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19th Century Masterfile A large range of 19th century materials, including Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906) as well as patent and government indexes.
ABSEES Online: American Bibliography of Slavic & East European Studies Citations to journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications, published in the United States and Canada, relating to East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. See also European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES) .
Academic OneFile A collection of peer-reviewed, full-text articles from more than 5000 journals, plus indexing of an additional 4000+ journals, newspapers and wire services. Coverage from 1980 to the present. Extensive coverage of the social sciences and other disciplines. Use this database for a broad search to retrieve both first tier as well as second tier sources. For a less broad search of first tier sources only, use Expanded Academic ASAP (EXAC) .
AccessUN Indexes and some full-text access to current and retrospective U.N. documents, publications, treaties, and resolutions. See also UNBISnet and United Nations Treaty Collection .
Africa (AllAfrica) News and current events reported from all countries of Africa. Search by country, region, or topics.
Africabib.org Two bibliographic databases covering Africana periodical literature -- Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database and African Women's Database. Indexes over 40,000 articles from over 325 English language and multi-lingual journals and periodicals that specialize in African Studies or consistently cover the African continent.
African HealthLine A collection of bibliographic databases on African health issues. Includes African Index Medicus (1993 to present), Healthlink Worldwide (1980 to present), Medicines Information Centre Reference Database of the University of Capetown (1980 to present), Community Health Information Database (1993 to present), SAMED (1976 to 1996), AIDS Consortium Resource Centre Database (1990 to present), African subset of Medline (1966 to present), African Health subset of Waterlit (1975 to present), African Health subset of Index to South African Periodicals (1987 to present), African Health subset of South African Index to Theses and Dissertations (1924 to present), The Bibliography of Filariasis (1634 to 1980), and African Laboratory of Natural Products Database (1900 to present).
African Studies Extensive resources on WWW Virtual Library site maintained via Columbia University.
Africana Conference Paper Index Citations to a rich collection of individual papers presented at African studies conferences world wide. Proceedings from these conferences are held in the NU Herskovits Library of African Studies.
Africana Library at NU Web page and resources of the NU Herskovits Library of African Studies.
Africana Vertical File Index Provides access to over 20,000 entries for ephemera, government documents and official publications, annual reports, laws, commission reports, material from trade unions, political parties and national liberation movements, housed in vertical file cabinets in the NU Herskovits Library of African Studies.
Africa-wide NiPAD (Incorporting "South African Studies" and "African Studies") Full-texts and abstracts of over 2 million records, in multiple languages, on topics ranging from politics, economics, and development issues to natural history and health, from the 19th century to the present. For list of resources, see "About" and "Product Factsheet."
Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals (AULIMP) Citations to articles, from 1988 to present, in English language military journals including Air Force Law Review, Armed Forces & Society, and various Jane's publications.
Amnesty International Library Online Documentation Archive Publications including reports, news releases and urgent actions 1996 to date the present. Search by country, region, theme, etc. Documents are available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.
Asia-Studies Full-Text Online Asia economic conditions and economic development. (This database was formerly known as APEC Working Papers.)
Asian Studies: WWW Virtual Library
Bibliography of Asian Studies Citations to articles from over 100 periodicals pertaining to East, South and Southeast Asia.
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 .
Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science
BNA Labor and Employment Law Library Access to cases, manuals, newsletters, and analysis in U.S. Labor and employment law.
Carter Center Publications Subjects include election assessments, human rights, conflict resolution, democratization, and global development.
Center for Strategic and International Studies Includes available reports on current global security and governance issues.
CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) Discussion Paper Discussion papers covering economics, political economy, policy, and sociology.
CEPR (Centre for Economic Policy Research) Policy Paper Analysis of policy issues and political economy.
China Academic Journals Thousands of primarily Chinese but also English language articles, most from 1994 to the present, on various subjects including: art, drama, economics, finance, history (e.g., ancient Chinese, world by regions), ideology, Chinese language, law (civil, criminal, other), literature, military affairs, morality education, music, philosophy, physical culture, politics, religion, tourism, and transportation. Examples of sub-sections include: "Finance & Taxes" on finance theory, China and world finance, and accounting. Political topics in subsections such as "Political Organization in China" include party theory, the Communist movement, other parties, parties in other nations, labor, peasant, youth, women and other organizations.
China Census Data 1 - Zhongguo wu ci xian ji ren kou pu cha shu ju Historical county population census data with maps (GIS software) for 1953, 1964, 1982, 1990, and 2000. In Chinese and English. To use, go to the Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department of the Library.
China Census Data 2 - 2000 China county population census data with county maps For the year 2000 (more detailed than the above). In Chinese and English. To use, go to the Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department of the Library.
China Core Newspapers Chinese language periodicals. From the year 2000+, access to over 125,000 new full-text articles per year primarily on "Politics/Military/Law" with other topics as well. These are predominately in Chinese, some English, some both.
Cities of the World 6th edition, 4 volumes, 2002
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online Citations, abstracts and selected full-text articles covering topics in international affairs, collected largely from university- and foundation-funded research institutes, non-governmental organizations and academic conferences.
Colegrove, Kenneth (1886-1975) Papers A finding aid to the papers of a Political science professor at Northwestern (1919-1952) and expert in Japanese politics and law. 90 boxes (30 linear feet).
Collins Dictionary of Economics
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics
Conversations with History: Institute of International Studies (UC Berkeley) Lively and unedited video interviews and printable transcripts, with distinguished men and women from all over the world. Includes over 300 diplomats, statesmen, stateswomen, soldiers, economists, political scientists, activists and artists. Click on "Interviews by Guest Name" for the alphabetical list.
Cooperative Africana Microform Project (CAMP)--CRL A large, rich pool of historical, political, linguistic, economic and geographical data and primary source materials that are not available elsewhere. See "Guides to Collection" and "Holdings List." CRL is located in Chicago. Materials are readily available through Interlibrary Loan and possibly through appointment.
Council on Foreign Relations
Countries and their Cultures 4 volumes, 2001.
Country Profiles (BBC) "Instant guide" to statistics, history, news, politics, chronology of key events, leaders, media, and economics of countries of the world.
CQ Historic Documents Series Online Edition Issued since 1972, each annual volume of which contains approximately 100 documents covering the most significant events of the year. The documents include presidential speeches, international agreements, Supreme Court decisions, U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.
Deardorff's Glossary of International Economics
Declassified Documents Reference System - U.S. Provides access to the texts and images of select declassfied U.S. documents from diverse sources such as the CIA, Department of State, National Security Council, Department of Defense, and the FBI. Subject areas covered including international politics, international relations, U.S. foreign and domestic policy, strategy, diplomacy, and the military.
Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Provider of DoD scientific and technical information, reports, and summaries of ongoing research, host of 100 defense program web sites, and manager of 11 information analysis centers.
Demography and Population Studies Internet Guide
Department of Defense (DOD) Dictionary of Military Terms
Development Experience Clearinghouse—USAID Over 19,000 reports available for downloading.
Development Gateway Foundation supported portal for country and development information.
Dictionary of Contemporary World History
Dictionary of Economics (Wiley)
Dictionary of Government and Politics (Collin Publishing)
Dictionary of Statistics
Dictionary of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict , 2 volumes, 2005.
Digital National Security Archive Contains over 35,000 declassified national security documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Comprised of twelve collections -- Afghanistan, Berlin Crisis 1958-1962, Cuban Missile Crisis, El Salvador, Iran-Contra Affair, Intelligence Community, Iran Revolution, Military Uses of Space, Nicaragua, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Philippines, and South Africa.
Directory of NGOs associated with DPI Associated with the United Nations Department of Public Information.
Dissertations -- Foreign Hundreds of thousands of foreign doctoral dissertations available through the Center for Research Libraries. If author is not found, read introductory note to take further action.
Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy: The Avalon Project at Yale Law School Dedicated "to providing access via the World Wide Web to primary source materials in the fields of Law, History, Economics, and Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We intend to add value to these primary sources by linking to other documents expressly referred to in the body of the text." Includes pre-18th century through 21st century documents.
East Asia WWW Virtual Library guide to numerous resources.
Economist Intelligence Unit on the Internet Economic data on 150 countries, from about 1980 to present.
Economics A listing of resources compiled by the NU Economics Bibliographer.
Election Reports- Global (Carter Center Publications) In-depth pre and post-election assessments, in alphabetical order by country.
Elections Around the World
Embassy World Directory & search engine of the world's embassies & consulates.
Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy , 2nd edition, 3 volumes, 2002.
Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management (Blackwell)
Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World
Encyclopedia of Law and Economics
Encyclopedia of Modern Asia , 6 volumes, 2002.
Encyclopedia of Russian History 4 volumes, 2004
Encyclopedia of Terrorism Published in 2003.
Encyclopedia of the European Union
Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East & North Africa
European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES) Citations to works published in Europe dealing with East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union. See also ABSEES Online: American Bibliography of Slavic & East European Studies .
European Union Official websites of the European Union. See, too, the Encyclopedia of the European Union .
o EUROPA Gateway to the European Union.
o EU Commission An a-to-z thematic index.
o EU Documents This site provides guidance to tracking EU documents. Divided into three sections: law, documents of individual institutions, and documents common to all institutions.
o EU Enlargement Official information about the process to add new countries. Includes an overview of the enlargement and provides country profiles, arguments and public options, and documents.
o The ABC of the European Union The EU at-a-glance.
Eurostat Staff in the Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department must log-in for patrons to gain privileged access to all Eurostat publications that are available in PDF format. For assistance, please visit the Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department or contact staff at govpubs@northwestern.edu.
Expanded Academic ASAP (EXAC) This is an important database for social sciences (political economy, gender studies, development, etc) with more than 20 years of coverage of about 3,500 first tier, indexed, and full-text titles, of which 2,100 are peer-reviewed. For a broader search which will retrieve both first tier as well as second tier sources, see Academic OneFile .
Fed in Print: An Index to Federal Reserve Economic Research Databases of the U.S. Federal Reserve Banks.
Foreign Governments & their Ministries and Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization: A Directory Provides links to the official pages of national governments and their offices, as well as links to information on unrepresented nations and peoples. Compiled and maintained by the NU Library's Government and Geographic Information and Data Services division.
GATT Digital Library
Gender Studies Resources compiled by NU Bibliographer for Gender Studies.
Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department in the NU Library Includes U.S. government, State of Illinois, and international documents, maps and geographical information as well as data services and more.
Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases
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.
House of Commons: Index to Current House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Electronic index to the microfiche edition of the parliamentary papers published from the 1991/92 session onwards and for the same period, all papers ordered to be printed by the House but not necessarily yet published. Housed in the Library, Reference Department. See, too, the House of Commons Library Parliamentary Data (POLIS) database for the full text of Early Day Motions (since May 1997) and an index to proceedings and publications of both the Commons and the Lords.
Human Development Report Includes statistics and indices to measure development in economic and cultural terms. For assistance with this resource, please visit the Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department at the Main Library or write to govpubs@northwestern.edu.
Index Islamicus Citations to over 240,000 articles and monographs dealing with all aspects of Muslim life and Middle Eastern studies, including history, economics, and philosophy in English and other languages.
Index to United Nations Documents Citations to current and retrospective U.N. publications, including full-text UN Resolutions from 1994 forward and Summary Records (SR) containing voting records beginning in 1997. Five years of retrospective indexing will be added each year until the index covers documents back to 1945.
Intelligence Resource Program-Federation of American Scientists
International Affairs Resources WWW Virtual Library link to 2600 relevant, annotated sites.
International Annual Bibliography of Festschriften=Internationale Jahresbibliographie der Festschriften (IJBF) Bibliography of over 20,000 Festschriften in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish languages from 1986 to the present.
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 Crisis Group Full text reports assess and analyze local conditions in countries at risk.
International Documents Collection--Northwestern University Library Contains publications and documents of about 25 intergovernmental organizations (IGOs).
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 .
International Labor Organization (ILO) Provides documents on conventions and recommendations, worldwide labor news, and information on issues such as gender and employment. For other publications and titles, search in NUcat or consult with the International Documents Librarian in the Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department .
International Law in Domestic Courts Fully searchable, regularly updated case reporting service of domestic cases in international law from over 60 countries. Analyses, commentaries, full texts of judgments in original languages and translations. Includes case alert service.
International Political Economy Network (IPEnet)
International Political Science Abstracts Provides indexing and abstracting of articles from English and non-English language, major journals in political science, international public law, and international relations.
International Relations and Security Network (ISN) See Security Watch, Primary Resources, Links Directory, and other resources of information on world affairs. Also provides free newsletter subscriptions to online publications related to current international security issues, including peace keeping operations, arms control, political trends in Russian republics and regions, etc.
Inter-Parliamentary Union International organization of 130 Parliaments of sovereign states; supported by UN; contains information and data such as number of women in parliaments.
InvestorWords Glossary of financial and investment terms.
ISI Emerging Markets Economic conditions in developing countries of Latin America, Asia and Europe. Includes industry and analyst reports, macroeconomic statistics and forecasts, legal and regulatory information, and opinion polls from the following emerging markets: Baltic States (including Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania), Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic (including Slovakia), Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia (including Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan), Turkey, Ukraine, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, China, India, South Korea and Southeast Asia (Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia and Thailand).
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 America-Asia Review (Latinnews; The Latin Intelligence Service) In-depth monthly reports on intelligence from Asia, Latin American and Asian relations and affairs, comparative economics, etc.
Latin American Microform Project (LAMP)--CRL"...collections of unique, scarce, rare and/or bulky and voluminous research materials pertaining to Latin America." A large pool of primary sources. CRL is located in Chicago. Materials are readily available through Interlibrary Loan and possibly through appointment.
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
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.
Law- Current and Historical:
o Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Citations to articles as well as book reviews from more than 450 legal periodicals, essay collections, festschrifts, and congress reports from 1985 to the present. Covers international law (public and private), comparative law, and municipal law of countries other than the United States, British Isles, and British Commonwealth.
o Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Indexes articles from over 800 legal periodicals, from 1918 to the present; and works from major law books, since 1993. "Open Database Selection Area" to include materials older than 1981. Links to some full text sources available.
o Making of Modern Law More than 22,000 legal treatises on British Commonwealth and American law; full-text, fully searchable works published between 1800 and 1926.
o Pritzker Legal Research Center at NU School of Law Most resources are available to all -- some are restricted to NU School of Law community.
o Supreme Court Decisions FindLaw's searchable database of U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1893. Browsable by year and US Reports volume number. Searchable by citation, case title and full text.
League of Nations Statistical and Disarmament Documents
Left Index Citations, abstracts and selected full text from over 260 publications of the political left.
LGBT, Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America 3 volumes, 2004.
Lijphart Elections Archive A "research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries."
Making of the Modern Economy. The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature, 1450-1850 " Digital facsimiles of literature on economics and business published from the last half of the 15th century to the mid-19th century from the collections of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London and the Kress Collection of Business and Economics at the Harvard Business School; with supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University, and from Sterling Library at Yale University.... documents the dynamics of Western trade and wealth; focuses on economics interpreted in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology.... Includes facsimiles of rare books and primary source materials such as political pamphlets and broadsides, government publications, proclamations, and a wide range of ephemera." (H. Lightman)
McGovern, William M. (1897-1964) Papers, 1919-1967 A finding aid to the papers of a Professor of Political Science at Northwestern, known for his travels to Tibet in the 1920s. 6 boxes (2 cubic feet.)
Microform Collections of the NU Library This electronic guide provides information on historical resources in area studies including Latin America, East and South Asia, Europe, and America as well as sources on topics such as gender studies.
Microform and CD-ROM Collections of the U of C Guide to resources in political science and history in these formats at the University of Chicago (to which NU faculty and students have access via reciprocal privileges).
Middle East Microform Project (MEMP)—CRL "...copies of unique, scarce, rare and unusually bulky and expensive research" items. Includes primary materials from or about Arab countries, Israel, Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, Central Asia and others. See, too, SEEMP for additional coverage. CRL is located in Chicago. Materials are readily available through Interlibrary Loan and possibly through appointment.
Middle East Studies Gateway to Internet resources; humanities and social sciences.
Middle East Studies Internet Resources on WWW Virtual Library site maintained via Columbia University.
National Security Archive
Nations of the World A-Z list of all countries in the world and their official languages. Click on the country name to link to "One World - Nations Online" which provides news links, maps, statistics, current topics, and more on languages of every country of the world.
NATO
New York Review of Books Searchable archive of articles and reviews from 1963 to present.
Nonprofits: Literature of the Nonprofit Sector
Northwestern Journal of International Affairs (NJIA)This is a student-run journal, supported by Northwestern University's Buffet Center for International and Comparative Studies. Issues are available online and also in print within the Main Library, Periodical/Newspaper Reading Room.
OECD Index Bibliographic database containing descriptions of documents and publications issued by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and related agencies such as the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the European Conference of Ministers of Transport. Search the Library catalog NUcat for the titles you want. For assistance with this resource, please visit the Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department or contact staff at 847-491-3130 or govpubs@northwestern.edu. See also SourceOECD .
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) resources at NU: A thorough guide to OECD materials available to the NU community; compiled by the Main Library's Government and Geographic Information and Data Services.
Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World, 2nd Edition
Oxford Guide to the United States Government
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.)
Peace Research Abstracts Includes many links to full-text as well as abstracts and citations, from top journals, to articles on subjects within peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, security and other areas.
Penguin Dictionary of Economics
Pew Global Attitudes Project A series of worldwide public opinion surveys, of almost 75,000 people among 50 populations (49 countries plus the Palestinian Authority). Includes large array of subjects, e.g., people's assessments of their own lives, views on globalization, changes in attitudes toward democracy, views on the place of Islamic faith in public policy within countries with significant Muslim populations, and opinions toward the United States.
Philosopher's Index Citations and abstracts to articles from books and over 480 journals dealing with philosophy and political and social theory.
Policy File Offers "access to U.S. foreign and domestic policy papers and gray literature, PolicyFile is updated weekly with abstracts and links to the latest reports, papers, and documents from think tanks, research institutes, and agencies."
Political Handbook of the World A component of the CQ Press Political Reference Suite . Political and government information on all countries.
Polling the Nations Searchable and browseable database of over 350,000 questions from more than 14,000 public opinion surveys conducted by more than 700 different organizations in the U.S. and abroad.
Poly-cy: Internet Resources for Political Science Metasite for Political Science containing links to useful information for faculty and students under such heading as "The Profession" (e.g., institutes, jobs, conferences), "Research" (e.g., data sources, methods, grants), "Government" (e.g., foreign governments, US counties), etc.
Prickly Paradigm Pamphlet publications by leading scholars. Critiques of subject disciplines and the world. Ordered through and distributed by University of Chicago Press.
Program on International Policy Attitudes Project of the Center on Policy Attitudes (COPA) and the Center for International Security Studies (CISSM). Conducts polls, domestic and across nations, to study American options toward international issues.
Project PERSEE - Portail de revues scientifiques en sciences humaines et sociales: "... has as its mission the digitization and online distribution of back collections of a vast corpus of periodicals. Wider availability of this rich scientific heritage will benefit French research by making it freely and publicly accessible." Journals include the Revue française de science politique, Revue économique, and Annales d’histoire économique et sociale.
Quarterly Index to African Periodical Literature Index of over 300 selected periodicals acquired regularly from 29 African countries.
Repère Fulltext Bibliographic database containing references to articles in over 500 French-English journals published from 1980 to the present. Publications from Quebec, other Canadian provinces, France, Belgium, and Switzerland.
Sabinet Online Full-text and abstracts of humanities and social science articles, with emphasis on African Studies.
Slavic and East European Microform Project (SEEMP)—CRL "...copies of unique, scarce, rare and/or unusually bulky and expensive research" items. Includes primary resources from and about the countries of Eastern and Central Europe (Albania, Belarus, Bulgaria, Bosnia & Hercegovina, Croatia, Czech Repbulic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Republic of Macedonia, Moldova, Poland, Romania, Serbia & Montenegro, Slovakia, Slovenia, Ukraine), Russia, the Transcaucasian countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia), and the Central Asian countries that were formerly part of the Soviet Union (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan). See, also, MEMP for additional coverage of some of these areas. CRL is located in Chicago. Materials are readily available through Interlibrary Loan and possibly through appointment.
Social Science Information Gateway Browse by Subjects including Politics, Research Tolls and Methods, Statistics, and Women's Studies.
Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) Provides bibliographic information and some abstracts from articles from more than 1,700 in the social sciences. Search by topic, author, source title, or by cited reference: authors and titles from the bibliography of an article. Searches may also lead to related records: articles with citations in common. Results may be printed, saved to a text file, exported in a delimited format for import into personal bibliographic programs like EndNote or ProCite, or may be sent via email. (For more information, see citations to faculty publications.)
SourceOECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Full-text of periodicals and statistics. See also OECD Index .
South African Studies An anthology of 15 different databases, providing access to the great majority of documents published in and about South Africa.
South Asia Microform Project (SAMP)—CRL Affiliated with the Association for Asian Studies. A collection of unique and scarce research titles including primary resources from and about India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan and the Maldives. CRL is located in Chicago. Materials are readily available through Interlibrary Loan and possibly through appointment.
Southeast Asia Cornell University Library site with multiple resources per country.
Southeast Asia WWW Virtual Library guide to resources per country.
Southeast Asia Microform Project (SEAM)--CRL Massive and rich holdings of unique research materials related to Southeast Asia Studies. See "Holdings List." Cataloged by country and material type -- monographs and manuscripts, serials, or newspapers. CRL is located in Chicago. Materials are readily available through Interlibrary Loan and possibly through appointment.
Speeches and Speechmakers Excellent gateway, from the University of Iowa, to collections on the web. Includes, for example, links to an archive of speeches by the African National Congress, speeches on human rights from the U.K., and the Social Activism Sound Recording Project (UC Berkeley).
Speeches & Video A large archive of speeches primarily by politicians, and sound clips of primarily political events, available via The History Channel.
St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide
Television News Archive (Vanderbilt University) World's most extensive and complete archive of television news. Includes more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. See "Important Note" on front page of website (NU affiliates have free access).
Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources
UNBISnet Catalog of UN publications and documentation indexed by the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva, and non-UN publications in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Voting Records, and an Index to Speeches. See also AccessUN and United Nations Treaty Collection .
United Nations Treaty Collection There are three databases in this collection: 1) Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General; 2) United Nations Treaty Series; 3) Texts of Recently Deposited Multilateral Treaties. See also AccessUN and UNBISnet.
UN Oral History Project Yale University’s United Nations Studies Program has undertaken an oral history study to preserve the recollections of those involved in international political developments in which the UN has played a role. This resource contains over 150 transcribed interviews with key players, from numerous countries, involved in major international events. The transcripts are divided into two groups: 1989-1991 and 1996-2002.
U.S. Department of Labor Includes information on general employment trends.
U.S. Government Information--Northwestern University Library.
Vital Speeches of the Day Look for the "Business Source Premier" option among the multiple subscriptions offered by NU, because this is the most comprehensive with speeches dating back to 1934 (including speeches by Churchill, Hitler, Mussolini) to the present day (including Blair and Benedict XVI). Also contains speeches by academics and others on important topics.
Women's Speeches from Around the World – Gifts of Speech A good base of speeches by contemporary leaders in politics, literature, and other fields.
Women's Studies Resources compiled by NU Bibliographer for Gender Studies.
Women's Studies: Core Books (ACRL/WSS)
World Bank and IMF Network Libraries Catalog—JOLIS (Library catalogs) Includes references to books, journal titles, journal articles, working papers, conference proceedings, technical reports, videos, software, electronic resources, and published IMF and World Bank materials. Please check the Library's catalog NUcat for availability, and speak with staff Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department .
World War I Document Archive An extensive archive of primary documents, from telegrams to treaties, of WWI. International in focus.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Citations with abstracts from more than 1100 journals in political science and related disciplines. Coverage is international in scope.
WSSLinks: Women's International Web Sites

E-DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Language Dictionaries & Quotations

Bilingual Dictionaries--Oxford English to French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish and vis versa.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. 10th Edition, 1919
Cambridge Dictionary of American English
Cambridge Klett Compact, French-English
Cambridge Klett Compact, Spanish-English
Foreign Languages for Travelers Includes basic phrases with pronunciations in Real Audio in over sixty languages and links to language services and translating dictionaries.
German Reference Database: Xipolis
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
Online Dictionary Net Links to many online dictionaries covering many languages and topics.
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Oxford English Dictionary: OED Online This contains two separate texts, the complete Second Edition and the New Edition in progress. The first set is a complete A to Z sequence of entries, while the second is incomplete, but growing every quarter.
WWW Virtual Library Web Gateways to English and foreign language dictionaries, acronyms and abbreviations, subject lexicons, glossaries, thesauri, quotations, and rhyming dictionaries.

Biographical Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

American National Biography Articles and portraits of about 19,000 historically noteworthy Americans.
Biographical Dictionary Covers more than 28,000 notable men and women from ancient times to the present day. Can be searched by birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords.
Biography Resource Center Biographical information on nearly 275,000 people from throughout history; includes some full-text feature-length biographical articles and links to selected web sites.
Colegrove, Kenneth (1886-1975) Papers A finding aid to the papers of a Political science professor at Northwestern (1919-1952) and expert in Japanese politics and law. 90 boxes (30 linear feet).
Conversations with History: Institute of International Studies (UC Berkeley) Lively and unedited video interviews and printable transcripts, with distinguished men and women from all over the world. Includes over 300 diplomats, statesmen, stateswomen, soldiers, economists, political scientists, activists and artists. Click on "Interviews by Guest Name" for the alphabetical list.
Dictionary of American History , 3rd edition, 10 volumes, 2003.
Dictionary of Political Biography
Encyclopedia of U.S. National Security
McGovern, William M. (1897-1964) Papers, 1919-1967 A finding aid to the papers of a Professor of Political Science at Northwestern, known for his travels to Tibet in the 1920s. 6 boxes (2 cubic feet.)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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