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Globalization Background
In the Service of All Nations
Increasingly throughout the twentieth century, Princeton University expanded its focus to include a global perspective. At its 250th Anniversary in 1996, the University' extended the phrase "Princeton in the Nation's Service" used by Woodrow Wilson at the 150th Anniversary a century earlier. At the dawn of the 21st century, it continues "... And in the Service of All Nations." Translating that high ideal into a matrix of information sources is a daunting task, but one that the Princeton University Library meets in an exemplary way. Today's library collections and resources support the international and multinational components of the education, scholarship, and service which are in statement and in fact the strong foundation of the University's mission. This guide will identify some of those resources.
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. Globalization Background The Study of Globalization 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. Many of the resources listed here are licensed for Princeton's academic use and are not available outside our campus community. However, the International Networks Archive, a project of Princeton's Sociology Department, presents a wide range of resources through a topical organization, and is freely available on the open Internet at http://www.princeton.edu/~ina. It is also important to remember that Princeton has a number of specialists on the staff of the University Library who will provide expert 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. In 2009, Princeton University Library holds more than five 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, Books24x7, 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 note on spelling and languages: It is always worthwhile to use both Globalization and Globalisation when searching for material on this topic. There is NOT consistency of spelling for this term, although European references most often use the "s" spelling. A further note on languages. Iimportant material for the study of globalization is found in languages other than English In an index subject terms will most often be given in English. However, it is necessary to use correct spelling for searching in full text keyword. Globalization is the form used in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and Italian. British usage is often Globalisation. It is rendered Globalisierung in German and Globalisation in French. 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. How to Use This Guide The Globalized world is a wild and wooley place, especially in terms of information resources. On the open Internet, almost everything found about globalization has a real attitude. Globalization is often seen in technicolor terms as the villian of the world village. Or, promising great salvation. A more reasoned view is found in the careful and often scholarly resources available through the library's subscription services and in the paper and electronic text and data collections. 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 VPN Connection or Library Proxy Server r. 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. 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; use the search strengths of the database to narrow the search to what is actually useful. Sometimes, 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. I. Getting Started on Globalization Research 1. Main Catalog of Princeton University Library. The Main Catalog, found at the top of the Library homepage, is the central and arguable the most essential tool among all those offered by Princeton University Library. It provides the link between a particular known item, or material on an idea or topic, and Princeton's ownership or access to that material. For those resources in this guide which do not include full text, the Main Catalog provides Princeton's access to the individual book or journal articles which will be identified in the specialized indexes listed below. When you have an exact title of a book or a journal, an author's name which should be entered last name, first name, or a call number, the first search screen works well and intuitively. The subject search on the first page is for the exact and formal Library of Congress term. Plain language often doesn't work here. But to find a book or overall journal which is about a particular topic, you can enter words in everyday terms on the GUIDED search screen. Be sure to mark "as a phrase" where that is what you mean. When you locate books and journals on a topic using everyday language, you can then click LONG view, and see what the formal Library of Congress terms are for your topic. Double clicking on those terms will bring up other books Princeton holds on this subject. Also, these formal Library of Congress Subject terms can be used in the WorldCat shared catalog of hundreds of libraries. When you are doing extensive research, materials you identify in this way can be requested through Princeton's Interlibrary Loan service. Recent Examples:
Getting Started on Globalization 3. Traditional Library Tools The Main Catalog of books, journals and other formats which is found at the top of this list is a powerful tool for political research. Other tools found on the library homepage include the Supplementary Catalog of older materials at Princeton, which is quite useful. Much, but not all of its content is also found in the Main Catalog. As well, in the Databases and Reference Tools, WorldCat is a union catgalog of materials held at many thousands of libraries, including both scholarly and more popular sites. For more information see the note on Interlibrary Loan at the top of this Guide. Getting Started on Globalization 4. Collection and Subject Home Pages at Princeton. Home Pages, which are guides both to the fields and to Princeton's holdings, are found among the Collections and Libraries sections on the Library Home Page. Great strength will be found in both area studies covering various regions of the world, and on subject collections focusing on areas of interest in sociology. The following pages should be especially noted:
III. Globalization By Area 5. African Studies 5.A. Africa-Wide: NiPAD , subscription database, is a powerful database providing indexing and some full text for recent items for multidisciplinary materials on Africa from the 19th Century to the present. It is drawn from sixteen different databases created in Africa, Europe and the U.S. and contains more than 750,000 index references. Some have full text and many include abstracts. Materials include books, news items, interviews, periodical articles, pamphlets, maps and musical recordings. Subjects include politics, history, economics, business, mining, development, social issues, anthropology, literature, language, law, and music. Africa-Wide NiPAD is published by: National Inquiry Services Centre in Grahamstown, South Africa, and is based on the collections of a major research libraries on Africa studeis, including a numer in South Africa and in other countries in Africa and elsewhere in the world, including the School of Oriental and African Studies in London, the University of California at Los Angeles; and the Nordic Africa Institute in Uppsala. The breadth of coverage can be overwhelming in African Studies. On a technical note, i t is important to use the buttons on the screens to navigate rather than back buttons on browsers. It is also helpful to work with the search screens to understand the functionality of this remarkable family of databases. For example, after entering Globalization as a search, clicking the Index button brings up a complex subject structure, where one finds that under Globalization's Economic Aspects, there are three records that deal with the very specific topic of Kwazulu Natal. Search Examples as of September 2006
East Asia, including China, Japan, Korea and Vietnam: 6. East Asian Library of Princeton University. The East Asian Library of Princeton University holds journals, books, and other publications, including electronic databases and statistical yearbooks, which are useful in the study of Globalization in the East Asian region and from the perspective of scholars working there. The large majority of these publications from and about China, and Japan, are in Chinese and Japanese; Korea is covered but less well represented. East Asian Library publications published before 1984 are not well represented in the central Online Catalog of the University Library. It is important to use the special catalogs and other guides and resources of the East Asian Library to locate these materials. Contact the library in person or by email for help with your research on this part of the world. 7. Index Islamicus, subscription database. Created at Cambridge University in the U.K., Index Islamicus indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Records included in the database cover almost a century of publications, with some going back to 1906. Index Islamicus includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about the other main Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere. Over 2,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works and book reviews. Journals and books are indexed down to the article and chapter level. Subjects covered incude accounting, archaeology, arts bibliography & scholarship, economics, education, middle east, geography, history, Islam, law, literature, natural & applied sciences, philosophy, politics, religion, social sciences, theology, travel, and zoology. Coverage is from 1906 to the present. Please note that since this is an index and not a full text source, once materials have been identified in the here, it will be necessary in a separate step to search the library's Online Catalog to see if they are held at Princeton. Those which this library does not own can be requested through Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery services. Recent Search Examples.
Latin America: 8. Handbook of Latin American Studies The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest and most prestigious area studies bibliography in the world and is an essential tool for the study of globalization. Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the Handbook indexes approximately 5000 multidisciplinary works selected and annotated each year by some 130 scholars from around the world, dealing with Latin America in the broadest terms The content alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. The electronic version is complete from the beginning of publication in 1936 up until the present Paper volumes are also available here at Princeton, and can be requested from the AnnexA storage library at any campus circulation desk. The Handbook online can be searched in English, Spanish or Portugese. The number of items to be returned on a search has a default value of 100, but larger numbers can be set. Please note that since this is an index and not a full text source, once materials have been identified in the Handbook, it will be necessary in a separate step to search the library's Online Catalog to see if they are held at Princeton. Those which this library does not own can be requested through Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery services. Recent Search Examples:
9. Latin American Periodicals Tables of Contents subscription database. The study of Globalization in Latin America is greatly enhanced through the access provided by the Latin American Periodical Tables of Contents, LAPTOC, database. This database provides a voice for the perspective of both citizens and civil society in Latin America, key to accessing the documentation of the democratic dialog intrinsic in the Globalized world. LAPTOC is especially important since it is the only bibliographic access to some 800 "alternative" periodicals, most in the humanities and social sciences, published in Latin America. The cooperative nature of the project which creates and maintains this database is evidence of the best aspect of globalization at work among libraries. Participating libraries acquire each issue of the journal for which they are responsible. Princeton University Library, for example, is responsible for some nine journals. The library enters the tables of contents into the database in a timely fashion. They also provide copies of articles from those journals on request to other libraries in the consortium through the Interlibrary Loan system. Lists of the journals included are found on the database search page under the country of publication: Argentina, Bahamas, Barbados, Belize, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Honduras, Jamaica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Puerto Rico, St. Kitts & Nevis, St. Lucia, Trinidad & Tobago, Uruguay, and Venezuela. Articles found in LAPTOC will most often not be found in Princeton's Online Catalog, although it should be searched since some will be found there. However, all articles not found in Princeton's Online Catalog can be readily acquired through the Interlibrary Loan office. This is enabled by the scheme under with the LAPTOC project operates, as outlined above. Recent Search Examples
Latin America: 10. HAPI, The Hispanic American Periodicals Index, subscription database. The Hispanic American Periodicals Index, HAPI, indexes journal articles, book reviews, documents, books and other materials about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. HAPI has been the standard in its field since 1970. Covers some 400 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. Provides analyses of current political, economic, and social issues and gives a unique coverage of Latin American arts and letters. Subjects include politics and government, public administration, foreign relations, commerce and trade, banking and finance, business and industry, economic development and policy issues, economic integration, social movements, indigenous affairs, gender studies, environmental issues, drug trade, history, geography, archaeology, anthropology, ethnography, folklore, religion, art, literature, drama and film. Languages include English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, and Italian. To locate articles found in a HAPI search, it is necesary in a separate step to search Princeton's Online Catalog. Recent Search Examples
Latin America: 11. Chicano Database, subscription database. The Chicano Database is a comprehensive iindex of scholarly articles, book chapters, and other materials dealing with ethnic populations in the U.S. from throughout Latin America. Its cross-border identity makes it a key tool in the study of globalization in the region. This is especially true since its coverage goes far beyond Mexico from which it derives its name. In addition to Mexico, there is strong coverage for ethnic poulations from Puerto Rico, Cuba, Dominican Republic, and other countries in Latin American from 1992 to date. In addition, broad coverage for Mexican origin populations goes back to the early 1960s, with selective references from the early 1900s. The Chicano Database also includes the Spanish Speaking Mental Health Database, covering psychological, sociological, and educational literature. Please note that as shown in the search examples, the terms globalization and globalisation are not used in this database. Global finds some materials, but since the database itself is based on a transnational connection, more specific terms such as international, border and NAFTA for the North American Free Trade Agreement produce the best results Recent Search Examples.
12. American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies, subscription database. The Slavic world has shifted and changed in profound ways through various manifestations of globalization since at least the time of the Czar called Peter the Great. At the turn of the eighteenth century, his reign is often termed the beginning of the modern time in Russia. Today Russan and other Slavic and East European countries continue to engage in full-country experiments with various economic, political and social systems, often within a global framework, and offering a key perspective on globalization in the broader context. There is a substantial body of important publications on East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union which is produced in the United States and Canada. The American Bibliograpy of Slavic and East European Studies provides a thorough index to this material. The University of Illinois at Urbana-Chamapign hosts this index which is produced under the auspices of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies. Beginning with 1990 and coming to the present, this database indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, online resources, and selected government publications published in North America. Subjects covered include anthropology, ethnology, archaeology; culture and the arts; economics, foreign trade; education and scholarship; geography, demography; government, law, politics; history; international relations; language and linguistics; literature; military affairs; philosophy, political theory and ideology; psychology; religion; science and technology; sociology; and women's studies. Database contains some 54,330 records in July, 2003 Please note that since this is an index and not a full text source, once materials have been identified here, it will be necessary in a separate step to search the library's Online Catalog to see if they are held at Princeton. Those which this library does not own can be requested through Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery services. Recent Search Examples.
13. Online Resources for Slavic Languages and Literatures - from the University of Alberta. A marvelous gathering of numerous resources in national languages and from slavic culture which can strengthen work on globalization in this region of the world. Increasingly in Sociology - especially in relation to languages, and also in national and regional Economics and Politics, working at the national or even sub-national level is very useful, Doing so can provide a granualarity that at least enriches, and in some cases, enables, research in various aspects of globalization. The tides of globalization from a broad Eastern European perspective can be studied through resources available online from this site. Note especially links to encyclopedias, dictionaries and sites exploring culture.. Slavic World: 14. Universal Database of Russian Publications, Eastview subscription database. The Universal Database of Russian Publications, sometimes called Eastview from the project which produces it, provides access to a broad range of current Russian / NIS publications in both English and the vernacular. It is a powerful tool for gaining the perspective of the Slavic world on Globalization.. There is a substantial body of English language materials found here, and the database can be searched in the both English and the vernacular. Database includes Central Russian newspapers, Regional Russian newspapers, Commonwealth of Independent States & Baltic publications, social sciences & humanities journals, Russian Governmental publications, Russian military & security periodicals, and Russian/NIS newswires. Materials are largely from the last three to five years. Recent Search Examples:
15. Ethnic Studies: Ethnic Newswatch, subscription database. Ethnic Newswatch is a full text database of many ethnic publications in the U.S. covering 1960 to date. Most of these publications will not be found anywhere else. The entire database is focused on ethnic issues. Note that Advanced Searching requires a two step process as shown in the last two examples below. Search Examples:.
World Christian Database provides counts not only of religiious affiliation for most of the world's populations, but also reports on ethniticity of all populations. Produced by a Christian group using sound and careful methodology, the counts here cover all peoples, all religions, and also provides a county of ethnicity not otherwise found in any other source, since many of these counts are bazsed on field work done by the producers. IV. Topics in Globalization In General: 16. International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, subscription database. International Bibliography of the Social Sciences is compiled in the library of the London School of Economics & Political Science. It is based on an international selection of publications (including over 2600 journals) and covers a broad range of the Social Sciences, especially useful in research into politics and governance, in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology About 30 percent of the records are for materials languages other than English, and more than 100 countries and 70 languages are covered. This database provides citations of journals, books, book reviews, and chapters when multiple authors have worked on a book. Note that the abstract of articles must be requested on the search screen by clicking on the FULL RECORD button. Once articles are found to be of interest, it is necessary to click on the SFX button or search by hand in the Online Catalog to find where the material can be found at Princeton. In some cases, it will be necessary to go to the book stacks in Firestone, or for materials not held here, to request the wanted materials through Princeton's Interlibrary Loan service. Recent Search Examples:
In General: 17. Social Sciences Citation Index , subscription database. The Social Sciences Citation Index is an index with sweeping coverage of the scholarly journal literature and some few books in the social sciences It is a multidisciplinary database where half of the entries from 1991 forward include abstracts. It has great strength as an author and title index, and for tracing the use of key books and journals in later scholarly research . SSCI indexes 1,700 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected relevant items from an additional 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Some 2,800 new articles and 50,000 new cited references are added each week.. SSCI and its companion publications Science Citation Index and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index will be found bundled under the umbrella title Web of Science on the library homepage as will as under its own title. The great strength of the Social Sciences Citation Index is that it indexes an extremely broad range of articles and books, especially useful in the fstudy of Globalization. Footnotes and bibliographical references are also given for all of them so relationships among publications can be more easily traced forward in time. Please be mindful that the titles of journal articles in the cited footnotes and bibliographies are NOT given anywhere in the database or the paper form. Also, authors given names are entered as initials only, and are not consistent for any individual person. That is, one article or book may be referenced by the last name only, another by the same author may have one initial, while a third may be entered with two or even three initials. To be more complete, each possible form must be checked. Some of the disciplines covered include: anthropology, economics, history, industrial relations, information science, law, linguistics, philosophy, political science , psychiatry, psychology, public health , social issues , social work , sociology, substance abuse, urban studies, and women's studies. Recent Search Examples:
In General: 18. PAIS, subscription database. PAIS, the Public Affairs Information Service, is an essential and highly selective index in the study of public policy and governance and indeed in all the social sciences, covering the broadest range of materials and social issues. It is based on social science holdings of New York Public Library. It includes journal articles, books, reports, government documents, working papers, an unusually broad range of materials. Although not as many hits will be found here on any given subject as in many other indexes, ones found here are almost always important ones, key to solid coverage of topics in Politics. Database begins in 1981 to date, and paper in 1915. In General: 19. JSTOR, the Journal Storage Project, subscription database. JSTOR, the electronic journal archive project of the Mellon Foundation, is an especially useful source of scholarly articles on Globalization. Its highly selective nature yields results from journals that matter. JSTOR can be accessed on the Library Home Page under Digital Collections, then Journals, then Project. Choose any JSTOR journal, and then click on " search or browse other journals in JSTOR". JSTOR holds only a few hundred journal titles, but its great strength is in both the essential nature of the journals included and in its unique ability to provide those journals in electronic full text from the beginning of publication, sometimes for a hundred years or more, to a "rolling wall" of the last two to three years. Journal subject groups in JSTOR include: Business, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, Geography, History, Political Science, Population Studies, and Sociology. Journals in ethnic and area studies include African American Studies, African Studies, Asian Studies, Latin American Studies, Middle East Studies, and Slavic Studies. In General: 20. Journals: Commerical Aggregate Sources, subscription databases.
21. Newspapers: Aggregate Sources, subscription databases. Lexis Academic, Factiva, ProQuest Research Library, and ProQuest Historic Newspapers are databases each of which provide access to the full text of hundreds of newspapers, in additioin to journals. Although Princeton's cataloging services are moving as quickly as possible to add all the individual titles in these services to the Main Catalog, that process will take some time, and the contents of these aggregate sources change constantly. Therefore, it is useful to check these services when the full text of a newspaper or journal is wanted. Some publications are found in several of these sources, such as the Economist of London, while coverage of others is unique to particular databases. For instance, Princeton holds microfilm for the entire run of the following three newspapers. However, electronic access to the New York Times, to the Wall Street Journal, and to the historic Washington Post is available only in the following ways. The electronic coverage of newspapers is NOT always shown in the Online Catalog; check the Databases for a more complete listing.
Other electronic full text historic newspaper runs, list at HISTORIC NEWSPAPERS, iinclude: Chicago Tribune (1849 - 1986) . When a picture or chart is needed from the "text only" sources above, microfilm copies of the entire New York Tiomes and Wall Street Journal, as they were printed, are available in the Microforms Library on C Level of Firestone Library. Until the film is received, usually six weeks or so from date of publication, paper copies are kept in the Social Science Reference Center and at several other campus locations Data: 22. Data for the Study of Globalization The Data and Statistical Services unit within the Social Science Reference Center provides extensive files of data already held here at Princeton. Data may also be acquired from any source in the world for Princeton faculty and students. Princeton's Data Reference Librarian, on the staff of the Social Science Reference Center, can help identify what is needed. Two statistical consultants who support statistical analysis, interpretation, and presentation are also on staff in SSRC. Comparative country data is often useful in studying globalization. Electronic sources of special note for such data are the World Development Indicators database from the World Bank, the Economist Intelligence Unit's EIU Country Report and Profiles and EIU Country Data, UNData - formerly called the UN Common Database, of the UN Statistical Office, and the extensive statistic series available from the OECD's SourceOECD database. Broad and detailed trade data is available from the UN's ComTrade Database. In addition, extensive sources for country and other data relevant to globalization in both electronic and paper formats are found in the Pliny Fisk Library of Economics and Finance in the Social Science Reference Center of Firestone Library. These are in addition to the more widely available economics sources found on the library homepage which are listed in this guide. For economic and financial issues related to globalization, advanced reference assistance is available from the Economics Librarian.. While most data sources useful for the study of globalization focus on a particular aspect of economic or social conditions, OECD Measuring Globalisation Statistics specializes in covering globalization. T.his OECD database provides a unique set of detailed statistical data for assessing and analyzing the role played by multinationals in the industrial sectors of 16 OECD countries. In an era of globalization, these data highlight the increasing importance of multinationals in the economies of host countries, particularly in production, employment, value added, research and exports Dissertations: 23. Dissertation Abstracts, subscription database. Dissertation Abstracts is a definitive subject, title, and author index to virtually every American dissertation accepted at an accredited institution since 1861. Selected Masters theses have been included since 1962. Beginning with 1988, dissertations from 50 British universities and Worldwide Dissertations (formerly European Dissertations), are included. Since 1997 full text is available in .pdf format for Princeton theses; for other schools full text of dissertations can be ordered through the Interlibrary Loan button on the Library homepage. Allow extra time for dissertations to come through this process.. Documents: 24. U.S. Government Documents The United States Government Documents Collections at Princeton are especially strong and provide much useful primary documentation for the study of Globalization. Some of the highlights of documents available here include the following. See the U.S. Documents Collection homepage for more detail. Back to Top Documents: 25. United Nations Documents The United Nations Collection in the Princeton University Library provides broad and thorough coverageof the work of both the United Nations and its precedesor agencies including the League of Nations. See the UN Collection homepage for details and access. The World Trade Organization, an external agency of the United Nations, has been the focus of much intense debate and acts of civil disobedience concerning Globalization. For many years Princeton was a Depository Library for GATT, the forerunner of WTO. Much primary documentation from these agencies is available here at Princeton. Talk to the UN Documents Librarian in the Social Science Reference Center on A Floor of Firestone Libary for help with this material. Back to Top Documents: 26. European Union Documents The creation and functioning of the European Union is arguably the most ambitious experiement in globalization ever undertaken From its rather timid beginning with the establishment of the European Coal and Steel Community in 1951, treaty by treaty, the various stages have moved over the last fifty years to a Europe whose borders are becoming increasingly transparent, in many different ways. The Coal and Steel Community treaty provided the first multinational legal foundation for integrating several national economies through establishing common rules for managing the European core industries of coal and steel The treaty established rules which were implemented by an innovative decision-making structure that was the forerunner of today's European Union. The Treaty of European Union in 1993 formally created the modern structure in place today. Princeton University Library is a depository collection for the publications of the European Union. Contact the Politics Librarian in the Social Science Reference Center on A Floor of Firestone Libary for help with this material. Back to Top Documents: 27. Declassified Documents. Government documents which were restricted in their original distribution through being classified as Secret, Confidential, or Restricted are often especially useful for looking at the roots of globalization, once they have become declassified. Several access points are available at Princeton to locate such materials. Economics: 28. Econlit, subscription database. Econlit indexes and provides many full text links to the worldwide scholarly literature in economics and finance. Covers some 600 major economics journals and another 600 collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.). Adds each year about 2,000 books, 900 dissertations, 2,000 working papers, and numerous book reviews. . It is produced by the American Economics Association, and is ground-zero for references to serious debate and exploration of the concept and ramifications of globalization. It provides comprehensive information on accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics, and spcialized areas such as the economics of agriculture, health systems, indurtrial sectors, and entitlement programs such as welfare. Mostly in English, but includes substantial numbers of entries in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and some others. Recent Search Examples:
Economics / Business: 29. ABI Inform, subscription database. ABI Inform provides indexing and much full text for a large base of business journals. It focuses on business conditions, trends, management techniques, corporate strategies, and industry-specific topics on a worldwide basis. Recent Search Examples:
Economics: 30. German National Library of Economic. The German National Library of Economics is also the library of the Kiel Institute for World Economics and the World's largest library for economic literature It contains 2.6 million volumes in 46 kilometers - 26.5 miles, of shelving. Forty-thousand volumes are added each year, including around 10,000 working papers. There are 16,000 ongoing periodicals in the collection, and the library has links to 20,000 internet documents in its catalog.. The library's catalog ECONIS, with open web access contains over a million references to books, journal and book articles, working papers and electronic publications. Bibliographie der Wirtschaftswissenschaften is found in book format in Firestone stacks at call number Z7164.E2B5187q. Volumes before v.60 for 1968 have the title Bibliographie der Sozialwissenschaften, and are found in Firestone stacks at call number H1.J174. This is an extensive classified index to books and articles on all aspects of economics. Includes many foreign language materials as well as English. The classification scheme and the subject and regional index are given in English as well as German. Also contains an author and title index. Semi-annual updates. It is continued by article level indexing in ECONLIS, the library's catalog on the web. To locate materials which have been identified in Bibliographie der Wirtschaftswissenschaften or in ECONIS, first check Princeton's Online Catalog. Items not found here can be ordered through Borrow Direct, Article Express, or Interlibrary Loan. See Priinceton's Interlibrary Loan home page. Education: 31. Education Resources Important statistical measures for education, a critical concept in the globalized world, are reported by UNESCO and by OECD. The World Education Report, published about every two years by UNESCO, is held at Princeton in the United Nations Collection in the Social Science Reference Center on A Floor in Firestone Library. The call number is (UN) L101.A2W67q, and the volumes held are for 1991, 1993, 1995, 1998 and 2000. A number of education and literacy data seriesreported here by UNESCO are also found in the database UNData, formerly called the UN Common Database. Countries of the OECD are covered in more detail in the annual OECD print publication Education at a Glance, Current volume for 2008 in SSRC, older volumes 1992-2007 in Firestone stacks, call number LB2846.E247, also electronic through link in Princeton's Main Catalog.. OECD statistics on education can also be found in SourceOECD. Also useful in UNESCO's own statisticazl databases ERIC and 32. Education Full Text subscription databases. Without a professional school in Education, Princeton does not collect at a comprehensive level many books in education, education documents or education journals. Therefore it is especially important to use the full text aspect of the two sources listed below to get the text of articles and reports important for your research in Sociology. If you need journal articles and books in education that Princeton does not hold in paper or electronic format, be sure to allow enough time for the Interlibrary Loan department to acquire them for you. ERIC , the U.S. Department of Education's Educational Resource Information Center database, indexes 2,200 digests of education documents, with full text for approximately 92% in the EBSCO version. It also contains indexes and abstracts, but not full text, from over 980 educational and education-related journals. Education Full Text indexes 534 core international periodicals, monographs, and yearbooks, with full text for articles in 249 of those journals. Topics include a wide range of contemporary education issues, including government funding, instructional media, multicultural education, religious education, student counseling, competency-based education, and information technology..
Environmental Issues and Policy Index, subscription database. Recent Search Examples:
GreenFile. History: 34. American History and Life - AHAL (U.S. and Canada) and 35. Historical Abstracts - HA (non-U.S. or Canada), subscription databases These index scholarly articles dealing with history and culture. Coverage is for articles published from 1964 to date for AHAL and 1954 to date for HA. These two sources are closely bundled in the search engine; watch in using them that your search doesn't flip to the other one without your asking for the change. Law and Treaties: 36. Law Materials and Treaty Research Law materials at Princeton are held in several important electronic and paper collections. Lexis and WestLaw are available through the Library Homepage Databases. Law journals are indexed in Index to Legal Periodicals and Books and also in LegalTrac. The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals can also be found in the Databases on the Library Homepage. Many law journals are found full text on Lexis and in the Hines Electronic Collection of law journals. Others are found in paper format in Firestone through the Main Catalog. Articles from additional titles not held at Princeton in either electronic or paper format can be acquired through the Interlibrary Loan service. Princeton' Law Specialist is available to help with legal research at all levels, from the most basic to complex questions of constitutiional law, and also questions about treaties. For assistance come to the Social Science Reference Center on A Floor of Firestone Library.. . 37. MLA International Bibliography, subscription database. The tides of globalization are beginning to be felt in the language and literature that form the warp threads over which the weft of society and culture are woven. The MLA International Bibliography, flagship index of the Modern Language Association, identifies journal articles, books and dissertations which document this most basic evidence of globalization in the world's culture. Electronic start date for this index is 1963. Database provides1.5 million citations from some 4,400 journals and series and 1,000 book publishers. Subjects include literature, language, linguistics, composition, dramatic arts, folklore, rhetoric, literary theory and criticism, historical aspects of printing and publishing, and the teaching of language and literature. Globalization with a "z" is the usual form for the Descriptor or subject field Time coverage spans the Western Middle Ages to the present. Recent Search Examples.
Maps: 38. Mapping the Globalized World Holdings of maps in both paper and digital formats are especially strong at Princeton.
Philosophy and Ethics: 39. Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences and Philosopher's Index. International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, subscription title. Earlier editions, International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences, 1968 and 1991, rev. and electronic 2008, provide a more general context for the globalized world with 114 entries which reference the concept of globalization. These are useful tools to place globalization into the context of underlying and surrounding philosophies from various social science disciplines. Philosopher's Index,, subscription database.The Philosopher's Index, from 1940 to the present, provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields and is a rich source of materials exploring the ethics and effects of Globalization. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language. Political philosophy examines the philosophical basis for a wide range of political behaviors and policies, and is a rich source to suggest further directions or different patterns for research and exploration. "The relationship between facts and values is an essential problem in philosophy, political science and sociology. Usually it is held that there is a wide gap between what is and what ought to be, the nature of which, however, is far from clear." From abstract: Valer Ambrus, "Max Webers Wertfreiheitspostulat und die naturalistische Begrundung von Normen", Journal for General Philosophy of Science. (2001; 32(2): 209-236). Policy: 40. 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. Recent Search Examples:
Policy: 41. International Political Science Abstracts, subscription database. International Political Science Abstracts is one of the pair, (the other being Worldwide Political Science Abstracts described just above), 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. 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. Recent Search Examples: (Globalization or globalisation) anywhere produced 2125 records (Globalization or globalisation) and communicat* anywhere found 81 articles ( * replaces any additional characters, to retrieve communicate, communications , and so on.) 42. Political Culture and the Effects of Globalization 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 People: 43.Sociological Abstracts Online,, and SocIndex subscription databases The forces of Globalization and its attendant winds of change have a profound effect on the culture and custom of society which is documented in the Sociological literature. Sociofile, the Sociological Abstracts database, is the most useful and comprehensive index in the field of Sociology, covering the world's literature in Sociology and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied. Database covers 1963 to date and paper 1952 to date. Sociofile indexes over 2,500 journals, abstracts of conference papers presented at various sociological association meetings, relevant dissertation listings from Dissertations Abstracts International, enhanced bibliographic citations of book reviews, and abstracts of selected sociology books. Journals are in 30 different languages from about 55 countries, covering sociological topics in fields including anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology. R ecent Search Examples:
All author searching is strong; follow pattern shown on search page to enter author's name. SocINDEX , subscription database. SocIndex is a new entry into the database world, starting with a brilliant comprehensive base of materials in 2005. Some older items are included, including one or two journals with very long runs. But not much goes back. BEFORE 2005, use Sociological Abstracts - see above. But for 2005 and following, especially for sources woven together and plucked from myriad disciplines, SocIndex is indeed a treasure. Special strengths are materials from economic and business areas, and from the health sciences. Those are pure gold in the study of globalization. People: 44. PsycINFO Subscription Database. Globalization reaches down to the individual. Once persons lived in a small village or a great city, in solitary isolation or among many others, but always in different countries. No more. Globalization increasingly makes every person on the planet a resident of what has been ubiquitously termed the Global Village, and had changed forever the way people see themselves and the ways they relate. PsycINFO, the index of Psychological Abstracts, provides access to the scholarly literature in the field of Psychology which documents the individual's thoughts, feelings, and perceptions in a Globalized world. Search Examples::
Religion and Ethnicity: 45. Religion and Ethnicity Including Counts Journals on a wide range of topics in religion relevant to the study of Globalization are included in the ATLA Religion Database,, including the full text of the entire runs of a core collection of more than fifty significant scholarly periodicals in the field of religion, most of which go back to 1949. ATLAS journals represent a wide selection of Christian traditions (including Catholic, Orthodox, Protestant, Evangelical, and Pentecostal), Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Shinto, Taoism, Confucianism, and other religious traditions. Ethical issues are also included. Various databases covering specific religious traditions will be found on the Library HomePage under Databases and Reference Tools. Enter the keyword RELIGION to examine a list of such sources. Another valuable reseource for the study of Globalizaton and religion is the Princeton Theological Seminary Library , located here in Princeton on the southern edge of the University campus. Strong holdings there in Liberation Theology will be of special interest for Latin American topics. Although Princeton Theological Seminary is an independent institution not part of Princeton University, students and faculty of the University have borrowing privileges at the Seminary. Be sure to go during weekday business hours to arrange for the borrowing card necessary there. A useful new source for numerical data for religion is the World Christian Database, which is created by a Christian seminary, but thoroughly covers the entire world and all religions and ethnicities. This group has done a great deal of field work to provide these data, which seem solid. When dealing with numerical data for religion, it is important to keep in mind the following points. First of all, the national census of most countries is a foundation for data to measure many aspects of life within that country. However, since the 1930s when such data was used to identify particular religious groups for persecution, many countries including the U.S. have not included questions on religion in the national census. An interesting modern twist, interpreted by some observers as a protest against being asked such a question by the government, is that some 20 percent of New Zealanders responded "Jedi Knight" to the religion question of their year 2000 national census. In the counts for the 2001 British census, enough British citizens responded "Jedi Knight" that the fictional religion of characters in the Star Wars science fiction films had to be given its own census code, 896, although the British Census office would not acknowledge "Jedi" as an "official religion". All of this goes to demonstrate that religion in census reports is not necessarily reported at all, or reliable when reported. Morever, counts from various established religious bodies often overlap. For these reasons care must taken in using figures on religion. All of the sources listed below count a wide range of faith groups, even though they may be compiled by a particular church or religious group.With all of that in mind, in addition to the World Christian Database, <>some important paper sources are:
The Web: 46. The Internet. The Web is a place often hostile to the concept of Globalization. Especially with a topic which can invoke strong passions, it is of critical importance to pay attention to authors and publishers, and to study carefully the makeup and goals of groups which post globalization materials. A good check on the breadth and validity of net, or traditional library, resources, is to talk with subject and reference librarians at Princeton who continue to provide support for scholarly research including the new technologies. Check the list of Subjects and Specialists from the library staff on the library homepage, or found as the entire back page of the Library broadsheet publication Getting Started available at any reference desk. We look forward to working with you. Internet searching can rely on a number of good search engines.
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