European Politics
Politics
Junior Workshop #4
Duncan
Alford, Law Librarian
and European Union Specialist
John Hernandez, Politics
and U.S. Documents Librarian
Offices: Social Science Reference Center, A Floor, Firestone Library
Reference Tools
Encyclopedia
of the European Union, Boulder, CO: Lynne Reiner,
1998.
Firestone Library (F) JN30 .E52 1998
State of the European Union
Multivolume set by Oxford University Press (each volume cataloged
separately)
Encyclopedia of Government and Politics.
London: Routledge, 1992.
(SF) JA61.C66 1991
Encyclopedia of Nationalism.
San Diego: Academic Press, 2001.
(SF) JC311.E4996 2001
Encyclopedia of Arms Control and Disarmament.
New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons,
1993.
(SF) JX1974.E57 1993
Europa World Yearbook.
London: Europa Publications.
Published since 1926.
Current Volume (DR) JN1.E85
Electronic
version of Europa World Yearbook
Yearbook of International Organizations.
Munich: K.G. Saur.
Published since 1905.
Current Volume (DR) JX1904.A42
Political Parties of the World.
London : John Harper, 2002.
(SF) JF2051 .D39 2002q
Statesman's Year-book
Current volume (DR): JA51 .S7
Political Handbook of the World
Current volume (SSRC Ready Reference) JF37 .P6
Primary Databases for Politics
Other Subject Databases of Interest
SourceOECD
Contains policy papers and journals published by the Organization for
Economic
Cooperation and Development (OECD), based in Paris. Princeton
owns
print versions of many of these publications. The OECD has 30
member
countries, including most industrialized nations in Central and Western
Europe. The OECD is known for its publications on economic
development
and public policy as well as its statistics. (
www.oecd.org)
Search technique:
Most of the content is in the Periodicals database. Use advanced
search;
search Title/Keywords/Abstract field using Boolean operators (AND, OR)
to connect your search terms.
EconLit
1969+ an electronic indexed bibliography
with selected abstracts of international economic literature, produced
by the American Economic Association. It includes coverage of over 525
major journals as well as articles in collective volumes (essays,
proceedings,
etc.), books, full text book reviews, dissertations, and working
papers.
For items published from 1886 to 1968, see
Index of Economic
Journals
and Index of Economic Articles under call number (SXF) 0487.122
Sociofile
1963+ the Sociological Abstracts database, is the most useful and
comprehensive
index in the field of Sociology, covering the world's literature in
Sociology
and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied. Indexes over
2,500
journals, abstracts of conference papers presented at various
sociological
association meetings, relevant dissertations, book reviews, and
abstracts
of selected sociology books. Journals
are in 30 different languages from about 55 countries.
For times from 1952-1962, see
Sociological Abstracts under call
number (SSRC) HM1.S67.
Jane’s
Online Database containing
information vital to the understanding of global defense, aerospace and
transportation.
Lexis-Nexis
Statistical Contains indexing
and abstracting to full text documents coming from many international
governmental
organizations including the Economic Commission for Europe, European
Bank
for Reconstruction and Development, European Free Trade Association,
European
Union, NATO, OECD.
Examples
of Key European Intergovernmental Organizations
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North Atlantic Treaty Organization ( NATO) |
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European Bank for Reconstruction &
Development
( EBRD) |
European Free Trade Association ( EFTA) |
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Organization for Security and Co-operation
in Europe
( OSCE) |
Western European Union ( WEU) |
Where to find other IGO's:
International
Governmental Organizations (courtesy of Northwestern University)
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/resource/internat/igo.html