International Organization and Integration

Political Science 463 - Fall 2000
Dr. Harold Jacobson

	Earth from lunar orbit December 24, 1968

Policy memoranda on United Nations budgets and scales of assessments, liberalizing trade in services under auspices of the World Trade Organization, and the World Conference Against Racism and Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance. Perspectives from the foreign ministers of China, France, India, Mexico, Japan, Russian Federation, South Africa, United Kingdom, and the United States.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Books | Indexes | News | Periodicals | Think Tanks

SUBJECT MATERIALS
UN Budgets | World Trade Organization | World Conference Against Racism

COUNTRY INFORMATION
Background | Biographies | Economics | Human Rights
Laws | News | Military | Treaties

INTERNATIONAL AGENCIES:
Comprehensive Lists | European Union | FAO| NATO
OAS | OECD | United Nations | World Trade Organization

GOVERNMENTS
China | France | India | Japan | Mexico | Russian Federation
South Africa | United Kingdom | United States

ADDITIONAL MATERIALS
Citation Guides | Internet Searching | Research Procedure | Writing

1995 Class | 1997 Class | 1998 Class | 1999 Class
Return to Documents Center

1. Political Theory			4. Writing
Course Lectures		3. Country Background	Writing Guides
Course Readings	2. Subject Background	Compendiums Subject-Specific Materials	Citation Guides
	Books and Journals Think Tank Reports	UN and Foreign Ministry Speeches World News Connection Newspapers
	Newspapers Subject-Specific Internet Sites	If you don't find a speech, project from what you know about subject and country

Course Readings

Books

• MIRLYN
  • MCAT lists books within the University of Michigan Library system

• Library of Congress Subject Headings: By Subject
  • General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Organization)
  • International Trade
  • Mediation, International
  • Uruguay Round (1987-1994)
  • Service Industries
  • United Nations--Finance
  • World Trade Organization
  • Xenophobia
• Library of Congress Subject Headings: By Country
  • Agriculture--India
  • China--Commercial policy
  • Intellectual property--China
  • Germany--foreign economic relations--China
  • Racism--Mexico
• In MIRLYN Web Advanced Searching, you don't need to know exact order (e.g. agriculture and india or india and agriculture)

• Keyword Searching

• Guide to Keyword Searching for MIRLYN-Web

Periodicals - Full Text [Web]

• ABI Inform Global (UMich Only)
  • Research Library indexes some 1300 journals on domestic and foreign business since the 1980s and provides the full text of many since the 1990s (marked by a full-page symbol)
  • Includes the Economist
  • Journals indexed by author, title, keyword, periodical, and date
  • Articles may be marked for downloading
  • Text in HTML and image formats
  • Sample Searches
    • "united nations" and (budget? Or assessment?)
    • "world trade organization" and services

• JSTOR (UMich Only)
  • Full text of major 20th Century historical and economic periodicals as well as the American Journal of International Law through 1996, American Political Science Review through 1996 and World Politics, 1948-95
  • Most periodicals available from 1900-90
  • Index approaches by keyword, author, title, periodical
  • Printing and downloading requires application/tifflist or Adobe Acrobat

• Political Information
  • Mega web index to public policy concerns
  • Indexes news, political parties, policy papers and interest group web sites
  • Sample Search: "World Conference Against Racism"

• ProQuest (UMich Only)
  • Research Library indexes some 2300 journals in all fields since the 1980s and provides the full text of many since the 1990s (marked by a full-page symbol)
  • Includes popular and scholarly titles, such as Comparative Politics, Governing, International Political Science Review, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, and World Politics
  • Journals indexed by author, title, keyword, periodical, and date
  • Sample searches
    "united nations" and member? And (budget? Or assessment?)
    "world trade organization" and service?
    (racism or xenophobia) and china
  • Articles may be marked for downloading
  • Text in HTML and image formats
  • Replaces the Core Journals Project, which printed articles from MIRLYN on request

• Congressional Quarterly (UMich Only)
  • Weekly publication with non-partisan political analysis of Congress
  • Identifies major legislation, the issues, and players
  • Political party and election analysis
  • Web coverage begins in 1983 and is searchable
  • Separate index for roll call votes beginning 1995
  • Good source for UN budget and World Trade Organization but not the conference on racism

• Foreign Affairs
  • Library has online: 1981-
  • Selected articles available online: http://www.foreignaffairs.org/
  • 1992- Text of articles via ProQuest Research Library (restricted to University of Michigan network): http://www.lib.umich.edu/cgi-bin/pqissues?6
  • InfoTrac Web version; 1995- Text of articles via General Reference Center Gold (restricted to UMich network): http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/ lom%5Fumichanna/
  • InfoTrac Basic version; 1995- Text of articles via General Reference Center Gold (restricted to UMich network): http://infotrac.galegroup.com/it basic/lom%5Fumichanna/
  • 1981- Text of articles via Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe (access restricted; authentication may be required): http://web.lexis-nexis.com/universe/

• Foreign Policy
  • Library has online: 94- 1994-
  • 1994- Text of articles via ProQuest Research Library (restricted to University of Michigan network): http://www.lib.umich.edu/cgi-bin/pqissues?23173
  • InfoTrac Web version; 1995- Text of articles via General Reference Center Gold (restricted to University of Michigan network): http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/lom%5Fumichanna/
  • InfoTrac Basic version; 1995- Text of articles via General Reference Center Gold (restricted to University of Michigan network): http://infotrac .galegroup.com/itbasic/lom%5Fumichanna/

• International Organization
  • Library has online: 1-48,51- 1947-
  • 1997- Access to ECO online version restricted to University of Michigan network: http://firstsearch.oclc.org/journal=0020-8183;ECOIP
  • 1947-1994 Back issues available via JSTOR at: http://www.jstor.org/journals/00208183.html

• The Journal of Conflict Resolution
  • Library has online: 41- 1997-
  • Text of articles via ProQuest Research Library (restricted to University of Michigan network) http://www.lib.umich.edu/cgi-bin/pqissues?26540

• National Journal (UMich Only)
  • National Journal focuses on the politics of the Executive Branch with some reference to current legislation
  • Full text since 1977 available through the University of Michigan's campus license to Congressional Universe
  • Follow the Inside Washington logo on the main Congressional Universe screen

• World Politics
  • Library has online: 1- 1948-
  • 1995- Access to Project Muse online version restricted (authentication may be required): http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/wp/
  • 1948-1995 Back issues available via JSTOR (access restricted; authentication may be required): http://www.jstor.org/journals/00438871.html

• Additional journals available on the web are listed at the Library's Electronic Journals page

Periodical Indexes - No Full Text [Web and Library]

• International Political Science Abstracts, 1989+ (UMich Only)
  • Index to scholarly political science journal articles in Western European languages
  • Choose IPSA from the menu first; go to the next screen before searching
  • Sample search: Russia near (Kosovo or Yugoslavia)
  • Searches may be recombined
  • Data includes author, title, journal, and abstract in English if the article is in English
  • If the article is in another language, the title is translated into English but the abstract is in French
  • Once you identify an article, search MIRLYN for the call number and location
  • Printed copy: International Political Science Abstracts, 1951- (Ref. JA 36 .I6)

• Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin (UMich Only)
  • Subject index to books, articles, and government documents on politics and economics since 1972 in Western European languages
  • Government documents include United States, United Nations, League of Nations, and State Governments
  • There are also paper versions (English, 1915+, Z 7163 .P98 and foreign, 1968+, Z 7164 .E2 P96)

• Social Sciences Citation Index, 1956- (UMich Only)
  • Indexes current periodical articles by author, title/keyword, journal, and author's affiliation
  • Indexes cited authors by name, abbreviated title of book/journal and year
  • Results provide cross references between the cited author, the citating author, and related items
  • EXAMPLE
    Easy Search
    SSCI and Person
    Jacobson, HK - all works that cite - Search
  • Data base also includes the Arts and Humanities and Sciences Citation Indexes
  • Corresponding paper copy located in the Graduate Library Stacks, 1956- (Z 7163 .S67)
  • Also on CD-ROM beginning 1981 at the Graduate Library Information Center
  • Social Sciences Citation Index Examples
  • Connect to MIRLYN to identify library location and call number of book or article

Think Tanks

• Columbia International Affairs Online (UMich Only)
  • Search engine indexes current world politics journals, books, conference proceedings, and think tank working papers
  • Full text primarily of working papers
  • May need to use from campus ethernet connection with Netscape 4.0

• Council on Foreign Relations
  • Briefing papers on over 25 foreign policy issues, including China, Russia, United Nations, global warming, oil, and border control
  • Separate section provides Bush and Gore statements on the same issues
  • Public opinion data on foreign relations through the Clinton Administration

• Oxford Analytica (UMich Only)
  • Concise, comprehensive analyses of political and economic developments around the world
  • Articles unsigned presumably to protect the writer from repercussions
  • Data base begins in 1987 and is supplemented by about 15 articles weekly
  • Searchable by country, topic, title, date, and free-text (preferred)
  • WTO and service or UN and budget are good search terms
  • No coverage of World Conference on Racism

News Sources [Web and Library]

• Academic Universe/Lexis (UMich Only)
  • Full text of newspapers from around the world in English translation for last several years
  • Use News and either General News or World News; in each section choose More Options for full text
  • Sample Search:
    News/World News/More Options
    world conference on racism [in full text] and previous two years
    In Middle East/African Sources
  • Academic Universe Search Guide

• Editor and Publisher On-Line Newspapers
  • Links to over 1000 newspapers worldwide
  • Arranged by continent and country; for the United States, subdivided by state
  • Annotations describe publication, provide links, and give pricing information when applicable

• World News Connection (UMich Library Only)
  • Full text of foreign news broadcasts and press releases translated into English beginning November 1994
  • Searchable by keyword, region and subject, or Boolean logic and modified by date
  • Regions are:
    Central Eurasia
    China
    East Asia
    East Europe
    West Europe
    Latin America
    Near East and South Asia
    Sub-Saharan Africa
  • More accurate results if you use "free text search"
    "financial services" and wto and china
    "united nations" and racism
  • Networked to University of Michigan IP addresses
  • World News Connection Guide
  • Continues the Foreign Broadcast Information Service

• Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1975-96 [Library]
  • Indexes foreign radio broadcasts and newswires translated into English
  • Approach by keyword, title, subject, and region
  • Once the translations are identified, you can find the text in the Serials/Microforms Room
  • Guide to FBIS
  • Continued by the World News Connection
    

    INDEX CODE   SERIES NAME               FICHE #        YEARS COVERED 
                                           Call Number # 
    
    AAP  *       Asia and the Pacific      Micro-F X211   1974-87
    AFR  **      Africa (Sub-Sahara)       Micro-F X212   1987-96
                                            DT348.A24U529  current
    EAS  *       East Asia                 Micro-F X211   1987-96
                                            DS1.U59A39     current
    EEU          Eastern Europe            Micro-F X209   1974-96
                                            DR1.U58A239    current
    LAT          Latin America             Micro-F X213   1974-96
    MEA  **      Middle East and Africa    Micro-F X212   1974-87
    NES  **      Near East and South Asia  Micro-F X212A  1987-96
                                            DS41.D14       current
    PRC          China                     Micro-F X208   1974-96
                                            DS701.U529     current
    SOA  ***     South Asia                Micro-F X215   1980-87
    SOV  ***     Soviet Union              Micro-F X210   1974-91
                 Central Eurasia           Micro-F X210   1991-present
    USR  ****    Central Eurasia           Micro-F X210   1993-94
    WEU          Western Europe            Micro-F X214   1974-96
    
    ______________________
    *      In 1987 AAP (Asia and Pacific) series became EAS (East Asia)
    **     In 1987, MEA (Middle East & Africa) dropped  Mid East & became
           AFR (Sub-Saharan Africa).  South Asia added it, becoming
           NES (Near East & South Asia).
    ***    In 1991, the Soviet Union Daily Report became the Central Eurasian
           Daily Report.  The mnemonic remains SOV.
    ****   In 1991, the index began covering JPRS reports on Political Affairs
           of the CIS, citing them as the Central Eurasian Report (USR).
    
    

United Nations Budgets and Scale of Assessments

• Global Policy Forum
  • In-depth background on the financial crisis and the U.S. role
  • Lists of payers and non-payers
  • Current U.S. debt
  • Analysis of the Helms/Biden Act on UN payment
  • Bibliography of articles

• ProQuest (UMich Only)
  • Research Library has numerous full text articles, including those from the UN Chronicle
  • Often provides the full text
  • Sample search: "united nations" and member? And (assessment? Or contribution? Or budget?)

• Budget Payments
  • Honor roll of countries who paid their assessments by the deadline
  • Arranged by country with amount in U.S. dollars and date paid
  • Does not name paying nations if they missed the deadline
  • Data for 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000 and 1999

• Membership Payment Deficits
  • Outstanding deficits of five countries as of June 1999

• Members Losing Right to Vote
  • Thirty-six nations which lost right to vote in General Assembly for lack of dues
  • Dated June 9, 2000

• Scale of Assessments
  • Scale of Assessments 1998-2000
    • UN Resolution 52/215 of 1997/98
    • Scale of assessment for individual countries and criteria used
  • Revision most recently discussed by the Fifth Committee of the General Assembly
    • Meeting record A/C.5/54/SR.8 (October 18, 1999), beginning p. 6
    • The Annotated Agenda (A/55/100) may have additional references once it is published
    • These documents are not free on the web; consult the Documents Center for access to the United Nations Optical Disk System

• Access UN (UMich Only)
  • Index to United Nations documents issued since 1956
  • Sample Search
    "scale of assessments" (in Text)
    India (in Author)
    x Official Record
  • Sample record number: A/52/PV.60 - Ask at Documents Desk for help

• United Nations Yearbook [Library]
  • Doc.Cen JX 1976 .A1 U64--UN Ref.
  • Most complete summary of United Nations activities with citations to or reprints of the most important United Nations documents
  • Appendix includes annual assessments

• Access UN (UMich Only)
  • Index to United Nations documents issued since 1956
  • Sample Search
    "scale of assessments" (in Text)
    India (in Author)
    x Official Record
  • Sample record number: A/52/PV.60 - Ask at Documents Desk for help

• Permanent Missions to the United Nations
  • Most countries have a web page with statements before the UN General Assembly
  • They may or may not include the rate of assessment

• United Nations Optical Disk System (Documents Center Password Only)
  • Meeting record A/C.5/54/SR.8 (October 18, 1999) should have country statements

• Country Background
  • Check especially Background Notes of the World

• Government Web Sites
  • Check especially missions to the United Nations
  • Secondary source: foreign ministries or the U.S. State Department

• Political Information
  • Indexes think tank and interest group reports on the web as well as the United Nations
  • Links to the full text
  • Primarily focused on United States opinion

• World News Connection (UMich Library Only)
  • Full text of foreign news broadcasts and press releases translated into English beginning November 1994
  • Searchable by keyword, region and subject, or Boolean logic and modified by date
  • Sample Free Text Search
    "united nations" budget china
  • Regions are:
    Central Eurasia
    China
    East Asia
    East Europe
    West Europe
    Latin America
    Near East and South Asia
    Sub-Saharan Africa
  • World News Connection Guide
  • Continues the Foreign Broadcast Information Service

World Trade Organization

• World Trade Organization: Trade in Services
  • Text of General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), dated April 1994
  • Press releases
  • Summary of July 5-14, 2000 negotiations
  • Numerous working papers, which must be downloaded in Word Perfect Format
  • Statistics on trade in services being developed as of August 2000

• World Trade Organization - Third Ministerial Conference
  • Conference held in Seattle, November 30 - December 3, 1999
  • Summary minutes, press releases, and documents on the issues
  • Many of these links, including audio of speeches, were not working due to a revamping of the web site in August 2000
  • Background Briefings summarizes the issues, including Trade in Services
  • Major issues include telecommunications, transportation, financial services, and tourism

• MIRLYN for books
  • Connect to MIRLYN
  • Use keywords in Simple Search
    services and international w trade
  • In Advanced Search use
    service industries in subject
    trade or commerce in keyword

• ABI Inform
  • Full text of 600 economic and business periodicals with indexing for 1300

• ProQuest
  • Indexes over 2300 periodicals, including those in economics
  • Provides the full text for many since the 1990s

• European Union
  • Europa (European Commission)
    • History, structure, program, activities, and directory of members
    • Search by keywords (e.g. financial services and trade and WTO) for the full text of documents
  • European Parliament
    • Description, powers, and organization of the Parliament
    • List of committees and directories of Member offices
    • Full text of speeches beginning October 1996 as well as publications adopted
    • Committee schedules and press releases
    • Multilingual

• Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
  • FAO catalog of publications, its work programme, and press releases
  • Main page has search capacity; for a list of contents, see the "What's New" section
  • Description of the Uruguay Round Agreements
  • Connect directly to statistical time series on agriculture, fisheries, forestry, land use, and population searchable by commodity or country
  • Only tangentially useful for this assignment
  • Use search engine at bottom of lefthand column: agricultural services and international trade

• Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
  • Membership includes Western European countries and industrialized non-European nations
  • Numerous reports and studies on service industries and trade
  • Use search engine in upper righthand corner
  • Many publications are also available in paper copy in the library; search MIRLYN-Web

• Organization of American States
  • Numerous studies on trade within the Western Hemisphere
  • Use jump box on upper right of screen: Commerce and Integration

• Country Commercial Guides (State Dept)
  • Economic and political factors for U.S. citizens exporting to various countries
  • Includes laws, contacts, key imports and exports
  • Country Commercial Guides, 2002+

• Country Report on Economic and Trade Policy (State Department)
  • Main economic indicators, exchange rates, and debt management
  • Extension section on export/import barriers, worker's rights and intellectual property violations
  • Use web browser to search for the term services in individual reports

• International Monetary Fund Country Reports
  • Extensive analysis of economic and social developments in individual countries
  • Appendices include detailed statistical tables
  • Reports in Adobe Acrobat format and may be over 1.4 MB

• ISI Emerging Markets (UMich Only)
  • Macroeconomic statistics and economic forecasts
  • Analysis of companies and industrial sectors
  • China, India, Mexico, and Russia included
  • Text in English

• Tradeport Country Library
  • General political and economic information for individual countries
  • Searchable data base of Market Research Reports, which analyze country sales opportunities

• World Development Indicators CD-ROM Guide
  • World Development Indicators provides annual data since 1960 on 256 variables for 210 countries
  • Data includes agriculture, economics, national accounts, prices, health, the environment, education, demographics, and imports/exports of services
  • Replaces the World Bank's World Tables
  • The guide provides screen shots for using the CD and a searchable data base of variables
  • Note: this is a CD-ROM product available in the Documents Center
  • It is also available on the CITRIX LAN; special software must be downloaded to the individual workstation
  • Only selected tables are available on the web

• Academic Universe
  • Full text of newspapers from around the world
  • Sample search
    • (world trade organization or wto) w/10 japan

• Access UN (UMich Only)
  • Index to United Nations documents issued since 1956
  • Sample Search
    world trade organization (in All Fields)
    China (in Author)
    x Official Record
  • Sample record number: A/50/PV.60 - Ask at Documents Desk for help

• America and the World Trade Organization (U.S. Trade Representative)
  • Brief article outlining history of the WTO
  • Benefits of U.S. participation and some statistics

• Country Background
  • Check especially Background Notes of the World and economic material

• Government Web Sites
  • Check especially foreign and economic ministries

• World News Connection (Umich Only)
  • Full text of foreign news releases for the past three years translated into English
  • Sponsored by the CIA
  • Identifying relevant titles will be difficult due to generic keywords
  • Sample search in Free Text
    services within 10 within trade within 10 south africa

World Conference Against Racism

• United Nations Resolutions and Reports
  • A/RES/53/132 - Third Decade to Combat Racism and Convening of Conference
  • A/RES/54/153 - Measures to Combat Contemporary Forms of Racism
  • Elimination of Racism and Racial Discrimination, Report of the Third Committee (A/54/603)
    • Check the Documents Center for microfiche or access through the Optical Disk System (Password Only)

• United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights
  • Extensive reports and documents on human rights by theme and human rights in individual countries
  • Resolutions since 1998 with some historical material

• Access UN (UMich Only)
  • Index to United Nations documents issued since 1956
  • Good source for identifying additional documents and resolutions
  • Sample Search
    "world conference against racism" (in Text)
  • Sample record number: A/52/PV.60 - Ask at Documents Desk for help

• World Conference on Human Rights (1993)
  • This conference introduced the concept of the 2001 conference
  • Primary documents and final report
  • Text of Vienna Declaration

• World Conference Against Racism and Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (Human Rights Internet)
  • Organizes materials being prepared by non-governmental organizations, such as Christian Solidarity International, B'nai Brith Canada, International Human Rights Law Group
  • Background papers cover racism in the U.S. courts, migrant workers, ethnic cleansing in Kosovo, slavery
  • Basic information for NGOs planning to participate

• World Conference Against Racism and Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance (United Nations)
  • Press releases and links to preparatory commission documents
  • Considerable background material in various formats

• Bellagio Consultation
  • Preparatory commission report issued in January 2000
  • Identifies major issues as globalization, immigration, ethnic conflict, indigenous peoples, and recourse actions
  • Recommends conference structure

• Human Rights Treaties (Fletcher)
  • Text of Universal Convention on Human Rights
  • Various international treaties on political and civil rights

• International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination (1966)
  • Defines racial discrimination
  • Encourages all states to extend civil rights, integrate their populations, and eliminate racial propaganda

• Universal Declaration of Human Rights
  • Declares human rights regardless of sex, race, religion, nationality
  • Calls for civil freedoms

• Bellagio Consultation
  • Preparatory commission report issued in January 2000
  • Identifies major issues as globalization, immigration, ethnic conflict, indigenous peoples, and recourse actions
  • Recommends conference structure

• Columbia International Affairs Online
  • Full text of online journals and working papers
  • Although most publications come from interest groups, there are a few scholarly articles
  • Best search is a simple one: racism

• International Political Science Abstracts, 1989+ (UMich Only)
  • Index to scholarly political science journal articles in Western European languages
  • Includes some material not available in ProQuest
  • Choose IPSA from the menu first; go to the next screen before searching
  • Sample search
    • racism or xenophobia
    • France
    • Combine 1 and 2
  • Once you identify an article, search MIRLYN for the call number and location

• ProQuest (UMich Only)
  • Research Library indexes some 2300 journals in all fields since the 1980s and provides the full text of many since the 1990s (marked by a full-page symbol)
  • No articles on the World Conference but numerous articles on racism or xenophobia in different countries
  • Articles may be marked for downloading or printing

• Academic Universe
  • Full text of newspapers from around the world
  • Sample search
    • international criminal court and (england or great britain or united kingdom)

• Country Background
  • Check especially Background Notes of the World and the human rights materials

• Government Web Sites
  • Check especially missions to the United Nations
  • Secondary source: foreign ministries or the U.S. State Department

• Human Rights
  • Section of this web page with sources analyzing human rights violations

• International Court of Justice
  • Text of current decisions and background on cases under consideration
  • Statute of the Court and Charter of the United Nations

Comprehensive Lists of International Agencies

• International Organization Web Sites
  • Definitive list from the Union of International Associations
  • Links to almost 4000 web sites of inter-governmental and non-governmental international organizations
  • Approach alphabetically by name or by subject matrix
  • Section on international conferences
• International Relations Research (Univ.Toronto/MIT)
  • Annotated guide to international relations research by subject or type of material
  • Includes lists of international governmental and non-governmental organizations

European Union

• Europa (European Commission)
  • History, structure, program, activities, and directory of members
  • Search by keywords (e.g. china, world trade organization) for the full text of documents
• European Parliament
  • Description, powers, and organization of the Parliament
  • List of committees and directories of Member offices
  • Full text of speeches beginning October 1996 as well as publications adopted
  • Committee schedules and press releases
  • Multilingual
• European Union Bibliography (UC-Berkeley)
  • Extensive annotated research guide to EU bibliographies, citations, legislative sources, statistics, and other reference materials
  • Includes printed, microfiche, CD-ROM, and Internet resources
• European Union Internet Resources (UC-Berkeley)
  • Links to Euorpean Union servers, documents, and country delegations

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations

• FAO catalog of publications, its work programme, and press releases
• Main page has search capacity; for a list of contents, see the "What's New" section
• Description of the Uruguay Round Agreements
• Connect directly to statistical time series on agriculture, fisheries, forestry, land use, and population searchable by commodity or country

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

• Historic documents, NATO Handbook, NATO Review
• Current press releases and fact sheets
• Detailed reports on Kosovo (Operation Allied Force and Operation Joint Guardian)

Organization for Economic Cooperation and Deveopment

• Membership includes the Western European and other industrialized countries (U.S., Japan, Canada)
• Extensive reports on economics and the environment
• Numerous statistics

Organization of American States

• Promotes democracy, free trade, drug control, education and human rights in the Western Hemisphere

United Nations

• Background Information [Library]
  • United Nations Yearbook [Library]
    • Doc.Cen JX 1976 .A1 U64--UN Ref.
    • Most complete summary of United Nations activities with citations to or reprints of the most important United Nations documents
  • UN Chronicle [Library]
    • Doc.Cen. JX 1977.A1 U6--UN Ref.
    • Quarterly summary of major issues before the United Nations
    • Includes selected citations to UN documents but seldom reprints<
    • Also in Academic Universe
  • A Global Agenda: Issues before the UN General Assembly [Library]
    • Summary of agenda items with citations to relevant documents
    • Doc.Cen. JX 1977 .A1 U54-Ref.

• United Nations Web Sites
  • Access UN (UMich Only)
    • Index to United Nations documents issued since 1956
    • Searches may be defined by author, country, type of document (official record, sales publication), subject, title, text, and date
    • Provides citations to United Nations microfiche and paper records located in the Documents Center
    • Includes the full text of General Assembly plenary meetings (A/PV) since 1993 (48th session) and its committees (e.g. A/C.2/46/SR.1) since the 45th session, 1990 if there is a voting record in that session
    • Ask at the Documents Desk for publications not on the web

  • United Nations Optical Disk System (UMich - On-Site Password)
    • Full text of UN Official Records and related parliamentary documents since 1992 as well as journals and bulletins
    • Searchable by date, document symbol, and full text with output in Adobe Acrobat format
    • Search Protocols
      • Date must be chosen first and entered in European fashion
      • Boolean operators (and, or, near) must be entered in brackets
    • On-site password in Documents Center only

  • United Nations Web Site
    • Basic information on the United Nations (history, charter, member countries)
    • Press releases, daily highlights
    • General Assembly, ECOSOC, and Security Council publications and resolutions
    • Does NOT include debates; see paper copy in Documents Center
    • Indexed by keyword and type of document
    • Major conference documents, catalog of UN sales publications, audio-visual material

  • United Nations Speech Index
    • Indexes speeches in the General Assembly, Economic and Social Council, Security Council and Trusteeship Council since 1983
    • Index by country or keyword
    • Sample search by country, subject and session:
      Choose keyword
      russia* 54 kosovo
    • Data includes speaker, country, subject, date, record number, and agenda item number
    • Does not link to the full text of document
    • Speeches are also indexed since 1956 in Access UN (UMich Only)

  • United Nations Voting Records
    • Country voting records on Security Council resolutions since 1946 and General Assembly resolutions since the 38th Session (1983) with a possible one-year time delay
    • Searchable by resolution number or keyword
    • Data includes votes name of resolution, resolution number, agenda item number, and voting records for individual countries
    • Note: the arrangement is by resolution rather by country
    • Additional Sources of UN Voting Records
      • United Nations Roll Call Data, 1946-1985 covers General Assembly; in SPSS format; ICPSR membership only
      • Nations on Record (Doc. Cen. JX 1977.8 .V6 N28) has General Assembly roll call charts, 1945-86
      • General Assembly Sessional Index, 1975+ (in Documents Center UN Collection) and Security Council Sessional Index, 1976+ (in Documents Center UN Collection have similar charts

• United Nations International Organizations Network Search
  • Searches the main United Nations and related agency web sites by keyword, broad subject area
  • Includes the UN Headquarters, World Bank, UNICEF, United Nations Environmental Program, etc.
  • Results link to individual web pages with the full text

• United Nations System
  • Includes the texts of UN resolutions (indexed) and press releases from international conferences
  • Considerable information on developing countries
  • Gopher and web sites of the various UN departments, affiliated agencies, and conferences
  • Gopher site alternative if web site is difficult to load on your workstation

• United Nations Scholars' Workstation (Yale University)
  • Subject index to web sites with United Nations information
  • Links to numeric data sites
  • Excellent research guide to United Nations information
  • Academic information about Yale's UN Studies program and Yale Library resources

World Trade Organization

• WTO regulations on goods, services, intellectual property, and dispute resolution
  
• Text of the Uruguay Round treaty which created it
  
• Press releases

Background Information

• Army Area Handbooks [Web]
  • Detailed description of a country's culture, economy, and foreign policy
  • Seventy-one countries including all studied in this course except for the United Kingdom
  • Additional countries may be found by searching MIRLYN: k={name of country} and country adj study.ti. [Web and Library]

• Background Notes on Countries of the World (U.S. State Dept.) [Web]
  • Summarizes a country's history, economy, and foreign policy
  • Updated on a staggered basis every few years

• CIA World Factbook
  • Brief information about a country's population, ethnicity, politics, and economics
  • The corresponding paper copy is in Doc.Cen. G 122 .U56--Doc.Ref. [Library]

• Europa World Yearbook [Library]
  • Current political history of country, directory of officials, selected economic and social statistics
  • The first section of Volume 1 summarizes the structure and activities of international organizations
  • GL Info. Center, UGL Ref. Desk and Doc. Desk--Ready Reference: D 2 .E92

• Political Risk Yearbook [Library]
  • Commercial publication with extensive summaries of a country's political history, and key players with economic and political turmoil forecasts
  • Doc.Cen. JQ 1871 .A1 P65--Stat.Ref.

Biographies

• Chiefs of State and Cabinet Ministers [Web]
  • Quarterly directory on names of officials in foreign countries
  • Not always current enough for Russia
  • Paper version is: JF 37 .A3 U53 with latest edition in Reference
  • Use to identify name of foreign minister (e.g. Tang Jiaxuan of China); then use Academic Universe or World News Connection for news articles
• Academic Universe (UMich Only)
  • Identify name of foreign minister using Chiefs of State
  • Then use General News or Biographies in Academic Universe for additional information
• Biographical Directories [Library]
  • International Who's Who
    • GL Information Center and UGL Ref. CT 103.I63
  • International Yearbook and Statesman's Who's Who
    • Info. Center Desk JA 51.I6
  • Who's Who in the World
    • GL Information Center and UGL Ref. CT 120 .W66

Economics

• Country Commercial Guides (State Dept)
  • Economic and political factors for U.S. citizens exporting to various countries
  • Includes laws, contacts, key imports and exports

• Country Economic Policy and Trade Practices (U.S. State Dept) [Web]
  • Evaluation of each country's economic policy for the past five years
  • Includes basic statistics for past three years
  • Assesses trade barriers, export/import controls, intellectual property, and workers' rights

• Economic Report of the President (GPO)
  • Historical summary of key economic statistics with future projections
  • Implications for government economic policy
  • Searchable only with output in ASCII or Adobe Acrobat format
  • See also Economic Statistics for further detail on the United States

• ISI Emerging Markets (UMich Only)
  • Macroeconomic statistics and economic forecasts for China, India and Brazil
  • Analysis of companies and industrial sectors
  • Detailed import and export statistics by commodity and country
  • Text in English

• STAT-USA (UMich Only)
  • Market research reports, CIA intelligence, and trade opportunities for individual countries in GLOBUS/National Trade Data Bank
  • State of the Nation Library is devoted to U.S. economic data

• Statistical Universe (UMich Only)
  • Search U.S., business and state government statistics
  • Enter through Statistical Sources and then choose Subject or Comparative Data
  • Sample Search using Comparative Data: by foreign country/ trade balance w/p China
  • Results provide abstract of publication and microfiche call number in the Documents Center (e.g. SRI 1997 B6200-2)
  • Some abstracts link to the full text with the data
  • Statistical Universe Guide

• Tradeport Country Library
  • General political and economic information for individual countries
  • Searchable data base of Market Research Reports, which analyze country sales opportunities

• Europa World Yearbook [Library]
  • Current political history of country, directory of officials, selected economic and social statistics
  • The first section of Volume 1 summarizes the structure and activities of international organizations
  • Info.Cen. Desk and Doc. Desk--Ready Reference: D 2 .E92

• Political Risk Yearbook [Library]
  • Commercial publication with extensive summaries of a country's political history, and key players with economic and political turmoil forecasts
  • Doc.Cen. JQ 1871 .A1 P65--Stat.Ref.

• World Development Indicators CD-ROM Guide
  • World Development Indicators provides annual data since 1960 on 256 variables for 210 countries
  • Data includes agriculture, economics, national accounts, prices, health, the environment, education, demographics, and imports/exports of services
  • Replaces the World Bank's World Tables
  • The guide provides screen shots for using the CD and a searchable data base of variables
  • Note: this is a CD-ROM product available in the Documents Center
  • It is also available on the CITRIX LAN; special software must be downloaded to the individual workstation
  • Only selected tables are available on the web

• World Development Report [Library]
  • Summary of international economic developments in previous year
  • Various economic data for individual low, middle and high income countries
  • Doc.Cen. HC 59.7 .A1 W93 with most current in Stat.Ref.

Human Rights

• Amnesty International
  • Annual country reports on human rights practices
  • Multiple investigations for individual countries
  • Includes United States

• Country Reports on Human Rights Practices
  • State Department annual report on human rights violations in individual countries beginning 1993

• For the Record
  • Summary of human reports reports given by individual countries to the United Nations
  • Hot links to the full text
  • Includes United States
  • Part of the Human Rights Internet

• Human Rights Watch
  • Annual report on the human rights situation in individual countries

• Non-Western Sources on Human Rights (SUNY-Binghamton)
  • Foreign publications on human rights issues
  • Arranged by region and country

Laws and Treaties

• Foreign and International Laws (Washburn Univ)
  • Foreign laws, area studies web sites, and news sources
  • Arranged by region and country

• Multilateral Treaties (Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy) [Web]
  • Historical and current international conventions on arms control, environment, human rights and trade
  • Approach by topic or date with keyword index

• Nations of the World (Law Library of Congress)
  • Separate web page for each country of the world links to constitutions and laws available on the web
  • Links to executive, legislative and judicial branch web sites
  • General sources include area studies, human rights reports, refugee reports, travel advisories

Military Affairs

• Armed Forces of the World (Canadian Forces College)
  • Extensive links to armed forces web sites arranged by country as well as other defense information
• Center for Defense Information
  • Arms Trade Data Base provides the text of news articles on arms trade, arranged by country
  • Weekly Defense Monitor includes position papers
  • U.S. military spending clock
• International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism
  • List of international terrorist organizations and data base of terrorist attacks since 1990
  • Daily news and weekly articles
  • Searchable index to both data and articles
• Nuclear Explosion Data Base
  • Query database by country/location and date range for a list of nuclear explosions since 1945
  • Data includes time and date, latitude and longitude, type of test, body wave length, and comments
  • Map illustrates active test sites
  • Maintained by the Australian Geological Survey Organization
• Patterns of Global Terrorism (State Dept)
  • Summary of terrorist acts by continent and country for 1995
  • Appendix provides a chronology of terrorist acts and a description of the terrorist groups
• SIPRI Yearbook
  • Paper copy has lengthy annual summary of international military affairs, conflict, disarmament, statistics, and signatories to major treaties
  • Paper copy: UA 17 .S12 with current in Doc.Cen.--Doc.Ref.
  • Internet version is primarily a press release with limited information
• UN Peace-Keeping Operations
  • World map identifies current and completed peacekeeping missions since 1948
  • Data for each mission includes a description, dates, military strength, and the name of the primary military observer
  • Separate sections of the web site include fatalities by type and mission, numbers of peacekeeping forces contributed by country, lessons learned from past missions, and the most current annual report
  • Supplemented by maps from the UN Cartographic Section
• World Military Expenditures and Arms Transfers (ACDA)
  • Military expenditures, armed forces, GNP, and population for 172 countries, 1984-
  • Arms transfers by supplier and recipient
  • Summary of world military forces and arms transfers for various years, 1961 to present
  • United States policy on arms control and export
  • 1995 version in HTML format; 1996 version in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format

China

• Embassy to the United States (Washington, D.C.)
  • Substantial information on Chinese foreign relations and public policy issues, including intellectual property and membership in the WTO
  • Economic statistics, education information, and travel
• Ministry of Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation
  • Text of Chinese foreign trade laws and regulations
  • Bulletin board of sales opportunities and list of products for sale
  • Basic import/export data
• China Permanent Mission to the United Nations (Geneva)
  • Press releases on Chinese policy, including human rights and World Trade Organization membership

France

• Use Alta Vista's Babelfish to translate web pages or text from French to English
• AdmiNet - The French Connection
  • French government agencies, politics and culture
  • Links to city information
  • French and English text
• Embassy to the United States
  • Extensive press releases and statements on foreign policy
  • Sections on trade and tourism
  • Searchable by keyword in English
• Legifrance
  • Full searchable text of the Journal Officiel beginning 1998
  • Constitutional, administrative, and juridical law and legislation
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Lengthy description of overall foreign policy
  • Special sections on defense, nuclear testing, and the European Union
  • Text in English with links to other languages
• National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE)
  • Extensive web site of current economic data
• Permanent Mission to the United Nations (Geneva)
  • Documents, press releases, and statements
  • Text in French ony
• Good press coverage in Academic Universe under News/World News/European Sources

India

• India Embassy to the United States
  • Foreign policy issues and news
  • Links to the Indian President and Cabinet
  • Election statistics since 1952 as well as current election information
  • Search engine
• India Ministry of External Affairs
  • Economic statistics, social policy, and trade policy
  • Describes foreign policy by country
  • Similar to the U.S. Embassy web site
• India Network (Bowling Green State Univ.)
  • A Research Information and Statistics section has links to census and other data about the Indian states
  • Links to businesses, discussion groups, and news digests
• India Parliament
  • Description of the Parliament
  • Full text of Parliamentary debates beginning November 27, 1995
  • English and Hindi
• Permanent Mission to the United Nations
  • Statements made since 1998

Japan

• Embassy to the United States
  • Profile of Japanese government organization
  • Speeches of the ambassador
  • Links to cabinet agencies
  • Little foreign policy information
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Extensive information on Japanese foreign policy, speeches, bluebooks
  • Foreign embassy information
  • Text in English
• Ministry of International Trade and Industry
  • Current Japanese trade and economic policy
  • Detailed statistics on industrial production and business conditions
• Permanent Mission to the United Nations (Geneva)
• Prime Minister
  • List of all Japanese government web servers
  • Speeches of the Prime Minister

Mexico

• Use Alta Vista's Babelfish to translate web pages or text from Spanish to English
• Embassy to the United States
  • Extensive and slick web site
  • Economic and social statistics
  • Explanation of government structure and position on human rights
  • Text of ambassador's speeches
  • List of consultates in the U.S.
  • Children's section
  • Text in English
• National Institute of Statistics, Geography, and Informatics
  • Current social, demographic, economic, and health statistics for Mexico, its states and urban areas
  • National Development Plan and related links
  • Spanish and English
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Speeches by the minister and undersecretaries of foreign affairs
  • Data on the economy and drug control efforts
  • No search engine for locating specific pieces of information
• Permanent Mission to the United Nations
  • Speeches made in the UN since 1998
  • Focus on Security Council reform and elections
  • English and Spanish
• President
  • Extensive news coverage of economics and state visits
  • Most recent State of the Nation address
  • Text in English or Spanish

Russian Federation

• Aport
  • Annotated directory of Russian web sites in the Google mode
  • Subjects are primarily Russian politics, entertainment, language and travel
  • Interface in English and Russian
  • Directory section is similar to @ATRUS
  • Features automated translations of English to Russian and Russian to English
• List
  • Classified guide to the internet in Russian
  • Good source for laws and politics
  • Annotations include language of web site (Russian or Russian and English)
• Yandex
  • Keyword search engine to web sites in the CIS countries
  • Alternative English interface

• Constitution
  • English text of December 1993 constitution
• Duma
  • History of the Duma, election results, and committee membership
  • Duma Library lists Federation laws by subject and regional laws by region since 1994
  • Text in Russian
• Embassy to the United States
  • Description of the Russian government and 1995 civil code
  • How to obtain Russian visa
  • Press releases on foreign policy
• Federal Commission for the Securities Market
  • Administrative decisions and regulations
  • Text in English and Russian
• Foreign Investment Promotion Center
  • Russian macroeconomic and sectoral data
  • Economic forecasts
  • Sectoral analysis of various aspects of the economy, some in pdf format
  • English text
• Ministry of Defense
  • Text in Russian
• Ministry of Economy
  • Macroeconomic data and forecasts
  • English or Russian
• Ministry of Foreign Affairs
  • Press releases and briefings
  • Statements made at the United Nations
  • Text in English with English search engine
• Permanent Mission to the United Nations
  • Statements made before the Security Council, Economic and Social Council, and General Assembly in English and Russian
  • Section on Russian policies under development as of May 1998
• President
  • Text in Russian
• Russian Federation
  • Extensive list of federal and regional government agencies; some city web sites
  • Agency titles translated into English
• Russian Government Online
  • Description of Parliament and a directory of its members and committees
  • Electoral process and constitution
  • A separate "Government" section is under development as of August 1997
  • Text in English
• Russian Legal Server (UTenn)
  • Constitution and civil code in Russian text
• Russian State Committee for Statistics
  • Links to statistical agencies of other countries
  • Most data bases require registration but there is a Free Public Section
  • Text in Russian
• Russian State Library
  • Description of collection
  • Links to other Russian libraries
  • News and conference announcements
• Taxation (Conseco)
  • Private firm describes Russian taxes and tax rates in English
  • Includes corporate and personal income taxes, value-added, highway, and sales tax

• Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press, 1992+ [AP 2 .C9752 with current issues in Serials and Microforms]
  • Continues Current Digest of the Soviet Press, 1949-1992 [AP 2 .C9752]
  • Also available through Academic Universe (UMich Only) since June 1, 1993 under the Current Digest of the Soviet Press
• InterFax News Agency
  • Today's political and business news for all of the CIS countries
  • Archived since January 13, 1998 with one day time-delay on Academic Universe (UMich Only)
• Moscow Times
  • Today's top headlines in English
  • Stock market news
• ITAR-TASS Russian News Agency
  • Current Russian news requires a subscription
  • Data archived in English since 1994 in the World News Connection (UMich Only)
• St. Petersburg Times
  • Comprehensive coverage of local and national news
  • Today's news free; archive since 1994 requires a subscription
• Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty
  • U.S. government news, analysis, special reports, and summary economic and human rights information for Russia and Eastern Europe
  • The Newsline feature has current news broadcasts to Eastern Europe beginning April 1997
  • Newsline replaced the Open Media Research Institute Daily Digest reports and provides a searchable archive to its reports back to 1991
  • OMRI Daily Digests, 1991-March 1997, also remained available as of May 30, 1997
• Russia Today
  • News, business, culture, and travel information for Russia and CIS countries
  • News service archived to December 2, 1996
• Vladivostok News
  • English-language newspaper of the Russian far east
  • Political and business news with candid editorials
  • Archived since December 1995 with a search engine
  • Links to the dail version
• Voice of Russia
  • Radio broadcasting and telecommunications service
  • Special reports on foreign and domestic public policy
  • Multilingual text
• World News Connection
  • Text of foreign radio broadcasts and newswires translated into English since November 1994
  • Searchable by keyword, date, and region
  • Includes ITAR/TASS news agency
  • Translations from countries with a U.S. trade embargo (e.g. Iran, Iraq, Sudan and Libya) were removed beginning October 1999

South Africa

• South Africa Government Online
  • Official site of South African Government
  • Provides documents, speeches, and description of system of government
  • Directory of government officials
• Central Statistical Service
  • Statistical Releases and Economic Indicators provide free access to demographic, economic, and labor statistics
  • Most other publications require a password
• Embassy to the United States
  • Government and Policy is extensive
  • Sections on foreign relations with individual countries and international organizations
  • National policy on conservation, economics, transportation, etc.
• Unwembi's Resource of South African Government Information
  • Directories and biographies of government officials
  • Speeches and press releases
  • Parliamentary proceedings, reports, and papers beginning 1995
  • Commission reports and court decisions
  • Text of 1996 Constitution
• Truth and Reconciliation Commission Report
  • TEXT of report which Archbishop Desmond Tutu presented to President Mandela on October 29
• Parliament
  • Members of Parliament
  • Extensive Parliamentary papers and debates in Adobe Acrobat format
  • Keyword search engine
• Permanent Mission to the United Nations
  • This is really the U.S. Consulate in New York
  • Summary information on foreign affairs and other government policies

United Kingdom

• Open Government
  • List of all British Government web servers by subject and function
• Foreign and Commonwealth Office
  • Annual report and background briefs on British foreign policy
  • Travel and consular advice
• Mission to the United Nations
  • Statements made to the General Assembly, 1997+, and Security Council
• Parliament
  • House of Commons
    • Full text of debates, oral questions, and written answers beginning October 23, 1996 (Hansard's)
      • Searchable by keyword, speaker, type of document, and date
    • Members, committees and officers of the House of Commons
  • House of Lords
    • Full text of Hansard's House of Lords debates beginning June 10, 1996
    • Members of the House, bills, committees, and officers
  • Publications
    • Acts of Parliament
    • Public Bills Before Parliament
      • Full text of bills before Parliament, 1999+
      • Arranged alphabetically by title
      • The House of Commons Weekly Information Bulletin gives the legislative status
    • Statutory Instruments (Full text 1997-)
    • Command, White and Green Papers
• Prime Minister (10 Downing Street)
  • Biographies of previous prime ministers and current cabinet officials
  • Prime Minister's speeches, interviews, and press releases

United States Foreign Policy

• United States Foreign Policy (UMich)
  • Extensive annotated guide to current and historical sources
  • Listing below is a selection from that web page

• Federal Agency Web Sites
  • Cleancut alphabetical listing of federal agency web sites
  • Includes search engine

• Google Search Engine
  • Web search engine devoted exclusively to sites with .gov and .mil extensions
  • Excellent for federal policy papers

• Department of State Foreign Affairs Network
  • State Department speeches and foreign policy
  • Index located at the top of the page
  • Regions includes country information as well as State Department testimony and press releases on such topics as China's trade status and the Asian economic crisis
  • Department covers the biographies of officials
  • Outreach links to State Department reports and foreign policy magazines
  • Foreign Relations of the United States is available on-line with selected volumes, 1945-68, and provides additional examples of memoes

• International Trade Administration
  • United States EXPORT policy and export leads

• International Trade Commission
  • Reports and press releases on U.S. IMPORTS
  • Agency directs U.S. actions on what it considers unfair foreign trade policies

• Permanent Mission to the United Nations
  • Statements and speeches before the United Nations since January 1996
  • Arranged chronologically with identification of topic
  • President Clinton's Speech to the 52nd Session (Sept. 22, 1997), 53rd Session (Sept. 21, 1998), and 54th Session (Sept. 21, 1999)

• United States Trade Representative
  • Negotiates TRADE RELATIONSHIPS with other countries
  • Web site has press releases, speeches, statements, and testimony on trade relations

• Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, 1993+
  • Full text of Presidential executive orders, speeches, press conferences, names of nominees
  • Phrases should be in parentheses and Boolean operators capitalized (e.g. "china" AND "most favored nation")
  • Table of contents search (contents AND "july 28, 1997)

• White House Electronic Publications [Web]
  • Press releases, speeches and documents beginning January 1993 and updated daily
  • Browse by date or broad subject category
  • There is no keyword searching but publications can be identified using a forms interface specifying date, broad subject, type of publication, and principal speaker
  • Searching by keyword and date

• Foreign Trade Data (Census Bureau)
  • Imports and exports since 1996 by commodity and country
  • U.S. foreign trade balances with individual countries
• Economic Report of the President (GPO)
  • Historical summary of key economic statistics with future projections
  • Implications for government economic policy
  • Searchable only with output in ASCII or Adobe Acrobat format
  • STAT-USA (UMich Only)
    • Market research reports, CIA intelligence, and trade opportunities for individual countries in GLOBUS/National Trade Data Bank
    • State of the Nation Library is devoted to U.S. economic data
  • Statistical Web Sites (UMich) [Web]
    • Federal and international Internet sites for economic, demographic, and other statistical data

• Background
  • Academic Universe (UMich Only)
    • Full text of newspapers from around the world and journal articles
    • Search Government and Political News/Legislative News
    • Sample search: china w/10 (world trade organization or most favored nation)

  • All Politics
    • Today's political news from Time, CNN, and Congressional Quarterly

  • Congress Daily (UMich Only)
    • Full text of Hill news since 1991 and updated twice daily
    • Searchable by keyword and year
    • In Inside Washington section of Congressional Universe

  • CQ Weekly Report (UMich Only)
    • Full text of CQ since 1983
    • Initial page boots up to current issue
    • Separate search engines for articles and roll call votes can be limited by year
    • Paper copy in Documents Center as JK 1.C12--Ref. with older issues in Graduate Library
    • Web subscription includes CQ Researcher which provides briefing reports on public policy issues

  • Google's Uncle Sam
    • Indexes federal government web pages with a .gov and .mil extension
    • Great for obtaining statements by members of Congress and reports of the Executive Branch

  • National Journal [Web and Library]
    • Weekly periodical on government agencies; includes major legislative issues
    • Full text, 1977+, available under Inside Washington from Congressional Universe (UMich Only)
    • Also in Graduate Library as JK 1.N28 with current issues in Documents Center--Docs.Ref.

  • Policy.com
    • Daily periodical with current policy news, issue of the week, and in-depth analysis of 20 current policy issues
    • Virtual Congress features speeches and votes on topics
    • Includes a policy chat room

  • Political Information
    • Index limited to political information on the web
    • Links to full text

  • ProQuest
    • Index to over 2300 popular and scholarly journals since the mid-1980s
    • Full text of numerous journals since the 1990s

• Bills
  • Congressional Universe (UMich Only)
    • Indexes bills since 1989 by subject, keyword, sponsor, and date
    • Provides the full text and legislative status
    • Also includes the full text of laws and regulations in force
  • THOMAS
    • Indexes bills since 1993 by keyword, sponsor and date
    • Provides the full text and status

• Committee Publications
  • Includes hearings (testimony), committee prints (research reports), reports (recommendations on bills), and documents (Executive Branch communiques)
  • Congressional Universe (UMich Only)
    • Indexes published hearings (1970+), committee prints (1993+), and reports (1989+) by subject, keyword, committee, and date
    • Provides an abstract of publications located in the Documents Center in paper and/or microfiche format
    • Includes the full text of selected testimony beginning 1988
    • From the main page, search under Congressional Publications
  • Paper and CD-ROM indexes of hearings and all publications, as well as paper and/or microfiche copies, located in the Documents Center
  • Illustrative Slides

• Congressional Record [Web]
  • Congressional Universe (UMich Only)
    • Indexes Congressional Record since 1985 by keyword, speaker, and date
    • Provides the full text
    • Located under Congressional Publications
  • THOMAS
    • Indexes speeches on the floor of Congress by subject, Member of Congress, and date since 1993

Internet Search Engines

• AltaVista
  • Keyword index to the TEXT of individual web pages
  • Largest and most popular of search engines as of July 1996
• Excite
  • Extremely fast index to the contents of web pages
• Fast Search
  • Fastest search engine on the web
  • Links to over 2 million web pages
• Google Uncle Sam Search
  • Fast search engine which indexes only .gov and .mil web sites
  • Excellent for obtaining U.S. policy information
• WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources (Elizabethtown College)
  • Nicely annotated guide for college students by Professor Wayne Selcher
  • Sections on area studies, maps, news, U.S. and international government agencies, peace, think tanks and study abroad
  • Includes starter tips for research
  • Especially strong on international business and security issues
• Yahoo [Web]
  • Comprehensive classified subject list of world-wide web sites

Writing Guides

• On-line versions of dictionaries and thesauri
  
• Guides to English usage
  
• Also includes interactive maps

Citation Guides [Web and Library]

• Best citation guides on the Internet and in the library
  
• Includes guides for citing government documents

Grace York, Coordinator, Documents Center
University of Michigan Library
Graphics by Sherry Piontek and Barbara Perles
Send suggestions to graceyor@umich.edu

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/ps463.html