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Suggested terms to use in guided searchpoverty Latin America
Mexico Economic?
Mexico Social conditions
Mexico Economic policy
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Mexico Politics government 1988
wages Mexico
labor Mexico
poverty developing countries
monetary policy Latin America
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- 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.
- Nations of the World Basic information on governments, including the constitution, and different branches of government. from the Law Library of Congress
- 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.
Journal Articles in Databases
Princeton databases, see: http://library.princeton.edu/catalogs/articles.php
Databases in Latin American Studies (complete list)
- Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) (1936+) Annotated bibliography and index to books, artiles and a variety of other materials. Updated monthly.
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Latin American Newsletters Source of current information on political and economic developments in Latin America and the Caribbean. Includes the Latin American Weekly Report, Latin American Economy & Business (monthly), Four regional reports (monthly), Latin American Security & Strategic Review (monthly), Latin American Special Reports, Latin American Monitoring Centre (includes Country Reports and Election Watch service).
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Latindex: Sistema Regional de Informacion en Linea para Revistas Cientificas de America Latina, el Caribe, Espana y Portugal Extensive directory of Latin American and Iberian academic journals, and gateway to hundreds of electronic journals available on the web. Contents of listed journals cannot be searched simultaneously.
- 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
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ProQuest Research Library (Mid 1970s+. (Highly selective earlier coverage))Abstracting, indexing, and select full text of many core scholarly journals, magazines and major newspapers for information on a broad range of subjects.
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EconLit (1969+) Indexes international economic literature. Includes major journals, articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, full-text book reviews, dissertations, and working papers.
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World Bank e-Library Online access to World Bank publications. Useful for research in international social and economic development.
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Index to International Economics, Development, and Finance Online catalog of the holdings of the publications contained in the joint International Monetary Fund/World Bank Library. Journals are selectively indexed. Great source for finding publications of the IMF and the World Bank.
- 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.
- 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.
- JSTOR full-text scholarly journals; last 3-5 years not available
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PolicyFile (1990+) Draws its content from public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations, and publishers. Covers all aspects of public policy
Articles in Newspapers
- News: Proquest Newspapers Provides full text access to the New York Times (1980+) , the Wall Street Journal (1984+), and the Chicago Tribune (1985+)
- Lexis Nexis Academic Provides full text of many major national and regional newspapers, including the full text of the New York Times
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Factiva Full-text of many major national and regional newspapers, including the full-text of the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, and the Nikkei Weekly.
- Newsbank Provides full-text of many major international, national and regional newspapers
- World News Connection
Foreign News Alert Service from the U.S. Government. Compiled fromthousands of non-U.S. media sources, focusing especially on local media sources.
- United Nations Development Programme
- United Nations Official Documents System Full Text - UN-ODS (1992+) Provides full text of United Nations central agency parliamentary and working documents
- United Nations Collection at Princeton University Library Provides links to major UN sites
International Organization web sites
- Northwestern University Library list These are sites for major international organizations.
- University of Michigan Documents CenterThe Documents Center is a central point for government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or international.
Web Sites
- Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC) The Latin American Network Center (LANIC), from the University of Texas at Austin provides web access to information to, from, or on Latin America.
- Latinobarometro (1995-1998, 2000-2004) Summary level public opinion data for Latin America. Microdata is also available in Stata format.
- Princeton's Economics FAQ
Evaluating Web Resources
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Harvard University Library http://hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/evaluatingweb/
Duke University Library http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/evaluating_web.htm
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example: intitle:mexico poverty site:un.org
Citing Sources
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