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Resources for Chicago

SimplyAnalytics
SimplyMap is now SimplyAnalytics. Mapping application that allows users to customize interactive maps & reports using thousands of data variables. To save your searches, you need to sign up for an account using your UIC email address. Access restricted to 5 concurrent users.
PolicyMap
PolicyMap is an data and mapping tool for accessing data about communities across the U.S. to make better-informed decisions without any prior experience.

Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago
The Chicago History Museum, The Newberry Library, and Northwestern University produced the Electronic Encyclopedia of Chicago, edited by Janice L. Reiff, Ann Durkin Keating , and James R. Grossman.
All About Chicago Research Guide
UIC's guide to all things Chicago.

CIA World Factbook
The CIA World Factbook provides a wide range of information about individual countries around the world, from economic indicators to flags of the countries. It is updated every two weeks.
BBC Country Profiles
Country profiles from BBC News. Freely available website.

Britannica Online
This resource was acquired with funds from the Library/IT Assessment. Growing set of research tools: Encyclopaedia Britannica; Gateway to the Classics ; Quotable Quotes; Timelines and more.

Includes the 32-volume Encyclopaedia Britannica, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, and Britannica Concise Encyclopedia. as well as access to research tools, Merriam-Webster’s dictionary and thesaurus, and multimedia.
eHRAF World Cultures
Cultural and social information is organized by ethnic groups and deep-indexed.

The eHRAF Collection of Ethnography is a cross-cultural database that contains over 350,000 pages of information on all aspects of cultural and social life. The annually-growing eHRAF database is unique in that the information is organized into cultures and ethnic groups and the full-text sources are subject-indexed at the paragraph level.

eHRAF is produced by the Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) at Yale University. The mission of HRAF, a non-profit consortium of universities and colleges, is to encourage and facilitate worldwide and other comparative studies of human behavior, society, and culture.
Oxford Reference Online
Oxford Reference Online is a digital reference shelf of topical encyclopedias, handbooks, thesauruses and dictionaries with emphasis on Literature and Western Civilization . Limited to 5 simultaneous users.