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GVPT409H: International Disappointments in the New Century

Web page created by Gerri Foudy, Social Sciences Team, UM Libraries
Instructor: Dr. George Quester

The University of Maryland Libraries have many resources that will help with research for your GVPT409H class. If you need additional information, please contact Gerri Foudy, the Government & Politics Librarian, or speak with a Reference Librarian in McKeldin Library.

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Library Catalogs

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  • UM Libraries Catalog
    The Libraries' catalog provides information about the holdings of all libraries in the University System of Maryland.

    To search all of the UM System libraries, click on "multi-campus search."
    Books owned by other libraries in the system can be ordered at the computer for delivery to College Park (or elsewhere); click on the yellow "Request" button on the record's availability screen.

    Search the online catalog for books and documents on your topic. Start with a keyword search.
    Example: "preventive war" and terrorism

    Once you have found some relevant records by using a keyword search, you can use the subject headings in the records to find more materials.
    Example: War on Terrorism, 2001-

    You must also use the catalog to find out whether the Libraries subscribe to a particular journal. Use the "title beginning with" for the journal title (not the article title).
    Example: Studies in Conflict and Terrorism

  • WorldCAT
    Combined catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide, including the Library of Congress. Items not owned by University System of Maryland libraries can be requested online for borrowing through interlibrary loan; click on the "FindIt" button and then the link for "Interlibrary Loan" to fill out the Interlibrary Loan Request form.

Journal Databases

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    Politics, Society, and History Databases

    • Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
      Citations, abstracting, and indexing of more than 1,300 international political science journals. Some full-text links are available. Many records from key journals published since 2000, also include the references cited in the bibliography of the source article.
      1975 to current.

    • PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) International
      Indexes a wide variety of journal articles, research reports, and government documents in the social sciences and public affairs fields. Indexing from 1972 with abstracts from 1985 to the present.

    • PAIS Archive
      The PAIS Archive database comprises a retrospective conversion of the PAIS Annual Cumulated Bulletin, Volumes 1-62, published 1915-1976. At completion of this conversion, the PAIS Archive contains over 1.23 million records. The PAIS Archive database contains references to monographs, periodical articles, notes and announcements, and analytics. The original historical subject headings have been retained in the file.

    • CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
      International affairs site that "publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences."

    • International Political Science Abstracts
      Indexes and abstracts from international periodicals, 1989 to the present.

    • Foreign Affairs Full Access
      Full digital archives of Foreign Affairs back to 1973.

    • Historical Abstracts
      Abstracts from historical journals covering non-U.S. and non-Canadian history, from 1964 to the present.

    • Periodicals Contents Index
      Access to 4,500 arts/humanities & social science journals published in 40 languages, on 37 key subjects, e.g., architecture, archaeology, area studies, business, law, & linguistics, containing a full-text archive to over 300 periodical titles and direct linking to JSTOR. 1665 to 1995.

    • Alternative Press Index
      Citations from 380 alternative, radical, and left publications, which report and analyze the practices and theories of cultural, economic, political, and social change from 1991 to the present.

    • Social Sciences Citation Index
      Indexes over 17,000 journals by subject keyword, author name, journal title & author affiliation. Search author abstracts when available. Provides cited reference searching. 1956 to the present.

    • SocIndex with Full Text
      Contains full text for 242 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.

    • Sociological Abstracts
      Abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. 1963-current.

    Ethnic/Region-Specific Databases

    • ABSEES: American Bibliography of Slavic & East European Studies
      Compiled continuously since 1956 under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), ABSEES covers North American (U.S. and Canadian) scholarship on East-Central Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. It contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications.

    • BAS: Bibliography of Asian Studies Online
      Full content of the whole twenty years of the annual printed Bibliography of Asian Studies (from 1971-1991), plus citations for all articles from 1992 onward in over 100 journals in Asian studies, as well as numerous other citations from recent years.

    • EBSEES: European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
      Covers European scholarship on Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. It contains bibliographic records for journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications. 1991 -.

    • Ethnic NewsWatch
      Full-text bilingual (English/Spanish) database of 200 publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press.

    • Handbook of Latin American Studies
      Conference papers and articles in the field of Latin American Studies from 1990 to the present.

    • HAPI: Hispanic-American Periodicals Index
      Information on articles and other materials from key social science and humanities journals published in Latin America and throughout the world. Coverage includes Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, the United States-Mexico border region and Hispanics in the United States.

    • International Index to Black Periodicals
      IIBP Full Text includes current and retrospective bibliographic citations and abstracts from over 150 scholarly and popular journals, newspapers and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean--and full-text coverage of 40 core Black Studies periodicals (1998 forward).

    Economics, Business, and Development Databases

    • EconLit
      1969- Current. Provides citations and abstracts for articles from more than 400 journals, books, and the Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics (AWPE).

    • Source OECD
      The online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Comprises 20 book collections by theme, containing all OECD monographs and reports, most OECD periodicals, and the OECD statistical databases. From 1998 to the present.

    • Business Source Premier
      Provides indexing and abstracting for more than 4100 periodicals and offers full text for more than 3000 journals.

    • ABI Inform
      Provides indexing and abstracting for 1000 business and economics periodicals with full text for more than 600 publications.

    Agriculture and Environment Databases

    • Agricola
      Citations to journal articles, book chapters, monographs, conference proceedings, serials, technical reports, and other materials on a range of agricultural topics. 1970 to the present.

    • Agris
      "AGRIS is the international information system for the agricultural sciences and technology. It was created by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in 1974, to facilitate information exchange and to bring together world literature dealing with all aspects of agriculture. AGRIS is a cooperative system in which participating countries input references to the literature produced within their boundaries and, in return, draw on the information provided by the other participants. To date, 240 national, international and intergovernmental centres participate."

    • Chem-Bio Web
      Provides continuous news and information on the threats posed by chemical and biological agents as well as other weapons of mass destruction, and on the treatments and technologies being developed in response.

    • Greenwire
      Comprehensive, daily coverage of environmental and energy politics and policy, includes summaries of important energy and environmental policy coverage from hundreds of print, broadcast and online sources, including editorials. Greenwire's archive of key documents provides direct links to reports, analyses, memos, court cases and over 30,000 Greenwire stories. Includes new video and transcripts. 1996 to the present.

    • Land Letter: The Natural Resources Weekly Report
      A Washington, D.C.-based weekly newsletter on natural resource policy issues. 1996 to the present.

    • Nature Journals
      Full-text access to Nature and other Nature Publishing Group journals and reviews. To access these titles from off campus, go through Research Port. Click on the e-journal link.

    • GEOBASE
      Covers worldwide literature on geography, geology, ecology, and related disciplines. 1980 to the present.

    • Columbia Earthscape
      Presents material from top researchers, research institutes, publishers, and educators from around the world. Features illustrated lectures, animations, video and image banks, exercises and labs, syllabi, basic textbook readings, environmental legislation, regional studies, international environmental documents, and white papers, as well as a growing archive of journal articles, journal abstracts, conference literature, full-text monographs and selected chapters, and online data sets.

News and Current Events Databases

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  • World News Connection
    Online version of the federal government's Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS); full-text summaries and translations from foreign newspapers and news services.

  • Keesing's Record of World Events Online
    Culled from the world's press and information services, Keesing's distills political, economic and social events from 1960 onward into concise, detailed reports.

  • Lexis-Nexis Academic
    To search world news, go into "Guided News Search" and in "STEP ONE" select World News and in "STEP TWO" choose a region.

  • National Newspapers
    Includes the full-text of the Baltimore Sun (1990- ), Washington Post (1997- ), New York Times (1999- ), Wall Street Journal (1984- ), and Christian Science Monitor (1990- ).

  • New York Times Historical (1851-2001)
    full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

  • Washington Post Historical
    The Washington Post Historical archive (1877-1988) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

  • Ethnic NewsWatch
    Full-text bilingual (English/Spanish) database of 200 publications of the ethnic, minority, and native press.

Governmental/Intergovernmental Information

  • Lexis-Nexis Congressional
    Access to Congressional documents from 1789 to the present, with much of the material from the 1980's forward available full-text. Also includes legislative histories, laws, regulations, and information about Congress, as well as full-text access to the U.S. Congressional Serial Set from 1789-1969.

  • Cold War International History Project Virtual Archive (Free Resource)
    Includes international documents translated into English.

  • Digital National Security Archive
    Most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945. Nearly 40,000 of the most important, declassified documents - totaling more than 250,000 pages - are included in the database. Many are published now for the first time.

  • Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)
    Official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. Selected volumes are available online from 1945 to the Nixon administration. Printed volumes are available in McKeldin Library Government Documents department - CALL NUMBER: SU DOC S 1.1:; from 1861 to 1968.
    http://www.state.gov/www/about_state/history/fruswhat.html

  • Department of State Bulletin
    The official record of U.S. foreign policy from 1939-1989. McKeldin Library Government Documents Department has print holdings for v.1-75,v.80-89 (1939-1976,1980-1989) at CALL NUMBER SU DOCS S 1.3: and microfilm for v.76-77,v.79 (1977,1979) - CALL NUMBER JX232 .A33.
    Succeeded by the Department of State Dispatch CALL NUMBER SU DOCS GP 3.35:DOS DISP/ 1990 - 1999.

  • HeinOnline U.S. Presidential Library
    Full-text access to a wide variety of Presidential documents, including: Messages and Papers of the Presidents (Washington to McKinley); Compilation of Messages and Papers of the Presidents (Washington to Hoover); Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States (Hoover to George W. Bush); Inaugural Addresses of Presidents of the United States (various U.S. Presidents); Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (1965-2006); Economic Reports of the President (1947-2006); List and Index of Presidential Executive Orders, 1789 to 1941; and Presidential Executive Orders (1862-1938).

  • U.S. Department of State
    Includes links to daily press briefing, country background notes and commerical guides, and an international issues guide.
    http://www.state.gov/

  • American Foreign Policy Current Documents
    Series begun by the State Department in 1950. Contains principal foreign policy statements, messages, addressesk press briefings, etc. made by the executive branch of the U.S. government.
    LOCATION: McKeldin Library Government Documents Reference
    CALL NUMBER: SU DOC S 1.71/2: (1950-1967; 1981-1989)

  • NTIS (National Technical Information Service)
    Covers U.S. government-sponsored research and reports from federal agencies. NTIS is the central source for the sale of unclassified and publicly available information from federal sources. Indexes and abstracts technical research reports, journal articles, data files, computer programs and audio-visual products.Information is also available from some foreign governments. Additionally, NTIS includes some technical reports from international agencies such as NATO and AGARD. 1964 to currrent. Note: The Technical Reports Center, located in the basement of the Engineering & Physical Sciences Library, has many of the reports listed in the NTIS database.

  • U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA)
    "The mission of the United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency is to strengthen the national security of the United States by formulating, advocating, negotiating, implementing and verifiying effective arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament policies, strategies, and agreements."
    http://dosfan.lib.uic.edu/acda/

  • UNEP
    Searchable web site of the United Nations Environment Programme

  • FAO On-line Catalogue
    Bibliographic information on FAO publications.

  • UNDP: United Nations Development Programme
    Searchable web site with online data and reports. Subject areas covered include: democratic governance, poverty reduction, crisis prevention and recovery, energy and environment, and HIV/AIDs.

  • UNESCO
    Searchable web site of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization.

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