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Agricola. A catalogue and article citation database of agricultural information.

AGRIS/CARIS. Agriculture database, includes aquaculture, animal husbandry, fisheries, forestry and nutrition.

AIDSinfo. HIV/AIDS information from the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.

African Women's Bibliographic Database. Contains citations from 1986 to current, includes books and government documents; articles appearing in edited books; periodical and journal articles; theses and Ph.D. dissertations; conference papers; and videocassettes.

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BIREME. Virtual Health Library for access to various databases including:

LEYES Latin American and Caribbean Basic Health Legislation

LILACS Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature

MedCarib Caribbean Health Sciences Literature

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938. Database of first-person accounts of slavery and of black-and-white photographs of former slaves.

British Library National Sound Archive Catalogue. Includes both published and unpublished recordings in all genres from pop, jazz, classical and world music, to oral history, drama and literature, dialect, language and wildlife sounds.

British Library Public Catalogue.

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Caribbean Government Information.

Caribbean Single Market and Economy (CSME).

CARINDEX. An index of social sciences and humanities literature published in the Caribbean.

Chemical Acronyms Database.

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Department of Energy (DOE) Reports. DOE (United States) research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics. Includes full text.

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ECLAC Caribbean Documentation Centre. Bibliographic database and Current Awareness Bulletin. Provides access to United Nations publications, with the emphasis on the publications of the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean.

Educator's Reference Desk. An Internet-based service providing education information. It includes resource guides, a question archive, and a lesson plan collection.

ERIC. A database of education information. It contains abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. Includes free full text documents. You may also search ERIC via OCLC * or at the SearchERIC web site.

ERIC Digests. A full text database containing reports on topics of current interest in education. The reports are designed to provide an overview of information on a given topic, and references to items providing more detailed information.

European Union Economic Papers. Full text database of economic papers.

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Handbook of Latin American Studies. A bibliography on Latin America consisting of works selected and annotated by scholars.

HIV/AIDS, Selected Resources. Compiled by Philip Nanton (UWI/HARP).

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ILOLEX. ILO full text database on international labour standards.

Institute of Historical Research Catalogue. Catalogue of printed historical sources in the United Kingdom.

International Journal of the sociology of Language

International Organisations Web Sites.

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JOLIS. Joint catalogue of the World Bank and the IMF.

Journal of African Languages and Linguistics

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Labotsta. ILO database of labour statistics covering the economically active population, employment, unemployment, wages and related variables.

LEYES. Latin American and Caribbean Basic Health Legislation.

Library of Congress Catalogue.

LILACS. Latin American and Caribbean Health Sciences Literature.

Linguistics

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MedCarib. Caribbean Health Sciences Literature.

MEDLINE (PubMed). National Library of Medicine search service. Includes citations from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. Includes links to sites providing full text articles and other related resources.

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NetLibrary. Via OCLC. A catalogue of publicly accessible electronic books. To limit your search to Main Library purchases, click on Main Library Titles.*

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PubMed Central (PMC). U.S. National Library of Medicine's digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature.

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SciELO. Scientific Electronic Library Online. Full text journals with a focus on the needs of developing countries, particularly Latin American and Caribbean countries.

Science Direct ScienceDirect® is the world's largest electronic collection of science, technology, and medicine full-text and bibliographic information. It offers a wide variety of features and content

Swetswise An inter-disciplinary database of online periodical titles. Users may search all titles, or may limit searches to titles held by the Library. Includes links to full text when available.

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Thomson Scientific. "Information based solutions for the academic, business and R&D community".

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UK National Archives Online Catalogue. Includes the records of the Public Record Office (PRO) and the Historical Manuscripts Commission (HMC).

United Nations Treaty Collection.

UWI Past Examination Papers.