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LandScan. East View Information Services. Contact publisher for pricing. URL: https://landscan.ornl.gov/ [e] (cc) 58-3070 [Internet Resource] LandScan Global 'provides very high-resolution population distribution and estimation data over space and time [...]

Originally conceived for use by U.S. military and intelligence communities, the LandScan web application and population datasets, produced by East View Geospatial with data from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, are useful for various reasons including: spatial data analysis, humanitarian aid and relief, disease modeling, market growth, and sustainable development/environmental protection. Older datasets, back to 2000, are archived as new versions are made available. There are three main audiences of LandScan: researchers who download and use the datasets; researchers who use the WMS and WCS services; and those who use the web platform. This review focuses mainly on the web app. Search functionalities include the ability to drill down to the pixel level, i.e., one square kilometer grid units; to quickly get population counts for an area on the world map by pointing and clicking; and to get population counts for an area using the polygon drawing function. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The collections that comprise Twentieth-Century Global Perspectives, covering 1941-1996, include primary sources from the Central Intelligence Agency's Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1941-1996 and its Joint Publications Research Service (JPRS) Reports, 1957-1995. The online versions of these sources are not consolidated anywhere else, making these collections invaluable for researchers in the various disciplines covered. Weaknesses of the database include the inability to search across all collections simultaneously, the absence of help screens, and the inability to export to bibliographic management tools such as RefWorks or Zotero. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Patrologia Latina Database offers 221 volumes of works written by the Latin Fathers. It is the extraordinary achievement of the nineteenth-century scholar and priest, Jacques-Paul Migne. It covers the works of the Latin Fathers from Tertullian around 200 A.D. to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216 and contains the most influential works of late ancient and early medieval theology, philosophy, history, and literature. This review looks at the user interface and content details in this unique database offered by ProQuest. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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