All Guides: INTL 113: Introduction to International Studies: Getting Started

Welcome

This course guide provides links to information resources for researching topics in

Intro to INTL 113: Border-crossing in the Age of Globalization

Topic Overviews/Background

Online Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
Trends/Policy/Public Opinion

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.
eBooks (Gale)
Search across subject-specific reference encyclopedias.
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.

CQ Researcher
Access to original reporting and analysis on issues in the news. Coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.

Pew Research Center
ew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. They conduct public opinion polling, demographic rese
Harvard Kennedy School Think Tank Search
A Think Tank search engine that searches the websites of institutions that generate public policy research, analysis, and activity. The list represents a mixture of partisan and non-partisan think tanks.
RAND
RAND is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that provides leaders with the information they need to make evidence-based decisions.

Online Databases

Google Scholar

Search across a wide range of scholarly literature from around the world. This custom link for Google Scholar includes the Macalester Library code and will display a "MACLINKS FULL TEXT" link next to resources available from Macalester Library. You will also see MACLINKS if you are logged in to the on-campus network. If you are off campus and don't use the above custom link, you can configure Google Scholar to display MACLINKS by customizing your library links settings.
Academic Search Premier
Interdisciplinary resource with popular, scholarly, and peer-reviewed articles and citations. Includes speeches, newspapers, and polls.
JSTOR

Large collection of scholarly journals and books from all disciplines, with stronger coverage for the humanities and social sciences. Current issues from journals (the most recent 3-5 years) are generally not available in JSTOR.
Project MUSE
Access to journals in the humanities and social sciences, covering literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

Provides access to journal articles in political science related fields including law, public administration/policy, and international relations.
Sociological Abstracts

Indexes the latest research in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
Access to research in areas related to cultural studies, communication and mass media studies, rhetoric, speech, and digital, electronic and new media.
America: History and Life

Index of scholarly journals, books, and dissertations covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada from before European contact to the present.
Historical Abstracts

Index covering world history (excluding the United States and Canada). It includes hundreds of history journals and books, plus useful features such as the ability to search by time period.
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.
Scopus

An abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature with tools to track, analyze, and visualize research.

Access World News: Research Collection
Nexis Uni
US Newsstream (ProQuest)
Current U.S. news content, as well as archives that stretch back into the 1980s. It features top newspapers, wires, broadcast transcripts, blogs, and news sites in full-text format. US Newsstream provides key national and regional news sources from the U.S. and includes exclusive and preferred access to top titles, including The New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Boston Globe, Newsday, and Chicago Tribune.
Ethnic NewsWatch

Current coverage of newspapers, magazines, and journals published by ethnic, minority, and native presses. Also includes more selected historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals going back to 1959. Roughly 25% of the content is in Spanish.
PressReader Newspapers

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.
HeinOnline

Provides coverage of more than 2,600 law-related periodicals. Contains the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, and entire databases dedicated to treaties, constitutions, case law, world trials, classic treatises, international trade, foreign relations, U.S. Presidents, and much more.