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Globalization: A Research Guide to Resources in the Princeton University Library
Policy decisions driven by the economic and societal forces of globalization have the potential to shape and change the lives of every citizen, visitor, and business in any country in the world today. The scholarly literature in political science documents the ways in which globalization and politics interact and each form the other in significant ways. As well, the study of poliical culture in a particular country or region is critical to accurately access the function and effects of globalization. 1. Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, subscription database. Worldwide Political Science Abstracts is one of the pair, (the other being International Political Science Abstracts described just below), of the most useful and comprehensive indexes in the field of Politics, covering the world's literature in Politics and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied. Worldwide Political Science Abstracts is commercially produced, and provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. Worldwide Political Science Abstracts indexes over 1200 journals, in 30 languages from some 55 countries. Search Examples (counts taken in August 2003):
2. International Political Science Abstracts, subscription database. International Political Science Abstracts is the other comprehensive index in the field of Politics. Please keep in mind that this is a bibliographic database only - you have to go to the SFX link or manually to the Online Catalog to find the articles. Great strength is the coverage of a wide range periodicals published throughout the world. Abstracts summarize the articles. Articles in English are abstracted in English; those in other languages are abstracted in French, with all titles translated into English. Note that the abstract of articles must be requested on the search screen by clicking on the FULL RECORD button. Search Examples (counts taken in August 2003):
Political attitudes and values along with belief systems and institutions serve to influence political culture in a variety of ways that vary within states and between states. To research such topics, an understanding of national and subnational histories is essential. For many countries survey data is extremely limited; rather one must rely upon other documentation such as that created by social movements, political parties, ethnic organizations, women's groups, and indigenous peoples. Princeton University Library holds materials of this type for many parts of the world. For assistance to bibliographically identify such documentation, and to understand conceptually what is involved with conducting research on specific parts of the world, subject specialists are available: Africa: Nancy Pressman pressman@princeton.edu Latin America: Fernando Acosta-Rodriguez, facosta@princeton.edu Near East and North Africa: James Weinberger jwwein@princeton.edu Russia and Eastern Europe: Nina Shapiro nshapiro@princeton.edu China, Japan, Korea and other East Asian Countries Staff of the East Asian Library |
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