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A database of of foreign geographic feature names approved by the U.S. Board of Geographic Names. Please note: resource works best with Chrome and Edge browsers.
The GNS Search & Download WebApp provides access to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names' (US BGN) database of foreign geographic feature names. The database is the official repository of foreign place-name decisions approved by the US BGN. Approximately 20,000 of the database's features are updated monthly. Geographic Area of Coverage: Worldwide excluding the United States and Antarctica. For names in the U.S. and Antarctica, visit the United States Geological Survey (USGS) Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) web site. The GNS contains 4.0 million features with 5.5 million names (approximate). The coordinate system for data served by GNS is WGS84. Coordinates in the GEOnet Names Server are approximate and are intended for finding purposes only. The online database is updated on a bi-weekly schedule.
Provides a range of visual, manuscript and printed materials sourced from over twenty key libraries and more than a dozen companies and trade organisations around the world.
Includes business accounts, mercantile papers and correspondence, government reports, rare pamphlets and dock records, and material from specialist collections such as the George Arent’s Tobacco Collection at the New York Public Library, the Braga Brothers Collection from the University of Florida, and the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives. Explores fifteen commodities: chocolate, coffee, cotton, fur, opium, oil, porcelain, silver and gold, spices, sugar, tea,timber, tobacco, wheat, and wine and spirits.
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospectiveprovides citation-level access to English-language articles contained in the equivalent of 46 printed index volumes. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of humanities and social sciences journals.
Simultaneously searches the following social sciences databases:
-Alt-PressWatch
-American Periodicals
-APA PsycInfo
-British Periodicals
-Criminal Justice Database
-Digital National Security Archive
-EconLit
-ERIC
-Ethnic NewsWatch
-GenderWatch
-International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
-Library and Information Science Abstracts (LISA)
-Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
-Periodicals Archive Online
-Periodicals Index Online
-Politics Collection
-ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global: Social Sciences
-Psychology Database
-PTSDpubs
-Sociological Abstracts
-Sports Medicine & Education Index
-Women's Magazine Archive
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text contains nearly 500,000 records selected from important sources within the discipline. This resource includes full text for over 315 magazines and journals.
Focuses primarily on practical issues, including crime prevention, juvenile delinquency, policing, and criminal justice in general. Coverage includes U.S. and international journals.
