Accessing
Information:
The address of the Library’s web site is (
http://www.fau.edu/library). In order to access databases from home you
must use EZ Proxy. This can be done by going to Quick Links on the
homepage and then clicking
<EZ Proxy>.
To find the class web page, go to Quick Links
and click <Instructional Services> and then click <Class Web Pages
– Spring 2006>.
Selected
Resources:
FAU LIBRARIES CATALOG
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Searches will find books and government documents. More
effective searches can be done using subject terms.
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Some catalog entries have “purl” addresses so they can be
accessed directly as an electronic resource (Adobe Acrobat Reader
required).
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If the library does not own the book you need use
ILLIAD
to request the item through Interlibrary Loan.
LINKS FROM LIBRARY WEB PAGES
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Select Research Resources from library homepage
followed by Government Resources and then Federal Government
Resources in order to find links to sites from the executive, judicial,
and legislative branches of government. FirstGov is a
popular government information directory. Many topical reports of interest
are produced by the Congressional Research Service. Additional
reports on foreign policy topics can be found on the web pages of the
State Department
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GODORT has produced the useful directory Frequently
Requested Government Information. The Library of Congress
provides access to International Documents with Country
Studies and Portals to the World.
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State and Local Government information
is available that include accountability reports from OPPAGA. Use
the Subject Guide to locate the Budget of the United States as
well as statistical information sources like
FEDSTATS and
UNESCO Institute for Statistics.
INTERNET INFORMATION RESOURCES
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Directories can provide links that have been pre-selected as
unique or especially helpful, such as
Librarians' Internet Index and Yahoo!Directory.
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Discover all about blogs and their uses at
Blog Bib
and do searches at
Google Blog Search .
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Other resources include listservs, often with web archives, at
L-Soft and links to associations, personal homepages, and
more from U.
of Michigan Documents Center .
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It is possible to find newsgroups and read about Usenet at Google
Groups or Living
Internet . In addition, one may search Institutional
Repositories for working papers, journal articles, dissertations and
theses. The
Digital Commons @ Florida
Atlantic University also provides links to repositories at other
universities.
Selected
Databases:
You must use
EZ Proxy
to access databases from off campus.
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Info Trac OneFile
offers an extensive selection of news and periodical articles on a wide
range of topics. It is possible to limit a search to peer-reviewed
publications.
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JSTOR
contains
over 500 scholarly journals in disciplines such as Political Science, Asian
Studies, and Middle East Studies.
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CIAO is the Columbia International Affairs Online database
which provides a comprehensive source for theory and research in
international affairs. This source includes journal articles, ebooks, policy
briefs, and working papers.
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Country Watch
gives up to date news and information on 192 countries and includes
material on political conditions, human rights, and governmental structures.
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ProQuest
Dissertations and Theses
allows full-text access to materials from U.S. institutions dating back
to 1861.
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CQ Researcher
and
National Journal are good sources for coverage of American
politics and international affairs.
A good site for specific information on citing
electronic resources in APA style is
provided
by Dr. Mary Ellen Guffy at APA
Style Electronic Formats
