Barnard College Library Research Guide
BC3118 Colloquium on Problems in International Security
Professor Kimberly Marten

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

• Online Indexes and Databases
• E-Journals
• Finding Data and Primary Source Materials
• Useful Web Sites
• Print Resources
   

ONLINE INDEXES AND DATABASES

• 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 "e-link" 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. Databases in bold print especially recommended:

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

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

• ArticleFirst -- citations and abstracts for articles in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, humanities, and popular culture periodicals.

• 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.

• Cambridge Journals Online -- full-text journals published by Cambridge University Press.

• China academic journals -- full-text journal articles.

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

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

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

• CountryWatch -- up-to-date news, data, background briefings, & analysis on every country of the world.

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

• Dissertation Abstracts (Digital Dissertations) -- citations and abstracts for dissertations and theses covering all academic subjects.

• 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.

• 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.

• 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

• ProQuest Direct -- full-text, citations, and abstracts from periodicals in many disciplines plus major U.S. newspapers.

• Readers' Guide Abstracts -- citations, abstracts, and fulltext for articles in popular and general-interest periodicals, 1983 to the present.

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

• THOMAS : legislative information on the Internet --  full-text of U.S. public bills and laws, Congressional Record & Index, and committee reports.

• United Nations common database (UNCDB) -- statistical tables covering many topics for countries worldwide.

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

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

• The world factbook -- information drawn from many government agencies about each country in the world.

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

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 linked from the Barnard Library home page. 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 Electronic Journals/Magazines/Serials
• 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

• AP Photo Archive -- Associated Press photo archive.
• Columbia: Electronic Data Service -- operated jointly by the Columbia University Libraries and Academic Information Systems (AcIS) to support instruction and research that involve numeric and geo-spatial data resources.
• Digital National Security Archive -- collections of declassified documents in areas of U.S. foreign policy and intelligence.
• iPoll -- poll/survey questions and responses.
• Monthly Bulletin of Statistics (UN) -- statistics from the United Nations.
• Oral History Online -- index to oral history collections in English from around the world.
• Polling the nations -- poll/survey questions and responses

See also the statistical reference works cited below in the PRINT RESOURCES section.

PRINT RESOURCES

Reference Books
Use for:

• an overview of a topic
• background information
• bibliographies

TITLE	BARNARD REFERENCE CALL NUMBER
The World almanac & book of facts	AY67 .W89
Warfare and armed conflicts : a statistical reference to casualty and other figures, 1500-2000	D214 .C54 2002
Encyclopedia of the stateless nations : ethnic and national groups around the world	D860 .M56 2002
The Middle East and North Africa	DS49 .M58
China, a historical and cultural dictionary	DS705 .C545 1998g
China facts & figures annual	DS779.15 .C48
Africa contemporary record; annual survey and documents	DT1 .Af815
Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy	E183.7 .E52 2002
American Foreign Relations Since 1600: a Guide to the Literature	E183.7 G84 2003
Encyclopedia of Race and Ethnic Studies	GN495.6 .C37 2004
Ethnic relations : a cross-cultural encyclopedia	GN496 .L48 1994
Encyclopedia of genocide	HV6322.7 .E53 1999
Historical dictionary of terrorism	HV6431 .A537 2002
Encyclopedia of world terrorism	HV6431 .E53 2003
Yearbook of the United Nations	JX1977.A37 Un33
American treaties and alliances	KZ236 2000
Encyclopedia of the United Nations and international agreements	KZ4968 .O84 2002
The military balance	UA15 .M53
The almanac of American politics http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?APQ4205
Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?ALH8935
Statesman's yearbook online http://www.columbia.edu/cgi-bin/cul/resolve?clio4154872

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

• For a title search, leave off the initial article (the, an, le, etc.)
• For an author search, put last name, then first name
• For a keyword search, you must use and, or or not between the terms, or quotes for a phrase
• Only use a uniform title search for anonymous works
• You can limit to books in the Barnard library using the More 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:

• ALEPH for the Jewish Theological Seminary
• BobCatPlus for NYU libraries
• CATNYP for New York Public Library research libraries. NYPL Databases--require library card number for access.
• EDUCAT for Teachers’ College Library
• Pegasus for Columbia Law Library
• WorldCat a catalog of catalogs, has holdings from libraries all over the world

 

USEFUL WEB SITES

Course syllabus

Barnard Subject Guides
Politics/Government
Columbia Subject Guides
Foreign Countries
Foreign Press Translations
International Conflict Resolution: Information Resources
Political Science: Information Resources
Terrorism: Information Resources
Think Tanks and Policy Centers
U.S. Government Documents: U.S. Foreign Policy Resources

Americans & the World
"This website will report on US public opinion on a broad range of international policy issues, integrating all publicly available polling data." Topics covered include globalization, international trade, women's international issues, terrorism, human rights, global warming, the United Nations, population, biotechnology, and regional issues such as "Iraq Debate" and "Israel and the Palestinians." Searchable. From the Program on International Policy Attitudes (PIPA). (description from the Librarians' Index to the Internet)

Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
The mission of this site is to provide relevant knowledge about the integration of public policy with programs such as international security, environment and natural resources, impact of science and technology, Russia and the Caspian, intrastate conflict, and other critical international affairs issues. There are links to publications, people, fellowships, events, press room, and an online library collection. Sponsored by the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. (description from the Librarians' Index to the Internet)  

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)
This organization's purpose is to furnish "strategic insights on--and policy solutions to--current and emerging global issues." The Center approaches global issues in a bipartisan, strategic, interdisciplinary manner to produce "results-oriented policy solutions." Find here a press release listing Experts on Campaign Against Terrorism, recent news, and links to publications and affiliated institutes. Browse using Issues, organized geographically and by subject. Searchable. (description from the Librarians' Index to the Internet)  

FIRST: Facts on International Relations and Security Trends
"High-quality, documented information covering the field of international relations and security, such as hard facts on states and international organizations, statistics, chronologies and data on, for example, conflicts, arms transfers and military expenditure." Enter FIRST leads to an extensive list of databases by country or multiple country profiles. Help with the site is available under Enter Forums. From the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) and the Center for Security Studies and Conflict (ISN). (description from the Librarians' Index to the Internet) 

International Affairs Resources
An annotated directory of nearly 3,000 links to "information and analysis in a wide range of international affairs, international studies, and international relations topics." Topics include business and economics, human rights, international development, and public health. Also features links to maps, media sources, and organizations. A Virtual Library site. (description from the Librarians' Index to the Internet)    

TraCCC: Transnational Crime & Corruption Center
This center is "devoted to teaching, research, training and formulating policy advice in transnational crime, corruption and terrorism." Much of the work "has focused on the analysis of transnational crime and corruption in the countries which constitute the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe." The site provides descriptions of research with links to documents and related information in areas such as trafficking in persons, money laundering, corruption, and transnational crime. (description from the Librarians' Index to the Internet)

U.S. Department of State: International Information Programs (IIP)
IIP is an office of the U.S. Department of State which "conducts, develops, and distributes public diplomacy materials in support of U.S. foreign policy objectives." This searchable site offers information on country, regional, and international issues (terrorism, arms control, sustainable development, etc.); a daily press service (Washington File); publications; and more. In English with some material also available in Spanish, French, Russian, Arabic, and Chinese. (description from the Librarians' Index to the Internet)

 

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 Barnard and 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.

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Last Modified 01/31/2005
Jenna Freedman
Coordinator of Reference Services / Zine Librarian