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Barnard College Library Research Guide BC3998
Senior Seminar in Africana Studies
Professor Kim Hall
Fall 2008
Librarian: Karen Dobrusky
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Introduction
For help with
your research, visit the reference desk (hours) on the second floor
of Barnard Library, or contact a Barnard reference librarian:
Phone: 212-854-3953
Chat: IM BarnardReference
E-mail: refdesk@barnard.edu
Request a
one-on-one consultation with a Barnard librarian if you have an
in-depth research need.
Contents
Reference Books |
Country Overviews
|CLIO |
Databases & Indexes
Other Libraries Catalogs & Interlibrary Loan|
RefWorks & EndNote |
Consultation Request
REFERENCE BOOKS
Use for:
- an overview of a topic
- background information
- factual information
- bibliographies
- located on the 2nd floor of the Barnard Library
Country Overviews
•Country Profiles from the Library of Congress
•CountryWatch
Up-to-date news, data, background
briefings, & analysis on every country of the world.
•eiu.com
EIU, (Economic
Intelligence Unit) Includes Country Reports, Country Monitor,
Country
Commerce and Country Finance publications for 115
countries.
•Europa World Plus
•ISI Emerging Markets
Full-text news, financial and economic information on emerging
market countries
•World Fact Book: CIA
CLIO
CLIO (Columbia Libraries Information Online) is the on-line catalog for the
Barnard & Columbia Libraries. CLIO can be searched by author, title, subject and keyword. Help for searching CLIO
is available on the Web CLIO opening screen.
- You can enter CLIO from the
Barnard Library Home Page
or from the Columbia University Libraries Home Page
- Help with searching ("search tips") is available on the bottom of the opening
search screen
- The holdings of the Health Sciences Library as well as the Union
Theological Seminary are included in CLIO
- The Law Library's catalog is
Pegasus, Teacher's College catalog is Educat and JTS' catalog is
Aleph
- To search CLIO, Pegasus and Educat simultaneously click on the "Search all CU
catalogs" tab on the opening CLIO screen
Sample Searches:
Title search: Type in as much of the title that you know
encyclopedia of african american culture and history
journal of african american history
Author search: put
last name, then first name
dangarebga tsitsi
Keyword search: use: " " for a phrase, and use ? for truncation (to
find variant endings of a word)
entrepreneur? women senegal?
women body and (jamaica? or caribbean?)
Subject search: use Library of Congress (LC) subject
headings
sex tourism
break dancing
women mozambique
Limiting to books in Barnard Library: use the Pre-set Limits or
Post Limits option, with title & keyword searches
Call numbers:
Overview of the Library of Congress Classification Outline
DATABASES & INDEXES: For Finding Periodical & Journal
Articles
From the Barnard Library Home Page or
Columbia University Libraries Home Page,
you can access the A-Z listing of databases. These databases can be
searched for articles in various disciplines. Most databases have
e-Links which will search to see if the full-text of a particular item is available online through Columbia's
resources. If you are unable to locate an item full-text search CLIO directly for the journal title.
•ABI
Inform Global
Journal articles in business and
management.
•Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications.
•Africa-wide: NiPAD
Index to materials about and from Africa in history, literature, music
,arts, business and social sciences.
•African
E-Journals Project
Contains digitized, full-text articles
from 11 African scholarly journals.
•All Africa. Com
Multi-lingual streaming programming and a searchable article archive.
•Alt-Press
Watch
Full-text articles from alternative press publications.
•Aluka
Struggles for Freedom in Southern Africa
Documentation of the struggles for
freedom in Southern Africa.
•America: History and Life
American and Canadian history.
•AnthroPlus
Worldwide indexing of journal articles,
reports, commentaries, edited works, and obituaries in the fields of social,
cultural, physical, biological, and linguistic anthropology, ethnology,
archaeology, folklore, material culture.
•AnthroSource
Integrates over 100 years of the American Anthropological Associations' publications
in a single searchable resource.
•Arts & Humanities & Social Sciences Citation Index
Interdisciplinary arts and humanities, 1975 to present.
•Barnard
Bulletin
Digital archive of the Barnard Bulletin.
•Black Studies Center
Gateway to Black Studies includes scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical
newspapers, articles and
more. From Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index to Black Periodicals
and the Chicago
Defender.
•British
Humanities Index
Indexes articles in humanities
journals, magazines, and newspapers published in the UK.
•Caribbean Abstracts
Books and articles about the Caribbean published in the humanities
and social sciences.
•CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
Includes working papers, conference proceedings, journals, books, a schedule of
events, and links and resources.
•Contemporary Women's Issues
Full-text articles and reports about women from U.S. and international sources.
•Econlit
American Economic Association's
electronic database provides links to full text articles in all fields of
economics.
•Education
Full Text
Education periodicals and other
publications.
•Education
Resource Complete
Definitive online resource for education research.
•ERIC
Full-text for articles in education
periodicals and other publications.
•Ethnic NewsWatch
Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic,
minority and native press in the U.S.
•Gender Studies
Women's studies, gender studies, feminism, feminist studies,
feminist theory & history.
•GenderWatch
Feminist and gender studies, full text.
•HAPI:
Hispanic American Periodicals Online
Articles and book reviews about Latin
America, the Caribbean, and Hispanic Americans.
•HLAS: Handbook of Latin American Studies
Bibliography and index to publications from and about Latin America and the Caribbean.
•Historical Abstracts
World history excluding U.S. & Canada including time period
from 1450 to present.
•Historical
Black Newspapers
Provides cultural perspective and
insight to the events that shaped the US in the twentieth century.
•Humanities Full Text
Articles in the humanities, including
history, literature and more.
•Humanities and Social Sciences Retrospective, 1907-1984
Indexes major journals in both humanities and social sciences topics.
•International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Social sciences and related materials.
International in scope.
•International Index to Music Periodicals, IIMP
Citations, abstracts and full-text for
articles in music periodicals.
•International Index to the Performing Arts, IIPA
Multidisciplinary index to the
performing arts. Includes full-text.
•International Political Science Abstracts
Political science including the sub-fields of public administration,
political
theory and international relations
published in journals and yearbooks from all over the world.
•JSTOR, the Scholarly Journal Archive
An archive of full text articles from many scholarly journals in anthropology, African studies,
education, history,
philosophy, political science, population studies, sociology and others,
usually from each journal's first
issue but
excluding the most current, usually 3-5 years.
•Lexis-Nexis Academic
Contains domestic, e.g. New York Times, as well as many foreign newspapers/resources in full-text including the Times, London, BBC Monitoring Middle East.
Coverage generally begins in mid-1980s.
•LION: Literature Online
English and American poetry, drama, prose, biographies, and secondary sources, from the Anglo-Saxon period to the
20th century.
•MLA Bibliography
Database for literature, language, linguistics and folklore. Citations for articles, dissertations, books, book
chapters.
•Music
Index Online
Articles in music periodicals.
•PAIS: Public Affairs Information Services
Articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories in the
area of public affairs. Topics include business, government, international relations, banking, environment, health,
social sciences and more.
•Project Muse
Full -text articles from more than 170 scholarly journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press in the
humanities and social sciences. Included are Africa Today, Human Rights Quarterly and man more titles.
Includes
most recent years only.
•ProQuest
Online journal articles and citations, Interdisciplinary, multidisciplinary.
•ProQuest Historical Newspapers
Full-text archive of the Atlanta Constitution, Boston Globe,
Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times,
New York Tribune, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post.
•ProQuest Newspapers
Articles from US national newspapers, international English-language
newspapers, and selected regional/state
newspapers.
•Race
Relations Abstracts
Race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination,
and immigration studies
•Readers' Guide Full Text and Readers' Guide Retrospective
Citations and some full text of popular periodicals published in the United States and Canada.
•RILM: Repertoire International de Litterature Musicale
Music articles, Provides citations and abstracts for scholarly
articles, books, bibliographies, catalogues,
dissertations, Festschriften, films and videos, iconographies,
ethnographic recordings and more.
•Social
Sciences Citation Index
Full-text, citations, and abstracts from periodicals in
social science disciplines.
•Social Sciences Full Text
Journals in anthropology, business, community health, economics, foreign
affairs, geography,
international relations, law and criminology, sociology and social
history.
•Sociological Abstracts
Indexes articles in the field of sociology.
•World Wide Political Science Abstracts
Citations and abstracts articles in political science journals
SUBJECT GUIDES FROM COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES
Africana Studies Subject Guide: from Barnard Library
African Studies Resources: from Lehman Library
African Studies Internet Resources: from Lehman Library
African American Studies: from Butler Library
Economic & Political Development Information Resources: from Lehman Library
Foreign Press Translations: from Lehman Library
General Statistical Sources: from Lehman Library
Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs Resources:
from CU Libraries
Latin American & Iberian Studies: from Lehman Library
New York City
History Resources: from Lehman Library
Women in Development: from Lehman Library
Women's Studies: from
Barnard Library
Women's Studies: from CU Libraries
Other Libraries & Interlibrary Loan
Center for Human Rights and Documentation and Research at Columbia, 307
International Affairs
CATNYP is the online catalog of the
NYPL research library and
LEO is the online catalog of the NYPL
Branch Libraries.
WorldCat is the online collective catalog
of various member libraries from around the world.
CRL the Center for Research Libraries
The Center for Research Libraries (CRL) is a consortium of North
American universities, colleges and independent research
libraries. The consortium acquires and preserves newspapers,
journals, documents, archives and other traditional and digital
resources for research and teaching. A good sources for finding
non-U.S. newspaper
"Request It" is the venue to borrow books
through Interlibrary Loan, Borrow Direct and other services. Interlibrary
Loan will borrow books or obtain photocopies of items that are not available at
the Barnard or Columbia Libraries with no charge to the patron. You can click on
"Request Direct" on the Barnard Library Home Page or the Columbia University
Libraries Home Page.
Refworks & EndNote
Click here for information about using
RefWorks and EndNote
for information and instructions on using RefWorks & EndNote. RefWorks and EndNote are bibliographic software packages, that can be
used for managing your citations. They are available, free of charge, to all
current Barnard and Columbia students, faculty and
staff.
Last
Modified 10/15/08
Karen Dobrusky
kdobrusk@barnard.edu
Reference Librarian
Barnard College Library
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