All Guides: INTL 285: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe: Getting Started

Overviews and Books

Macalester WorldCat
Online catalog of materials owned by the library at Macalester College and libraries worldwide. Search for books, journal titles, videos, DVDs, articles, and much more. Macalester Worldcat will indicate which library (including Macalester) owns a particular item. Use the Interlibrary Loan button to ask for items owned by other libraries.

Encyclopedia of Eastern Europe by Richard Frucht (Editor)
This encyclopedia explores the history of this complex region over the last two centuries
The Encyclopedia of European Migration and Minorities by Klaus J. Bade; Pieter C. Emmer; Leo Lucassen; Jochen Oltmer

Credo Reference
Access to general and subject-specific reference books (encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations and proverbs). Provides a graphics-based Concept Mapping option for topic exploration.
Oxford Reference Online
Resource of reference materials such as dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press. Provides database-wide searching, subject searching across sources, and individual title searching.

Scholarship

A selection of databases that will be useful for you for your research in this class. You can find sources about ethnic nationalism in each of them.

CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online
Documents and articles devoted to research, analysis, and scholarship on international politics and related fields, including security studies, global finance, diplomatic practice, humanitarian law, global governance, development studies, and environmental studies.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Provides access to journal articles in political science related fields including law, public administration/policy, and international relations.
Social Science Open Access Repository
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Database of open access journal articles and working papers in the social sciences. Useful for finding scholarship written and published outside of the U.S. Use the Disciplines feature to limit your search to a specific subject area.

News

Below are some databases with international news coverage. The majority of content in each of them is in English. It can be useful to limit your searching to news coming from a particular region or country. You can also limit by date to see the most recent articles.

You can also search the web for more news sources. E.g., search Google for 'newspapers Poland' to find publications from that country.

Access World News: Research Collection
International, national, regional, state, and local newspaper articles and video clips. Includes over a thousand international news sources from scores of countries on six continents, translated into English when written in other languages.
Nexis Uni
Credible source for news, legal and business sources that is updated daily. Includes access to print and online journals, television and radio broadcasts, newswires and blogs, as well as local, regional, national and international newspapers, legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, business information on U.S. and international companies and executives. For Business Nexis Uni covers company and industry news, detailed company financial data, and includes major accounting journals. In Law, the database provides texts of federal and state court decisions, federal and state agency regulations, and law journal articles.

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INTL 285: Ethnicity and Nationalism in Central and Eastern Europe: Getting Started

Overviews and Books

Scholarship

News

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Librarians for the Social Sciences