Finding books, journal titles, government documents, and other resources in the Library
The library catalog is the place to start when researching any topic. Books will give you an overview of the issues involved.

Main Catalog

• Use author or title to search for known items title:
• Use long view to find more subject terms
• Try guided search to look for keywords
• Use ? to truncate: econom?  for economics, economic, economical

Suggested subject terms to use in Main Catalog. Try 'guided search' to look for keywords

United States foreign policy Iraq United States foreign policy Economic assistance American Economic assistance Economic development International cooperation

Economic assistance American Economic assistance Developing countries United States Foreign economic relations United States Foreign relations Developing countries United States Economic policy

Background Information:

• 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 Depart; 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.
• CIA World Fact Book Gathers statistics and details on Iraq, including its geography, people, & government, economy and defense forces.
• SourceOECD  Statistics as well as full-text books, periodicals, and working papers published by the OECD, European Conference of Ministers of Transport, International Energy Agency, and the Sahel and West Africa Club.

Journal Articles in Databases

       Princeton databases, see: http://library.princeton.edu/catalogs/articles.php

       PUL QuickSearch http://search3.webfeat.org/clients/princeton/princetonqs.asp
           A service which allows you to search multiple databases simultaneously.

• 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.
• ABI/INFORM  (1971+) Worldwide business periodicals. Provides in-depth coverage of business and economic conditions, management techniques, theory, and practice of business, advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, and taxation.
• 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
• PolicyFile  (1990+)   Draws its content from public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations, and publishers. Covers all aspects of public policy

Newspaper Articles

• 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
• Factiva Full-text of many major national and regional newspapers. Use Newstand page to see articles in major daily papers
• Newsbank (Access World News) Provides full-text of many major international, national and regional newspapers
• World News Connection Foreign News Alert Service from the U.S. Government. Compiled fromt housands of non-U.S. media sources, focusing especially on local media sources.

United States Documents

Selected Government Documents and Congressional Resources

NOTE:  PUL has extensive collections of government publications and is a depository library for U.S. f ederal, New  Jersey, United Nations and European Union documents. Many publications available at Princeton are not listed in the  PUL catalog.  Please ask for help.  For full Princeton list see of document sources: http://library.princeton.edu/catalogs/articles.php?typeID=21

      United States Government Documents

Other Web Sites

• Diplomacy Monitor (St. Thomas University School of Law) Provides official statements, press briefings and news releases, interviews, and position papers pertaining to diplomacy from hundreds of Web sources. 
• United States Foreign Policy (University of Michigan. Library Documents Center) Foreign policy resources that include background information, references books, news sources, and journal indexes.
• FirstGov: Defense and International Relations (U.S. General Services Administration)
  FirstGov is the federal government's search engine. Topics cover agencies and organizations; countries and regions; the State Department and Foreign Service; immigration and citizenship; foreign trade; international travel; and defense.
• Foreign Affairs of the United States (U.S. Government Printing Office in cooperation with Oklahoma State University)
  Lists key U.S. government resources.
• USAID Budget links to:
  Congressional Budget Justification (1997+)
  Provides summary data and detailed statistics and justifications to Congress for foreign aid in the said fiscal year. The detailed information covers specific nations in narrative and tabular formats.
  Sourcebook
  Presents historical statistics about aid programs to all nations from 1946 to date.
• USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse (DEC)
  Provides full text access to documentation about USAID projects.
• The Green Book The U.S. Agency for International Development [USAID]'s publishes the U.S. Overseas Loans and Grants, Obligations and Loan Authorizations.

Evaluating Web Resources

• Most of the resources listed have all been licensed and paid for by PUL. They have been carefully evaluated and selected by subject experts in the library.
• Many of the resources on the web have not been evaluated by anyone. It is important for you to evaluate sites.
  Here are a few sites that can help:
  University of Albany Library; UCLA Library; or University of Southern Maine .
  Harvard University Library http://hcl.harvard.edu/research/guides/evaluatingweb/
  Duke University Library http://www.lib.duke.edu/libguide/evaluating_web.htm

Library Services

• Connecting from off-campus
  http://library.princeton.edu/help/remoteaccess.php
• Chat Reference http://libweb.princeton.edu/help/chat.php

Google Search Tips (Google Search Guide):

• Google Government Search
• http://www.googleguide.com/sharpening_queries.html
• http://www.googleguide.com/cheatsheet.html
  example: "foreign aid" humanitarian site:gov
  example: "foreign aid" refugees site:org
      domain limits:
      mil (US military sites)
      edu (university sites)
      org (organizations)
      gov (US government sites)

Citing Sources

• http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/TeachingLib/Guides/Internet/Style.html
  Also try:   http://www.refworks.com

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