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Barnard College Library Research Guide BC3401
Colloquium on Human Rights in a Diverse World
Professor Peter Juviler
Spring 2005
Librarian: Karen Dobrusky |
Contents
Reference Books | CLIO & Other Library Catalogs |
Databases & Indexes
News Resources |
Governments' Web Pages |
Electronic Subject Guides | Interlibrary Loan |
Consultation Request
Encyclopedias, dictionaries and other reference books can provide useful background and factual information. They can also provide bibliographies that lead you to relevant books and articles. The reference books in this list are available in the Barnard Library reference area on the second floor. There are many other reference books which may be helpful to you. Please ask the reference librarian for help in identifying additional reference books.
| Political Science | |
| Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science | JA61 .B43 1999 |
| Oxford Companion to Politics of the World | JA61 .095 2001 |
| Human Rights | |
| Dictionary of Human Rights | K3239.3 .R67 2004g |
| Encyclopedia of Human Rights | JC571 .E67 1996 |
| Guide to Human Rights Rresearch | K3226 .T63 1994 |
| Human Rights Encyclopedia 3 vols. | JC571 .L523 2001 |
| International Encyclopedia of Human Rights | JC571 .M3243 2000 |
| Country Profiles and Background Information | |
| Europa World Yearbook 2 vols. all states of world | JN1 .Eu741 2004 |
| Africa South of the Sahara | DT351 .A35 |
| Central and South-Eastern Europe | DAW1009 .C437 |
| Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia | DJK1 .E22 |
| Far East and Australasia | DS1 .F3 |
| Middle East and North Africa | DS49 .M58 |
| South America, Central America and the Caribbean | F1408.29 .S68 |
| South Asia | HC412 .S688 |
| USA and Canada | E31 .U8 |
| Western Europe | HC240 .A1 W4 |
| Subject Encyclopedias, overview articles | |
| Encyclopedia of Africa South of the Sahara 4 vols. | DT351 .E53 1997 |
| Encyclopedia of American Immigration 4 vols. | JV6465 .E53 2001g |
| Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice 4 vols. | HV6017 .E52 2002 |
| Encyclopedia of Democracy 4 vols. | JC423 .E53 1995 |
| Encyclopedia of Ethics 3 vols. | BJ63 .E45 2001 |
| Encyclopedia of Genocide 2 vols. | HV6322.7 .E53 1999 |
| Encyclopedia of Islam 11 vols. | DS37 .E523 |
| Encyclopedia of Latin American History and Culture 5 vols. | F1406 .E53 1996 |
| Encyclopedia of Nationalism 2 vols. | JC311 .E47 2001g |
| Encyclopedia of Terrorism | HV6431 .K883 2003 |
| Encyclopedia of the United Nations & International Agreements 4 vols. | KZ4968 .O84 2002 |
| Historical and Multicultural Encyclopedia of Women's Reproductive Rights in the U.S. | HQ766.5 U5 H57 2000 |
| Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World 4 vols. | DS35.53 .095 |
| Routledge International Encyclopedia of Women 4 vols. | HQ1115. R69 2000 |
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".
Sample Searches:
Title search: leave off the initial article (the,
an, la, etc.)
title:encyclopedia of human rights
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:accountability and corporations
keyword:india and child? and (poor or poverty)
Subject search: use Library of Congress (LC) subject headings
subject:human rights
subject:human rights south africa
subject:civil rights
subject:women rwanda
subject:women's rights iran
subject:china politics and government
subject:economic sanctions american cuba
subject:children's rights india
Limiting to books in Barnard Library: use the More 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 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.
African Studies
Index to publications and unpublished manuscripts about and from Africa in history, literature,
music ,arts, business and social sciences, 1981 to present.
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 +
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
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 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.
South African Studies
Index to publications and unpublished manuscripts about and from South Africa in the social
sciences, law, humanities and the arts, 1987 to present.
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Women’s Studies
International
1972 to present. Women’s Studies, interdisciplinary.
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.
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.
Foreign Press Translations lists the Lehman Library's subscriptions in paper, microfiche and online to foreign press translations.
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.
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
Russian and East European Studies
Subject Guides from CU Libraries complete list of the numerous electronic subject guides in various disciplines.
Click here to see search Other Library Catalogs. CATNYP is the online catalog of the NYPL research library and LEO is the online catalog of the NYPL Branch Libraries.
Interlibrary
Loan will borrow books or obtain photocopies of items that are not available at the Barnard or
Columbia Libraries with no charge to the patron. Click on "Interlibrary Loan" on the BC Library home
page or "Request It Online" on CU LWeb to request the material online. Information about borrowing
items through Borrow Direct are given on this page.
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 form you can e-mail to the library requesting a consultation on your research, or come
to the Reference Desk on the second floor. To contact a reference librarian, e-mail
refdesk@barnard.edu or call 212-854-3953. We'll be happy
to help you find additional information. You may contact Karen Dobrusky directly at
kdobrusk@barnard.edu