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Thomson Gale.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Three-volume set (2005) provides information on current religious practices around the world, with lengthy articles on major religions and sub-groups, and shorter entries on religious groups in each of 193 countries.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.
Elsevier.
Available online. (in Annie)
Self-described as "an interdisciplinary journal for articles in the field of theoretical and empirical research on culture, the media and the arts. Particularly welcome are papers that make an original contribution to the major disciplines — psychology, sociology, and economics — within which promising lines of research on art and culture have been developed."
Articles in Poetics are listed in the Sociological Abstracts database, but indexing may lag up to a year behind.
JSTOR, the scholarly journal archive to which Leyburn Library subscribes, recently added several journals to its database coverage.
To see a list of several of these addition, click on the link below.
JSTOR now contains the complete contents of about 800 journals, previous to each journal's own "moving wall."
African Economic History
Previous Title: African Economic History Review (0360-6333)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 30, 1974-2002
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: African Studies Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Anatolian Studies
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 52, 1951-2002
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara
The Athenian Agora
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 31, 1953-1998
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Journal of Anthropological Research
Previous Title: Southwestern Journal of Anthropology (0038-4801)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 58, 1945-2002
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: University of New Mexico
Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 43, 1957-2000
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: BRILL
Pacific Historical Review
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 71, 1932-2002
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: University of California Press
Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 63, 1928/1930-1997/2001
Moving Wall: n/a (ceased publication in 2001)
Publisher: American Academy for Jewish Research
Council on Foreign Relations.
Available online.
Author Richard Lapper (Financial Times "recommends a policy in which the United States makes clear its willingness to cooperate with Caracas on pragmatic issues of mutual interest (despite Chávez’s overblown rhetoric), while at the same time seeking to develop an understanding with select Latin American leaders on how to respond if Chávez crosses certain red lines in his foreign and domestic policies."
A link will be maintained on this library page.
International Work Group for Indigenous Affairs.
Available online. Also in printed form in the library collection.
Latest edition of the IWGIA yearbook, which provides "an update on the state of affairs of indigenous peoples around the world."
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library site, including here.
U.S. Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco.
Available online.
Researcher from the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) finds that "greater opportunities to play sports leads to greater female participation in previously male-dominated occupations, particularly for high-skill occupations."
A link will be mainained on this library page.