Online Resources
Here is a small sample of the resources available online:
World Health Organization (WHO)
Includes statistics, information about programs, publications and media.
The WWW Virtual Library: International Development
U.S. State Department Background Notes - include facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty.
Center for Global Development is an independent, nonprofit policy research organization that is dedicated to reducing global poverty and inequality and to making globalization work for the poor through a combination of research and strategic outreach.
United Nations - Human Development Reports
United Nations Development Programme (works best in IE)
PressDisplay 
online access to today's newspapers from around the world in full-color, full-page format. The service also provides a 60-day backfile and the ability to perform keyword searches within any issue. Newspapers are in their original language. Coverage Dates: - Most recent 60 days
Country Information
Country Studies from the Library of Congress
The World Factbook from the CIA
Countries and Regions from the World Bank
Annotated Bibliographies
Graduate students in this class will be required to write an annotated bibliography. For help with this, please see the online handout from the Purdue University Online Writing Lab (OWL), "Annotated Bibliographies." http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/614/01/
Style and Citation Guides
There is a Writing Guide for the Anthropology Department on their website. Several databases have citation help built in. Be careful, however, because these are not 100% accurate--always check your citation carefully before including it.
You can also buy software to help you track your research and create bibliographies.Check out:
- Refworks (http://www.refworks.com/)
- EndNote (http://www.endnote.com/)
- EndNote has a web version, too: http://www.endnoteweb.com/enwebhome.asp) Free to OSU students.
- Zotero - a free citation management plug-in for Firefox
Suggested Databases
Depending on your research subject, a variety of databases--anthropology, news, business, trade--may prove useful. Here are a few suggestions.
STAT-USA (with National Trade Data Bank) ceased publication in 2010. For information on U.S. domestic and foreign economic data; import and export statistics; etc. it is now necessary to go to individual sources, see: STAT-USA Data Sources.
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Abstracts in Anthropology
An indispensable reference and research tool for all aspects of anthropology. No full text.
Coverage Dates: 2002 - present -
Academic Search Premier
Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.
Full-text and abstract/index: 1975-present
Concurrent Users: unlimited
Coverage Dates: 1975 - present -
Anthrosource
Full text access to 32 AAA journals.
Coverage Dates: 1972 - present -
Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 3,300 scholarly business journals, including full text for more than 1000 peer-reviewed business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDF) for more than 300 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1886. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.
Concurrent Users: unlimited
Coverage Dates: 1886 - present -
Environment & Energy Publishing
The subscription includes five daily online publications covering energy, environmental and climate policy: Environment & Energy Daily, Greenwire, ClimateWire, Land Letter and E&E News PM!
Coverage Dates: 2007 - -
Environmental Studies and Policy Collection
Answers environmentally-related inquiries with coverage of more than 3.3 million articles from more than 700 journals and reference content from Delmar, Cengage Learning. Robust coverage of environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.
Coverage Dates: 1980 - present -
LexisNexis Academic
Comprehensive index to newspaper and magazine articles, radio and TV news program transcripts, legal material and other reference sources. Of interest to our class is the International news coverage and business information.
Coverage Dates: - Varies by title -
PAIS
The PAIS International database covers a broad array of public policy subjects including international relations, science and technology, and social conditions. PAIS also includes historical topical coverage on events such as watergate, the cold war, and the women's movement. The index covers journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed.
Coverage Dates: 1915 - present -
Web of Science
The web version of Science Citation Index (SCI) and Social Science Citation Index (SSCI). The Web of Science accesses a multidisciplinary database of bibliographic information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals. The databases are indexed so you can search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.
Science Citation Index 1970-present
Social Science Citation Index 1970-present
Concurrent Users: unlimited
Coverage Dates: 1970 - present
