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PO 106 – International Relations Senior Seminar

Professor Baudot
Spring 2006

Contents
Find Background Information
Find Articles
Find Books/Government Reports
Selected Web Sites
How to Cite Your Sources
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Find Background Information

Reference books are shelved by Library of Congress call number in the reference stacks near the reference desk. They may not be checked out, but photocopiers are available on the lower level of the Library. Online reference sources can be found in the library catalog or listed on Research Help.

The Australian people : an encyclopedia of the nation, its people and their origins
REF DU120 .A718 2001

Directory of European Union Political Parties
REF JN50 .D39 2000

Dictionary of 20th-Century World Politics
REF JA61 .S53 1993

Encyclopedia of Africa south of the Sahara 4 vols.
REF DT351 .E53 1997

Encyclopedia of African history 3 vols.
REF DT20 .E53 2005

Encyclopedia of European social history from 1350 to 2000 6 vols.
REF HN373 .E63 2001

The Encyclopedia of revolutions and revolutionaries: from anarchism to Zhou Enlai
REF D21.3 .E33 1996

Encyclopedia of Russian history 4 vols.
REF DK14 .E53 2004

Encyclopedia of Soviet life
REF JA64 .R8Z44 1990

Encyclopedia of the United Nations and international agreements 4 vols.
REF KZ4968 .O86 2003

Europa world year book 2 vols.
REF JN1 .E85 1998

European political dictionary
REF JN12 .R65 1985

Government information on the Internet
REF J83 .G68 2003
Chapter 18 provides links to international resources on the Web.

International historical statistics: the Americas, 1750-2000
REF HA175 .M55 2003

The international relations dictionary
REF JX1226 .P55 1988

The Modern encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet history 60 vols.
REF DK41 .M6
v.57. Index of entries by topics -- v.58. Index of entries by time periods

Reference guide to Africa : a bibliography of sources
REF DT4 .K34 1999

Statistical Abstract of the World
REF HA154 .S68 1994, 1997

World development report
REF HC59.7 .W569 (1979, 1984, 1987 - present)

World handbook of political and social indicators2 vols.
REF HN25 .T39 1983

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Find Journal Articles

Find citations and full text articles from journals and magazines:

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Search this database for citations and abstracts from literature in political science and its related fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. Coverage includes books, dissertations, international journals, and book and software reviews. One special feature of this database is linked reference citing: references cited in the bibliography of the source article accompany the citations that have been added to the database since 2001, and for all journals added since 2004.
Database Guide

Historical Abstracts
Provides abstracts to key history journals from around the globe, covering world history from 1450 to the present (excluding North America). Historical Abstracts includes citations from books, dissertations, and a targeted selection of journals in the social sciences and humanities.   Journal list

Alternative Press Index
Provides citations (some with abstracts) from over 250 alternative, radical and international periodicals, newspapers and magazines, covering cultural, economic, political and social change. Search this index for citations on topics such as: socialism, national liberation, labor, indigenous peoples, gays/lesbians, feminism, ecology, democracy, and anarchism. (1991 - present).

Alternative Press Index Archive
This database extends and complements the coverage of the Alternative Press Index. (1969 - 1990)

Handbook of Latin American Studies
View the A-to-Z Subject Term Glossary for keywords to search for citations from literature in the multi-disciplinary field of Latin American Studies, including Anthropology, Art, Economics, Geography, Government and Politics, History, International Relations, Literature, Music, Philosophy, and Sociology.(1935 - present)
List of Journal Abbreviations

JSTOR
Search here for full text articles from major journals in the humanities and social sciences, including Annual Review of Sociology, Nineteenth-Century Literature, Philosophical Quarterly, and the Quarterly Journal of Economics. Coverage is generally from the beginning of publication to within 5 years of the current issue.
Geisel Library subscribes to three JSTOR collections. Journal list for:   Arts & Sciences I   Arts & Sciences II   Biological Sciences

Project MUSE
This database offers all full-text articles from over 300 peer-reviewed journals; subjects include humanities, arts, medicine, mathematics, social sciences, and more.  Journal List

SocINDEX
This sociology database provides full text from journals, books, monographs, and conference papers. Coverage is of all subdisciplines of sociology, including criminal justice, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, social psychology, urban studies, and more. (Coverage varies with publication; with some, it goes back to 1895.)

Find newspaper articles:

LexisNexis Academic Universe
Find full-text newspaper articles from local, national, and international papers. Gain access to full-text law reviews as well as company news and financial information, medical information, laws and regulations, polls and surveys, and general reference information, such as country and state profiles and searchable world almanac.

Wall Street Journal
Full text access to the Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition) from 1984 to the present.

New York Times
You can get full text of every page of the New York Times, from 1851 to 2002. The searchable collection includes digital reproductions, so that even advertisements and political cartoons from every available issue may be viewed.

Newspaper Source
Get full text for several national and international newspapers here (including USA Today, The Christian Science Monitor, The Washington Post, The Times-London, etc.) and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers (including The Boston Globe, The Chicago Tribune, and The Detroit Free Press, etc.) In addition, full text television and radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, and NPR.


Find Books & Government Reports

Search the library catalog to locate books in Geisel Library. Search by keyword if you are unsure of the title you are looking for.

WorldCat
This database is a close as you can get to a simultaneous search of thousands of libraries' catalogs from around the world. You can see at a glance whether Geisel Library has the book or other materials, and by clicking on the Libraries Worldwide link, you can find out if any nearby libraries own it. If we don't have it, there is also a link to submit an Interlibrary Loan (ILL) request.


Selected Web Sites

African Union

British Commonwealth of nations

CIA World Factbook
An overview of all countries of the world with history and vital statistics.

EarthTrends: The Environmental Information Portal

Embassy of the People's Republic of China

Embassy of the Russian Federation

European Union

Government Information Links
The metasite from the University of Michigan Documents Center provides links to Foreign Government Resources, International Agencies and Information on the Web, and Statistics/Foreign Governments.

International Monetary Fund

League of Arab States

Observatory of European Foreign Policy

Organization of American States

United Nations

U.S. Dept of State- Background Notes on countries of the world
A good companion to CIA Factbook with information pertaining to current events and issues.

World Bank

World Health Organization

World Statesmen
An encyclopedia of leaders of nations, colonial territories, and international religious organizations.

World Trade Organization


How to Cite Your Sources

See the library's How To Cite Your Sources guide for resources on how to properly cite research materials. Always confirm the style required by your instructor.


 

 

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