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Because of the interdisciplinary nature of UNO's International Studies Major (INST), you will take classes offered by different departments across UNO. This guide will direct you to appropriate guides and resources depending on your current assignment needs.

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CIA World Factbook
Country profiles include information on geography and communication networks and transportation in addition to the traditional economic and demographic data snapshots.

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Suggested Guides

The research guides linked below will potentially be of interested to International Studies majors.

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Just want to get started with your research? Try finding articles in the databases listed below.

Europa World This link opens in a new window
Europa World covers political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories.
eHRAF This link opens in a new window
A systematically organized collection of thousands of books and articles on cultures from all regions of the world.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni provides access to more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including The New York Times, Washington Post, and Foreign Affairs.
ABI/INFORM Global This link opens in a new window
Find out about business conditions, management techniques, business trends, management practice and theory, corporate strategy and tactics, and competitive landscape. Includes articles from the Economist, the Wall Street Journal, and the Financial Times.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista offers over 1 million statistics ranging across a myriad of social, economic, and market-related topics. Data may be exported in PPT, XLS, PDF, and PNG formats.
Access World News This link opens in a new window
Search over 6,000 news sources across the United States and over 2,500 from around the world. Time coverage extends back 35 years for some sources, and the database is updated every day. Archival files Include the Omaha World Herald back to 1885.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides broad coverage of most academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, and in the scholarly and general periodical literature. Contains indexing and abstracts for more than 13,000 journals, with full text for more than 9,000 of those titles.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for more than 4,000 journals in all disciplines of business, including the Harvard Business Review (1922-current). Additional full text, non-journal content includes market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
The library's JSTOR account includes access to all fifteen Arts & Sciences Collections and the several topical collections such as Ireland, Life Sciences, Security Studies, and Sustainability. These encompass an archive of over 2,300 journals in classical studies, ecology, economics, history, language and literature, mathematics, music, the history and study of art and architecture, cultural studies, film, folklore, performing arts, philosophy, political science, sociology, and religion.
Taylor & Francis Online Journals This link opens in a new window
Taylor & Francis Online offers articles published in over 2,100 research journals extending back to 1997.

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