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I203: Global Integration and Development

Selected Reference Works

Encyclopedia of International Development. New York: Routledge, 2005.
Wells, Reserach Collection, Reference: HD82 .E547 2005

*** 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 Development Report. New York : Oxford University Press, 1990-
URL: http://hdr.undp.org/
Wells, GIMSS, Gov't Info, Ref Desk, and Wells Research Collection Stacks: HD75 .H85 2009

Intergovernmental Organization (IGO) Search Engine: Free search engine created by your International Studies Librarian. IGO Search is a Google search engine that only searches across IGO websites (UN, World Bank, IMF, etc....)

Nongovernmental Organization (NGO) Search Engine.  Free search engine created by librarians to do a Google search of only nongovernmental organizations.

Wango  (World Association of Nongovernmental Organizations)

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.

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 

General & Interdisciplinary Databases

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

Lexis-Nexis Statistical
Electronic access to tables and citations to statistics produced by the U.S. federal, state and local governments, international governmental organizations, and non-governmental organizations. Coverage: 1973-

Core Global Integration and Development 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

EconLit
Covers journal articles, books, and dissertations, articles in collective works, conference proceedings and essay volumes. Subjects include book reviews, business, economics, finance, industry and statistics. Coverage: 1969-

Sociological Abstracts
Abstracts to journal articles and citations to book reviews in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Coverage: 1952-

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

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

Additional Resources:

  • Access UN: Use to find current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications, 1944 to the present.
  • GDF (Global Development Finance): World Bank publication that tracks the annual movement of international capital flows to developing countries. Coverage: 1960+
  • International Financial Statistics (IFS): IFS is a monthly publication providing international and domestic finance for most countries of the world. IFS Online is cumulative and interactive. Coverage: 1948 to present
  • SourceOECD: Online portal for Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development publications issued since 1998, including statistics. Coverage: 2000 -
  • UN Comtrade (UN Commodity Trade Statistics Database): Country statistics of trade for 5 Key variables: Reporter, Commodity, Partner, Year and Trade Flow. Coverage: 1962-
  • 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, but varies
  • World Bank e-Library: Online access to publications of the World Bank (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development). Coverage: Late 1980's

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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