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TOPIC: Topics in Third World History: Nationalism and Revolution
DATE: September 15, 1999
PRESENTED BY: Jana Krentz
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FINDING BOOKS IN THE KU LIBRARY
SUGGESTED SUBJECT HEADINGS
General: Developing Countries-History; Developing Countries-History- Automony and Independence Movements; Developing Countries-Colonial Influence; Brazil-History
Politics: Developing Countries-Politics and Government-20th century; etc.
Other: Women in Development; Women-Developing Countries; Developing Countries-Periodicals
REFERENCE BOOKS
Directories:
Third World Resource Directory, 1994-1995. 1994. (Reference Z 7164 .U5 T46 1994)
Dictionaries:
Dictionary of Development : Third World Economy, Environment, Society. 1990. 2 vols. (Reference HC 59.7 .D513 1990)
Hadjor, Kofi Buenor. Dictionary of Third World Terms. 1992. (Reference HC 59.7 .H33 1992)
Encyclopedias:
Kurian, George Thomas. Encyclopedia of the Third World. 1992. 3 vols. (Reference HC 59.7 .K87 1992)
FINDING ARTICLES IN THE KU LIBRARY
NOTE: once you have identified the articles which you want to find, use the
Online Catalog, to look up the title of the journal and learn whether KU has
it and where it is. Pay special attention to HOLDINGS to assure that KU has
the volume you need.
PRIMARY INDEXES
Historical Abstracts (WWW) - Covers scholarly literature published between 1955 and the present. It indexes articles from over 2,100 (about 900 are published in the U.S.). Includes books reviews and dissertations. Materials in many languages are indexed. Updated quarterly.
WorldCat (FirstSearch) - contains more than 32 million records describing items owned by the KU Libraries and libraries around the world. Includes records for books, films and slides, journals and newspapers (NOT individual articles), manuscripts, maps, musical scores, sound recordings, and videotapes.
World News Connection (WWW) - Online news service that offers an extensive array of translated and English-language news and information. Particularly effective in its coverage of local media sources for the Third World.
ADDITIONAL INDEXES
Academic Universe Lexis-Nexis (WWW) - Information on current events, sports, business, economics, and reference information for Spain and Latin America. Full text of selected newspaper articles and a foreign language news section.
Arts & Humanities Search (CDROM) - Indexes articles from leading arts and humanities journals. Contains articles and book reviews.
Contemporary Women's Issues (First Search) - Provides full text access to global information on women. Journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, along with fact sheets are easily accessed through CWI. Information on women in over 200 countries covering such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights.
Dissertation Abstracts (CDROM) - contains citations and abstracts from all subject areas for dissertations. Covers 1861 to date.
Expanded Academic ASAP (IAC)- includes citations to journal articles and book reviews. Full text articles are available in many cases.
GenderWatch (FirstSearch) - GenderWatch is a full-text database comprised primarily of the many ongoing periodicals that focus on women and women's issues, including academic and scholarly journals, regional publications, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, booklets and reports.
JSTOR - a full text database of many core academic journals in a variety of disciplines.
LATIN AMERICAN INDEXES AND DATABASES
HAPI Online (WWW)- The Hispanic American Periodicals Index contains citations to articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 400 social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
HLAS - The Handbook of Latin American Studies is a selective, annotated subject bibliography of journal articles and monographs in the humanities and social sciences. Available in three formats:
Info-Latinoamerica (WWW)- Bibliographic database that covers business, economics, politics, and related social and cultural issues in Latin America. Many of its records, beginning with 1995, contain full text from the original source, the remainder include indexing and abstracts only. Info- Latinoamerica is compiled from over 1,500 leading international and domestic newspapers, journals, news magazines, newsletters, and other sources. Approximately 15,000 records are added per year. Dates from 1988.
INTERNET CONNECTIONS
Some WWW addresses:
SPLAT homepage - http://www.ukans.edu/~splat/
University of Kansas Libraries homepage: http://www.lib.ukans.edu/
UT-LANIC - University of Texas Latin American Network Information Center http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/ or available through SPLAT homepage.
HLAS Online - http://lcweb2.loc.gov/hlas or available through SPLAT homepage
ARL Latin Americanist Project: Index for Journals from Argentina, Mexico and Brazil http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/project/arl or available through SPLAT homepage.
H-LatAm - an international forum for the scholarly discussion of Latin American History http://h-net2.msu.edu/~latam/
ADDITIONAL INTERNET RESOURCES
http://www.georgetown.edu/pdba/ Political Database of the Americas (Georgetown University)
http://www-wds.worldbank.org World Development Sources Version 2
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/stats.html Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan)
http://www.iadb.org/ENGLISH/index_english.html Inter-American Development Bank
http://www.eclac.cl/ Naciones Unidas Comisión Económica para América Latin y el Caribe (CEPAL)
http://www.undp.org/ United Nations Development Programme
http://www.unep.org United Nations Environment Programme
http://www.library.yale.edu/un/unhome.htm United Nations Scholars' Workstation (Yale University)
http://www.worldbank.org/html/extdr/offrep/lac/lac.htm World Bank Latin America and the Caribbean Region Technical Department
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