Barnard College Library Research Guide

BC3761
Research Seminar in Political Science
Professor Kimberly Marten

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Databases | Web Resources | Finding Foreign News Sources | Finding Governments' Web pages
EndNote | Request a Consultation | Request It (Borrow Direct & ILL)

Encyclopedias & Other Reference Books

  TITLE BARNARD REFERENCE
CALL NUMBER
  The Encyclopedia of Democracy JC423 .E53 
  Encyclopedia of Education LB15 .E47 2003
  Encyclopedia of Government and Politics JA61 .C66 2003
  The Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World BP40 .E525 2004
  Encyclopedia of Presidential Campaigns, Slogans, Issues and Platforms E176.1 R6 2004
  Europa Yearbooks: Use for an overview of a country's history and current political situation; to find current statistics; to identify names of government departments.
   Africa South of the Sahara
   Central and South-Eastern Europe
   Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia  
   The Europa World Year Book
   The Far East and Australasia 
   The Middle East and North Africa
   South America, Central America and the Caribbean
   South Asia
   Western Europe		   

DT351 .A35
DAW1009 .C437
DJK1 .E22
JN1 .Eu741
DS1 .F3
DS49 .M58
F1408.29 .S68
HC412 .S688
HC240.A1 W4
  A Feminist Glossary of Human Geography G63 .G5 1999
  The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Women's Issues Worldwide HQ1154 .G74 2003
  International Encyclopedia of Elections JF1001 .I57 2000
  The International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics GE170 .I55 2002
  Vital Statistics on American Politics 2003-2004 JK274 .S74 2003-04
  Women in the Third World: an Encyclopedia of Contemporary Issues HQ1870.9 .W6548 

 

Searching CLIO
 CLIO (Columbia Libraries Information Online) is the on-line catalog for materials added to the Columbia University Libraries since 1981.  
  • For a Keyword search, you must use Boolean searching - that is, use and, or or not between the terms, and quotes for a phrase
  • For a Keyword or Title search, you can limit to books in the Barnard library using the More Limits or Post Limits options
  • To find primary materials in CLIO, look for these subdivisions in the subject field:
         --ARCHIVES
         --BIOGRAPHY (this includes autobiographies)
         --CORRESPONDENCE
         --DIARIES
         --INTERVIEWS
         --SOURCES
    For example:
    REAGAN, RONALD--CORRESPONDENCE
    ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT--SOURCES
     
Other Library Catalogs
Those with Columbia ID have access to the libraries of Teachers’ College and Columbia Law School, but they are not included in CLIO; use the Catalogs list on CU LibraryWeb, or the following links:
  • EDUCAT for Teachers’ College Library
  • Pegasus for Columbia Law Library
  • CATNYP for New York Public Library research branches

Databases

ABSEES: American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
Covers research in all disciplines relating to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union published since 1990 in the United States and Canada.  Includes citations for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, government publications, and more.

African Studies
A searchable index to publications and unpublished manuscripts about and from Africa in history, literature, music, archaeology, fine arts, business, and the other social sciences. This database is a composite of 17 other databases, some of which go back to the early 1980s.

Bibliography of Asian Studies
A comprehensive bibliographic index to articles and other published materials on all fields of Asian Studies.

CountryWatch
News, statistics and analysis on 192 countries of the world

EconLit
Citations and abstracts for articles in economics periodicals.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Full-text database of articles from the ethnic and minority press in the United States, 1960 to the present.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
Citations to scholarly monographs and journals going back to 1935.

Hispanic American Periodical Index Online
Citations to information about Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States-Mexico border region and Latinos in the United States, going back to 1970.

Historical Abstracts
Citations and abstracts for scholarly articles in all aspects of history (not including the United States and Canada).

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Social sciences and related materials from over 100 countries

International Political Sciences Abstracts
Covers 1989 to the present. Indexes and abstracts articles in the field of political science (including the sub-fields of public administration, political theory and international relations) published in journals (and yearbooks) all over the world.

Kvinnsam
An international index to journal articles and essays in books dealing with all aspects of women, feminism, and gender studies.

LEXIS-NEXIS
Full-text of domestic and international newspapers as well as news transcripts and news wires.

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Services)
Citations and abstracts to public affairs information, such as political science, environment, international relations; international in coverage. Indexes books, government documents, periodicals, conference proceedings.

ProQuest Direct
An interdisciplinary database representing titles found in ABI/INFORM, Periodicals Abstracts, and Newspaper Abstracts, indexing from 1971 to the present, with full-text back to 1995.  Select "Research Library" to search scholarly journals.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers 
Contains full-text articles from the Chicago Tribune (from 1890),  LA Times (from 1881), New York Times (from 1851), Wall Street Journal (from 1889), and Washington Post (from 1877).  

Social Sciences Full Text
Indexes more than 350 key international, English-language periodicals in the social sciences.

Social Sciences Citation Index
Index and abstracts for journal articles in the social sciences, from 1965 to the present, with links to full text, and cited reference lists for articles in the database.  Useful for tracing where a paper was cited.

Women's Studies International
An index to scholarly women's journals.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Going back to 1975, this is an provides citations and abstracts to articles in approximately 1,000
political science journals.

World News Connection
Full-text summaries and translations of newspaper articles from around the world, 1994 to the present

 

Searching the Web

Google

Some other search engines to try: Hotbot, Alltheweb, Yahoo (which allows you to search for pages from a specific country), and always use the Advanced search option

Evaluating Web Pages and Web Sites

These pages have some useful and amusing tips on why and how to take a skeptical approach to material on the Web :

 

Web Resources

BUBL Link  "A national information service for the higher education community" from the United Kingdom.  Arrangement of resources by Subject; see for example Politics. Excellent resource that brings together a wide variety of useful sites on a particular topic. Browse by subject, or search the site.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.  It includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.

Council on Foreign Relations  Web site includes full-text articles, transcripts of speeches and testimony, and reports designed to provide the interested public with reliable, clear, nonpartisan information on key international issues.

Country Studies
Information about countries of the world provided by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress.

Institute for Global Communications (IGC)  The Website of the nonprofit IGC offers progressive groups a place on the Internet to exchange information.  Includes separate sections: PeaceNet; EcoNet, WomensNet, and AntiRacismNet. 

International Monetary Fund (IMF)  Website of the IMF has articles, reports and working papers, on economic issues,  policy analysis, countries and news.

Lehman Library: International Relations Resources  This subject guide lists both restricted sites and web sites for researching International Affairs. A good starting place if you don't want to be overwhelmed with possible resources.

Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)  Reports and articles on the Middle East, translated from Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew, as well as original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious trends in the Middle East.

State Department (United States)  A wealth of information is made available on this site, about international relations, countries and regions of the world, the U.S. State Department and international organizations.

United Nations  Has materials about global issues on the UN agenda, key UN documents, statements of the Secretary General and Deputy Secretary General, etc.

World Bank Group  Information about the activites of the World Bank

 

 

Finding Foreign News Sources

ABYZ News Links is a portal to online news sources from around the world. It is primarily composed of newspapers but also includes many broadcast stations, internet services, magazines, and press agencies.

The Europa Yearbooks (Barnard Library call numbers are given in the list of Reference Books above) list the newspapers published in each country, in print as well as online.

Foreign Press Translations lists the Lehman Library's subscriptions in paper, microfiche and online to foreign press translations

Lexis-Nexis contains many foreign newspapers in full-text, but they are not grouped by country, so it is necessary to know the name of a newspaper in order to search for it.  Select the Guided News Search and the World News category, and then the appropriate region.  After that, it is possible to examine the Source List to see which newspapers are available.

Refdesk.com lists the major online newspapers for each country.

World News Connection (WNC)  A foreign news service of the U.S. government that offers an extensive array of translated and English-language news and information, covering socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events.

 

Finding Governments' Web pages

Governments on the WWW  A comprehensive database of governmental institutions on the World Wide Web: parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, city councils, public broadcasting corporations, central banks, multi-governmental institutions etc.  Includes also political parties.

International Constitutional Law  Provides the constitutions of a huge number of countries.

 

 

EndNote

EndNote bibliographic software is available for downloading, free of charge, to all current Barnard and Columbia students from the AcIS software server at http://www.columbia.edu/acis/software/endnote.

EndNote allows you to
  • search for citations in library catalogs and databases using the EndNote software, or export results into EndNote from remote catalogs and databases
  • store the citations in libraries you create within EndNote
  • search through the citations you have stored using keyword searches
  • cite them in papers and bibliographies using any citation format you choose using the EndNote "Cite While You Write" feature

Consult the page EndNote at Columbia for more details, the EndNote Manual (particularly Chapter 3) that is downloaded to your computer along with the program, and the online tipsheets that deal with specific topics.

Using EndNote to Find References and Use Them in a Paper

For each project, open an EndNote library where you will put your references.  The default location for saving libraries is C:\Program files\Endnote\

Searching CLIO from within EndNote

  • go to Tools - Connect - CLIO
  • search in Any Field, not Keywords
  • references are put in a buffer and then you are asked if you want to copy them to your library
  • to open up a reference, double-click on it
  • if a book or journal is available online, the URL is in the EndNote record and you can click on it.

 

Searching Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) from within EndNote
  • both EndNote and Web of Science are made by Thomson ISI, so they work well together
  • go to Tools - Connect - Web of Science SSCI (ISI)
  • search for your topic in Title/Keyword/Abstract
  • if the article is available online, the URL will be in the EndNote reference

 
Exporting Citations from ProQuest into EndNote
  • this is one of the few databases that is set up to export into EndNote, at the moment
  • search for articles in ProQuest and check the boxes to the left of those to be exported
  • click on "View Marked Articles" at the top, then on "Export Citations into EndNote, ProCite, RefWorks or Reference Manager" and "Export Directly to ProCite, EndNote or Reference Manager"
  • the EndNote “Select A Reference Library” dialog box will open up, and you can select the library you want to save to
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Using Cite While You Write

  • keep both EndNote and Word open while you work on your paper, and open the EndNote library you want to use
  • choose the style you need to use for the paper; go to Edit - Output Styles - Open Style Manager, check the box, and the style will be added to the short drop-down list of styles
  • the style used for political science and the other social sciences is the APA (American Psychological Association) style - for more information see the Bedford Handbook online by Diana Hacker
  • when you are ready to insert a citation into your paper, on the Word menu bar, use Tools - EndNote 7 - Find Citation.  (The EndNote tools are added to Word when you download EndNote.  However, if you have Word 2003, the EndNote commands may not show in the Tools menu; there is a fix for this problem on the page http://www.endnote.com/support/faqs/enfaq7.asp.)

Modified 9/22/04
Lois Coleman