Africa Yearbook     [e-book]

The Africa Yearbook covers major domestic political developments, the foreign policy and socio-economic trends in sub-Sahara Africa — all related to developments in one calendar year. The Yearbook contains articles on all sub-Saharan states, each of the four sub-regions (West, Central, Eastern, Southern Africa) focusing on major cross-border developments and sub-regional organizations as well as one article on continental developments and one on European-African relations.

American Factfinder     [Web Sites]

Access to 1990 and 2000 decennial censuses, the American Community Survey, and the 1997 Economic Census.

D&B Private Company Data     [e-book]

Key business and financial date and general information on private companies

Disease Control Priorities in Developing Countries  2006   [e-book]

Dean T. Jamison et al., eds. Provides information about the cost-effectiveness of health interventions in a variety of settings.

Factiva     [e-book]

Factiva from Dow Jones has over 14,000 news and business sources from around the world, including newspapers, magazines, wire services, media transcripts, company and industry reports, historical market data, and advanced charting tools.

Fed Stats     [Web Sites]

Links to more than 70 U.S. Federal agencies that provide statistics for public use.

Global Industry Reports     [Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks]

Research and view reports based on industry sectors and countries.

GlobalHealthFacts.org     [Web Sites]

GlobalHealthFacts.org, a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, provides free, up-to-date and easy-to-access data by country on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other key health and socio-economic indicators. The data are displayed in tables, charts, and color-coded maps and can be downloaded for custom analyses. GlobalHealthFacts.org is a companion site to GlobalHealthReporting.org, a project operated by the Foundation with major support from the Bill

Handbook of Chemistry and Physics     [Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, and Handbooks]

The very popular CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics is now online. Corresponding to the 85th edition in content, this new version enables quick and easy access to everything the Handbook has to offer. You can browse through the Table of Contents or search for a specific piece of data.

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research     [Primary Sources]

ICPSR provides access to an archive of social science data for research and instruction. Data files are raw data, not in report format, and are used with statistical software, such as SAS, SPSS, and Stata. There is a tutorial on the site and a Tufts University contact is listed to help with downloading

LexisNexis Academic     [Indexes and Abstracts]

Includes articles from major American newspapers and regional papers, statistics, company financial information, country and state profiles, and medical information. Major source for federal case law and statutes, the U.S. Code, law reviews, and state legal research.

LexisNexis Statistical     [Primary Sources]

Statistical information from the U.S. government, including the Statistical Abstract of the United States and other sources. Online version of American Statistics Index, Statistical Reference Index, and Index to International Statistics.

National Hospital Discharge and Ambulatory Surgery Data  1990   [Web Sites]

Conducted annually since 1965, the survey provides information on characteristics of inpatients discharged from non-Federal short-stay hospitals in the US. For print holdings of annual summaries published in the National Center for Health Statistics' Vital & Health Statistics Series, search the Tufts Catalog.

NationMaster     [Web Sites]

Statistical data source on countries with information from sources such as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD. Users can generate maps and graphs on all kinds of statistics.

R2 digital library     [e-book]

Full text access to selected medicine, nursing and allied health books.

SourceOECD     [e-book]

SourceOECD provides online access to Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) resources, covering trade, environment, agriculture, technololgy, economic development, and more. The books, reports, working papers and periodicals are full-text and the databases have extensive statistical information.

Stat USA     [Primary Sources]

An online service of the most recent international trade information available from the National Trade Data Bank, the National Economic, Social & Environmental Database, the Economic Bulletin Board, Global Business Procurement Opportunities, and the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

Statistical Abstract     [Primary Sources]

Supreme Court Compendium     [e-book]

The Supreme Court Compendium covers the Court's history and development as an institution; its caseload and decision making; the justices' backgrounds, nominations, and confirmations; the Court's relationships with the public, the media, and other governmental and judicial bodies; and public views on the Court and its decisions.

USA Trade Online     [Web Sites]

ONLINE ACCESS ONLY AVAILABLE FROM 2 COMPUTERS AT GINN LIBRARY - U.S. import and export data on 18,000 commodities traded worldwide. Statistics are annual (from 1992), monthly and cumulative year-to-date (from 2002), based on the 6-digit Harmonized System (HS) commodity codes. Includes value, method of transportation, shipping weights and port-level data.

Vital Statistics on American Politics 2007-2008     [e-book]

Covers a wide range of topics: elections, Congress, the presidency, and the judiciary, information on the media, campaign finances; foreign, social, and economic policy; and a variety of issues related to state and local government. Coverage is not limited to “hard” data, rankings of public officials' reputations, content analyses of media coverage, and public opinion data about policy issues are also included.

Wiley Interscience (Wiley-Blackwell)     [Electronic Journals Collection]

Provided is full-text access to 300+ journals published by John Wiley & Sons. Subjects covered are: Business, Finance & Management, Chemistry, Computer Science, Earth Science, Education, Engineering, Law, Life & Medical Science, Mathematics & Statistics, Physics and Psychology.

World Development Indicators     [Primary Sources]

Statistical data for over 550 development indicators and time series data for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators.