The Pandemic: Coronavirus / Covid-19 / SARS Cov-2

The coronavirus known as Covid19 by the World Health Organization or SARS Cov-2 by CDCm has many names, and many are proscribed. Some of the names include: American Virus, Chinese Virus, Coronavirus, Covid-19 (WHO), Covid-19 Virus (WHO), European Virus, Hubei Flu, Hubei Virus, Kung Flu, King Fu Flu, SARS Cov-2 (CDC), Trump Virus, Wu Flu, […]

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Database Access From Your Home

Researchers, professors and students at university libraries that subscribe to our databases often have a facility that allows the library to provide access the databases without requiring endusers to go to the library, or even leaving their home. That facility is a proxy server, which has access to the databases. Contact your university library for […]

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Notes: Global Descriptors

This record illustrates a descriptor that we classify as a Global Descriptor, or a subject descriptor that will result in a record being included in all of the area studies databases. In this record, that descriptor is “Internet”, Coronavirus, Global Warming, Internet, Oceanography, Offshore Banking and Tax Havens. ===== [Sample Record] Title: “Aramco In Talks […]

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Notes: Missing Information: Photographs and Captions

Notes: Missing Information: Photographs and Captions The purpose of data curation is to increase the effective access of information that is often omitted. One very basic example is that of photographs. Consider a routine political memoir with a section of photographs: It is very common for there to be photographs of people with the memoirist […]

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