IUCAT -- the IU Library system's online catalog. Use IUCAT to search for books and other research materials held by the Libraries. Note that if you login before you start your search, you can request items from other IU campuses with one click.
Tips: use the Advanced Keyword Search for better search results. Try combining keywords with Library of Congress subject terms such as history, cross-cultural comparison, medical care, public health, medical assistance, political aspects, social aspects, case studies, health and hygiene
WorldCat -- a "super-catalog" containing library materials from most of the major libraries in the US. Powerful and flexible search engine can also be used to search IU's library collections. Items not at IU can be requested via Inter Library Loan with one click.
Web of Knowledge -- interdisciplinary database of scholarly and scientific research. Use to find artcles in journals. Click on IU-Link button for access to fulltext, if available, or to find hard copy.
Historical Abstracts and America: History & Life -- search together or separately to find articles in history journals.
PAIS International -- for articles about public policy, public administration, law, politics and government
EconLit -- for articles on economics, economic aspects of public policy
For your convenience, here are the assigned reading links from your syllabus:
2006 June Ghana, Background Note, Department of State, US
LaVerle Berry, ed., Ghana: A Country Study (3rd ed., Washington, 1995), available in print version in GIMSS division of Wells Library, and online at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gdc/cntrystd.gh or http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS40293 (or via iucat using the title)
World Development Indicators , a database compiled by the World Bank that gives estimates for some 600 indicators since 1960.
The annual Human Development Reports, issued since 1990 by the United Nations Development Program, are available in the library in print copies or at hdr.undp.org either on or off campus with an authorized log-on using VPN, and at bibpurl.oclc.org/web/1940.
The CIA's World Factbook is generally of inferior quality but is sometimes useful because it includes estimates for countries not members of the UN. See it on the web at https://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html. The library also has print copies.
OECD Home (for all the OECD publications noted on syllabus) |
