International Simulations
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Earth from lunar orbit
December 24,
1968 |
International Simulations provides
source
information about countries of the world and international organizations
for use in debate and political science courses. Simulation
models may be found at Political Science
Cyberclasses
(U.Toronto).
| UMich Only Web Links
Available from Campus Ethernet Workstations, via Modem Using
489-2222, and the Remote
Server. |
Last updated on February 5,
2007
Background on Subjects
Books [Web and Library]
- Connect to MIRLYN
[http://mirlyn.lib.umich.edu/]
- MCAT lists books within the University of
Michigan Library system.
- Searchable by author, title, subject, keyword, and call number
| LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SUBJECT HEADINGS
- Controlled vocabulary
- Used for
- Foreign material
- When too many common keywords
- Find through
- LC Subject List (Library)
- Record retrieved through keyword searching
| |
- Examples of Library of Congress Subject
Headings
Arab Countries--Politics and Government--1945-
Elections--Israel
France--Foreign Relations
France--Foreign Relations--China
Mediation, International
Nuclear disarmament--Russia (Federation)
Political Science--Research
Social Sciences--Research--Methodology
Treaties--Collections
Treaties--Indexes
Venezuela--Statistics
War--Statistics
- Keyword Searching when
- You don't know the subject heading
- There IS no subject heading
- You know part of the author, title, or subject
Boolean Logic
| Illustration | MIRLYN-Classic | MIRLYN-Web | Proquest | PAIS | Academic Universe |
| PHRASE |
k=biological adj warfare |
biological w warfare |
"biological warfare"
| biological w warfare
| biological warfare |
| AND |
k=biological and iraq |
biological and iraq
| biological and iraq
| biological and iraq
| biological and iraq |
| OR |
k=chemical or biological |
chemical or biological
| chemical or biological
| chemical or biological
| chemical or biological |
| NOT |
k=yugoslavia not serbia
| yugoslavia not serbia
| yugoslavia and not serbia
| yugoslavia not serbia
| yugoslavia and not serbia |
| COMPLEX SEARCHING |
k=war adj crimes and (yugoslavia or serbia) |
reads incorrectly as
(war crimes and yugoslavia) OR serbia |
"war crimes" and (yugoslavia or serbia)
| war w crimes and (yugoslavia or serbia)
| war crimes and (yugoslavia or serbia) |
| TRUNCATION |
k=crim? |
crim? |
crim?
| crim+
| crim! |
- Electronic
Journals and Newspapers (UMich)
[http://www.lib.umich.edu/ejournals/]
- List of full text journals and newspapers on the web
- Available to campus web sites and authenticated remote users
- JSTOR (UMich
Only) [http://www.jstor.org/jstor/]
- Full text of major 20th Century historical and economic periodicals
as well as the American Journal of International Law (1907-96),
American Journal of Political Science (1973-98), American
Political Science Review (1906-96), International Organization (1947-94),
and World Politics (1948-95)
- Most periodicals available from 1900-95
- Index approaches by keyword, author, title, periodical
- Printing and downloading requires
application/tifflist or Adobe
Acrobat
- ProQuest
(UMich Only) [http://www.lib.umich.edu/rrs/proquest.html]
- Research Library indexes some 2300 journals in all fields since the 1980s and
provides the full text of many since the 1990s (marked by a full-page symbol)
- Includes popular and scholarly titles, such as Comparative Politics,
Governing, International Political Science Review, The Journal of
Conflict Resolution, and World Politics
- Peer-Reviewed JournalsResearch
Library
- Journals indexed by author, title, keyword, periodical, and date
- Sample search
(chemical or biological) and disarm?
- Articles may be marked for downloading
- Text in HTML and image formats
- Replaces the Core Journals Project, which printed articles from MIRLYN on request
 | Use SFX
button to link to
the
online
journal text OR
University of Michigan catalog for the paper copy call
number OR
Inter-Library Loan |
- Historical
Abstracts (UMich Only)
- Indexes 2000 journals on world history since 1450 (excluding U.S. and
Canadian)
- International
Political Science Abstracts, 1989+ (UMich Only)
[http://web5.silverplatter.com/webspirs/start.ws?customer=c135082&databases=IPSA]
- Index to scholarly political science journal articles in Western
European languages
- Choose IPSA from the menu first; go to the next screen before searching
- Sample search: biological weapons near gulf war
- Searches may be recombined
- Data includes author, title, journal, and abstract in English if the
article is in English
- If the article is in another language, the title is translated into
English but the abstract is in French
- Once you identify an article, search MIRLYN for the call
number and location
- Printed copy: International Political Science Abstracts,
1951- (Ref. JA 36 .I6)
- Public
Affairs
Information Service Bulletin (UMich Only)
[http://newfirstsearch.oclc.org/dbname=PAISIntl;FSIP]
- Subject index to books, articles, and government documents on
politics and economics since 1972 in Western European languages
- Government documents include United States, United Nations, League of
Nations, and State Governments
- There are also paper versions (English, 1915+, Z 7163 .P98 and
foreign, 1968+, Z 7164 .E2 P96)
- Social
Sciences Citation Index, 1956- (UMich Only)
[http://www.webofscience.com/]
- Indexes current periodical articles by author, title/keyword,
journal, and author's affiliation
- Indexes cited authors by name, abbreviated title of book/journal and year
- Results provide cross references between the cited author, the
citating author, and related items
- EXAMPLE
FULL SEARCH
SSCI/Cited Reference
Wright, S* - B Atom Sci - Search
- Data base also includes the Arts and Humanities and Sciences Citation
Indexes
- Corresponding paper copy located in the Graduate Library Stacks,
1956- (Z 7163 .S67)
- Also on CD-ROM beginning 1981 at the Graduate Library Information
Center
- Social Sciences Citation Index
Examples
- Connect to MIRLYN
to identify library location and call number of book or article
- Worldwide
Political Science Abstracts (UMich Only)
- Citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials
literature since 1975
- Political science and complementary fields, including international
relations, law, and public
administration/policy
- Indexes foreign language journals and translates the title into
English
- Columbia
International Affairs Online (UMich Only)
[http://www.ciaonet.org/]
- Search engine indexes current world politics journals, books,
conference proceedings, and think tank working papers
- Full text primarily of working papers
- May need to use from campus ethernet connection with Netscape 4.0
- Political
Information [http://www.politicalinformation.com/]
- Mega web index to public policy concerns
- Indexes news, political parties, policy papers and interest group web
sites
Individual Think Tanks
- American Society of
International Law
- Carefully annotated guide to international legal resources on the
internet arranged by subject
- List of its own publications (not on web)
- International Institute for
Economics
- Policy briefs and working papers on international economics
- Includes the World Trade Organization, economic sanction, and
intellectual property
- Oxford Analytica (UMich
Only) [http://www.oxweek.com/]
- Concise, comprehensive analyses of political and economic
developments around the world
- Articles unsigned presumably to protect the writer from repercussions
- Data base begins in 1987 and is supplemented by about 15 articles weekly
- Searchable by country, topic, title, date, and free-text (preferred)
- Sample search: Chemical and (weapon* or warfare) and
ban
- Stockholm
International Peace Research Institute
- Lengthy annual summaries of international military affairs,
conflicts, and disarments
- Special interests in chemical and nuclear disarmament
- Includes statistics and signatories to major treaties
- Segments of SIPRI Yearbook appear on the web but the most detailed
information appears in the paper copy: UA 17 .S12 with current in
Doc.Cen.--Doc.Ref.
- World
Resources Institute
- Working papers on various environmental issues, including biodiversity
- Numerous statistical tables in Adobe Acrobat format with country
data
- Population: projections to 2025, birth, death, health,
education
- Economic: gross national and domestic product,
prices, development assistance
- Environment: forestry, fisheries, water,
weather
| World Wide Web -
Comprehensive Lists |
- Academic
Universe/Lexis (UMich Only)
- Full text of newspapers from around the world in English translation
for last several years
- Among them, the New York Times, Financial
Times, and The Economist
- Also includes federal and state court decisions and business news
- Diplomacy Monitor
(St. Thomas University School of Law
- Translations of official foreign government statements and speeches for the last
three months
- Indexed by keyword, broad subject, country of origin, and country it is
about
- Editor
and Publisher On-Line Newspapers
- Links to over 1000 newspapers worldwide
- Arranged by continent and country; for the United States, subdivided
by state
- Annotations describe publication, provide links, and give pricing
information when applicable
| World Wide Web - United
States |
- Academic
Universe/Lexis (UMich Only)
- Best source for full text and indexes to American newspapers,
including the New York Times and Washington Post
- Also has a section of broadcast news
- Cable
News Network
- News stories on current political issues, often with the full-text of relevant
documents
- Recent material archived in subject groups
- Summaries or full text of recent CNN political programs
- Arabic Media Internet Network
- Extensive links to on-line news media from Arab countries
- Texts in English or Arabic
- British Broadcasting
Corporation
- Text of UK and international news, culture, science, and children's
programs, primarily beginning 1996
- Use the SEARCH key to access
the archives
- Central Europe On-Line
- News, business, culture, and travel information
- News service archived to December 2, 1996
- Inside China Today
- News, business, culture, and travel information
- News service archived to December 1, 1996
- International Broadcasting
(VOA)
- Links to foreign broadcasting web sites
- International Network Information
Centers (University of Texas) [Web]
- Sections on Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Russia/Eastern Europe
- Considerable background information on individual countries
- Includes references to discussion and newsgroups
- Jerusalem
Post (Internet Edition)
- Full text of current edition
- Radio Free Europe/Radio
Liberty
- U.S. government news, analysis, special reports, and summary economic
and human
rights information for Russia and Eastern Europe
- The Newsline feature has current
news broadcasts to Eastern Europe beginning April 1997
- Newsline replaced the Open Media Research Institute Daily Digest reports
and provides a searchable archive to its reports back to 1991
- OMRI Daily Digests, 1991-1999 remain available
as of July 2000
- Russia Today
- News, business, culture, and travel information for Russia and CIS
countries
- Guide to government services
- Voice of America [Web]
- U.S. Information Agency radio broadcasts throughout the world
- World News
Connection (UMich Library Only)
- Foreign
Broadcast Information Service, 1975-96 [Library]
- Indexes foreign radio broadcasts and newswires translated into English
- Approach by keyword, title, subject, and region
- Once the translations are identified, you can find the text in the
Serials/Microforms Room
- Guide
to FBIS
- Continued by the World News
Connection
INDEX CODE SERIES NAME FICHE # YEARS COVERED
Call Number #
AAP * Asia and the Pacific Micro-F X211 1974-87
AFR ** Africa (Sub-Sahara) Micro-F X212 1987-96
DT348.A24U529 current
EAS * East Asia Micro-F X211 1987-96
DS1.U59A39 current
EEU Eastern Europe Micro-F X209 1974-96
DR1.U58A239 current
LAT Latin America Micro-F X213 1974-96
MEA ** Middle East and Africa Micro-F X212 1974-87
NES ** Near East and South Asia Micro-F X212A 1987-96
DS41.D14 current
PRC China Micro-F X208 1974-96
DS701.U529 current
SOA *** South Asia Micro-F X215 1980-87
SOV *** Soviet Union Micro-F X210 1974-91
Central Eurasia Micro-F X210 1991-present
USR **** Central Eurasia Micro-F X210 1993-94
WEU Western Europe Micro-F X214 1974-96
______________________
* In 1987 AAP (Asia and Pacific) series became EAS (East Asia)
** In 1987, MEA (Middle East & Africa) dropped Mid East & became
AFR (Sub-Saharan Africa). South Asia added it, becoming
NES (Near East & South Asia).
*** In 1991, the Soviet Union Daily Report became the Central Eurasian
Daily Report. The mnemonic remains SOV.
**** In 1991, the index began covering JPRS reports on Political Affairs
of the CIS, citing them as the Central Eurasian Report (USR).
- Arms Trade Data
Base
- Full text of articles and position papers promoting the limitation
of trade in conventional armaments
- Data base begins with 1993
- Carnegie Endowment for
International Peace
- Reports and working papers, primarily on US-Russian relations and
nuclear non-proliferation
- Economic development and democratization efforts around the world
- Chemical
and Biological Disarmament
- Annotated guide to locating books, articles, think tank reports and news
- Chemical and Biological Weapons Conventions and related treaties
- University, think tank, United Nations and United States web sites
dealing with the issues
- Cold War
- Cold War
(CNN)
- Year-long television series on politics, 1946-91
- Chronologies, biographies, and full-text primary documents from
U.S. and Russian archives
- Information available after a program has aired
- Cold
War International History Project
- Primary documents and articles on the history of the Cold War
- Includes the arms race, policies of leaders, book reviews
- Lengthy sections on Stalin and Khrushchev
- Searchable by keyword, subject tree, type of document
- Combatting
Proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction: Congressional Commission
Report
- Outlines potential dangers from weapons by other countries, including
old Russian stockpiles and Iraq's anthrax
- Recommends changes in U.S. policy
- Report sponsored on Senator Arlen Specter's web site during August
1999
- Defense-Aerospace
- Defense news from around the world in English
- Agence France-Presse is a primary source
- Defense and Strategy
Related WWW Sites (U.S. Army)
- Links for foreign governments and their military bases
- Extensive section on area studies includes religious groups and news
sources
- Arms control, human rights, terrorism, warfare and U.S. defense also
covered
- Foreign Affairs
Online (University of Virginia)
- Comprehensive annotated guide to foreign relations from a U.S.
perspective
- General reference sources, U.S., foreign, IGO and NGO web sites
- One of the best lists of UN related organizations
- History and focus of international relations think tanks
- Information Warfare
Resources
- Bibliography of books and journal articles on information warfare
- Links to U.S. and foreign intelligence, military, and academic web
sites
- Good annotations
- Institute for War
and Peace Reporting
- News and analysis of conflicts in Southeastern Europe and the former
Soviet Union
- International Association of
Counterterrorism and Security Professionals
- Includes articles on counterterrorism and security issues, such a
computer espionage
- International Policy
Institute for Counter-Terrorism
- List of international terrorist organizations and data base of
terrorist attacks since 1990
- Daily news and weekly articles
- Searchable index to both data and articles
- International Relations and Security
Network [Web]
- International
Security Policy and Military Affairs (Columbia University)
- Annotated guide to books, journals, indexes, statistics, and web
sites on military policy
- U.S., foreign, and international agency material
- Internet
Resources on Genocide and Mass Killings
- Online texts and bibliographies
- Subjects include Jewish Holocaust, Armenia and Kosovo
- Land
Mines (Canadian Forces College)
- Links to organizations and campaigns to eliminate landmines
- North
Atlantic Treaty Organization
- Historic documents, NATO Handbook, NATO Review
- Current press releases and fact sheets, including those on military action
- SIPRI Yearbook
- Lengthy annual summaries of international military affairs,
conflicts, and disarments
- Includes statistics and signatories to major treaties
- Paper copy: UA 17 .S12 with current in Doc.Cen.--Doc.Ref.
- Strategic
Intelligence (Loyola)
- Links to U.S. intelligence and military intelligence web pages
as well as selected web pages of foreign countries
- Selected declassified documents and journal articles from Covert
Action Quarterly
- Strategic Studies
Network (Univ.Calgary)
- Annotated links to U.S., Canadian and International web sites on
military, strategic, and peace studies
- Includes organizations and journals
- Full text of its own StratJournal
- UN Peace-Keeping
Operations
- World map identifies current and completed peacekeeping missions
since 1948
- Data for each mission includes a description, dates, military
strength, and the name of the primary military observer
- Separate sections of the web site include fatalities by type and
mission, numbers of peacekeeping forces contributed by country, lessons
learned from past missions, and the most current annual report
- War, Peace, and
Security (Canadian Forces College)
- Extensive links to armed forces and foreign affairs
departments
around the world, contemporary conflicts, and military history
- Also includes international relations, peace networks, and
military biographies
- Methodology
Journals (Vanderbilt U)
- Links to numerous methodology journals
- Political
Methodology (APSA)
- Working papers on political
methodology
- Text of the Political Methodologist
- Links to software and statistics
- Political
Methodology Research Resources (Vanderbilt)
- Links to game theory and dynamic modeling, including teaching materials
- Political, social, and economic data archives
- Quality of material reflects the webmaster's specialty
- Political
Science Research Resources/Game Theory (Vanderbilt U.)
- Links to a wide variety of sources with a special strength in game
theory, artificial intelligence, dynamic models, and statistics
- List of printed political science periodicals at Indiana University
with links to those available on the web
- Political Science
Personal Home Pages/Methodology (U.Ariz)
- Links to political home pages of U.S. and British political science
faculty
- Home pages often have data sets and extracts of articles
- Last updated August 1, 1996
- Research
in
Political Science
(LSU)
- Links to working papers and statistics
- See also:
- MIRLYN-Web
- Search for books using the LC subject headings: Political
Science--Research--Methodology or Social
Sciences--Research--Methodology
- For journal articles
- AltaVista
- Keyword index to the TEXT of individual web pages
- Excite
- Extremely fast index to the contents of web pages
- Google's Uncle Sam
- Search for documents appearing on U.S. federal government web pages
- Hot Bot
- Advanced Searching permits you to search by
keyword and domain (e.g. war and .ru) for publications on war in English published
in Russia
- Political
Information [http://www.politicalinformation.com/]
- Mega web index to public policy concerns
- Indexes news, political parties, policy papers and interest group web
sites
- International
Affairs Resources (Elizabethtown College)
- Nicely annotated guide for college students by Professor Wayne Selcher
- Sections on area studies, maps, news, U.S. and international
government agencies, peace, think tanks and study abroad
- Includes starter tips for research
- Yahoo [Web]
- Comprehensive classified subject list of world-wide web sites
- International Organization Web
Sites
- Definitive list from the Union of International Associations
- Links to almost 4000 web sites of inter-governmental and
non-governmental international organizations
- Approach alphabetically by name or by subject matrix
- Section on international conferences
- International
Relations Research (Univ.Toronto/MIT)
- Annotated guide to international relations research by subject or
type of material
- Includes lists of international governmental and non-governmental
organizations
- Europa (European
Commission)
- History, structure, program, activities, and directory of members
- Search by keywords (e.g. china, world trade organization) for the full text of documents
- European
Parliament
- Description, powers, and organization of the Parliament
- List of committees and directories of Member offices
- Full text of speeches beginning October 1996 as well as publications
adopted
- Committee schedules and press releases
- Multilingual
- European Union
Bibliography (UC-Berkeley)
- Extensive annotated research guide to EU bibliographies, citations,
legislative sources, statistics, and other reference materials
- Includes printed, microfiche, CD-ROM, and Internet resources
- European
Union Internet Resources (UC-Berkeley)
- Links to Euorpean Union servers, documents, and country delegations
- Historic documents, NATO Handbook, NATO Review
- Current press releases and fact sheets
- Detailed reports on Kosovo (Operation Allied Force and Operation Joint Guardian)
- Organization
for Economic Cooperation and Development
- Catalog of OECD publications and data products
- News and activities
- Free documents arranged by committee since 1990 on subjects such as
sustainable development, electronic commerce, trade
- OECD Washington Center
- Summary demographic, economic, and energy data for OECD countries in
Adobe Acrobat format
- Publication order information for United States
customers
- Background Information [Library]
- United Nations Yearbook [Library]
- Doc.Cen JX 1976 .A1 U64--UN Ref.
- Most complete summary of United Nations activities with citations
to or reprints of the most important United Nations documents
- UN Chronicle [Library]
- Doc.Cen. JX 1977.A1 U6--UN Ref.
- Quarterly summary of major issues before the United Nations
- Includes selected citations to UN documents but seldom reprints<
- Also in Academic Universe
- A Global Agenda: Issues before the UN
General Assembly [Library]
- Summary of agenda items with citations to relevant documents
- Doc.Cen. JX 1977 .A1 U54-Ref.
| Document |
Definition |
Index |
Full Text |
| Official Records |
Debates |
Access UN*,
1950+
UN
Speech Index, 1983+ |
Access
UN*, 1990+ if vote
UNODS*, 1992+ (password in DocCen)
DocCen in paper and fiche |
| Resolutions |
Legislation |
Access UN*,
1950+ |
Access UN*, 1990+
UNODS*, 1946+ (password in DocCen)
UN Web Site
--GA, 1981+
--SC, 1974+
DocCen in paper and fiche |
| Voting Records |
Country Votes on Resolutions |
Voting
Records
--SC, 1946+
--GA, 1983+ |
Voting
Records
--Security Council, 1946+
--General Assembly, 1983+ |
| Mimeographed (Masthead) |
Letters and Drafts |
Access UN*,
1950+ |
UN Web Site,
some, 1990+
UNODS*, 1992+ (password in DocCen)
DocCen in paper and fiche |
*Campus-Licensed Web Site
- United Nations Web Sites
- Access UN
(UMich Only)
- Index to United Nations documents issued since 1950
- Searches may be defined by author, country, type of document
(official record, sales publication), subject, title, text, and date
- Provides citations to United Nations microfiche and paper records
located in the Documents Center
- Includes the full text of General Assembly plenary meetings (A/PV)
since 1993 (48th session) and its committees (e.g. A/C.2/46/SR.1) since
the 45th session, 1990 if there is a voting record in that session
- Ask at the Documents Desk for publications not on the web
- United Nations Optical Disk
System (UMich - On-Site Password)
- Full text of UN Official Records and related parliamentary documents
since 1992 as well as journals and bulletins
- Searchable by date, document symbol, and full text with output in
Adobe Acrobat format
- Search Protocols
- Date must be chosen first and entered in European fashion
- Boolean operators (and, or, near) must be entered in brackets
- Sample Search - documents about Brazil and the International Criminal Court
- Main screen: choose UN Documents; date is 01/07/1997 - 16/08/1998;
click on full text to "get new form"
- Secondary screen: search full text; Brazil < near> international criminal court
- Choose language of text
- On-site password in Documents Center only
- United Nations
Web Site
- Basic information on the United Nations (history, charter, member
countries)
- Press releases, daily highlights
- General Assembly, ECOSOC, and Security Council publications and
resolutions
- Does NOT include debates; see paper copy in Documents Center
- Indexed by keyword and type of document
- Major conference documents, catalog of UN sales publications,
audio-visual material
- United
Nations Speech Index
- Indexes speeches in the General Assembly, Economic and Social
Council, Security Council and Trusteeship Council since 1983
- Index by country or keyword
- Sample search by country, subject and session:
Choose keyword
russia* 54 kosovo
- Data includes speaker, country, subject, date, record number, and
agenda item number
- Does not link to the full text of document
- Speeches are also indexed since 1950 in Access UN
(UMich Only)
- United
Nations Voting Records
- Country voting records on Security Council resolutions since 1946
and General Assembly resolutions since the 38th Session (1983) with a
possible one-year time delay
- Searchable by resolution number or keyword
- Data includes votes name of resolution, resolution number, agenda
item number, and voting records for individual countries
- Note: the arrangement is by resolution rather by country
- Additional Sources of UN Voting Records
- United
Nations
Roll Call Data, 1946-1985 covers General Assembly; in SPSS
format; ICPSR membership only
- Nations on Record (Doc. Cen. JX 1977.8 .V6
N28) has General Assembly roll call charts, 1945-86
- General Assembly Sessional Index, 1975+ (in
Documents Center UN Collection) and Security
Council Sessional Index, 1976+ (in Documents Center UN
Collection have similar charts
- United
Nations International Organizations Network Search
- Searches the main United Nations and related agency web sites by
keyword, broad subject area
- Includes the UN Headquarters, World Bank, UNICEF, United Nations
Environmental Program, etc.
- Results link to individual web pages with the full text
- United Nations
System
- Includes the texts of UN resolutions (indexed) and press releases from
international conferences
- Considerable information on developing countries
- Gopher and web sites of the various UN departments, affiliated
agencies, and conferences
- Gopher site
alternative if
web site is difficult to load on your workstation
- United
Nations
Scholars' Workstation (Yale University)
- Subject index to web sites with United Nations information
- Links to numeric data sites
- Excellent research guide to United Nations information
- Academic information about Yale's UN Studies program and Yale Library
resources
- WTO regulations on goods, services,
intellectual property, and dispute resolution
- Text of the Uruguay Round treaty which
created it
- Press releases
Country Background Information
- African
Studies Web Server (Univ.Penn.)
- Exhaustive annotated web links
- Arranged by country
- Subject
approach ranges from economics and agriculture to population studies and
wildlife
- Arab Net
- Overview, history, business, cultural, government, and tour
information for each Arab country
- Government information includes summaries of the national structure,
foreign policy, education, health, and the military
- News in Arabic and links to related web sites
- Asian Studies
Virtual Library (ANU)
- Most comprehensive Internet source for culture, politics, economics,
geography, news, and archaeology of Asian countries
- Scope includes Asian continent, Caucasus, Middle East, and the
Pacific
- WWW Virtual Library:
International Affairs Resources (Elizabethtown College)
- Nicely annotated guide for college students by Professor Wayne Selcher
- Sections on area studies, maps, news, U.S. and international
government agencies, peace, think tanks and study abroad
- Includes starter tips for research
- International
and Area Studies (Larry Schankman)
- Annotated list of area studies web
- Area studies groups are the best resource for foreign policy
perspectives outside the countries with individual web sites
- International
Network Information Centers (University of Texas)
- Sections on Asia, Latin America, the Middle East, and Russia/Eastern Europe
- Considerable background information on individual countries
- Includes references to discussion and newsgroups
- Latin
American Studies (UMich)
- Government, culture, language, and bibliographic sources on Latin America
- Focus on the Andes
- Middle
East/North Africa Resource Guide
- Comprehensive guide to internet resources for the Middle East,
North Africa, and Central Asia
- Resources arranged by country and by academic discipline
(anthropology, economics, history, religion, sociology)
- Links include country home pages, discussion lists, and homepages of
foreign students residing in the U.S.
- Model
League of Arab States
- Excellent guide to members of the Arab League and related states
- Russian and
East European Studies (University of Pittsburgh)
- Links to national homepages
- Additional links to discipline-based (e.g. government, economics) web
sites and type of resource (e.g. software, discussion group)
- Army
Area Handbooks [Web]
- Detailed description of a country's culture, economy, and foreign policy
- Seventy-one countries including all studied in this course except for the United Kingdom
- Additional countries may be found by searching MIRLYN: k={name of country} and
country adj study.ti. [Web and Library]
- Background
Notes on Countries of the World (U.S. State Dept.) [Web]
- Summarizes a country's history, economy, and foreign policy
- Updated on a staggered basis every few years
- CIA
World Factbook
- Brief information about a country's population, ethnicity, politics, and
economics
- The corresponding paper copy is in Doc.Cen. G 122 .U56--Doc.Ref.
[Library]
Library
- Europa World Yearbook
[Library]
- Current political history of country, directory of officials, selected economic and social
statistics
- The first section of Volume 1 summarizes the structure and activities of
international organizations
- GL Info. Center, UGL Ref. Desk and Doc. Desk--Ready Reference: D 2 .E92
- Political Risk Yearbook
[Library]
- Commercial publication with extensive summaries of a country's political history,
and key players with economic and political turmoil forecasts
- Doc.Cen. JQ 1871 .A1 P65--Stat.Ref.
- Chiefs of
State and Cabinet Ministers [Web]
- Quarterly directory on names of officials in foreign countries
- Not always current enough for Russia
- Paper version is: JF 37 .A3 U53 with latest edition in Reference
- Use to identify name of foreign minister (e.g. Tang Jiaxuan of China); then use
Academic Universe or World News Connection for news articles
- Academic
Universe (UMich Only)
- Identify name of foreign minister using Chiefs of
State
- Then use General News or Biographies in
Academic Universe for additional information
- Biographical Directories
[Library]
- International Who's Who
- GL Information Center and UGL Ref. CT 103.I63
- International Yearbook and Statesman's Who's
Who
- Info. Center Desk JA 51.I6
- Who's Who in the World
- GL Information Center and UGL Ref. CT 120 .W66
World Wide Web
- International
Population Data Base (Census Bureau)
- Summary vital statistics data for all countries, 1996 and 2000 as
well as mid-year estimates, 1950-2020
- Additional data on marital status, ethnic origin, religion,
literacy, labor force, income and poverty
- Data may be downloaded directly or viewed via a spreadsheet
- Display
Mode provides a user-friendly pull-down menu for viewing on
a screen
Library
- United Nations Demographic Yearbook [Library]
- Age, race, sex, marital status, and mortality statistics for individual
countries
- Each issue has a special focus topic
- UGL Ref. Desk and Doc.Cen.--Stat.Ref. HB 881 .A2 U5)
World Wide Web
- Country
Commercial Guides (State Dept)
- Economic and political factors for U.S. citizens exporting to various
countries
- Includes laws, contacts, key imports and exports
- Country
Commercial Guides, 2002+
- Country
Economic Policy and Trade Practices (U.S. State Dept) [Web]
- Evaluation of each country's economic policy for the past five years
- Includes basic statistics for past three years
- Assesses trade barriers, export/import controls, intellectual
property, and workers' rights
- Economic
Report of the President (GPO)
- Historical summary of key economic statistics with future projections
- Implications for government economic policy
- Searchable only with output in ASCII or Adobe Acrobat format
- See also Economic Statistics for further detail on the United States
- ISI
Emerging Markets (UMich Only)
- Macroeconomic statistics and economic forecasts for China, India and Brazil
- Analysis of companies and industrial sectors
- Detailed import and export statistics by commodity and country
- Text in English
- Penn World
Tables
- Time series data, 1950s to present, for 152 countries on 29 subjects,
most related to Gross Domestic Product
- Label codes must be used for multiple countries or subjects
- Names rather than labels can be used under "Retrieve a Single PWT
Series by Label"
- STAT-USA (UMich Only)
- Market research reports, CIA intelligence, and trade opportunities
for individual countries in GLOBUS/National Trade Data Bank
- State of the Nation Library is devoted to U.S. economic data
- Statistical
Universe (UMich Only)
- Search U.S., business and state government statistics
- Enter through Statistical Sources and then choose
Subject or Comparative Data
- Sample Search using Comparative Data: by foreign country/
trade balance w/p China
- Results provide abstract of publication and microfiche call number in
the Documents Center (e.g. SRI 1997 B6200-2)
- Some abstracts link to the full text with the data
- Statistical Universe
Guide
- Tradeport
Country
Library
- General political and economic information for individual countries
- Searchable data base of Market Research Reports, which analyze
country sales opportunities
- Europa World Yearbook [Library]
- Current political history of country, directory of officials, selected economic and social
statistics
- The first section of Volume 1 summarizes the structure and activities of
international organizations
- Info.Cen. Desk and Doc. Desk--Ready Reference: D 2 .E92
- Political Risk Yearbook [Library]
- Commercial publication with extensive summaries of a country's political history,
and key players with economic and political turmoil forecasts
- Doc.Cen. JQ 1871 .A1 P65--Stat.Ref.
- United Nations Monthly
Bulletin of Statistics
- Times series of unemployment, consumer prices, energy, exchange
rates, population, and transportation for individual countries
- Doc.Cen. HC 57 .A1 M79 - Stat.Ref.
- United Nations Statistical Yearbook [Library]
- Various time series of economic data for individual countries
- Includes six rouge countries and former Yugoslavia
- Doc.Cen. HC 58 .U58 with current in Stat.Ref.
- World
Development Indicators (UMich Only)
- World Bank data base with 593 series of demographic, economic, and
environmental information for 226 countries
- Time series covers 1960 to present when annual data are available for a
given country
- Choose countries or groups of countries
- Choose series with the tree or alphabetical view
- Choose years
- Once you view the data, choose the orientation (columns or rows), scaling
options, display (chart, index, raw)
- Download into ASCII or Excel format
- For the University of Michigan, this replaces access provided by the dear
departed CITRIX server
- The Documents Center will maintain a CD-ROM for single workstation
access
- World Development Report [Library]
- Summary of international economic developments in previous year
- Various economic data for individual low, middle and high income countries
- Doc.Cen. HC 59.7 .A1 W93 with most current in Stat.Ref.
- Yearbook of International Trade Statistics [Library]
- Arranged by country with exports/imports by either commodity or trading partner
- HF 92 .U48 with current edition in Reference
- Commodity Trade Statistics [Library] (Doc.Cen. HA 13 .U54) provides
trade data for by country and commodity; ask at Documents Center for
assistance
- Foreign and International Law Resources (Cornell)
- Annotated links to foreign laws
- Site uses triple frames
- Foreign and
International Laws (Washburn Univ)
- Foreign laws, area studies web sites, and news sources
- Arranged by region and country
- International
Trade Law Project[Web]
- International trade treaties by subject and date
- Includes GATT, NAFTA, World Trade Organization
- Multilateral Treaties (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy) [Web]
- Historical and current international conventions on arms control, environment, human rights
and trade
- Approach by topic or date with keyword index
- World Treaty Index [Doc.Cen. JX171 .R74
1983]
- Indexes multilateral and bilateral treaties, 1900-1980, by
keyword, country, and date
- Full identifying information under date
- Library may not have all publications listed
- Common abbreviations: UNTS - United Nations Treaty
Series [JX 170 .U54 with current in Documents Center], LNTS - League of
Nations Treaty Series [Buhr
J2000 .A4 or MICRO-F X464], UST - United States Treaties [JX 231
.A3] and TIAS - Treaties and Other International
Agreements [Doc. Cen. JX 235.9 .A33]
- Armed Forces of
the World (Canadian Forces College)
- Extensive links to armed forces web sites arranged by country as well
as other defense information
- Center
for Defense Information
- Arms Trade Data Base provides the text of
news articles on arms trade, arranged by country
- Weekly Defense Monitor includes position papers
- U.S. military spending clock
- International Policy
Institute for Counter-Terrorism
- List of international terrorist organizations and data base of
terrorist attacks since 1990
- Daily news and weekly articles
- Searchable index to both data and articles
- Nuclear
Explosion Data Base
- Query database by country/location and date range for a list of
nuclear
explosions since 1945
- Data includes time and date, latitude and longitude, type of test,
body wave length, and comments
- Map illustrates active test sites
- Maintained by the Australian Geological Survey Organization
- Patterns
of Global Terrorism (State Dept)
- Summary of terrorist acts by continent and country for 1995
- Appendix provides a chronology of terrorist acts and a description of
the terrorist groups
- SIPRI
Yearbook
- Paper copy has lengthy annual summary of international military
affairs,
conflict, disarmament, statistics, and signatories to major treaties
- Paper copy: UA 17 .S12 with current in Doc.Cen.--Doc.Ref.
- Internet version is primarily a press release with limited
information
- UN Peace-Keeping
Operations
- World map identifies current and completed peacekeeping missions
since 1948
- Data for each mission includes a description, dates, military
strength, and the name of the primary military observer
- Separate sections of the web site include fatalities by type and
mission, numbers of peacekeeping forces contributed by country, lessons
learned from past missions, and the most current annual report
- Supplemented by maps from the UN
Cartographic Section
- World
Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers (ACDA)
- Military expenditures, armed forces, GNP, and population for 172
countries, 1984-
- Arms transfers by supplier and recipient
- Summary of world military forces and arms transfers for various
years, 1961 to present
- United States policy on arms control and export
- 1995 version in HTML format; 1996 version in Adobe Acrobat
(PDF) format
World Wide Web
- Canalipsos
- European, international, and U.S. opinion on public affairs
- Articles since 1997 include data in text
- French language
- Gallup Organization
- Summary results of most current public opinion polls
- Gallup Poll, 1935 to present, also available in the Graduate Library
Reference Room
as HN 90.P9 .G18
- Polling
the Nations, 1986+ (UMich Only)
- Indexes public opinion survey questions in foreign countries
- Choose data base; at the NEXT screen, type in keyword search
- Searches may be refined
- Data includes the full text of the question, brief results, and a
citation to the article
- WebSpirs
4.0 is an alternative access point but more difficult
- Once you identify an article, search MIRLYN for the call
number and location
- Public
Opinion Quarterly (UMich Only)
- Full text of scholarly journal analyzing public opinion worldwide
- Searchable by keyword, author, journal, date
- Part of JSTOR project
- Public Opinion
Quarterly Index is a free index, 1937+
- Full text also in Graduate Library as HM 261 .A1 P98 with a backup on
microfilm as FILM X375
Library
- American
Public Opinion Index
- Most comprehensive source for public opinion polls
- Ref. Room HM 261 .A4631
- Corresponding microfiche in Serials/Microforms as MICRO-F X423
Country Foreign Policy
- Full text of U.S. and foreign newspapers on the Internet
- LEXIS and Academic Universe
- U.S. broadcasts to foreign countries
- Translations of foreign newspapers by U.S. (FBIS)
- Foreign
Embassies Worldwide [Web]
- Links to foreign embassy web sites and gophers in the United States,
Canada, and other selected countries
- Foreign
Governments (UMich) [Web]
- Annotated list of foreign index, foreign relations, and parliamentary web sites
- Permanent
Missions to the United Nations (UNDP)
- Links to web sites of UN missions from various countries
- Most countries provide their web sites in English
- They include foreign policy press releases and speeches
- Political Resources
on the Net (Italy)
- Hundreds of links to parties, movements, elections, political
organizations, government, and embassy web sites arranged by country
- Searchable by country or world region
- Web site has extensive coverage and merits high ratings
- United States Foreign Policy
(UMich)
[http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/forpol.html]
- Extensive annotated guide to current and historical sources
- Listing below is a selection from that web page
- Federal
Agency Web Sites [http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html]
- Cleancut alphabetical listing of federal agency web sites
- Includes search engine
- Google
Search Engine [http://www.google.com/unclesam]
- Web search engine devoted exclusively to sites with .gov and .mil
extensions
- Excellent for federal policy papers
- Declassified
Documents [http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/umuser?db=DDRS]
- Over 70,000 confidential, secret and top
secret documents declassified under the Freedom of Information Act and
deposited in Presidential Libraries
- Material includes White House,
CIA, FBI, Defense Department, National Security Council, Atomic Energy
Commission, NATO, United Nations and others
- Most are dated 1946-68
- Searchable by keyword with an advanced search that includes keyword,
agency, classification level, sanitation level, date declassified and
issue date
- PDF format for the original plus a more easily-read text
format with the search keywords highlighted in red
- The
corresponding microfiche is located in Serials Services and Microforms;
the retrospective fiche is MICRO-F397; the current fiche is MICRO-F
X194
- Digital
National Security Archive (UMich Only)
[http://nsarchive.chadwyck.com/]
- Full text of declassified federal documents issued during the Cold
War period
- Many of the documents issued by the State Department, Defense
Department, and Central Intelligence Agency
- Subjects include:
Afghanistan
Berlin Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis
El Salvador
| Intelligence Community
Iran-Contra Affair
Iranian Revolution
Military Uses of Space
| Nicaragua
Nuclear Nonproliferation
Philippines
South Africa | |
- Searchable by a combination of collection, subject, keyword, creator,
recipient, classification, document type, and date
- Text in pdf or gif format
- History
Universe (UMich Only)
- Index to an extensive microfilm collection of U.S. political and
social history issued by University Publications of America
- Topics include: African American Studies, American Civil War,
Immigration Studies, International Studies, Jurisprudence, Labor Studies,
Military History and War, Native American Studies, Political History,
Southern History, Western U.S. History, Women's Studies
- Sample collections: the FDR, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy Office
Files; Lyndon Johnson National Security Files; Immigration
and Naturalization Service correspondence from the early 20th
Century; pacification in Vietnam; William Westmoreland
Vietnam files; Confederate military records
- Browsing by topic or
title yields the guide to the microform collection (HTML or PDF format)
- Search for individual entries in a single or all microform collections
by keyword and date
- Resulting entries refer to microfilm collection location
- Search MIRLYN by title for
the University of Michigan microfilm call number; contact Inter-Library
Loan those collections not available at the
University
- Central Intelligence Agency
- Speeches and press releases
- Several CIA publications, including World FactBook and Chiefs of
State
- DefenseLINK
(Dept. of Defense)
- Defense Department speeches and press releases searchable by
date or keyword
- Links to Defense Department agencies
- Department of State
Foreign Affairs Network
- State Department speeches and foreign policy
- Arranged by region and subject
- Most information begins 1993/94
- Search engine accessible through toolbar at top of page
- Bureau of Near
Eastern Affairs includes Middle East peace documents as
well as speeches, testimony, and country information
- See Foreign Relations of the United States,
1861-1960s (JX 233.A3) for declassified documents
- Intelligence Community
(Federation of American Scientists)
- Presidential Executive Orders and Directories, Defense Department
Directories, laws and regulations affecting American intelligence
- Links to official intelligence community web sites with
FAS model web pages
- National Security Agency
- Brief information about the agency
- United States Information
Agency
- Searchable archive of foreign comments about U.S. policy
- Text in English
- Presidential
Decisions and Directives (Federation of American Scientists)
- List of national security directives since President Truman
- Full text of everything that has been declassified
- Weekly Compilation of
Presidential Documents, 1993+
[http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/nara003.html]
- Full text of Presidential executive orders, speeches, press
conferences, names of nominees
- Phrases should be in parentheses and Boolean operators capitalized
(e.g. "china" AND "most favored nation")
- Table of contents search (contents AND "july 28, 1997)
- Public Papers of the Presidents (J 80
.A25) has presidential documents since 1945
- White
House Electronic Publications
[http://www.pub.whitehouse.gov/WH/Publications/html/Publications.html]
- Press releases, speeches and documents beginning January 1993 and
updated daily
- Browse by date or broad subject category
- There is no keyword searching but publications can be identified
using a forms interface
specifying date, broad subject, type of publication, and principal
speaker
| Publication |
Definition |
UMich Source |
Public Access Source |
| Background Information |
Identifies bills, keyplayers,
politics of issue |
Academic Universe
Congressional Quarterly, 1983+
Congress Daily, 1991+
National Journal,
1977+
ProQuest
|
AllPolitics
Google Uncle Sam
Policy Com
Political Information
|
| Bills |
Proposed Legislation |
Congressional Universe,
1989+
THOMAS, 1973+ |
THOMAS, 1973+ |
| Hearings |
Committee Testimony |
Congressional Universe,
1789+
--Index, 1970+
--Full Text, 1988+ |
Hearings Bibliography, 1995+
Selected full text |
| Committee Prints |
Background Research |
Congressional Universe,
1970+
--Index, 1970+
--Full Text, 1993+ |
Hearings Bibliography, 1995+
Sometimes on committee web site |
| Committee Reports |
Committee
Recommendations |
Congressional Universe,
1970+
--Index, 1970+
--Full Text, 1988+ |
GPO
Access, 1995+ |
| Congressional Record |
Floor Debates |
Congressional Universe,
1985+ |
THOMAS,
1993+, |
- Background
- Academic Universe (UMich
Only) [http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/]
- Full text of newspapers from around the world and journal articles
- Search Government and Political News/Legislative
News
- Sample search: china w/10 (world trade organization or most
favored nation)
- All Politics
[http://www.cnn.com/allpolitics]
- Today's political news from Time, CNN, and Congressional
Quarterly
- CQ
Weekly Report (UMich Only)
[http://libraryip.cq.com/]
- Full text of CQ since 1983
- Initial page boots up to current issue
- Separate search engines for articles and
roll call votes can be limited by year
- Paper copy in Documents Center as JK 1.C12--Ref.
with older issues in Graduate Library
- Web subscription includes CQ
Researcher which provides briefing
reports on public policy issues
- Google's Uncle
Sam [http://www.google.com/unclesam]
- Indexes federal government web pages with a .gov and .mil extension
- Great for obtaining statements by members of Congress and reports of
the Executive Branch
- National
Journal [http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/]
- Weekly periodical on government agencies; includes major
legislative issues
- Also in Graduate Library as JK 1.N28 with current issues in
Documents Center--Docs.Ref.
- Political
Information [http://www.politicalinformation.com/]
- Index limited to political information on the web
- Links to full text
- ProQuest
[http://www.lib.umich.edu/rrs/proquest.html]
- Index to over 2300 popular and scholarly journals since the mid-1980s
- Full text of numerous journals since the 1990s
- Bills
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only) [http://web.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/]
- Indexes bills since 1989 by subject, keyword, sponsor, and date
- Provides the full text and legislative status
- Also includes the full text of laws and regulations in force
- THOMAS
[http://thomas.loc.gov/]
- Indexes bills since 1993 by keyword, sponsor and date
- Provides the full text and status
- Committee
Publications
- Includes hearings (testimony), committee
prints (research reports), reports
(recommendations on bills), and documents (Executive
Branch communiques)
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only) [img src="images/l_hand.gif">
- Indexes published hearings (1789+), committee prints (1993+), and
reports (1789+) by subject,
keyword, committee, and date
- Provides an abstract of publications located in the Documents Center
in paper and/or
microfiche format
- Includes the full text of selected testimony beginning 1988
- From the main page, search under Congressional
Publications
- Paper and CD-ROM indexes of hearings and all
publications, as well as paper and/or
microfiche copies, located in the Documents Center
- Illustrative Slides
- Congressional Record
[Web]
- Congressional
Universe (UMich Only) [http://www.lexis-nexis.com/congcomp/]
- Indexes Congressional Record since 1985 by keyword, speaker,
and date
- Provides the full text
- Located under Congressional Publications
- THOMAS
[http://thomas.loc.gov]
- Indexes speeches on the floor of Congress by subject, Member of
Congress, and date since 1993
- United States Code (via
Congressional Universe - UMich Only) [Web]
- Search existing laws in force by keyword or U.S. Code citation
- Updated within days of the passage of a new law
- Provides U.S. Code text as well as references to bill and public
law text
- Locate under Bills, Laws, and Regulations
- United
States Code (via Cornell Law School)
- Text of all laws in force as of January 1996
- Searchable by popular title of law, title and section of the U.S.
Code, or keyword
- Currently the best interface
- Code of Federal
Regulations via Congressional Universe
(UMich only)
- Full text of existing regulations in force
- Searchable by keyword and agency
- Updated every two weeks
- Free public access available through GPO
Access
- Federal Register via
Congressional
Universe (UMich only)
- New regulations, proposed regulations, notices of grants and agency
hearings
since 1980
- Approach by date, agency, type of information, keyword and CFR citation
- Paper copy in Documents Center for past two years as J 83 .A2
- Free public access since 1994 on the web through GPO
Access
TERM PAPER GUIDES
- Citation Guides
- Guides to various printed citation guides in the Graduate Library
- Web guides to citing various formats, including electronic
- Turabian
Style Guide
- Popular with many classes although it does not cover electronic media
- Dictionaries and encyclopedias
- Quotations and writing guides
- A+ Research and
Writing (Internet Public Library)
- Step-by-step guide to writing a term paper
- Includes tips such as setting deadlines, number of words per page,
role of brainstorming
- Instructions on researching both in the library and on the Internet
- Library
Research Guide (UMich)
- Guide to analyzing class assignment, research, evaluating materials,
writing the paper, and citing sources
- Description with links to web sources and printed materials in the
University of Michigan Undergraduate Library
- Scholarly v. Popular
Articles (UMich)
- Tutorial and exercises on finding popular and scholarly articles in psychology
- Principles applicable to political science as well
- International Political Science Abstracts and ProQuest
Peer Reviewed Library have scholarly journals
- Public Affairs Information Service and Proquest Research
Library have a mixture of popular and scholarly articles
- Academic Universe: NEWS = popular; LAW/LAW REVIEWS = Scholary
- What to Look
for in a Web Site (UMich)
- Factors to examine in choosing a web site for term paper research
- Includes an exercise
Grace York, Coordinator, Documents Center
Christina Campbell, Documents Assistant, July 2000
University of Michigan Library
Send suggestions to govdocs@umich.edu
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