Political Science — Caribbean

Black Studies Center Combines three resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index of Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender. Fully cross-searchable gateway to scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more.
Black Studies Database: Kaiser Index to Black Resources Over 170,000 citations from the Kaiser Index to Black Resources, 1948-1986 from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library covering topics in African-American, African, and African Diasporan Studies. See also, the Black Studies Center .
Black Studies on Disc Bibliographic information on materials held in New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture covering African-American, African, and African Diasporan studies. Also includes indexing of articles appearing in the Index to Black Periodicals. See also, the Black Studies Center .
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Factiva-domestic & international news Provides access to over 6,000 US and foreign full-text news and business publications, e.g., Bangkok Post, Concord Times (Sierra Leone), Dunya (Turkey), O Estado de Sao Paulo, Jakarta Post, The Straits Times (Singapore), Die Welt (Germany), etc. Includes reports, stock quotes, and documents such as treaties of the EU. For search help, go to the Factiva Help Page.
Handbook of Latin American Studies: HLAS Online Annual bibliography by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities.
HAPI Online: Hispanic American Periodical Index Citations to worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Coverage is 1970 to the present. See, too, Latin American Studies, Volume 1 , which HAPI expands on.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences Citations from an international selection of publications, including over 2600 journals, in all areas of the social sciences with emphasis on economics, political science, sociology and anthropology.
International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text Citations from over 150 scholarly and popular journals including 40 with full text articles. See also, the Black Studies Center .
JSTOR Provides electronic access to back issues of core scholarly journals including almost 30 in Political Science. To browse the list of archives, click here. Articles have been digitized, providing full-image access.
Latin American Newsletters (Latinnews; The Latin Intelligence Service) LAN is a premier, comprehensive intelligence service on 33 countries in Central America, Latin America and the Caribbean covering political, security, economic and strategic issues as well as general news.
Latin American Studies Web gateway to resources.
Latin American Studies. Volume 1 Covers all areas of scholarship pertaining to Latin America, including Mexico, the Caribbean, Central and South America, and people of Hispanic origin in North America. Compiled from the Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI), the Handbook of Latin American Studies, and records from the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection at the University of Texas at Austin.
Oxresearch - Oxford Analytica Research papers, source intelligence, and global strategic analysis on issues in current business, security studies, development, world politics, developing countries, and economic history. Bridges the time-gap between newspaper reporting of current events and the appearance of scholarly works.
PAIS International Bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. Journal articles, books, government documents, statistical compilations, committee reports, directories, serials, reports of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations, and most other forms of printed literature from all over the world are indexed. This database covers 1972 to the present. Go to PAIS International Archive for coverage from 1937-1976. (The archive will eventually cover 1915 through 1976.)
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Citations with abstracts from more than 1100 journals in political science and related disciplines. Coverage is international in scope.

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Lucy E. Lyons
Collection Analysis, Journalism, and Political Science
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
(847) 491-2229, fax 467-7899
l-lyons@northwestern.edu
Office Location: Room 2623, 2nd Floor, East Tower, Main Library

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Last updated: 05/09/08