Barnard College Library Research Guide BC3761 Research Seminar: Comparative Politics Professor Sheri Berman Fall 2005 Librarian: Karen Dobrusky

Contents
Reference Books | CLIO | Databases & Indexes
 News Resources | Governments' Web Pages | Electronic Subject Guides | Interlibrary Loan | Consultation Request

REFERENCE BOOKS

Use for:

• an overview of a topic
• background information
• factual information
• bibliographies

CLIO

CLIO (Columbia Libraries Information Online) is the on-line catalog for the Barnard & Columbia Libraries. CLIO can be searched by author, title, subject and keyword.  Help for searching CLIO is available on the Web CLIO opening screen.  Click on: "Connect via WWW". 

• You can enter CLIO from the Barnard Library home page or from the Columbia University LibraryWeb
• Help with searching (called "search tips") is available on the bottom of the opening search screen
• The holdings of the Health Sciences Library as well as the Union Theological Seminary are included in CLIO
• The Law Library's catalog is Pegasus, Teacher's College catalog is Educat and JTS' catalog is Aleph
• To search CLIO, Pegasus and Educat simultaneously click on the "Search all CU catalogs" tab on the opening CLIO screen
   

Sample Searches:
Title search: leave off the initial article (the, an, la, etc.)
title: encyclopedia of political thought               journal title: human rights quarterly

Author search: put last name, then first name
author: juviler peter

Finding a book about a person or a subject: start with a Keyword search using the most distinctive words associated with the topic. Then look for useful subject headings and do a Subject search.

Keyword search: use and, or not between the terms, or quotes for a phrase, and use ? for truncation (to find variant endings of a word)
keyword: sanctions and cuba
keyword: "latin american" and media
keyword: india and child? and (poor or poverty)

Subject search: use Library of Congress (LC) subject headings
subject: albright madeleine
subject: china politics and government
subject: chile foreign relations united states
subject: women mexico
subject: economic sanctions american cuba
 

Limiting to books in Barnard Library: use the Pre-Select Limits or Post Limit option

Call numbers: Overview of the Library of Congress Classification Outline

Note that although the Barnard Library is in Lehman Hall, CLIO location Lehman means the Social Sciences library at Columbia; Barnard books have the location Barnard.

DATABASES & INDEXES: for locating periodical &journal articles

On the Databases (reference works & indexes) list, which you can access from the Barnard Library home page, there are links to many indexes which give citations, abstracts and some full-text for articles in various disciplines. Many databases have e-links which will search to see if the full-text of a particular item is available online through CULibrary Web. If you are unable to locate an item full-text search CLIO directly for the journal title. 

The following indexes and databases will probably be the most relevant to your research:

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Abstracts of books and articles from professional journals and major news magazines, devoted to North American and International Politics, 1976 to present.

International Political Science Abstracts
Abstracts for articles in the field of political science, including public administration, political theory and international relations, published in journals and yearbooks worldwide, 1989 to present.

PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service database)
Citations and abstracts for articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs, 1972 to present.

Social Sciences Full Text
Abstracts for journals in anthropology, business, community health, economics, foreign affairs, geography, international relations, law and criminology, sociology and social history, 1983 to present.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Citations for articles from over 100 countries in more than 90 languages, in the disciplines of anthropology, economics, political science and sociology, from 1951 to present.

ProQuest Direct
Full-text articles and abstracts from newspapers and periodicals in many disciplines, international affairs, law, psychology, public affairs, sociology, women's studies, from 1988 to the present. For scholarly journals, select "Interdisciplinary-Research Library" from the drop-down menu. The advanced search is recommended.

ADDITIONAL DATABASES
There are many other databases that may be relevant to your research

ABI/INFORM Global
Includes business periodicals.

Access UN:Index to United Nations Documents and Publications
Citations to U.N. publications including some full-text links, 1956 to present.

Africa Wide NiPAD
Index to publications and unpublished manuscripts about and from Africa in history, literature, music ,arts, business and social sciences, 19th century to present.

Absees: American Bibliography of Slavic & East European Studies
1990 to present.

Alt-Press Watch
Full text articles from alternative press publications.

Article First
General and current events, interdisciplinary and international in scope, 1992-1999 to present.

ATLA Religion Database + ATLAS 
Major religious studies database providing citations to articles in religion and theology and including social science aspects of religious studies.

Bibliography of Asian Studies
Major database for locating materials about Asian countries.

CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
Includes working papers, conference proceedings, journal articles and books, Full text, 1991 to present.

Contemporary Women’s Issues
Full text articles, Women's Studies, 1992 to present.

GenderWatch
Feminist and gender studies, Full text.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
Major Latin American Studies database, 1935 to present.

Hispanic American Periodical Index Online HAPI
Includes citations to materials, citations to materials about Latin America as well as U.S. Hispanics,1970 to present.

Historical Abstracts
Citations to articles in world history excluding the U.S. & Canada. Covers from 1450  to present, articles, books and dissertations, published from 1982 to present.

Humanities Full Text
General humanities, Includes history as well as archaeology, art classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, performing arts and religion, 1984 to present.

Index Islamicus
Index to materials on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world from periodicals, conference proceedings and books.

Index to Legal Periodicals
Covers all areas of jurisprudence, recent court decisions, new legislation and original scholarship.

JSTOR, the Scholarly Journal Archive
An archive of Full text articles from a large number of scholarly journals in anthropology, African studies, education, history, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology and others from each journal's first issue but excluding the most current, usually 3-5 years. Includes World Politics,  Political Science Quarterly and many more titles.

Project Muse
Full text articles from more than 200 scholarly journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press in the humanities and social sciences. Included are Africa Today, Human Rights Quarterly and man more titles. Includes most recent years only.

Women’s Studies International
1972 to present. Women’s Studies, interdisciplinary.

NEWS RESOURCES

ABYZ News Links  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. 

Economist Intelligence Unit Includes country reports for background information, regional newsletters and more.

E-News Online News Resources Links to a variety of media resources world wide.

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.

Factiva Full text business information, Also includes general news and current events.

FactSearch Contains full-text statistical statements concerning current social, economic, health and environmental issues. The texts are excerpted from more than 1,00 periodicals, 1984 to present.

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

Latin American Database Consists of three weekly online news digests (SourceMex, NotiCen and NotiSur) covering Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America, 1980-1982 to present.

Lexis-NexisAcademic 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, coverage generally begins in mid-1980s

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

Vanderbilt Television News Archive Abstracts of news broadcasts from 1968 to present. Includes ABC, CBS, NBC, PBX, Fox and CNN.

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.

ELECTRONIC SUBJECT GUIDES  from Barnard & Columbia University Libraries
Clicking on these will bring you to web based research guides. These extensive area studies guides can be helpful for locating news sources, government information and more.

Subject Guides to websites: Politics/Government on Barnard Library Home Page

Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs: Information Resources

Political Science: Information Resources

African Studies Resources

East Asian Studies

Latin American Studies

Middle East Studies

Russian and East European Studies

South Asian Studies

Subject Guides from CU Libraries complete list of the numerous electronic subject guides in various disciplines.

INTERLIBRARY LOAN & using other libraries

Lehman Library Home Page. Social Sciences collections at Columbia. Click on Political Science for additional resources and subject guides.

Lehman Library: Area Studies: African Studies, Latin American Studies, Middle East & Jewish Studies, Russian Eurasian and East European Studies, South and Southeast Asian Studies.

E-Data: Sources for International Statistics: From Lehman Library.

Journalism Library:Subject Guides and Internet Resources. Click on International Reporting for international resources.

Click here to see search Other Library Catalogs other than Columbia.   CATNYP is the online catalog of the NYPL research library and LEO is the online catalog of the NYPL Branch Libraries.

Through  Request It one can obtain books and photocopies of items that are not available at the Barnard or Columbia Libraries through Borrow Direct or Interlibrary Loan with no charge. Instructions and more information are provided on the Request It page. A Columbia UNI is needed for these services.

To locate items that are located at other libraries, check the Eureka and WorldCat links listed below.
Eureka is the online collective catalog of many major research and academic libraries, archives, museums and more.

WorldCat is the online collective catalog of OCLC members around the world.

CONSULTATIONS with Reference Librarians
Click here to complete a consultation form which you can e-mail to the library requesting to meet individually with a reference librarian. Forms are also available at the Reference Desk on the second floor of the Barnard Library.  To contact a reference librarian, e-mail refdesk@barnard.edu or call 212-854-3953. If you need immediate assistance it is better to go directly to the Reference Desk on the 2nd floor of the Barnard Library.
Reference Desk hours are: Monday-Thursday: 9-9, Fridays: 9-6, Saturdays: Noon-5, Sundays:1-9 
You may contact Karen Dobrusky directly at kdobrusk@barnard.edu

Last Modified 9/8/05
Karen Dobrusky
Reference Librarian
Barnard College Library
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