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Barnard College Library Research Guide BC3401
Colloquium on Human Rights in a Diverse World
Professor Peter Juviler
Spring 2006
Librarian: Karen Dobrusky |
Contents
Reference Books | CLIO
Catalog | Databases & Indexes
News Resources
| Government Web Pages |
Electronic Subject Guides |
Other Libraries &
Interlibrary Loan |
Consultation Request
Use for:
| Human Rights & Political Science | |
| Dictionary of Human Rights | K3239.3 .R67 2004g |
| Encyclopedia of Ethics 3 vols. | BJ63 .E45 2001 |
| Encyclopedia of Government and Politics 2 vols. | JA61 .C66 2003 |
| Encyclopedia of Human Rights | JC571 .E67 1996 |
| Encyclopedia of Nationalism | JC311 .E47 2001g |
| Encyclopedia of Political Revolutions | JC491 .E63 1998 |
| Human Rights Encyclopedia 3 vols. | JC571 .L523 2001 |
| International Encyclopedia of Human Rights | JC571 .M3243 2000 |
| International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 26 vols. | H41 .I58 2001 |
| Oxford Companion to Politics of the World | JA61 .095 2001 |
| 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 | DS448 .S67 |
| USA and Canada | E31 .U8 |
| Western Europe | D1058 .W525 |
| Country Studies/Area Handbook Series; from the Library of Congress | online |
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.
Sample Searches:
Title search: leave off the initial
article (the, an, la, etc.)
encyclopedia of human rights
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 and, or
not between the terms, or quotes (" ") for a phrase, and use ? for
truncation (to find variant endings of a word)
women and rights and iran?
revolution and "human rights"
"human rights" and (dominica? or haiti?)
"human rights" and "latin america"
Subject search: use Library of Congress (LC) subject headings
human rights
human rights cambodia
civil rights
women's rights iran
children's rights
women iran
cambodia politics and government
economic sanctions american cuba
also: feminism, intervention, social justice, social conflict
prevention, political ethics, intercountry adoption. humanitarian assistance,
free trade
Limiting to books in Barnard Library: use the Pre-select 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 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
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.
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
ABSEES: American Bibliography of
Slavic and East European Studies
Citations for North American publications related to Russia, Eastern Europe and
the former Soviet Union.
Access UN: Index to United
Nations Documents and Publications
Citations to U.N. 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.
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.
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.
ClasePeriodica
Index of Latin American journals in the sciences and the humanities.
Contemporary Women’s Issues
Full text articles, Women's Studies, 1992 to present.
EconLit
Major economics database.
Education Full Text
Citations and full text of articles in education and other related
periodicals.
ERIC: Educational Resources
Information Center
Citations and full text articles in education periodicals.
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 and Books
Covers all areas of jurisprudence, recent court
decisions, new legislation and original scholarship.
Readers' Guide Full Text
Citations and some full text of popular periodicals published in the United
States and Canada.
Sociological Abstracts
Indexes articles in the field of sociology.
United Nations Treaty Collection
Full text treaties, League of Nations and United
Nations.
Women’s Studies International
1972 to present. Women’s Studies, interdisciplinary.
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.
Alt-Press Watch
Full text articles from alternative press publications.
EastView Universal Database
Full text information from Russia and the former Soviet Union.
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 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.
Fact Search
Facts and statistics on topics of current interest.
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.
Lexis-Nexis Academic
Contains many foreign newspapers in full-text, but they are not grouped by
country. Hence 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.
Vanderbilt Television News Archive
Nightly television news broadcasts from 1968 to
present; selected CNN video from 1998 to present.
World News Connection
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.
Foreign Governments
From Northwestern University
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.
Parline
For all countries where a national legislature exists, the database provides
general information on each of the Parliament's chambers; description of the
electoral system; results of the most recent elections; information on the
presidency of each chamber; information on the mandate and status of members of
Parliament
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.
Politics/Government on Barnard Library Home Page
Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs: Information Resources
Russian, Eurasian and East European Studies
South and Southeast Asian Studies
Western Europe and the European Union
Subject Guides from CU Libraries complete list of the numerous electronic subject guides in various disciplines.
OTHER LIBRARIES & INTERLIBRARY LOAN
Lehman Library
The Lehman Social Sciences Library holds a contemporary collection of more
than 330,000 volumes and approximately 1,700 current periodical titles. It
includes materials acquired by Columbia libraries since 1974 in political
science, sociology, social and cultural anthropology, political geography,
journalism, environmental science, as well as a rich collection of materials on
post-World-War-II international relations
Columbia University Law Library
Columbia Health Sciences Library
CATNYP is the online catalog of the NYPL research library and LEO is the online catalog of the NYPL Branch Libraries.
Click on
"Request It" to borrow books through
Interlibrary Loan, Borrow Direct and other services. 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. You can click on
"Request Direct" on the Barnard Library Home Page or the Columbia University
Libraries Home 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.
Click on Other Libraries Catalogs to find a more comprehensive list of libraries.
Human Rights at Barnard
Includes links to human rights web sites and
resources
Center for the Study of Human
Rights at Columbia
Includes links to human rights web sites and
resources
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