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Politics 159: The Politics of the Modern Welfare State
Professor Jytte Klausen
Spring 2005
Library Instructor:
Leslie F. Stebbins
Reference Librarian and
Coordinator, Library Intensive Program
Goldfarb Library
781/736-4674
Oxford Reference Online
This collection of online reference sources includes the following titles:
Europa World Year Book
Includes statistical survey on each country. .
Latest edition kept at Reference Desk.
Reference Desk +JN1 .E852
is the online catalog of the Brandeis Libraries, and is the principal means of locating books in the library collections.
For books located in other libraries outside of Brandeis:
Worldwide Political science abstracts
Index to thousands of journals in political science and its complementary fields. Includes international relations, law, and public policy, 1975 to present.
Social sciences citation index via Web of Science
An index to over 2,000 journals in the social sciences. Citation indexes, in addition to a keyword title index, allow the user to track a particular article to see if it has been cited by other authors
Academic search premiere
Provides full text and indexing to thousands of journals in all academic fields. Dates vary according to publication.
JSTOR (Journal Storage Project)
Historical full-text coverage of hundreds of journals in all fields. Does not usually contain the most recent 2-5 years of a journal.
Directory of Open Access Journals - Politics
A small collection of free journals in politics published under the new open access model of online publishing.
Alternative press index
Covers cultural, economic, political and social change from approximately 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. 1991 to present.
ICPSR Bibliography of Data-Related Literature
Indexes over 20,000 citations of known published and unpublished works generated from analyses of data held in the ICPSR archive.
PolicyFile
Index and links to full-text reports and publications from public policy think tanks, university research programs, and other research organizations. Updated weekly.
World news connection.
Translations of foreign broadcasts and news reports from the U.S. Government.
Keesing's record of world events
Electronic full text archive that contains comprehensive coverage of world events with the ability to search 40 years of global news reports, 1960 to present.
Other comprehensive Newspaper Meta-Sites:
Yale - Selected Online Newspapers
IPL Online - Newspapers from around the world
Statistical Abstracts of the U.S.
Index and summaries of statistics from U.S. government documents.
International
Lexis/Nexis Statistical .
Lareg international index to statistics with links to full text.
Eurostat
EU Statistics Information Service
Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM)
from the UNDP
Women's employment comparative statistics
EU
Nation Master
Hundreds of data sets for just about any country in the world. Includes national profiles and a search engine.
OFFSTATS: Official Statistics on the Web
University of Auckland, New Zealand site that provides a central source for links to official international statistics. Global, regional and national statistics are available on many topics..
Statistical Resources on the Web
University of Michigan's subject list for federal, foreign and international sources.
Population Reference Bureau
Statistics on many topics for the U.S. and other countries.
International Data Base (IDB)
Data bank containing demographic and socio-economic data for 227 countries and areas of the world from the Census Bureau.
Federal Government Agencies Page
Louisiana State University
Monthly catalog of the U . S. Government Printing Office
Index to U.S. government documents - covers 1976 to present, coverage in the print version begins in 1895.
GPO Access
Federal Register, Congressional Record, Economic Report of the President, Code of Federal Regulations, GAO Reports and more.
LexisNexis Congressional
Accesses congressional publications, legislative histories, bills, current laws, regulations and information about congressional members and committees
International
Foreign Governments
Northwestern Univeresity
International Organizations
Northwestern
Access UN
Index to UN documents from 1966 to date with some links to full text.
Portals to the World
Electronic resources on the nations of the world selected by Library of Congress subject experts.
Europa
EU web portal
Web Resources for Foreign Law and Governments
Emory School of Law
Poly-Cy: Internet Resources for Political Scientists
West Virginia University
