Articles cover all major subject areas within philosophy. All schools and traditions in both western and non-western philosophy are examined. Current bibliographies are provided after each article.

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Gateway for access to Royal College of Psychiatrists historical publications Asylum Journal of Mental Science (1855-1857) and Journal of Mental Science (1857-1962), which is now the British Journal of Psychiatry.

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Modern recordings help you bring Shakespeare to life in the classroom. The Royal Shakespeare Company Collectionoffers high-definition recordings of The Bard’s dramatic canon, featuring the world’s best Shakespearean actors and directors, along with supplemental teaching materials to help students engage more deeply with the material and enhance the overall learning experience.

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Based on Joseph Sabin's landmark bibliography, this collection contains works about the Americas published throughout the world from 1500 to the early 1900's.

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Contains links to numerous English-language Bibles as well as Latin (Latin Vulgate), Greek and Hebrew editions, some of which have been scanned.

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SAGE Business Cases

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SAGE Business Cases is the first discipline-wide digital collection tailored to library needs. These cases bring business to life – inspiring researchers to develop their own best practices and prepare for professional success.

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SAGE Data

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Sage Data (formerly Data-Planet) is an interactive database that allows users to create tables, maps, and figures from a variety data sources covering banking, criminal justice, education,energy, food and agriculture, government, health, housing and construction,industry and commerce, labor and employment, natural resources and environment, income, cost of living, stocks, transportation, and more.

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SAGE eReference

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Sage e-Reference is a full-text collection of over 80 online specialized encyclopedias in the social sciences, including communications, gender studies, social work, history, psychology, etc.

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The IMechE Proceedings Archive 1847-1996 is providing direct access to over 200,000 pages of unique material, including technical papers, obituaries, meeting reports, technical drawings, and editorial comment, all covering some of the most influential and innovative years of engineering development.

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Streaming video that supports teaching, learning, and research at all levels. Intended to support key course needs; videos within each collection are mapped to curricula to meet specific course, programs and degree outcomes.

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454 videos and over 143 hours are available in this collection. It includes in-depth interviews with experts from across the globe on topics as varied as innovation management, corporate social responsibility and social media marketing.

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This collection of over 130 hours of video draws upon a vast network of SAGE’s authors and editors. It includes many tutorials, interviews, and demonstrations, along with many more films addressing practitioner issues.

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