Information Services

Books & Media
Search the Library Catalog to find books, video's, government publications and journal titles. The catalog can be searched by author, title, keyword or subject and contains the holdings of Connecticut College as well as Trinity College and Wesleyan University. To search for books and media outside of the local catalog, use WorldCat.

At the Reference Desk
 

Reference Collection: LC Classification
 

AE	Encyclopedias and Encyclopedia Yearbooks (Half of Britannica Yearbook devoted to country-by-country surveys)   BritannicaOnline accessible through Library Home Page.
D	Facts on File, Keesings Record of World Events (Looseleaf monthly news updates; worldwide coverage; cumulative indexes.)
D-F	LC's classification for Area Studies: DA-U.K., DK-Slavic Studies, DS-Middle East and Asian Studies, DT-African Studies, F 1400-Latin American Studies.
G	Encyclopedia of the Third World, Environmental Profiles, Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations.
HA	LC's classification for statistical compilations: UN Demographic Yearbook; UN Statistical Yearbook; International Historical Statistics; Statistical Abstract of the World.
HC	World Development Report, Human Development Report, and other economic yearbooks.
JA	Statesman's Yearbook, International Political Science Abstracts (International, comprehensive coverage of the journal literature in political science).
JC	Human Rights material, including Amnesty International Reports.
JF	Political Handbook of the World (Country-by-country survey) Oxford Companion to Politics of the World
JN	Europa World Year Book (country-by-country coverage: includes annual overview, statistics,and directory information)
JX	Coverage of international government, including United Nations.
Z 2000-5000	LC's classification for bibliography; includes ABC-Clio's individual bibliographies for many countries throughout the world. This area will take you to many other sources.

U.S.Documents:
    Documents Reference/Online Resources

D	Country Survey Series: excellent overviews of individual countries; chapters on history, economy, politics, and foreign relations of each country covered; extensive chapter bibliographies at end; note dates of publication for currency.
PrEx	CIA World Fact Book
S	State Department --Background Notes (looseleaf compilation of fairly current basic information)

NOTE: Many government resources, including the above, are also available on the WWW.   See CC-Docs International Links.

Congressional Hearings
Y4's on lower level. Listed in online catalog, and indexed and abstracted in CIS Index in DOCS REF and on the  LexisNexis Congressional Home Page.

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Statistical Information
Resources for obtaining statistical information may be found on the Finding Statistical Information page.

Style Manuals
A collection of style manuals and writing guides are kept on the shelf behind the reference desk. Information is also available from the Citation Guides for Print and Electronic Resources page.

Citing Government Information Resources
REF DESK Z7164 G7 G37 2002

Databases & Indexes
A full listing of all scholarly databases is available grouped by subject or listed alphabetically.

EconLit 
Indexes and abstracts more than 550 international economic journals. Source material includes journal articles, essays, research papers, books, dissertations, book reviews, and working papers. Contains more than 350,000 records and covers subjects from accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labor, marketing, demographics, modeling, economic theory, planning, and more. Years of coverage are 1969-present.

Expanded Academic Index
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Coverage is 1980 forward.

Historical Abstracts
An index to journal articles, book and video reviews, and dissertations covering world history from 1450 to the present. Historical Abstracts does not cover the United States and Canada, that is covered in America: History and Life.

International Political Science Abstracts
Produced since 1951 by the International Political Science Association, IPSA is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. Coverage is 1989 forward.

Lexis-Nexis 
Provides full-text documents from over 5,900 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications. See the User Guide for more information on searching in Lexis-Nexis.

PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service via FirstSearch)
Covers global public policy and social issues. Coverage is 1972-present.

Social Science Abstracts (via WilsonWeb) 
An index to articles in scholarly journals in the social sciences, covering publications from 1984 to the present. Provides broad coverage in the social sciences including anthropology, area studies, community health and medical care, economics, family studies, minority studies, planning and public administration, policy sciences, psychology, social work and public welfare, sociology, urban studies, women's studies, and related subjects.

Internet Resources
Thomas (U.S. Congress) 
(URL: http://thomas.loc.gov) 

FedWorld
(URL: http://www.fedworld.gov/) 

FindLaw (Internet legal resources) 
(URL: http://www.findlaw.com/) 

WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs 
(URL: http://www.etown.edu/vl/) 

Government Documents: Online Resources
(URL: http://www.conncoll.edu/is/info-resources/govt-docs/) 

e-Journals
A complete listing of full text electronic journals is located on the Library homepage under the Journal Locator link.

Assistance
For assistance in locating or using these or other sources, please contact the Reference Desk or schedule an appointment for a Personalized Research Session.

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