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  • Social Sciences Premium Collection
    Includes PAIS, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Social Services Abstracts, and a number of full-text journal collections. Databases may be searched individually or as a group.
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    Database of the Roper Center at the University of Connecticut. Provides data from national opinion polls, 1935 to present.
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    This mapping application enables users to develop interactive thematic maps and reports using thousands of demographic, business, health, crime, and marketing data variables including Mediamark and Simmons Consumer Data. Data from 2000 onwards.
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Government Information, Criminal Justice, Political Science, International Affairs, Law, Military Science
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BA - Bucknell University

MS in LS - University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
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