Indexes

• CSA Political Science Abstracts
• IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences)
• Philosopher's Index
• Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
• EconLit - Key resource for political economics.
• Academic Search Premier and Expanded Academic Fulltext articles from over thousands of journals in the social sciences.
• Left Index Leftist analysis of politics and culture.

Finding books in the Five College Catalog -- and beyond

Books can be a good place to start -- they give you an overview of the topic. Searching the Four College Library Catalog for the SUBJECT of Globalization will bring up some narrower subjects such as Culture and Globalization. It will also bring up geographic subdivisions combined with a more specific subject; such as Globalization -- Economic Aspects-- Developing Countries and the counter to globalization: Anti-Globalization Movement. The UMass Catalog is a separate search, and may uncover additional material. You can request items from any of the Five Colleges and they will be sent to you at

If you don't find enough books in the Five Colleges, you can search thousands of library catalogs in World Cat You can then request books through Interlibrary Loan... but the books come through the mail so it takes TIME!