POL 454: Global Political Economy
Professor: Julie Murphy Erfani
Librarian: Lisa Kammerlocher
| Research Assistance | Books |
| Country and City Sources | Images |
| News Sources | Citing Your Sources |
| Scholarly Articles | RefWorks |
ASSIGNMENT: Photo-research essay using photography as an entree for political analysis and social and cultural critique.
Research Assistance
- Reference Assistance Desk - Can help with most questions and is open most hours the Fletcher Library is open
- lisa.kammerlocher@asu.edu - assistance by appointment - generally reply to e-mail within 24-48 hours
- Ask a Librarian - A 24-hour virtual reference service
City and Country Sources
Globalization and World Cities
Provides links to official city web sites of selected world cities.
State of the World's Cities
IIS 2005 4330-S1 (accession number for Index to International Statistics Microfiche -1st floor west side)
"Report on social and economic conditions of cities worldwide, various periods 1950-2003 with projections."
Statistics and reports about political, economic, and business climates of countries and regions including country profiles, commerce, finance, business briefings, market indicators and forecasts. Coverage and frequency vary with report series. Hint: Much more depth here than in similar databases.
Encyclopedia of Modern Mexico
F1234 .D364 2002 (catalog record) West Reference
Encyclopedia of social welfare history in North America
HV12 .E497 2005 (catalog record) West Reference
Mexico Web
A Spanish-language resource arranged much like Yahoo.
Political Risk Services
Includes detailed country data with indepth analyses and forecasts of political and economic issues.
Indexes statistical tables, plus indexing to additional statistical information produced by the U.S. government, state governments, international organizations and selected private and academic sources.
UT-LANIC - University of Texas, Latin American Network Information Center
Comprehensive access to information on Latin America. Includes news sources from each country.
News Sources
Link to the List of Resources
Best Places to Start: Lexis Nexis Academic Universe, Global Newsbank
This website provides links to online newspapers in Mexico, including the Districto Federal (Mexico City).
Keywords and Translation
- Use AltaVista's Babel Fish Translator to translate text or view web sites in English or Spanish.
- When using Spanish language words to search Google, look for the "translate this page" feature to view the page in English.
- On Spanish language web sites look for [buscar] to search or [ir] to go
Scholarly Articles
Best Places to Start: Academic Search Premier, World Political Science Abstracts
Books
A catalog of materials held in all of the ASU Libraries including Tempe, East, West and Downtown.
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. You may have to complete the InterLibrary Loan form to obtain the materials.
Images
Link to the Photos and Digital Images ready reference page.
Best Places to Start: AP Photo Archive, Google Image Search
Try a general Google search.
"mexico city" photography
Use selected Web Pages.
Aerial Photographs of Mexico City
A series of more than 70 photos of Mexico City.
Stock Aerial Photography of Mexico City
A collection of aerial photography of Mexico City available from Aerial Archives