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BBC News - Country Profiles
Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives.

CIA World Factbook
Provides concise information, including geographic, demographic, and economic data, for over 250 countries. Prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
Some earlier editions are also archived online from the US GPO.
Gale eBooks Reference Library
Encyclopedias and reference sources that cover a variety of topics.

World Health Organization (WHO)
An agency of the United Nations dedicated to issues surrounding international public health.
Davidson Library Catalog
Search for books, articles, and more

ProQuest Research Tools
Multidisciplinary collection of journal, magazine, and newspaper articles, e-books, dissertations, and more. Search includes all of the Davidson College Library ProQuest databases.
Web of Science
An interdisciplinary resource with journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Access is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only.
PubMed
Comprehensive resource containing citations (not full articles) to biomedical articles and life science journals.

Using the library provided link will provide access to articles within Davidson College subscriptions for Davidson College students/staff/faculty.

Access World News
Contains diverse global, local, regional, and national newspapers, newswires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, videos, periodicals, and web-only content.
Includes electronic access to the Charlotte Observer (1886-present), in addition to many local North Carolina newspapers.
U.S. Newsstream
News content from many national and international newspapers, newswires and selected news magazines.

NLM style is used by researchers in the field of medicine.

Note-Taking Tips
Provides strategies for taking notes while writing to keep track of your sources and avoid plagiarizing
Save and Cite with Zotero
Provides instructions for setting up Zotero, a tool for saving and citing sources
Annotate with Hypothesis
Introduces Hypothes.is, a free, online annotation tool

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