POL 160: - Global Politics
Professor: Luis Cabrera
Librarian: Lisa Kammerlocher
Librarian's Goal : To provide students online instruction and resources that facilitate effective research on discussion topics through magazines, newspapers, books and web sites.
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| Broadcast Media | Web Resources | |
| Print Media | ||
Background Information
CQ Library
Includes CQ Weekly (1983+) and CQ Researcher (1991+)
What is the Broadcast media saying?
Instructions:
select News, then the News Category News Transcripts, then any or all transcripts
What is the Print media saying?
Pick up a FREE New York Times weekdays on campus!
BEST Databases for Print Media - Try all to gain multiple perspectives.
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
Contains information from a range of academic areas, including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education, multicultural, and general reference. Covers The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Christian Science Monitor.
Alt-PressWatch (ASU West
Campus Only)
A full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative
and independent press.
Ethnic NewsWatch (1989+)
Accesses articles, editorials, columns, and reviews from a collection of newspapers,
magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Provides
perspectives and viewpoints not seen in the mainstream media.
Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe
Covers U.S. and international news from newspapers, magazines, journals, wire
services, television and radio news broadcasts, reviews, entertainment and sport
news, student newspapers and non-English Language news sources. Use General
and Legal News.
Periodical Abstracts Fulltext (1986+)
Covers the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1990/1991. Every article is indexed.
What is the Scholarly Community saying?
PAIS
International (1972+)
Indexes material on international or global social, economic, political and
public policy issues published in magazines, journals, government documents,
pamphlets, books, yearbooks, directories, and public and private agency reports.
Worldwide
Political Science Abstracts (1975+)
Supplies up-to-date bibliographic information and research
within the political science discipline and its complementary fields, including
international relations, law, and public administration/policy. Provides links
to web sites on related topics.
Books
OCLC FirstSearch WorldCat
The OCLC Online Union Catalog contains all the records
cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Offers millions of bibliographic records,
indicates owning libraries, and includes records representing 400 languages.
Web Resources
Google Advanced Search
Engine
Create complex searches the easy way. For example you can limit results by a
domain type such as .edu or .org
Politics1.com: The Most Comprehensive
Online Guide to American Politics
This web site includes a list of web links to publications separated by liberal,
conservative and radical. Also includes links on numerous issues including international
trade.
U.S. Government sites
A West Library quick reference page to U.S. government links including GPOAccess, FedWorld, and Thomas.
Weekly Complilation of Presidential Documents
International Crime Court
This page provide access to ICC documents and links.
HRW: International Criminal Court
Includes a series of links on various aspects of the ICC.
The Centre for the Study of Global
Governance
"The aim of the centre was both to increase understanding and knowledge
of global problems and to encourage interaction between academics and policy
makers."
World Federalist Movement
"The World Federalist Movement is an international citizen's movement working for justice, peace, and sustainable prosperity. We call for an end to the rule of force, through a world governed by law, based on strengthened and democratized world institutions. World federalists support the creation of democratic global structures accountable to the citizens of the world and call for the division of international authority among separate agencies."
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