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Project MUSE is an online database of more than 600 academic journals and 36,000 ebooks in the humanities and social sciences. The content in Project MUSE represents over 200 university presses and scholarly societies globally. For more details, see their website (and their list of Book publishers and Journals).

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<ref>((cite journal |title=Bowling alone: America's declining social capital |author=Putnam, Robert |year=1995 |journal=Journal of Democracy |volume=6 |issue=1 |pages=65–78 |doi=10.1353/jod.1995.0002 |via=[[Project MUSE]]))</ref>

• Putnam, Robert (1995). "Bowling alone: America's declining social capital". Journal of Democracy. 6 (1): 65–78. doi:10.1353/jod.1995.0002 – via Project MUSE.

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