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I400: International Studies Capstone Seminar

Selected Reference Works

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


Political Handbook of the World. Published for the Center for Comparative Political Research of the State University of New York at Binghamton and for the Council on Foreign Relations by McGraw-Hill Book Co., 1975-
Wells Library, Research Collection, Reference and Undergraduate Reference: JF37 .P7


Finding Books

Search IUCAT to find out what books, government publications, journals, videos, etc. the library owns.
Hint: Limit your search to: "Blmgtn - All Bloomington Libraries" to only find items that are on this campus.
Hint: Use Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT), and Truncation Symbols ($) to construct your searches.
Hint: When you find a really good title, look at the Subject Headings for that book. Use these in a new search..


*** WorldCat
Thousands of libraries are represented and searchable in this one catalog. Interlibrary Loan requests can be made from within the catalog.


Finding Articles: Databases

More relevant databases can be found at the International Studies Databases page: ?pageId=1697&subjectId=134&mode=subjectId and at the International Studies Collection Page: ?pageId=4214

The online path to these databases is: Library Homepage -› Databases by Subject -› International Studies


General & Interdisciplinary Databases

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


JSTOR
Provides searchable full-text of historical runs of important scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, sciences, ecology, and business. Coverage: from the first issue of each journal up to 3-5 years ago.


Core International Studies Databases

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


*** PAIS International
Index to articles, books, studies, selected official documents and other resources on public policy issues, public administration, law, politics and government. Coverage: 1972-present


Databases by Theme

*** 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

Finding International News in LexisNexis:

English Language Newspapers:
Go to LexisNexis Academic.
> Click on "Guided News Search" tab.
> Select a News Category.
> select the "World News" category
> "Select a News Source"
> select whatever region that you want to search. Remember to pay attention to the date range that you are searching.


Foreign Language Newspaper:
Go to LexisNexis Academic.
> Click on "Guided News Search" tab.
> Select a News Category.
> select the "Non-English Language News " category
> "Select a News Source"
> select the language that you want to search. Remember to pay attention to the date range that you are searching.

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


Additional Resources:

  • Access World News: Full-text access to local, regional, and international newspapers. Includes access to the Chicago Tribune and the Indianapolis Star.
  • Universal Database of Russian Newspapers: Provides online access to over 800,000 articles from the Russian press in both English and Russian

Statistics & Data Databases

***Lexis-Nexis Statistical: Electronic access to tables and citations to statistics produced by the U.S. federal, state and local governments, IGOs, and NGOs. Coverage: 1973-
Polling the Nations: Public opinion surveys conducted by polling organizations in the United States and other countries. Coverage: 1986-


***WDI (World Development Indicators) Online: Statistical database featuring economic, social, environmental data since 1960 for countries of the world. Coverage: 1960-


UN STATS: UN Statistics Division Common Database: Database covering selected data series from 20 specialized international data sources for all available countries and areas. Coverage: 1980s-


IGO Databases

***Access UN: index to current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications. Coverage: 1944-


Access UNDP: Index to the United Nations Development Programme Project reports issued from 1972-1998.


Official Document System of the United Nations (ODS): Full text documents from the United Nations are provided.


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. Coverage: 1946-


World Bank e-Library: Online access to publications of the World Bank. Coverage: late 1980's-

IGO Search Engine: ?pageId=4173

Search across 390+ IGO websites using a special Google Tool that was created by your International Studies Librarian librarian!


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, 5th ed. Washington, DC: APA, 2001.
BF76.7 .P83 2001 Research Coll. - Reference Desk, and Undergraduate Services - Reference


MLA: Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2003
LB2369 .G53 2003 Research Coll. - Reference Desk, and Undergraduate Services - Reference


Chicago: The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2003
Z253 .U69 2003 Research Coll. - Reference Desk, and Undergraduate Services - Reference
Chicago Manual of Style Online: The electronic version of the classic guide to documentary style.


Questions?

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Last modified on 24 January 2007