IDS 3188 (Beoku-Betts)

International Human Rights
Library Resource Page
Created by Jacquelyn Erdman

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Selected Library Databases

• Access World News
  Access World News from NewsBank provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 500 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues.

• Alternative Press Index (1991-present) and Alternative Press Index Archive (1969-1990)
  Indexes 300 alternative, radical, and left magazines, periodicals, and newspapers. Articles cover cultural, economic, political, and social change.

• Arts and Humanities Search
  Indexes articles from over 1,300 arts and humanities journals.

• CIAO
  The Columbia International Affairs Online Database provides a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.  This source includes journal articles, ebooks, policy briefs, and working papers.

• Contemporary Women's Issues
  CWI is a full-text database which includes information concerning women's issues worldwide. Major sources of information include Human Rights Watch, the Alan Guttmacher Institute, United States Government Reports, FEMNET and the Center for Women's Global Leadership.

• Country Watch
  Source of news and general information on 192 countries.  It includes material on political conditions, human rights, and governmental structures.

• Current Contents Connect
  Current Contents Connect provides access to current awareness research from seven broad disciplines.

• Digital Dissertations
  Authoritative source for information about U.S. doctoral dissertations and master's theses. This database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities.

• Ethnic NewsWatch and Ethnic NewsWatch: A History
  Features articles to ethnic, minority, and native magazines, journals, and newspapers.

• FACTS.com (Facts on File)
  Provides information about events, issues, statistics and people.

• GenderWatch
  A full-text collection of international journals, magazines, newsletters, regional publications, special reports and conference proceedings devoted to women's and gender issues. The database provides information on subjects such as family, childbirth, birth control, daycare, domestic abuse, work and the workplace, sexual harassment, aging, aging parents, body image, eating disorders and social and societal roles. It also includes content on the impact of gender and gender roles on areas including the arts, popular culture and media, business and work, crime and criminology, education, research and scholarship, family, health care and medicine, politics, policy and legislation, pornography, religion, sexuality and sexology, sports and leisure. GenderWatch contains archival material dating back to the mid 1970's; additional archival material continues to be added.

• Historical Abstracts
  Indexes journals covering the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in a companion database America: History and Life).

• Humanities Full Text
  Subject areas include archaeology, area studies, art, classical studies, communications, dance, film, folklore, gender studies, history, journalism, linguistics, literary and social criticism literature, music, performing arts, philosophy, religion and theology.

• JSTOR
  Journal Storage (More than 500 scholarly journals in education, humanities, mathematics, science [including the General Science Collection and Ecology and Botany Collection], and social science disciplines).

• MLA International Bibliography
  The MLA Bibliography indexes critical materials on literature, languages, linguistics, and folklore. The database provides access to citations from over 4,000 journals and series published worldwide, as well as books, essay collections, working papers, proceedings, dissertations, and bibliographies.

• OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition
  Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text.

• PAIS International  and Political Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection 
  Use this resource for coverage of international comparative politics and foreign policy developments.

• Political Risk Yearbook
  A resource covering current political and economic conditions in selected countries.  Policy issues are discussed and forecasts are presented in this database.

• Social Sciences Full Text
  Subject areas include addiction studies, anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, corrections, criminal justice, criminology, economics, environmental studies, ethics, family studies, gender studies, geography, gerontology, international relations, law, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, political science, psychiatry, psychology, public welfare, social work, sociology, and urban studies.

• Web of Science
  Arts and Humanities and Social Science Citation Indexes
  Three unique citation databases which allow searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination: the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.

• Women and Social Movements in the United States
  Arts and Humanities and Social Science Citation Indexes
  The resource, which examines perspectives on women’s social movements from Colonial times to the present, brings together books, images, documents, scholarly essays, commentaries, and bibliographies, documenting the multiplicity of women’s reform activities.

• Women's Studies International
  This resource includes access to Women Studies Abstracts and Women's Studies Database.  Coverage includes the core disciplines in Women’s Studies to the latest scholarship in feminist research. Women's Studies International supports curriculum development in the areas of sociology, history, political science & economy, public policy, international relations, arts & humanities, business and education. Nearly 800 essential sources include: journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, important websites & web documents, and grey literature. [This database is restricted to one user at a time.]

Journal Resources

BMC international health and human rights

Published: [2001-

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/tocrender.fcgi?action=archive&journal=37

The international journal of human rights

http://www-intra.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=journal&issn=1364-2987

Journal of human rights

Published: 2002-

http://www-intra.informaworld.com/openurl?genre=journal&issn=1475-4835

Northwestern University journal of international human rights: JIHR.

Published: c2003-

http://www.law.northwestern.edu/journals/jihr/

Sur: international journal of human rights

Published: 2004-

http://www.surjournal.org/eng/

Universal human rights

Published: 1979-1980.

http://www.jstor.org/journals/01632647.html

 

Print Resources

Country reports on human rights practices : report ... by the Department of State in accordance with sections 116(d) and 502B(b) of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as amended.

http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS1236 scroll down and click on version to view

Boca Raton-GovDoc Government Documents                 Y 4.F 76/1-15:

International encyclopedia of human rights : freedoms, abuses, and remedies
Author: Maddex, Robert L., 1942-
Published: c2000.
Boca Raton Campus Reference (Non-circulating)            JC571 .M3243 2000

International handbook of human rights
Published: 1987.
Boca Raton Campus Reference (Non-circulating)            JC571 .I587 1987

Great debates at the United Nations : an encyclopedia of fifty key issues, 1945-2000
Author: Gorman, Robert F.
Published: 2001.
Boca Raton Campus Reference (Non-circulating)            KZ4968 .G67 2001

 

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