I204: Human Rights and Social Movements

Selected Reference Works

Encyclopedia of Human Rights, 2nd ed. Washington, DC: Taylor & Francis, 1996.
Research Collection Reference JC571 .E67 1996

Encyclopedia of Human Rights Issues Since 1945. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1999.
Info. Commons Reference JC571 .L2747 1999

Europa World Plus
Economic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of 250+ countries and global regions. Includes contact information for officials and features information on over 1,700 international organizations. Online library database.

Human Rights Violations. Pasadena, CA: Salem Press, 2003.
Info. Commons Reference JC571 .H783 2003

International Encyclopedia of Human Rights: Freedoms, Abuses, and Remedies. Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 2000.
Research Collection Reference JC571 .M3243 2000

Finding Books

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Finding Articles: Databases

More relevant databases can be found at the International Studies Databases page:  http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1000190
The online path to these databases is: Library Homepage -› Resources by Subject -› International Studies 

*** Academic Search (EBSCO)
Interdisciplinary database that provides fulltext coverage of magazine, newspaper, and scholarly journals for almost every academic discipline.

Columbia International Affairs Online
A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs, offering fulltext of working papers from research organizations, abstracts of foreign policy journal articles, etc. Coverage: 1991 onward

 

*** Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes journals in political science, international relations, law, public administration and policy. Coverage: 1975-

*** Sociological Abstracts
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• Access UN: Use to find current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications, 1944 to the present.
• Historical Abstracts: Use to find scholarly journals in history
• Polling the Nations: Find public opinion data from all over the world.
• United Nations Treaty Collection: Contains texts of over 34,000 bilateral and multilateral treaties in their authentic languages along with a translation into English and French.

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Finding Foreign Newspaper Articles: Databases

*** Lexis-Nexis Academic
NEXIS includes full text of many newspapers (including the NYT 1980-today), magazines, transcripts and more. LEXIS includes laws, statutes and legal articles. Coverage: varies

 

Factiva
General news and business information. International newswires and pictures, TV and radio transcripts. Company search for competitors, comparisons, SEC documents.  Coverage: 1985-current

 

*** World News Connection
Translations of foreign news and information sources from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service. Coverage: 1995-

 

Access World News: Full-text access to local, regional, and international newspapers.

 

Universal Database of Russian Newspapers: Provides online access to over 800,000 articles from the Russian press in both English and Russian

 

Global Voices Online: http://www.globalvoicesonline.org/

 

WANGO (The World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations):  http://www.wango.org/

 

Citing Your Sources

No matter where your information comes from, you always need to cite your sources. The most frequently used citations have been compiled by the reference librarians on a webpage and handout (APA, MLA and Chicago). These can be found by visiting: http://www.indiana.edu/~libinstr/cite/.

APA: Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th ed. Washington, DC: APA, 2010.
BF76.7 .P83 2010 Research Coll. - Reference Desk, and Undergraduate Services - Reference

MLA: Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009
LB2369 .G53 2009 Research Coll. - Reference Desk, and Undergraduate Services - Reference

Chicago: The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010
Z253 .U69 2010 Research Coll. - Reference Desk, and Undergraduate Services - Reference
Chicago Manual of Style Online: The electronic version of the classic guide to documentary style.

 

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Last modified on 19 January 2011