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href="#Other_Reports">Other Reports</a></li></ul></div> </p> <h3><span id="Book_Article_and_Working_Paper_Databases"><span style="color: #006666;"><strong>Book, Article, and Working Paper Databases</strong></span></span></h3> <ul> <li>The <a href="http://aleph.mpg.de/F?func=file&file_name=find-b&CON_LNG=eng&local_base=vrh01" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law Library</a> is a library catalog that includes links to many free, downloadable PDF versions of articles and books, searchable through the <a href="http://rzblx1.uni-regensburg.de/ezeit/search.phtml?bibid=MPIV&colors=7&lang=en" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Electronic Journals Library</a> and <a href="http://aleph.mpg.de/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b&local_base=ebx01" target="_blank" rel="noopener">eBooks Catalog</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Thousands of articles and conference papers on human rights topics are available on the Social Science Research Network (<a href="http://www.ssrn.com/">SSRN</a>).</li> </ul> <ul> <li><a href="http://scholar.google.com/">Google Scholar</a> contains a searchable database of scholarly articles and books, including on human rights topics.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Use Google book’s <a href="http://books.google.com/advanced_book_search">Advanced Book Search</a> to find digitized books on human rights topics.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>Search among thousands of <a href="http://law.bepress.com/do/discipline_browser/articles?discipline_key=847">human rights</a> student papers, working papers and conference papers available through the <a href="http://law.bepress.com/repository/">bepress Legal Repository</a>.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>The <a href="http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/fwps_papers/">Georgetown Law Faculty Working Papers</a> cover a range of legal issues, including international human rights.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>The library catalog <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/advancedsearch">WorldCat</a> contains links to downloadable articles (some available free of charge).</li> </ul> <ul> <li>The <a href="http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/">Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository</a> includes student and faculty papers.</li> </ul> <h3><span id="Law_Journals"><strong><span style="color: #006666;">Law Journals</span></strong></span></h3> <ul> <li>The <a href="http://harvardhrj.com/">Harvard Human Rights Journal</a> provides free access to all content.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>The <a href="http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/JELJOUR_Results.cfm?form_name=journalBrowse&journal_id=924302">Human Rights & the Global Economy eJournal</a><strong> </strong>is a free online journal.</li> </ul> <ul> <li>The Washington College of Law’s <a href="http://www.wcl.american.edu/hrbrief/">Human Rights Brief</a> is an international human rights and humanitarian law journal and is available free online. 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