International Affairs Resources

CLIO: Columbia Libraries Online Catalog: CLIO is the online catalog for the Columbia and Barnard libraries. It includes over 4 million records for books, journal or newspaper titles (not articles), online resources, government documents, microforms, sound or video recordings, archival collections, etc.
Pegasus: Columbia University Law School Library Online Catalog: Pegasus includes: U.S. federal and state law, selected Commonwealth jurisdictions, major foreign language collections and, since 1983, vernacular and Western language materials pertaining to law in Japan and the People's Rep. of China.
WorldCat: An online catalog of the collections of 24,000 member libraries of the OCLC consortium, comprising more than 36 million records for books, serials, manuscript collections, audiovisual materials, computer files, and other media.
BorrowDirect: A borrowing service offered by the university libraries of Columbia, Brown, Cornell, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania, Princeton, and Yale. It is designed to allow students, faculty and staff to request (and receive in four days) books directly from each other's collections.

Find Journal Articles

CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online: Provides full text access to working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences, from 1991 to the present.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences: Provides access to citations and abstracts to over 2,600 scholarly journals in the social sciences, from 1951 to the present.
JSTOR: Provides full-text articles from more than 320 scholarly journals, from volume 1 but excluding the latest 3-5 years.
PAIS International: Provides access to citations and abstracts to over 460,000 American and international scholarly journal articles, from 1972 to the present.
Rand Abstracts: Provides citations, abstracts and full-text Rand publications, from 1946 to the present.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts: Provides access to citations and abstracts to over 1000 American and international scholarly journals, from 1975 to the present.

Find News Sources

Factiva: Provides full-text to nearly 8,000 newswires, newspapers, magazines and trade journals. Coverage generally begins from 1980 to the present, but varies by source.
LexisNexis Academic: Provides full-text access to over 18,000 sources including newspapers, journals, wire services, newsletters, company reports, case law, government documents, transcripts of broadcasts, and more. Coverage generally begins in mid-1980s, but varies by source.
News Resources: Government & Politics: Links to specialized sources of current news and information about government and politics.
ProQuest Direct: Provides access to more than 2,000 professional, scholarly, trade and general interest sources including 27 U.S. newspapers. Full text varies by source.
World News Connection: Full-text summaries and translations of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals, non-classified technical reports and local media sources from around the world. Specializes in socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events. For more information and for years prior to 1994 see: FBIS Daily Reports.

Background Information

BBC News: Country Profiles: Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries. They also include audio and video clips from the BBC archives.
Countries and their Cultures. 4 vols.: An emphasis on the ethnic groups and cultural difference within and between countries. GN 307 .C68 2001 - Lehman Reference
Country Studies/Area Handbooks: Most books in the series deal with a particular foreign country, describing and analyzing its political, economic, social, and national security systems and institutions, and examining the interrelationships of those systems and the ways they are shaped by cultural factors.<</dd>
The Greenwood Encyclopedia of International Relations. 4 vols.: JZ 1160 .N65 2002 - Lehman Reference
International Affairs Contact Network: The IACNet is a comprehensive database of organizations and experts in international affairs. Its contents can be searched by organizational name, location, subject, type, and resource offerings. IACNet is an initiative of the University Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.
Portals to the World: Links to electronic resources selected by Library of Congress subject experts.
MSU Global Access, Michigan State University: Provides information about the world - its regions and peoples and important international issues. You can search simultaneously by world region or country and by thematic area.
The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources: This section of the WWW Virtual Library system presents over 2400 annotated links in a wide range of international affairs and international relations topics, including Getting Started, Media Sources, Organizations, Regions and Countries, and Topics.

Statistics & Data

Country Indicators for Foreign Policy, Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa

An on-going effort to identify and assemble statistical information conveying the key features of the political, economic, social and cultural environments of countries around the world.

The Economist Intelligence Unit

Includes full-text databases, e.g. Country Reports, regional newsletters, and a time series database providing information and data on over 190 countries. The time series database provides 270 series for 115 countries.

EIU Country Data

An analytical database of worldwide economic indicators and forecasts, covering more than 270 statistical variables in series for each of 115 countries.

eldis Country Profiles

Provides profiles of Agriculture, Environment, Economics, Gender, Politics, Education, and Health, in addition to current news, maps, statistics, CIA and IMF country profiles, industrial and trade profiles, and human rights records; from the Electronic Development and Environment Information System.

Electronic Data Service (EDS), Columbia University

Located in 215 Lehman Library, EDS offers the University community access to a wide variety of numerical data resources and related services.

EuroStat: Statistical Office of the European Communities

Or in print: EuroStat Yearbook. Biennial.

HA 1107 .E89 - Latest in Lehman Reference

FedStats

Provides statistical tables from over 70 U.S. Federal Government agencies. Coverage varies by file.

FIRST (Facts on International Relations and Security Trends)

FIRST draws upon the factual databases maintained by its project partners to create country profiles, including: Membership, agreements and events, Conflicts and peace keeping activities, Arms production and trade, Military expenditure, Weapons of mass destruction, Armed forces and conventional weapon holdings, Political system and country indicators, and Other reference data.

InternationalAffairs.com

A general portal, with section on News, Players, Analysis, and Numbers.

International Data Base (IDB), from the U.S. Census Bureau

A computerized data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for all countries of the world.

Millennium Indicators

A framework of 8 goals, 18 targets and 48 indicators to measure progress towards the Millennium Development goals was adopted by a consensus of experts from the United Nations Secretariat in consultation with IMF, OECD and the World Bank, and other specialized agencies of the UN System.

SourceOECD Weekly

OECD information on a country: annual reports, country surveys/reviews, news, policy briefs, other reports and working papers and reports from 1998 to the present.

Statistical Universe Monthly.

Povides access to statistical data from U.S. government sources (in full text) and state, private, and IGO sources (citation only). For the latter, locate the statistical source in the library, either in print or as part of the microfiche service which accompanies the printed index. Print versions are:

American Statistics Index (ASI): Z 7554 .U5 A46 - Lehman Index Table

Index to International Statistics (IIS): Z 7552 .I53 - Lehman Index Table

Statistical Reference Index (SRI): HA 202 .S8 - Business Reference

United Nations Statistics Division

Provides statistics from more than 190 countries.

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