Resources for Politics JP Workshop #15
Women & Politics

John J. Hernandez Politics Librarian Firestone Library Office: A-15-J-1 Phone: (609) 258-3209 Email: jhernand@princeton.edu

Emily Belcher Women's Studies Librarian Firestone Library Office: B-12-P Phone: (609) 258-2964 Email: belcher@princeton.edu

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Compiled by the British Library of Political & Economic Science of the London School of Economics & Political Science, this database provides bibliographic information from an international selection of publications (including over 2,600 journals) in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology. Indexing covers material published from 1951 to present.

Provides abstracts in English or French to articles selected from over 1,000 international journals. Topics covered include political science method and theory, political thinkers and ideas, governmental and administrative institutions, political process, international relations, and national and area studies. Index covers material published from 1989 to present.

This database by the Public Affairs Information Service provides citations to articles, books, reports, and select government documents on public and foreign policy issues from 1972 forward. PAIS is generally considered to be a comprehensive index to policy literature. The print version of PAIS goes back to 1915, and is located in the Social Science Reference Center Index Shelves under call number 0487.739.

Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science, including international relations, law and public policy. Indexing covers material from 1975 to present. Also provides references to reliable web resources.

CWI provides full-text access to journals, newsletters, reports, pamphlets, bibliographies, fact sheets, and other material on a broad array of women and gender-related issues around the world published from 1992 to present. Covers about 1,900 sources, including more than 100 journals, all in English, in the areas of sociology, psychology, health, education, business administration and political science.

GenderWatch is a repository of unique and diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas. With archival material dating back to 1970, it provides an important historical perspective on the evolution of both the women's movement and major changes in gender roles.

An online bibliography of women's history in historical and women's studies journals with more than 7,500 bibliographic records describing articles published between 1975 and 2003.

Developed with the contribution of the United Nations Development Programme, this database from the Interparliamentary Union is tracks new books and articles produced throughout the world on the subject of women in politics. It covers titles representing international, regional, country-by-country as well as thematic perspectives.

Covers international (public and private), comparative, and municipal law of countries other than the United States, the U.K., Canada, and Australia, with coverage from 1985 to the present.

Index of law reviews, legal newspapers and bar journals since 1980. Selected full-text is available.

CRI covers monographs and annual publications of lasting reference value from Canadian government and institutional sources. Indexing covers 1982 to present.

Comprehensive bibliographic index representing all types of material for information about Mexican-American topics. Updated quarterly, the Chicano Database provides extensive coverage from the 1960s to the present, with selective coverage dating back to the early 1900s.

Provides bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 400 key social science and humanities journals published since 1970. Covers worldwide information on political, economic, and social issues about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States.

This database has long been recognized as the leading bibliography providing unmatched coverage of world history (excluding North America) dealing with time periods from 1450 to the present. It covers approximately 2,000 journals, as well as books and dissertations published worldwide since the mid 1950s in history and related areas, including anthropology, genealogy, multicultural studies, political science, and sociology.

URL: http://www.ncjrs.org/
NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. The site hosts one of the largest criminal and juvenile justice libraries and databases in the world, with holdings from the early 1970s to the present, containing more than 180,000 publications, reports, articles, and audiovisual products from the United States and around the world. These resources include statistics, research findings, program descriptions, congressional hearing transcripts, and training materials.

Provides access to the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied. The database includes abstracts of journal articles selected from over 2,500 journals, as well as books, conference papers, dissertations, and book reviews. Coverage of this database goes back to 1963.

The Television News Archive collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC (1968- ), and CNN (1995- ), and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. Access to TV-NewsSearch is free, but requires registration. Individuals may make requests for video tape loans for reference, study, classroom instruction, and research for a fee.

Provides indexing and abstracts to federal, state, and international statistical publications as well as selected business and professional publications containing statistics. Many statistical tables are available in full text, and direct links to many web-accessible statistical sources are also provided. Statistical Universe is the web equivalent of the print American Statistics Index, Statistical Reference Index, and Index to International Statistics; and provides indexing for the corresponding ASI, SRI and IIS microfiche sets located on the C-Floor of Firestone.

Publisher: New York: United Nations Publications, 1994- 
Location: Social Sciences Reference Center
Call Number: DSS Study no. 5001
The Wistat CD-ROM is a global database of statistics and indicators on gender, population and social development. It contains detailed statistics and indicators on a wide range of topics for 206 countries or areas of the world.

URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~womenstu/index.html

URL: http://www.princeton.edu/plasweb/library/

URL: http://www.princeton.edu/~pressman/history.htm

URL: http://libr.org/WSS/WSSLinks/politics.html
Maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College & Research Libraries this page provides a selective, annotated list of links with information on women and politics.

URL: http://www.questia.com/Index.jsp?CRID=women_in_politics&OFFID=se1
This is a subscetion of Questia, an online library of over 45,000 books and 360,000 journal, magazine and newspaper articles dealing with the topic of women in politics.

URL: http://www.guide2womenleaders.com/
This page, dedicated to the women who have ruled since the beginning of times, provides lots of useful information about women in leadership positions worldwide in national and sub-national levels of government, Presidential candidates, as well as  women ambassadors and celergy.