This guide is designed to delineate a pathway and in many cases to provide a direct portal to the broad and rich palette of resources available at Princeton University for the study of Globalization.  In addition to the indexes and full text sources listed here, please remember that Princeton has a number of specialists on the staff of the University Library who will help with individual research questions and projects, whether for a short paper, a longer term assignment, a junior paper, independent work, a senior thesis, or advanced research at the graduate or faculty level.  Contact librarians in the Social Science Reference Center and the Trustee Reading Room for help and information.  Specialists include those for Politics, Economics, Law, United Nations and other international bodies, and Area Studies for particular regions of the world.

Bibliographic databases listed here are available through the Library Home Page on any computer on the Princeton University campus network or remotely, from anywhere in the world for Princeton patrons with access to the Internet, via the Library Proxy Server.    Paper indexes are usually found in the reference section of the Trustee Reading Room on the First Floor, or in the Social Science Reference Center (SSRC) on A Floor of Firestone Library; inquire at the desk for exact location.  Coverage dates given here refer to the date of publication of the article or book, not the time period being studied. 

In the 2005 -2006 academic year, Princeton University Library holds some three million bound volumes in paper format, with two million of them in Firestone Library.  Most books are still only in paper.  Even so, on the Library Web Page will be found links to Princeton's subscriptions to an increasing number of full text electronic book services, now numbering in the thousands.  These include as Ebrary, Gutenberg-e, and Safari Tech Books Online.   Princeton adds about 65,000 new book volumes each year, and subscribes to some 35,000 serial titles.  Only about 6,000 of these serials have some part in electronic format, often only the most recent few years.  Although electronic indexes are very important and electronic journals are both convenient and important, using materials in paper format is still important in the study of Globalization. 

A word of warning.  Increasingly, there is full text included in the various databases listed below.  Therefore if you search broadly, for example, using only the term Globalization, you can be buried in thousands of hits.  Note the examples given here; and use the search strengths of the database to narrow the search to what is actually useful.  In many cases, however, there is not full text, and you will need in a separate step to look up the location of the journal article or book, even if the journal article is in electronic format. For books, and for a number of important journal articles, there is a third step of finding the actual journal or book in paper format on the shelves of Firestone Library or in a departmental library.  Use the Call Number Listings and Library Maps posted on each floor to find Firestone materials, and ask the staff for help in departmental libraries such as the Fine Hall Library or the Psychology Library in Green Hall

As a final preliminary note, please remember that even with the tremendous range of sources available at Princeton, some  important materials may not be found here.  In that case, the Interlibrary Loan department of the University Library and the special services Borrow Direct and for faculty Articles Express will borrow a book or get a photocopy of an article from another library for any Princeton faculty, student or staff member without charge.  See the Interlibrary Loan section of the library web page.