GUIDE -- GENERAL

Guide to reference books. Edited by Robert Balay. Chicago, 1996. An annotated guide to reference books in all fields, systematically arranged, and well indexed. A first step for any information search. Z1035.1.G890 1996 RR, RR3 (etc.)

GUIDE -- POLITICAL SCIENCE

Holler, Frederick L. Information sources of political science. Santa Barbara, 1986. A valuable tool for political science research. Lists and describes 2423 reference works for political science, arranged by fields, such as American government and politics, international relations, comparative politics and area studies, political theory, public administration, etc.; and by forms, such as subject guides, bibliographies, abstracting and indexing tools, newspapers, dissertations, book reviews, government documents, directories, biographical sources, and handbooks and encyclopedias. Includes useful introduction section on political reference techniques. Z7161.H640 1986 RR2

INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS -- POLITICAL SCIENCE

Political Science and Government Abstracts supplies up-to-date bibliographic information and research within the political science discipline and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. The database, published since 1967, covers over 1000 journals drawn from the international serials literature. Major areas of coverage include: comparative politics; developing nations; disarmament; economic policy; electoral systems; environmental policy; government/political systems; history and theory of political science; international relations/trade; labor relations; military policy; methodology and research technology; political behavior; political economy; political psychology; politics and law; politics and communication; politics and religion; politics and society; public administration; security and defense; welfare systems. This database now includes the entire contents of the ABC Pol-Sci database formerly available on only CD-ROM, and comprises approximately half a million records, dating back to 1975. It is updated monthly.

International political science abstracts. Oxford, 1952--. Provides some 5,000 abstracts per year from 600 English language and foreign languages periodicals. Z7163.I68 RR2

International bibliography of political science. Chicago, 1952--. Highly selected listing of books, articles, and other scientific publications. Though international in scope, rather long lag time. Z7163.I59 RR2

For political history, including contemporary history, consult:

• Historical Abstracts. The fundamental indexing and abstracting tool for modern history. Abstracts and indexes articles and reviews appearing in 2,000 journals published worldwide, from 1954, covering world history since 1450 (except United States and Canada). Includes key historical journals from nearly every country, and selective coverage of social science and humanities journals in related fields. Database is updated monthly.

• America: History and Life. The fundamental indexing and abstracting tool for American and Canadian history. Abstracts and indexes articles and reviews from 2,000 journals published worldwide from 1954. Database also includes citations to abstracts of dissertations published in these areas. Database updated monthly.

FULL-TEXT DATABASES

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe. Contains full-text selections from hundreds of newspapers, and thousands of current affairs, business, legal, medical and trade publications, and government documents.

Consult networked source ProQuest Direct 5000. Provides abstracts and indexing to over 6000 newspapers, journals, periodicals, magazines, and other information sources. Includes entire contents of databases such as ABI/INFORM, Newspaper Abstracts and Periodical Abstracts. Contains full text with images for many of the articles cited, esp. for recent years . Title lists are available at the ProQuest web site.

FULL-TEXT SOURCES FOR JOURNALS

The JSTOR Journal Browser. Search the full text the entire run of each title included in the database from its first volume until the last five years; images of each page may be viewed, downloaded or printed. At this writing, titles in political science included American Journal of International Law, 1907-1994; American Journal of Political Science, 1973-1994, and its predecessor, Midwest Journal of Political Science, 1957-1972; American Political Science Review, 1906-1994; Journal of Politics, 1939-1994; Political Science Quarterly, 1886-1993; Proceedings of the American Political Science Association, 1904-1913; and World Politics, 1948-1994.

POLITICAL REPORTERS

Networked source CQ Weekly/Congressional Quarterly Weekly (full text coverage since 1983). Important source for political and legislative news. Includes floor votes. For earlier coverage, see print version at JK1.C733 or KA1.C126 Law.

Networked source National Journal is an authoritative weekly magazine featuring in-depth coverage of federal government policy making, with emphases both on the executive branch and the legislative branch. Use articles in the National Journal to begin research on legislative actions and to evaluate the factors affecting the actions of the executive and legislative branches. National Journal identifies and tracks emerging issues and prepares detailed reports of federal government activities. Includes fully searchable archive from 1977. (To review all articles in a given issue, put an * in the advanced search text box, and set the beginning and end dates for the date of the issue you wish to review.)

Networked sources also available from National Journal Group's Policy Central:

Markup Reports. Comprehensive coverage of every House and Senate committee and subcommittee markup session. Markup Reports provide detailed coverage of every bill, along with roll call votes on amendments and final action.

The Hotline. Tracks American politics and campaigns with coverage of each day's political news.

Congress Daily. Focuses on time-sensitive stories about legislative and campaign activity on Capitol Hill and at the White House. Coverage includes daily updates on happenings at committee hearings, bill markups, and on the floor of the House and Senate, as well as schedules of upcoming events. CongressDaily is an excellent starting point in any research involving current public policy issues.

Campaigns. A quick-reference guide to the campaigns of 2001 and beyond.

Ad Spotlight. News on political and issue television ads with streaming audio or video.

Poll Track. A database of public opinion surveys from across the country.

Almanac of American Politics. Analysis and data on every member of Congress and on members' states and districts.

Technology Today. Tracks important news and trends in information technology, politics and policy.

FULL-TEXT SOURCE FOR INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS

Columbia International Affairs Online . Seeks to be comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. Publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes full text of working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. Frequently updated conference proceedings, policy briefs, schedule of events and economic indicators. Site includes abstracts or full-text versions of articles from recent issues of major foreign affairs journals.

FULL-TEXT SOURCES FOR U.S. GOVERNMENT DOCUMENTS

Networked source Congressional Universe on FirstSearch. A new web-based online legislative history service providing the full text of the CIS Index 1970 to date, the CIS Legislative Histories 1984 to date, bill tracking reports and full text legislative files and Congressional member profiles from LEXIS/NEXIS, and news from the National Journal and Congress Today. The coverage of Congressional Universe, back to 1970, is far greater than Lexis/Nexis Academic Universe (1990 to date) or Thomas (1993 to date). (The CIS Index, included in Congressional Universe, includes detailed abstracts of Congressional hearings, reports, documents, and prints.)

Networked source Government Printing Office GPO Access Service. Search the Monthly Catalog for government documents published since January 1994; and search the Federal Register, 1995+, the Congressional Record, 1994+, Congressional Documents and Reports, 104th Congress+, Congressional Directory, 1995+, the Economic Report of the President, GAO Reports, History of Bills, 1994+, etc. Conduct advanced searches of the Congressional Record and the Federal Register, 1995+. Use the Government Information Locator Service to identify and use other government sources of electronic information.

Networked source The Library of Congress's Thomas site provides information on current floor action in Congress, bill summaries and status for the current Congress, texts of bills and public laws (1993+), text of Congressional Record (1993+), Committee reports, (1995+), other committee information, and historical documents.

GOVERNMENT PUBLICATIONS, GENERAL

The library possesses a very large stock of U. S. and other government publications of capital importance to historians: reports, hearings, statistical returns, maps, retrospective compilations of documents, etc. A very significant proportion of these materials are not separately listed in the card catalog, but must be accessed through various guides and indexes. For fuller information, see Guide to Reference Books, cited above, and Vladimir Palic, Government Publications, a guide to bibliographic tools (Washington, 1977), Z7167.G7C5 RR.

Networked source GPO on FirstSearch. Includes records on all subjects for reports and hearings of Congressional committees, Congressional debates and records, judiciary materials, document issued by executive departments such as the Defense, State and Labor Departments, and documents issued by the Office of the President. Covers documents issued from July 1976 to the present.

Congressional Masterfile. [Electronic database.] Provides indexing for Congressional reports, documents, hearings, prints and other Congressional publications from 1789 to 1970. Workstation RR

INDEXES

Consult networked source ProQuest Direct 5000. Provides abstracts and indexing to over 6000 newspapers, journals, periodicals, magazines, and other information sources. Includes entire contents of databases such as ABI/INFORM, Newspaper Abstracts and Periodical Abstracts. Contains full text with images for many of the articles cited. Title lists are available at the ProQuest web site.

Consult networked source H.W. Wilson Select Full Text File on FirstSearch. Contains indexed and abstracted articles from over 430 periodicals, all with ASCII full text online, and includes records from Reader's Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts. Coverage from 1994 to the present.

Consult networked source ArticleFirst on FirstSearch. Describes items listed on the table of contents page of individual issues of more than 11,000 journals in a wide range of subject fields. Covers January 1990 to the present for most journals; covers July 1992 to the present for others.

Consult networked source ContentsFirst on FirstSearch. Contains the complete table of contents page from individual issues of more than 11,000 journals in science, technology, medicine, social science, business, the humanities and popular culture. Each record lists the table of contents of one journal issue. Although most of these journals are published in English, journals in other languages are also included. Covers January 1990 to the present for most journals; covers July 1992 to the present for others.

Consult networked source Periodicals Contents Index (PCI). Indexes the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1990/1991.

Consult networked source Web of Science. Provides access to the ISI citation database Arts and Humanities Citation Index . User may identify related works by identifying works in which a known work has been cited. By use of the keyword index a subject search may be undertaken. Coverage from 1987. For earlier coverage, consult print version Arts and humanities citation index, at Z5937.A85 RR

Humanities index. 1974-- . Together with Social sciences index, cited below, supersedes the Social sciences and humanities index, whose predecessor, the International index, dates back to 1916. The Readers Guide-type index that covers the two dozen or so most important English-language historical journals as well as many in literature, art, philosophy, etc. AI3.R552 RR

Social science index, 1974--. Includes coverage of major English-language journals in political science, sociology, economics, etc. AI3.R551 RR

Networked source PAIS International on FirstSearch on the Web. Extremely valuable tool for identifying published information on social, economic, or political issues. Indexes articles from over 800 English-language periodicals in the social sciences, plus materials from yearbooks, directories, and government documents. Incorporated PAIS Foreign Language Index, which indexed some 400 foreign periodicals. Electronic version covers 1972 to present; earlier print edition cited next, covers 1915 forward.

PAIS International in Print. Formerly, Public affairs information service bulletin. New York, 1915--. Incorporated PAIS Foreign Language Index (Z7164.E2P97 RR). Z7163.P9 RR

GUIDE TO STATISTICS

Statistical Universe. Comprehensive guide to statistics published in federal government publications from about 1970, with many additional references to statistical reports published by states, intergovernmental organizations, and private organizations. Gives sources of statistics, and data elements in tables. Source is a guide to published statistics, rather than a database of statistics, though it does include data from all tables published in the United States Statistical Abstract since 1986. (Tables from Statistical Abstract are typically presented both as digitized images and in spreadsheet formats.)

ENCYCLOPEDIA

International encyclopedia of the Social Sciences. New York, 1968. 18 vv. Lengthy articles by eminent scholars on principal concepts, theories, and historical developments in the social sciences, including many relating to political science. Supplements Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, New York, 1930-35, 15 vv. (H41.E56 RR, RR2). H41.I6 RR, RR2 Politics in America: The 104th Congress. CD-ROM version at workstation in General Reference Department. A detailed reference to Congressional office-holders and governors, and political circumstances in their states and districts. For earlier Congresses, see print editions at JK1010.C66 RR2, et al.

ICPSR DATA FILES

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR). Guide to resources and services. Ann Arbor, biennial. Lists tens of thousands of discrete files curently on deposit with ICPSR, with detailed descriptions of the holdings. JA28.I52a RR, RR2.tData holdings of ICPSR> May be searched online.

Columbia University, an ICPSR member institution, offers an enhanced HTML version of the ICPSR Guide to Resources through their EDS Datagate facility. Users may query the database by keyword.

To determine which ICPSR files the University owns, or to obtain access to additional ones, consult the Data Library of the Social Science and Public Policy Computing Center.

DISSERTATIONS--GENERAL

ProQuest Dissertation Abstracts. Indexes North American dissertations and some European ones, 1861- to date. After 1980 database contains abstracts in addition to bibliographic information, and provides full text for about 70,000 recent dissertations. Searchable in various ways. Updated monthly. For texts of earlier abstracts, consult:

Dissertation abstracts international. Ann Arbor, 1938--. Title varies; coverage varies. Compilation of abstracts of doctoral dissertations submitted to University Microfilms by cooperating universities. Dissertations may be purchased in various formats. Varying forms of indexing. Related indexes for retrospective dissertations and dissertations not filmed. Z5055.U49M6 RR

NEWSPAPERS

New York Times index. Varying dates and publishers. Covering since 1851, in varying quality. Not only an index to the NYT, but also in effect a general chronological guide to current events treated in other sources. (Library holds other important indexes to newspapers, esp. for more recent times.) AI21.N45 RR

Consult networked source Official Index to the Times, 1906-1980 (index to the Times of London. For earlier years, see Palmer's Index to the Times, 1790-1905. For years after 1980 see the print Times Index (AI21.T48 RR).

Consult networked source Newspaper Abstracts on FirstSearch. Coverage of over 25 national and regional newspapers from 1989 to the present. Updated weekly.

Consult networked source ProQuest Direct, a large general database which includes, and extends, the Newspaper Abstracts database. To limit a search to newspapers, "and" the following to your search statement: STYPE(newspaper). Use the Advanced Search form to search an individual publication.Keesing's record of world events. London, 1987--. Monthly, continuing Keesing's contemporary archives, 1931-1986. A record of national and international current events with continually updated indexes. AP2.K43 RR, Gen

ARCHIVES, MANUSCRIPTS, SPECIAL COLLECTIONS

Consult networked source ArchivesUSA. Three major information resources are integrated in ArchivesUSA:Resource 1: A newly compiled directory of manuscript repositories, giving full addresses, including e-mail addresses and URLs, opening hours, and details of holdings and areas of special interest. This directory updates and supersedes the Directory of Archives and Manuscript Repositories in the United States (DAMRUS) last published in 1988. Resource 2: Collection records from the National Union Catalogue of Manuscript Collections (NUCMC). Information gathered and compiled by the Library of Congress from the 1950s to the end of 1995, covering some 75,000 collections. Each record also includes the LC's subject and name indexing of the collection. Resource 3: Names and detailed subject indexing of over 42,000 collections whose finding aids have been published separately in the major microfiche series, National Inventory of Documentary Sources in the United States(NIDS).

U. S. National Archives and Records Service. Guide to the National Archives of the United States. Washington, 1974. Brief description of record groups held. CD3023.A3 RR, RR3

Search Web version of new edition, in press, at National Archives Web site.

U. S. National Archives and Records Administration. National archives microfilm resources for research: a comprehensive catalog. Washington, 1990. Most filmed materials are available for loan from the Center for Research Libraries. CD3026 1990 RR, RR3

Search updated Web version at National Archives Web site.

Search file of digitized presidential collections from Library of Congress home page.

Ash, Lee (comp.) Subject collections; a guide to special collections and subject emphases as reported by university, college, public, and special libraries in the U. S. and Canada. 7th. ed., New York, 1993. Z688.A2A822

Conaway, Frank. Guide to microform sources for history and political science in the University of Chicago Library. Chicago, 1996. Includes over 500 annotated citations for source materials in microform, including materials from national and other archives, collections of personal papers and other manuscript collections, and collections of books, pamphlets, serials, newspapers, and official documents. Includes chapters on sources for United States, Latin America, Great Britain, Western Europe, Eastern Europe, Middle East, South Asia, East Asia, and Australia and Oceania; and chapters on sources for women's studies and African-American studies, and Judaica; and lists of materials for international relations and economic history. 1800-term index of subjects, authors, and titles. Z6209.C652 1996 RR, RR3 (etc.)