Library Political Science 475

This course guide provides starting places for searching for primary and secondary literature and media sources for this course.

Here is the Concept Mapping Worksheet we used in the introductory library session.

Some useful subject terms:

Cold War -- Biography

Communists -- United States -- Biography -- Dictionaries

Presidents -- United States -- Archives.

United States -- Foreign relations

A Key Journal

The Current digest of the Soviet press.

• ABSEES: American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (1939 to present)
  Index covering North American scholarship on East-Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union.
• America, History & Life (1964 to present)
  Covers the world's scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada.
• CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online (1991 to present)
  A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.
• EconLit with Full Text (1969 to present)
  From the American Economic Association -- the foremost source of references to economic literature.
• Environment Complete
  A full-text database covering environmental studies, ecology, energy, urban planning, and affiliated areas of study.
• Environmental Studies and Policy Collection (Gale)
  Covers environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.
• European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (EBSEES) (1991-2006)
  Citations to European multi-disciplinary scholarship on Slavic and East European subject matter. The index of articles published from 1975-1990 is in print-format only, in the Five-College Depository.
• Historical Abstracts with Full Text (1955 to present)
  Scholarly literature about world history since 1450 (excluding the United States and Canada).
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) (1951 to present)
  Indexes about 3,000 journals and 7,000 books per year.
• PAIS Index (1972 to present)
  Coverage of articles, selected books, government documents, research reports, etc., from a wide range of social sciences.
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (1975 to present)
  Covers international journals in political science and its complementary fields.
• Political Science Database (ProQuest) (1985 to present)
  Full-text articles from leading political science and international relations journals.
• PsycInfo (1887 to present)
  Covers the academic literature in psychology and related disciplines including psychiatry, sociology, education, and other areas.
• WorldCat
  Search thousands of library catalogs for books and more.

• Biography in Context
  Nearly a million biographical entries spanning history and geography.

Perry-Casteneda Maps Collection: Russia & the Former Soviet Republics

Print-Format Reference Works

The Cold War, 1945-1991. Detroit, Gale Research, 1992. Three volumes.
   Volumes one and two have alphabetically-arranged biographies of leaders and other important individuals in Cold War history, volume three treats concepts and events, and includes a chronology. Most entries include brief bibliographies.  (Ref D 839.5 C65 1992)

Chronology of the Cold War, 1917-1992. New York, Routledge, 2006.
   Brief summaries of events, in chronological order, with thematically-organized bibliography at back.  (Ref D 840 B78 2006)

Encyclopedia of Russian History. New York, Macmillan Reference, 2004. Four volumes.
   Brief articles on people, places, events, etc., most with short lists of further reading. (Ref DK 14 E53 2004)

Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe, from the Congress of Vienna to the Fall of Communism. New York, Garland, 2000.

• Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)
  Combined search of the historic Boston Globe, Chicago Defender, Chinese Newspapers Collection, Hartford Courant, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, New York Times, South China Morning Post, Times of India, and Washington Post.
• FBIS: Federal Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports (1974-1996)
  News in translation (by the CIA) from radio, television, and newspapers around the world.

• Department of Energy
• OpenNet 
• This site provides "references to all documents declassified and made publicly available after October 1, 1994". Results include a description of documents and information that can be used to request a copy.
• National Archives and Records Adminstration NARA also provides a link to Presidential Libraries covering presidents Roosevelt through Bush.
• National Security Archive -- research institute on international affairs, and an archive of declassified U.S. documents.
• Department of State Foreign Relations Series The Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS) series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.
• FRUS full text from University of Wisconsin
• Library of Congress Exhibits including Revelations from the Russian Archives.
• AP Images: selected historical photos from the Associated Press archive.
• The United States Department of Defense Budget

• Congressional Publications
  Index to U.S. congressional material, some full text.

• Cold War Studies at Harvard University - resource index
• Cold War International History Project
• Harvard Project on Cold War Studies
• REENIC: Russian and East European Network Information Center Good metasite -- information on individual countries as well as the region as a whole.