Research Resources for European Studies

POLITICS & GOVERNMENT

Materials are located in the YRL Reference Reading Room unless otherwise indicated.

Guide to official publications of foreign countries / American Library Association, Government Documents Round Table. 2nd ed. [Bethesda, Md.] : CIS, c1997. [Ref Desk Z 7164 .G7G83 1997]

Guide to country information in international governmental organization publications American Library Association, Government Documents Round Table. [edited by Marian Shaaban ; assistant editor, Carolyn Kohler]. [Bethesda, Md.?] : Congressional Information Service, c1996.
[Ref Desk Z 6464 .I6G85 1996]

York, Henry E. Political Science: A Guide to Reference and Information Sources. Englewood, CO: Libraries Unlimited, 1990.
[Ref Desk Z 7161 .Y75 1990]

Day, Alan J., Roger East, Richard Thomas. A political and economic dictionary of Eastern Europe. Cambridge: Europa, 2002. [DJK 42 .P65 2002]

Economist Intelligence Unit
Country Profiles and Country Reports which provide analysis and forecasts of the political, economic and business environment in more than 180 countries.

The Europa world year book. 30th ed. (1989)- London, England: Europa Publications Limited, c1989- [Ref Desk D 904 .E93]
This annual began in 1959 under the title The Europa Year Book. Since 1960, it covers the whole world, not just Europe.

Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States (1992-) [Ref Desk HC 244 .E225]

European Governments on the WWW. Anzinger, Gunnar.
Foreign Government Resources on the Web (University of Michigan)
Strategies for Locating Foreign Government Information on the Internet
PARLINE database (a derivative of Parliaments on-Line) has been developed by the Inter-Parliamentary Union and is regularly updated on the basis of official information provided by national Parliaments.
Chiefs of State and Cabinet Members of Foreign Governments

UN & International Intergovernmental Organizations (IGO)

Council of Europe
European Union
For information and news on the European Union, its institutions, issues, and policies.
International Agencies and Information on the Web (University of Michigan)
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development
UNBIS net
Catalogue of UN publications and documentation indexed by the United Nations Dag Hammarskjod library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva. Also included are non-UN publications held in the collection of the Dag Hammarskjold Library.
University of Michigan Documents Center Related Regional Sites, Europe
Click Related Regional Web Sites
UN Economic Commission for Europe

EUROPARL. European Parliament.
European Parliament members, activities, news, documents.

History of European Integration: Historical Documents. Leiden University Historical Institute.
Provides complete text of agreements, treaties, etc. from 1930 forward.

International Forum on Globalization
An organization that takes an anti-globalization stance.

American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES)
Covers North American scholarship since the late 1980s on Eastern Europe, Russia, and the former Soviet Union. Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, book reviews, dissertations, and selected government publications.

Annual Review of Political Science
Bibliographic essays reviewing the year's scholarship in Political Science.

Columbia International Affairs Online
Covering theory and research in international affairs, indexes and provides complete text of a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.

IBZ, Internationale Bibliographie der Zeitschriftenliteratur (International Bibliography of Periodical Literature)
Multilingual database, indexing over 5600 periodicals, including a significant proportion of the periodicals published on the European continent, 1983 to the present.

PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)
Index (with abstracts since 1985) to articles, books, conference proceedings, and government documents on social and political policy, political science, public administration, current affairs, and related topics, from 1972 to the present.

PARLIT Database
Database of bibliographic references on the role, structure and working methods of national parliaments, and on electoral systems, constitutional law, history and political science, from 1992- present.

Periodicals Archives Online (formerly PCI Full Text):
Indexes thousands of periodicals in the social sciences and humanities from 1770-1995, and currently offers full text of articles for 200 complete journal runs.

Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies
Index to materials in the humanities and social sciences published 1992-present in the Commonwealth of Independent States, Eastern Europe and elsewhere, including books, manuscripts, dissertations, and articles from more than 10,000 periodicals. Subject headings are in Russian (with some in English), as are most of the materials indexed.

Social Sciences Citation Index (via ISI Web of Science)
A multidisciplinary database of article citations gathered from thousands of scholarly journals, 1975-present. Search by topic, author, journal title, or cited author (to identify articles that cite an author or article that you specify). Users can also search the Arts & Humanities Citation Index and the Science Citation Index simultaneously.

UNBISnet (United Nations Bibliographic Information System)
Catalog of UN publications and documentation, and some non-UN publications, indexed by theUnited Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva. Coverage is primarily from 1979 forward, however indexing for resolutions of the General Assembly, Economic and Social Council, Security Council and Trusteeship Council are included back to 1946. Also includes an index to voting records and an index to speeches.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
Citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international literature in political science, international relations, law, and public policy. Built on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts, published by IFI / Plenum, 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI, published by ABC-CLIO, 1984-2000.

Compiled by Patti S. Caravello, March 2003