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Barnard College
Library Research Guide
BC3810
Colloquium on Aid, Politics, and Violence in Africa
Professor
Séverine Autesserre
Librarian Jenna
Freedman
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Child in refugee camp in Chad being vaccinated.
photo:
Mark Knobil |
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.
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CLIO |
Databases |
Other Libraries |
Web |
Bibliography
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BOOKS AND REFERENCE MATERIALS
Searching CLIO
CLIO (Columbia Libraries
Information Online) is the on-line catalog for materials added to the Columbia University
Libraries since 1981.
- For keyword searches, AND is automatically
inserted between term. You may also use OR or NOT between the terms, or quotes for a phrase.
- For an author search, put last name, then first name
- You can retrieve materials in English only using the
Pre-set
Limits or Post Limits options
To find PRIMARY SOURCES, use these terms in
your search: ARCHIVES, BIOGRAPHY (this includes autobiographies),
CORRESPONDENCE, DIARIES, INTERVIEWS, SOURCES. Enter them as "any of
these" in a Guided Keyword search, selecting Subject from the In:
menu.
Reference
Use for:
- an overview of a topic
- background information
- bibliographies
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TITLE |
BARNARD REFERENCE |
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Encyclopedia of the modern Middle East & North Africa |
DS43 .E53 2004 |
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The Middle East and North Africa,
Europa
World Plus |
DS49 .M58 |
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The
African studies companion |
DT19.8 .Z45 2003 |
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Africa South of the Sahara,
Europa
World Plus |
DT351 .A35 |
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Encyclopedia of Africa south of the Sahara |
DT351 .E53 1997 |
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Routledge encyclopedia of international political economy |
HF1359 .R68 2001 |
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The Greenwood encyclopedia of women's issues worldwide |
HQ1154 .G74x 2003 |
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The human rights encyclopedia |
JC571
.L523 2001 |
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CountryWatch
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The world factbook
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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,
recommended databases are listed above. 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
All Electronic Resources
- Search as: Journal Title
- Click search
- If we have an online subscription or
database access, one or more links will be provided in the record
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DATABASES FOR ARTICLES AND MORE
- 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
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.
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Law, Politics & Government databases only.
These indexes and databases will be good places to
start your research. Especially recommended
databases first:
Africa-wide: NiPAD -- Collection of databases providing access to
multidisciplinary information on Africa, from 19th century to the present.
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CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online -- working papers, conference proceedings,
journals, books, a schedule of events, and links and resources.
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International
Bibliography of the Social Sciences -- citations for publications related to the social
sciences.
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International
Political Science Abstracts -- citations and abstracts for political science articles in
journals and yearbooks published worldwide.
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JSTOR -- full-text articles
from more than 322 scholarly journals.
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ProQuest Direct --
full-text, citations, and abstracts from periodicals in many disciplines plus major U.S.
newspapers. Also searches (simultaneously):
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Alt-PressWatch
-- Full text database of selected newspapers, magazines, journals of the
alternative and independent press. Includes titles such as
Anarcho-Syndicalist Review, Chicago Reader, Dissent, Off Our Backs, Poverty
and Race.
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Dissertations &
Theses -- citations and abstracts for dissertations and theses covering all
academic subjects.
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Ethnic newsWatch
-- Full-text newspaper, magazine, and journal articles
from the ethnic, minority, and native press in the U.S. Coverage is from 1960
to date.
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Worldwide Political
Science Abstracts -- citations and abstracts articles in political science journals.
But these
are important to investigate, too:
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Academic
Search Premier -- full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including
full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals.
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AccessUN
-- citations to UN publications, with some full-text links.
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Armed conflict database -- This
database covers international and internal conflicts, as well as terrorism,
incl. information on refugees and returnees, internally displaced persons,
weapons used and their flows, fatalities, costs, historical backgrounds, and
timelines.
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Business source
complete --
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.
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Cambridge
journals online -- full text coverage of over 100 electronic journals
that are published by Cambridge University Press
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Digital National Security Archive --
collections of declassified documents in areas of U.S. foreign policy and
intelligence.
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EconLit
-- Contains citations, abstracts and full text to economic research dating
back to 1969.
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Historical abstracts -- citations and abstracts for publications related
to world history, excluding the U.S. and Canada, from 1450 to the present.
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Humanities Full Text
-- citations, abstracts, and full text for articles in humanities periodicals.
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ISI Emerging
markets -- Full-text news, financial and economic information on
emerging market countries in Latin America, Central & Eastern Europe, East,
South and Southeast Asia, Southeast Europe, Central Asia and Caucasus,
Africa and Middle East.
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Left index -- citations, abstracts and some full-text to the literature
politically on the left.
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LexisNexis Academic
-- full-text coverage of general news, business, legal, governmental and other topics.
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National Journal Group's policy central -- full-text politics and policy
from the National Journal.
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PAIS international
-- citations and abstracts for publications related to public
affairs.
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Project Muse -- full-text
articles from more than 100 scholarly journals in history and the humanities, the social sciences,
and the sciences s
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Social Sciences
Full Text -- citations, abstracts, full text for articles in social sciences periodicals.
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Sociological
abstracts -- Abstracts and indexes the international literature in
sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
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Web of
science -- bibliographic information and cited references in the Science
citation index expanded, Social sciences citation index and Arts & humanities
citation index.
FINDING DATA &
PRIMARY SOURCE
MATERIALS
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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:
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Course syllabus
Barnard Subject Guide:
Politics/Government
Columbia Subject
Guides
Beyond Barnard/Columbia
Google scholar -- enables you to
search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed
papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all
broad areas of research.
Librarians' Internet Index -- search engine
where all results have been vetted and abstracted by a librarian.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY RESOURCES
RefWorks and
EndNote are bibliographic software packages that are available, free of
charge, to all current Barnard and Columbia students, faculty and staff.
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Bibliographic software allows you to |
- search for citations in library catalogs and databases
from the software or export results into it from remote catalogs and
databases
- store the citations
- search through the citations you have stored using keyword
searches
- cite them in papers and bibliographies using any citation
format you choose
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Consult the page
EndNote at Barnard and Columbia
for more details.
The Bedford Handbook
is a free online guide to APA, Chicago, CSE, and MLA styling.
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Last Modified
03/19/2008
Jenna Freedman
Coordinator of Reference Services
/ Zine Librarian
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