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- 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: Catalog of the Columbia University Law School
- 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.
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- 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.
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- CIAO: Columbia international affairs online
- A source for theory and research in international affairs. Provides a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
- Focus is on the disciplines of anthropology, economics, political science and sociology, but coverage includes such related subjects as demography, foreign affairs, government, history, international relations, law, and public administration. Access from 1952 to the present.
- International Political Science Abstracts.
- Paris: International Political Science Association, 1951-
Citations, mostly with abstracts, 1989- present, updated quarterly.
- JSTOR
- Provides page images of back issues of the core scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences from the earliest issues to within a few years of current publication.
- PAIS Archive and International
- Includes references to more than 460,000 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical sources, grey literature, research reports, conference proceedings, and publications of international agencies. Coverage from 1915 to the present.
- Social Sciences Citation Index.
- Philadelphia, Institute for Scientific Information, 1973- .
Print volumes (1956-1990) are available in Lehman Reference (Z 7161 .S65).
- Women in Politics Bibliographic Database
- Citations to books, reports and journal articles, from the Inter-Parliamentary Union.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
- Provides access to citations and abstracts of journal articles appearing in ca 1000 political science journals. Coverage from 1975 to the present.
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- 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.
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- 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.
- ProQuest
- Provides access to more than 2,000 professional, scholarly, trade and general interest sources including 27 U.S. newspapers. Full text varies by source.
Background Information
- American Political Science Association.
- Style Manual for Political Science.
- Washington, DC: American Political Science Association, 1993.
- JA 74 .A52 1993g - Lehman Reference
- Dictionary of Government and Politics.
- JF 201 .C64 1997g - Lehman Reference
- Encyclopedia of the American Constitution. 6 vols.
- KF 4548 .E53 2000 - Lehman Reference, Barnard Reference
- R342.733 En191 - Butler Reference
Statistical Sources
- Vital Statistics on American Politics. Biennial.
- Washington, D.C.: CQ Press, 1988-
- JK 274 .S74 - Latest in Lehman Reference
Biographical Sources
American Political Scientists: a Dictionary.
Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1993.
JA 61 .A525 1993 - Lehman Reference
A Dictionary of Political Biography.
New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.
D 412 .D53 1998 - Lehman Reference
The Hutchinson Encyclopedia of Modern Political Biography
Oxford: Helcion, 1999.
D 412.6 .H88 1999g - Butler
The Routledge Dictionary of Twentieth-century Political Thinkers. 2nd ed.
New York: Routledge, 1998.
JA 83 .R725 1998 - Lehman Stacks
Quotation Books
- The Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations. 2nd ed.
- New York: Oxford University Press, 2001.
- PN 6084 .P6 O94 2001 - Lehman Reference
- Thomsett, Michael C. and Jean Freestone Thomasett, Editors.
- Political Quotations: a Worldwide dictionary of
- Thoughts and Pronouncements from Politicians, Literary Figures,
- Humorists and Others.
- Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1994.
- PN 6084.P6 P59 1994 - Lehman Reference
Professional Associations & Research Institutes
- American Political Science Association
- The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is located within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan. A membership-based organization, ICPSR provides access to the world's largest archive of computerized social science data. Consult Columbia's Electronic Data Service for further information on ICPSR resources.
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