• Nature, scope, and organization of our human rights collections
• Key characteristics of Human Rights scholarship and documentation
• Major Research Resources and Searching Strategies
• Contacts for more help

• Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research (CHRDR)-  based in the Libraries, the CHRDR  houses the archives of several prominent human rights organizations and promotes the development of strong general collections to support human rights research.  The archives are managed by Columbia's Rare Book & Manuscript Library.

• Area Studies - area and subject specialist librarians who develop interdisciplinary collections covering the following regions/subjects:  African Studies, Jewish Studies, Latin American & Iberian Studies, Middle East & Islamic Studies, Russian, Eurasian & E.European Studies, South & Southeast Asian Studies.

• C.V. Starr East Asian Library - collections from and about China, Japan, Korea and Tibet, in languages of those countries as well as materials in English and other Western languages about East Asia.

• Lehman Social Sciences Library - contemporary collection of social sciences materials, e.g. sociology, political sciences, international affairs.  Lehman is also U.S.  federal government document depository.

• Oral History Research Office - largest and oldest oral history program in the world; holds recorded interviews and transcripts with several collections related to contemporary and historical human rights topics

• Butler Library - humanities and history collections, e.g. biography, historical works, literary, cultural topics, feature and documentary film.

• Arthur W. Diamond Law Library – significant holdings of international law, treaties, IGO documents including the UN, International Court and tribunal records.  Journals and books relevant to HR, esp. legal aspects, treatments.

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Human Rights Guides

• Lehman Library Guide:  Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs: Information Resources 
  Includes subscription and freely available online sources as well as print sources available in the Columbia Libraries

• Columbia Law Library  International Law and Human Rights Research Guides
  List of several guides on human rights, EU and UN documents, FAQ on HR research, international law and legal guides

• Human Rights Library, University of Minnesota
  One of the largest collections of more than sixty thousand core human rights documents, with access to more than four thousands links.  Also provides a unique search device for multiple human rights sites.

• Univ. of Connecticut Guide: Human Rights Resources
  Extensive set of pages highlighting a range of resources.

• Lehman Library Guide, Population, Migration and Refugee Studies

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      SELECTED ARTICLE DATABASES

• AnthropologyPlus
• Columbia International Affairs Online
• Contemporary Women's Issues
• Gender Studies
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
• International Political Science Abstracts
• JSTOR: the Scholarly Journal Archive: [note: does not include articles published in the last 3-5 years]
• PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)
• Popline  population, family planning and health issues
• Social Science Citation Index (web of science)
• Social Sciences Full Text
• SocINDEX Sociology and related disciplines
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Try FIND ARTICLES, a new service that searches across many databases
See all of our Library Databases       

 REGION SPECIFIC DATABASES

• Africa-Wide: NiPAD
• Bibliography of Asian Studies (East, Southeast, and South Asia)
• EastView Universal Databases and ABSEES (Russia / CIS/ East Europe)
• HAPI Online (Latin American Studies)
• Caribbean Abstracts

Click on to find full text or print holdings of a journal at Columbia.  
Journal not available @ Columbia?  Use Interlibrary Loan to request electronic delivery of articles.

      SELECTED JOURNALS

Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law BMC International Health and Human Rights Buffalo Human Rights Law Review Columbia Human Rights Law Review Ethics and International Affairs Harvard Human Rights Journal Human Rights (Chicago, IL) Human Rights Brief Human Rights Case Digest Human Rights Quarterly Human Rights Review

International Journal of Human Rights International Journal of Refugee Law International Journal of Transitional Justice Journal of Human Rights Journal of Human Rights Practice New York Law School Journal of Human Rights Refugee Survey Quarterly South African Human Rights Yearbook SUR - International Journal on Human Rights Yale Human Rights & Development Law Journal

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CLIO -  Columbia’s Online Catalog

PEGASUS  - Columbia Law Library Catalog

WorldCat- Online catalog with over 95 million records from libraries in the U.S. and selected countries

Human Rights Library – (U. Minnesota) Bibliographies section

Human Rights and Human Welfare - an International Review of Books and other Publications

Human Rights: a Bibliography 5 vol., Huntington, NY : Nova Science Publishers, c2000.
Z 7164 .L6 H837 2000 - Lehman Library

        Item not @ Columbia?

• BorrowDirect --  expedited book delivery service from Libraries in the North Eastern U.S.
• InterLibrary Loan – article and book delivery service covering  U.S. academic libraries

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Guides to NGO and Inter-Governmental Organization sites and publications

• Lehman HR Guide, see Advocacy Organizations and Primary Documents Sections
• Human Rights Library-- NGO links (University of Minnesota)
• United Nations Documentation: Research Guide Human Rights (UN)
• Guide to the United Nations (Columbia Law Library)
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights - Historical Record of Drafting Process (UN)
• United Nations Human Rights Website
• ReliefWeb (UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs)
• Human Rights Library, IGO page
• Directory of Development Organizations

Guides to Regional and Country information

• Resources for Researching Country Conditions (Human Rights Library, Univ. Minnesota)
• UN Human Rights Documentation: A Guide to Country-Specific Research
• Inter-American Commission on Human Rights, Reports and Documents
• Human Rights and Governance in Africa (Columbia University guide)
• Human Rights, Latin American Network Information Center
• Demographic and Health Surveys
• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices (U.S. Department of State )
• World Bank e-Library (Columbia Libraries)

Specialized SEARCH Engines

• Hurisearch Search over 4500 human rights websites --  Read more about hurisearch
• Human Rights Library metasearch
• Google Scholar [configure for using Columbia Library resources Scholar Preferences ->Library Links]

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A network of specialists within the library contribute to building our human rights collections

General questions about human rights and Columbia's archives:  chrdr@columbia.edu

Area Studies (offices in Lehman Library) develops collections from and about several world regions

• African Studies,  Yuusuf Caruso, caruso@columbia.edu
• Latin American & Iberian Studies , Pamela Graham, latam@libraries.cul.columbia.edu
• Russian/Eurasian/E.European Studies, Robert H. Davis,  rhd2106@columbia.edu
• Middle East & Islamic Studies, Kaoukab Chebaro ks46@columbia.edu
• South and Southeast Asian Studies, Bindu Bhatt, bb145@columbia.edu

Starr East Asian Library  China, Japan, Korea, Tibet and general works on East Asian region

• starr@libraries.cul.columbia.edu

Lehman Library

• Fadi Dagher, Social Sciences Librarian, fd2102@columbia.edu

Butler Library

• U.S., UK and W. European History librarians ref-ref@columbia.edu

Law Library

• Reference staff  212-854-3743

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