Barnard College Library Research Guide

BC3761 Senior Seminar in International Relations

Professor Kimberly Marten
Librarian Jenna Freedman
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This guide is intended as a starting point in your research; the databases and reference tools listed here are a selective list. Always remember that you can ask for assistance at the Barnard Reference Desk at any point in your research, and you can always request a consultation.


CONTENTS

ARTICLES AND MORE
  • Access these indexes and databases from the Find Databases interface
  • Using these resources to find journal articles is sometimes a two-step process; first, find citations in the index, and second, click on to find the full text online or do a Journal Title search in CLIO to find out how to locate the full text online or a print copy.   

These indexes and databases will be good places to start your research. Especially recommended databases first:

  • CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online -- working papers, conference proceedings, journals, books, a schedule of events, and links and resources.

  • International Bibliography of the Social Sciences -- citations for publications related to the social sciences.

  • International Political Science Abstracts -- citations and abstracts for political science articles in journals and yearbooks published worldwide.

  • JSTOR -- full-text articles from more than 322 scholarly journals.

  • ProQuest Direct -- full-text, citations, and abstracts from periodicals in many disciplines plus major U.S. newspapers. Also searches (simultaneously):

    • Alt-PressWatch -- Full text database of selected newspapers, magazines, journals of the alternative and independent press. Includes titles such as Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, Chicago Reader, Dissent, Off Our Backs, Poverty and Race.

    • Dissertations & Theses -- citations and abstracts for dissertations and theses covering all academic subjects.

    • Ethnic newsWatch -- Full-text newspaper, magazine, and journal articles from the ethnic, minority, and native press in the U.S. Coverage is from 1960 to date.

  • Worldwide Political Science Abstracts -- citations and abstracts articles in political science journals.

But these are important to investigate, too:

  • AccessUN -- citations to UN publications, with some full-text links.

  • Africa-wide: NiPAD -- Collection of databases providing access to multidisciplinary information on Africa, from 19th century to the present.

  • AGRICOLA -- agricultural subjects, including water resources.

  • America, history and life -- citations for publications related to U.S. and Canadian history.

  • Armed conflict database -- This database covers international and internal conflicts, as well as terrorism, incl. information on refugees and returnees, internally displaced persons, weapons used and their flows, fatalities, costs, historical backgrounds, and timelines.

  • AUL index to military periodicals (AULIMP) -- citations for articles in military periodicals.

  • Business source premier -- full-text articles on business, marketing, management, accounting, finance, international business, econometrics and economics. Contains full text of the Harvard Business Review, California Management Review and other important journals and databases.

  • Congressional Research Service reports -- full text of Congressional Research Service reports, 2003 to present

  • Congressional Universe -- index and abstracts for U.S. Congressional materials, with some links to full-text.

  • Contemporary Women's Issues -- full-text articles and reports about women from U.S. and international sources.

  • CQ Homeland Security -- a one-stop intelligence service for up-to-date and comprehensive homeland security information.

  • Declassified documents reference system : DDRS --  full text of declassified U.S. government documents.

  • Digital National Security Archive -- collections of declassified documents in areas of U.S. foreign policy and intelligence.

  • Family & society studies worldwide -- citations and some abstracts in social work, social science and family practice

  • Gender studies international -- citations for materials related to women's studies, gender studies, feminist theory and criticism

  • Google scholar -- enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research.

  • Hispanic American periodicals index -- citations to articles and book reviews about Latin America, the Caribbean, and Hispanic Americans.

  • Historical abstracts -- citations and abstracts for publications related to world history, excluding the U.S. and Canada, from 1450 to the present.

  • Humanities Full Text -- citations, abstracts, and full text for articles in humanities periodicals.

  • Jane's Online Research -- source for defense and military information

  • Left index -- citations, abstracts and some full-text to the literature politically on the left.

  • LexisNexis Academic -- full-text coverage of general news, business, legal, governmental and other topics.

  • The Nation digital archive -- searchable full text and page images of a major U.S. journal of left/liberal opinion, 1865-1999.

  • National Journal Group's policy central -- full-text politics and policy from the National Journal.

  • PAIS international -- citations and abstracts for publications related to public affairs.

  • Project Muse -- full-text articles from more than 100 scholarly journals in history and the humanities, the social sciences, and the sciences s

  • Readers' Guide, Retrospective -- citations, abstracts, and fulltext for articles in popular and general-interest periodicals.

  • Social Sciences Full Text -- citations, abstracts, full text for articles in social sciences periodicals.

  • Water resources abstracts -- citations and abstracts to the technical and scientific literature on water-related topics covering the characteristics, conservation, control, pollution, treatment, use and management of water resources.

  • Web of science -- bibliographic information and cited references in the Science citation index expanded, Social sciences citation index and Arts & humanities citation index.


E-JOURNALS

Many scholarly journals are available on the Web. The journal often is included in a searchable collection of journals supplied as a package by the publisher or by another vendor. These collections are included on the list of databases, recommended databases are listed above. If you have a particular journal that you want to access electronically:

  • Enter the title in CLIO, omitting the initial article (a, an, the, la, le, un, etc.)
  • In the Quick Limits box below the Search For field
  • Select All Electronic Resources
  • Search as: Journal Title
  • Click search
  • If we have an online subscription or database access, one or more links will be provided in the record


FINDING DATA & PRIMARY SOURCE MATERIALS

See also the statistical reference works cited below.
 


BOOKS AND REFERENCE MATERIALS

Reference
Use for:

  • an overview of a topic
  • background information
  • bibliographies
 TITLE BARNARD REFERENCE
CALL NUMBER
Encyclopedia of the stateless nations: ethnic and national groups around the world D860 .M56 2002
Encyclopedia of the modern Middle East & North Africa DS43 .E53 2004
The Middle East and North Africa  DS49 .M58
Kurdish culture and society : an annotated bibliography DS59 .K86 M44 2001
Encyclopedia of India DS405 .E556 2006
South Asia DS448 .S67
Africa south of the Sahara DT351 .A35 2004
Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy E183.7 .E52 2002
South America, Central America, and the Caribbean F1408.29 .S68 2004
Encyclopedia of Latin American politics F1410 .E56 2002
International encyclopedia of environmental politics GE 170 .I55 2005
Routledge international encyclopedia of women HQ1115 .R69 2000
Greenwood encyclopedia of women's issues worldwide HQ1154 .G74x
Historical dictionary of terrorism HV6431 .A537 2002
Encyclopedia of world terrorism  HV6431 .E53 2003
Yearbook of the United Nations  JX1977.A37 Un33
The almanac of American politics

CountryWatch

Statesman's yearbook

The world factbook

Searching CLIO
 CLIO (Columbia Libraries Information Online) is the on-line catalog for materials added to the Columbia University Libraries since 1981.  

  • For keyword searches, AND is automatically inserted between term. You may also use OR or NOT between the terms, or quotes for a phrase.
  • For a title search, leave off the initial article (the, an, le, etc.)
  • For an author search, put last name, then first name
  • You can retrieve materials in English only using the Pre-set Limits or Post Limits options

Other Library Catalogs
Those with Columbia ID have access to the libraries of the Columbia Law School, the Jewish Theological Seminary, Teachers’ College, and Union Theological Seminary, but they are not included in CLIO. CUID also provides access to the libraries of New York University. Anyone who lives, works, or goes to school in New York is entitled to a New York Public Library card. Use the Catalogs list on CU LibraryWeb, or the following links:


USEFUL WEB SITES

Course syllabus

Barnard Subject Guide: Politics/Government

Columbia Subject Guides

 


BIBLIOGRAPHY RESOURCES

RefWorks and EndNote are bibliographic software packages that are available, free of charge, to all current Barnard and Columbia students, faculty and staff. 

Bibliographic software allows you to
  • search for citations in library catalogs and databases from the software or export results into it from remote catalogs and databases
  • store the citations
  • search through the citations you have stored using keyword searches
  • cite them in papers and bibliographies using any citation format you choose

Consult the page EndNote at Barnard and Columbia for more details.

The Bedford Handbook is a free online guide to APA, Chicago, CSE, and MLA styling.
 

Last Modified 09/11/2006
Jenna Freedman
Coordinator of Reference Services / Zine Librarian