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Full-text of McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology.
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Best source for reliable full-text background information. Contains 800 reference books (background sources).

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Books in the LVC Library.
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Covers all subjects. Provides a mix of scholarly and magazine articles.
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Covers economics. Scholarly journal articles.
Subjects covered include: capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations,
labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics.
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Covers scholarly literature in many subject areas. Not the very best source, but nevertheless a good place to check.
Should *never* be the only database you search. Use it to supplement more comprehensive and authoritative library databases.
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Covers the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and governments. Provides scholarly, government and general-interest sources.
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Covers social sciences, general sciences. Archive of full-text scholarly journals.
Covers the arts and humanities, education, law, social sciences, biology, general science. Does not provide the latest 3-5 years.
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Covers the social sciences. Provides scholarly and professional journal articles.
Subjects covered include: anthropology, economics, geography, law, political science, psychology, sociology.

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Disaster Statistics
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Hazard Frequency, Mortality and Economic Loss Risk as gridded data for the globe. Covers cyclones, drought, earthquakes, flood, landslide, volcano and a combination of them all (‘multihazard’). Requires free registration.
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Natural data statistics. Some data is free, some is not. Worth checking.