Main Catalog
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The library catalog is the place to start when researching any topic. Books will give you an overview of the issues involved.

• Use author or title to search for known items   title: Europe and Iran
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Suggested subject terms to use in Main Catalog. Try 'guided search' to look for keywords

• Europa World: The Europa World Year Book online   Provides detailed surveys of over 250 countries.
• FACTS.com  (1940+)  Provides digest of major news stories around the world.
  Iranian Nuclear Development (issues and controversies)
• Keesing's Record of World Events Online Authoritative monthly digest of worldwide political, diplomatic and economic affairs. Summary of events since 1960 for individual countries and international organizations.
• State Department Background Notes by the U.S. State Department; contains information on all the countries of the world with which the United States has relations.
• EIU Country Profiles and Reports  (1996+)   Background reports covering economic, political, and social conditions of countries.
• Foreign countries - Official government web sites Northwestern University Library's comprehensive and current list of official government web sites for countries other than the U.S.
• Nations of the world: Iran (from the law library of Congress)

  Country Web Sites:

• EU's relations with Iran
• IAEA In Focus - IAEA and Iran International Atomic Energy Agency site with latest news coverage, documents and reports, backgound information, facts and figures
• Permanent Mission of the Islamic Republic of Iran to the United Nations offers the Iranian perspective on UN-Iran issues
• U.N. Development Programme in Iran
• U.S. Department of Energy - Iran
  Country analysis report from the Energy Information Administration
• U.S. Department of State - Iran Reports, press releases, and remarks on Iranian-U.S. relations.

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• International Political Science Abstracts  (1989+) Provides abstracts in English or French to articles selected from over 1,000 international journals.
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts  (1975+) Provides citations and abstracts in political science, including journal articles, books and book chapters, dissertations, and reviews
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences  (1951+) Provides bibliographic information from an international selection of publications in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology.
• Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies An index to journal and newspaper articles, books, and web sites on the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa.
• PAIS International  (1915+) Provides citations to articles, books, reports, and select government documents on U.S. and international public policy issue. Generally considered to be a comprehensive index to policy literature.
• PolicyFile  (1990+)   Draws its content from public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations, and publishers. Covers all aspects of public policy
• CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online(CIAO) publishes a wide range of scholarship; includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.
• RAND a non-profit think tank that provides research and analysis to further policy decision making. Areas of expertise include health, international policy, social welfare, population and regional studies, education and child policy.

• Academic Search Premier (1975+) Multi-disciplinary database providing abstract and indexing with select full text for many core scholarly journals as well as popular press periodicals
• ProQuest Research Library (Mid 1970s+. (Highly selective earlier coverage))

  Description
  Abstracting, indexing, and select full text of many core scholarly journals, magazines and major newspapers for information on a broad range of subjects.