In addition to the resources listed in the class syllabus and web site, many other publications and web documents are available.  This guide will help search for governmental resources on your topic and the indexes can help identify articles on that topic.  Use it in combination with the other indexes and resources presented by Julia Gelfand.

Guides to freely available internet resources

• International Governmental Resources (UCI Libraries) This page is being edited so may change somewhat during this course.
• INFOMINE Government finding guide  Search by keywords or click on "keyword" and browse keywords such as International or Environment.  There are even some environmental management sites.
• U.S. State Department web page, especially their Environment section.
• U.S. Environmental Protection Agency International Cooperation page
• U.S. Global Change Research Information Research page
• Hieros Gamos Legal Research Center.  On the left, use International Law
• Cornell Global Law resources
• ANTPAC and Melvyl Catalog searches can help find publications such as documents available on your topics.  They can be very useful. Some samples:
• Nuclear Power:  Sustainability, climate change and competition.  International Energy Agency, Paris, 1998.  (ML GP Intl HD 9698 A2 N83 1998)
• Assessing the environmental effects of trade liberalisation agreements:  methodologies.Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Paris, 2000.  (ML GP Intl HF1379 A86 2000)
• GEO-2000 Alternative Policy Study for Europe and Central Asia:  Energy-related environmental impacts of policy scenarios, 1999-2010. By Detlef van Vuuren and Jan Bakkes.  United Nations Environment Programme and National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Nairobi and Bilthoven, The Netherlands, 1999.  (ML GP Intl. HD 9502 E852 V36 1999)
• Be sure to note the European spelling of many words as it can make a difference in your searches in indexes, databases, cataloges and web pages.   E.g., programme, liberalisation, organisation.

• AccessUN  Searches for documents of all UN organizations.  Some full text available.  Some have microfiche found in UN collection by the Document Number.  For those without document numbers, check Antpac or Melvyl.  (Note:  Library is introducting a new computer scanner that lets one scan microfiche images to a CD Burner)
• SourceOECD Search full text journals and other publications of major world economic partners
• LexisNexis Statistical Select "Search Abstracts", follow search tips, search for articles and statistics.
• International News Resources
• Try various ones offered such as Global Newsbank, LexisNexis Academic News, World News Connection.  Each covers many different resources and are indexed differently.  Foreign press coverage is often very different than U.S. press coverage.
• STAT-USA  Click on the Globus & NTDB portion and search for full text economic data.  Be sure to not just look at the top 50 sites.  Business oriented, U.S. perspective.  Has country studies.
• PAIS International for index to articles and documents.  Use UCelinks to locate copies not available full text.
• (NEW) Worldwide Political Science Abstracts  Use UCelinks to locate copies not available full text.
• (NEW)  ASSIA:  Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts  Use UCelinks to locate copies not available full text.
• LexisNexis Congressional is good for those topics like NAFTA in which the U.S. plays such a central role.  Be sure to use search tips.  Hearings include various opinions or positions and Committee Prints  can supply background on important topics.  All documents available either in the U.S. Government Collection on the First Floor of the Main Library or in the microfiche collection for CIS.
• LexisNexis government periodicals index has citations to publications on many of your topics.  Check the "List of links" to find online versions of the periodical titles.  If not there, check for your periodicals titles in ANTPAC.

Prepared:  October, 2002