Barnard Library Research Guide for Political Science

	TITLE	BARNARD REFERENCE CALL NUMBER
	Encyclopedia of the Stateless Nations	D860 .M56 2002
	Encyclopedia of Latin American Politics	F1410 .E56 2002
	The International Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics	GE170 .I55 2002
	Encyclopedia of Government and Politics	JA61 .C66 2003
	The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World	JA61 .O95 2001
	The Encyclopedia of Nationalism	JC311 .E47 2001
	Global Geopolitical Flashpoints	JC319 A52 2000
	The Encyclopedia of Democracy	JC423 .E53 1995
	International Encyclopedia of Elections	JF1001 .I57 2000
	Europa Yearbooks: Use for an overview of a country's history and current political situation; to find current statistics; to identify names of government departments. Africa South of the Sahara Central and South-Eastern Europe Eastern Europe, Russia and Central Asia The Europa World Year Book The Far East and Australasia The Middle East and North Africa South America, Central America and the Caribbean South Asia Western Europe	DT351 .A35 DAW1009 .C437 DJK1 .E22 JN1 .Eu741 DS1 .F3 DS49 .M58 F1408.29 .S68 HC412 .S688 HC240.A1 W4

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ABSEES: American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies Covers research in all disciplines relating to Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union published since 1990 in the United States and Canada. Includes citations for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, government publications, and more.

African Studies A searchable index to publications and unpublished manuscripts about and from Africa in history, literature, music, archaeology, fine arts, business, and the other social sciences. This database is a composite of 17 other databases, some of which go back to the early 1980s.

Bibliography of Asian Studies A comprehensive bibliographic index to articles and other published materials on all fields of Asian Studies.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.

Ethnic NewsWatch Full-text database of articles from the ethnic and minority press in the United States, 1960 to the present.

Hispanic American Periodical Index Online Citations to information about Latin America, the Caribbean, the United States-Mexico border region and Latinos in the United States, going back to 1970.

Historical Abstracts Citations and abstracts for scholarly articles in all aspects of history (not including the United States and Canada).

International Political Sciences Abstracts Covers 1989 to the present. Indexes and abstracts articles in the field of political science (including the sub-fields of public administration, political theory and international relations) published in journals (and yearbooks) all over the world.

JSTOR An archive of full-text articles from more than 600 scholarly journals on anthropology, economics, education, finance, history, philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology, statistics, etc., from each journal’s first issue up to 2 to 6 years ago.

Kvinnsam An international index to journal articles and essays in books dealing with all aspects of women, feminism, and gender studies.

LEXIS-NEXIS Full-text of domestic and international newspapers as well as news transcripts and news wires.

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Services) Citations and abstracts to public affairs information, such as political science, environment, international relations; international in coverage. Indexes books, government documents, periodicals, conference proceedings.

ProQuest Direct An interdisciplinary database representing titles found in ABI/INFORM, Periodicals Abstracts, and Newspaper Abstracts, indexing from 1971 to the present, with full-text back to 1995. Select "Research Library" to search scholarly journals.

ProQuest Historical Newspapers Contains full-text articles from the Chicago Tribune (from 1890), LA Times (from 1881), New York Times (from 1851), Wall Street Journal (from 1889), and Washington Post (from 1877).

Social Sciences Full Text Indexes more than 350 key international, English-language periodicals in the social sciences.

Social Sciences Citation Index Index and abstracts for journal articles in the social sciences, from 1965 to the present, with links to full text, and cited reference lists for articles in the database. Useful for tracing where a paper was cited.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Going back to 1975, this is an provides citations and abstracts to articles in approximately 1,000
political science journals.

World News Connection Full-text summaries and translations of newspaper articles from around the world, 1994 to the present

Citing a Web Page
Research and Documentation Online The online version of The Bedford Handbook by Diana Hacker shows the citation styles used for different types of documents in different academic disciplines, and includes guidance on citing online sources.

Council on Foreign Relations Includes full-text articles, transcripts of speeches and testimony, and reports designed to provide the interested public with reliable, clear, nonpartisan information on key international issues.

Country Studies Information about countries of the world provided by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress.

International Monetary Fund (IMF) Website of the IMF has articles, reports and working papers, on economic issues, policy analysis, countries and news.

International Relations Resources Lehman Library subject guide listing databases and Web sites for researching International Affairs.

Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI) Reports and articles on the Middle East, translated from Arabic, Farsi, and Hebrew, as well as original analysis of political, ideological, intellectual, social, cultural, and religious trends in the Middle East.

State Department (United States) A wealth of information is made available on this site, about international relations, countries and regions of the world, the U.S. State Department and international organizations.

United Nations Has materials about global issues on the UN agenda, key UN documents, statements of the Secretary General and Deputy Secretary General, etc.

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.

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-Nexis 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.

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.

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