Egypt with part of Arabia and Palestine, 1800, Robert Laurie & James Whittle, Library of Congress

Barnard College Library Research Guide BC3761.4 Senior Research Seminar in Comparative Politics Professor Mona El-Ghobashy Fall 2006 Librarian: Karen Dobrusky

Contents
Reference Books | CLIO Catalog | Databases & Indexes
 News Resources | Government Web Pages | Web Resources | Other Libraries & Interlibrary Loan | Consultation Request

REFERENCE BOOKS

Use for:

• an overview of a topic
• background information
• factual information
• bibliographies
• located on the 2nd floor of the Barnard Library

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. 

• You can enter CLIO from the Barnard Library Home Page or from the Columbia University Libraries Home Page
• Help with searching ("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.)
encyclopedia of government and politics              
human rights quarterly

Author search: put last name, then first name
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: ("  ") for a phrase, and use ? for truncation (to find variant endings of a word)
nuclear weapons iran
colombia insurgen?
"nuclear proliferation" israel?

Subject search: use Library of Congress (LC) subject headings
muslims united states
european union turkey
nuclear proliferation

Limiting to books in Barnard Library: use the Pre-set Limits or Post Limits 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 finding periodical &journal articles

On the Databases list, which you can access from the Barnard Library Home Page or Columbia University Libraries 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 Columbia's resources. 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.

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, political and social sciences, 1972 to present. The Archive, covering years 1915-1976 is included.

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.

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.

International Bibliography of Periodical Literature: IBZ
Various subject areas. International in scope, with many European publications.

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. Also allows access to other databases in Wilson Web.

Sociological Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides citations from 1963 to the present to journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference proceedings.

Social Sciences Citation Index
Multidisplinary database covering the journal literature of the social sciences.

JSTOR, the Scholarly Journal Archive
An archive of full text articles from more than 350 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 170 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.

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, click on "scholarly journals" after results are retrieved. The advanced search is recommended.

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

Access UN: Index to United Nations Documents and Publications
Citations to U.N. documents and 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, 1981 to present.

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

America: History and Life
Major periodical index to scholarly journals containing articles on all aspects of American and Canadian history, 1954 to present.

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

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

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

EINIRAS: Database Network (EDN)
European information network on international relations and area studies. Some full-text

Ethnic NewsWatch
Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic, minority and native press in the U.S. Coverage is from 1960 to date.

Francis
International humanities and social science citations for articles in 3,699 international journals in all fields.

Fact Search
Facts and statistics in articles and on topics of current interest.

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

Hein Online
Full-text legal periodicals.

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.

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

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

I Poll Database and the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
comprehensive source for U.S. nationwide public opinion that indexes and reports at question-level.

Readers' Guide Full Text
Citations and some full text of popular periodicals published in the United States and Canada.

United Nations Treaty Collection
Full text treaties, League of Nations and United Nations.

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.

AllAfrica.com
African electronic newspapers and reports on a variety of subjects. 

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

The Europa guide books (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 as well as general news and current event coverage.

Foreign Press Translations
The translations into English of various foreign press news sources.

Latin American Database
A news and education service on Latin America.