• Duncan Alford, Law Librarian and European Union Specialist, Office: A-16-J Firestone Library, Social Science Reference Center, dalford@princeton.edu
• Susan White, United Nations and Sociology Librarian,  Office:  A-14-J Firestone Library, Social Science Reference Center, sbwhite@princeton.edu

• (DR) books are found in the Trustee Reading Room on the First Floor of Firestone Library.
• (UN) Collection, SSRC, and SF materials will be found in the Social Science Reference Center on A Floor of Firestone Library.
• (SPIA) materials are found in the Stokes Library on the lower level of Wallace Hall.
• Firestone books not in special collections will be found on various floors according to the floor plan listings.
• Databases will be found on the library homepage under Article Indexes and Research Databases.

Technical Note:  When you use more than one database which runs on the SILVERPLATTER framework, you must close and reopen your web browser before using another Silver Platter database; otherwise the previous index will "hang" open.  However, you can open several Silver Platter databases at once by "Choosing Files". International Political Science Abstracts, PAIS, and International Bibliography of the Social Sciences are SilverPlatter Databases.

Yearbook of International Organizations. Munich: K.G. Saur. Published since 1905. 
Current Volume (DR) JX1904.A42 

Statesman's Year-book. New York, N.Y. : St. Martin's Press.  Published since 1876.
Current volume (DR): JA51 .S7 

Political Handbook of the World.  New York, N.Y.: CSA Publications.  Published since 1927.
Current volume (SSRC Ready Reference) JF37 .P6 

Encyclopedia of Government and Politics. London: Routledge, 1992. 
Social Science Reference Center (SF) JA61.C66 1991 

Europa World Yearbook. London: Europa Publications. Published since 1926. 
Current Volume (DR) JN1.E85 
Electronic version (current edition only)

Yearbook of the United Nations.  Lake Success, N.Y. : Dept. of Public Information, United Nations.  Published annually since 1947.
(UN) Collection Reference - Entire set in book format and also CD-ROM in pdf files 
Firestone Library JX1977.A37 Y4  Current Volume (DR) and Stokes Library (SPIA) Reference

Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Relations. 3rd edition. New York : Routledge, 2003 
Multivolume edition.
UN Collection KZ4968 .O84 2003 and also in Stokes Library (SPIA) Reference 

Encyclopedia of the European Union, Boulder, CO: Lynne Reinner, 1998. 
Social Science Reference Center (SSRC)  JN30 .E52 1998 

International Political Science Abstracts  1989 +;  one of the major indexes of articles from political science journals; produced by the International Political Science Association; covers 800+ journals.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts  1975 +; indexes international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration; covers 1200 + serials.

Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS)  1981 +; based on the social science holdings of the New York Public Library, includes journal articles, books, reports, government documents, working papers, an unusually broad range of materials.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)  1951+; an index of international publications (including over 2600 journals) covering a broad range of the social sciences, especially useful in research into politics and governance; compiled in the library of the London School of Economics & Political Science.

AccessUN  1945+  A comprehensive, commercial index of official United Nations documents. A good starting point for comprehensive UN research.

UN Bibliographic Index System (UNBISnet) 1985+ Catalogue of UN documents and publications maintained by UN libraries in New York and Geneva; includes non-UN publications held in the UN library in New York.

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals  1985+  Index of articles from selected foreign law journals and U.S. law reviews focusing on international law.

LexisNexis Academic / Legal Research  The law component of this comprehensive news and information database includes the full text of  U.S. law and selected international and European Union laws.

Sport Discus  Index of articles, dissertations and books on all aspects of sport, including sports medicine, psychology and history.  Covers over 2000 journals.

UN ODS  1992 +  United Nations working documents full-text.

United Nations Collection at Princeton University 
http://www.princeton.edu/~sbwhite/un/generalun.html

European Union Documents Research Guide
http://www.princeton.edu/~ssrc/eurefgdpu.html

International Governmental Organizations  from Northwestern University.
http://www.library.northwestern.edu/govpub/resource/internat/igo.html

EISIL – Electronic Information System for International Law, from the American Society of International Law
http://www.eisil.org/