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Ethnic Cleansing in the Modern EraBackground Sources & Country Profiles |
Background Sources & Country Profiles
Encyclopedias and dictionaries provide background information and can be used to identify key people, events and dates. Many also include short bibliographies.
- Background Notes
- Periodically updated brief reports on countries produced by the Department of State.
- Britannica Online
- Online version of the Encyclopedia Britannica.
- Encyclopedia of genocide
- Suzzallo Reference, HV6322.7 .E53 1999
- Encyclopedia of human rights issues since 1945
- Suzzallo Reference, JC571 .L2747 1999
- Country Studies
- Series of 85 volumes produced by the Library of Congress providing in-depth information on a particular country. Printed versions available in the Government Publications Section.
- Human Rights Reports for 1999
- Annual State Department reports on human rights violations.
Finding Books: Catalogs
Use the following databases to locate books in the UW Libraries and in other libraries around the region, nation and world. Books unavailable at the UW can be requested through the Interlibrary Borrowing Service.
- UW Libraries Catalog
- A listing of the books, journal subscriptions and other material available at the University of Washington Libraries.
- OhioLINK
- Use OhioLink to access chapters of recent books, use the "Words" search option.
- OCLC WorldCat
- A listing of books, journal subscriptions and other material available in hundreds of major libraries in the U.S. and abroad. UW only.
Finding Articles: Indexes
Use indexes to find articles (and sometimes books, dissertations, etc.) on a topic. Most indexes are arranged by subject or include a subject index. There are indexes covering all sorts of subjects, use those which best fit your research topic. Additional electronic indexes for specific disciplines can be found on the Information Gateway, Find It By Subject or you can browse the alphabetical list of databases.Once you identify articles you need make sure you have the complete citation (author, title, journal name, volume, pages and year), then look in the UW Libraries Catalog for the journal name (do a title search for the journal name to see if the UW subscribes) to see if and where the journal is kept (library location and call number).
Articles from journals which the UW does not own can be requested through the Interlibrary Borrowing Service.
- Expanded Academic Index
- Index to approximately 1500 journals and magazines in all disciplines. Includes some full-text articles. UW Only.
- Historical Abstracts
- Index to articles dealing with world history (excluding the U.S. and Canada. UW Only.
- PAIS International
- Covers social and public policy literature from over 1,400 periodicals and thousands of government documents, books, and other sources from 1972 onward. Early years, dating back to 1915, available in print in Suzzallo Reference. UW Only.
- Research Library
- Index to articles in all fields, full-text articles available for selected journals and magazines. From the menu, choose Research Library Complete. UW Only.
- Social Sciences Citation Index
- Index to articles in all fields of social science. Part of the Web of Science, from the search screen, choose Social Sciences Citation Index. UW Only.
News Sources
- Academic (Lexis-Nexis) UNIVerse
- Full text database of news, legal and business information. Sources include major U.S. and international English-language papers, magazines, wire services, transcripts and law reviews. UW Only.
- Official Index to the Times, 1906-1980
- Index to the Times of London, also available in print in Suzzallo Reference. Earlier index, Palmer's Index to The Times, 1790-1905, available on CD-ROM within the library. Post 1980 Times coverage is available through Lexis Nexis. UW Only.
- National Newspapers
- Index with full text dating from 1995 of 9 major U.S. newspapers including the Wall Street Journal. From the menu, choose National Newspapers. UW Only.
- World News Connection
- International news coverage, translations of newspaper articles, broadcast reports, etc. Coverage begins in 1994, succeeds Foreign Broadcast Information Service. If this source isn't working try Global NewsBank.UW Only.
Government Sources and Sites
The Government Publications division is located in the basement of Suzzallo Library. The division has collections for local, state, federal and international organizations plus some foreign material. The division is the best place in the libraries to find help in locating and using government publications.The resources listed here are just some of web sites and research tools useful for locating government publications. A good site for locating governmental web sites is the University of Michigan's Government Resources on the Web.
Federal
- Congressional Universe
Full text congressional publications including hearings and reports. UW Only.
- MarciveWeb Docs
Catalog to U.S. government documents published since July 1976. Much of the material cited is available in the Government Publications Division. UW Only.
- U.S. State Department
Department's site includes policy and regional reports such as Erasing History: Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo and Ethnic Cleansing in Kosovo: An AccountingInternational
- Access UN
Index to UN publications from 1991 to the present. Includes links to documents available on the web. UW Only.
- Europa
Homepage of the European Union.
- NATO
The NATO site includes reports, press releases, transcripts of speeches and other material. There are also links to the KFOR (NATO Kosovo Force) and SFOR (Stabilisation Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina) sites.
- UNESDOC
Index to full-text documents produced by UNESCO. See also UNESBIB, a bibliography of UNESCO documents (no full-text).
- United Nations
Homepage of the UN with links to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia and the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights.