Selected Resources for
Writ 101-Civil Disobedience
November 14, 2002
Gail Egbers
535-8869  egbersgl@plu.edu

FINDING ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS/JOURNALS: Periodical indexes and abstracts provide the most efficient subject access to journals and periodicals.

EBSCOhost A multi-disciplinary database that indexes roughly 4,500 journals, magazines, and newspapers with 3,600 titles in full text. Of those, nearly 2,600 titles are full text scholarly (peer reviewed) publications. This academic database provides full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas - including social sciences, humanities, natural sciences, and education.

Lexis/Nexis Provides access to a range of news, business, legal, and reference information. It is particularly strong in its news coverage, featuring mostly full-text articles from newspapers around the world. It is also strong in its law coverage, offering full text from law reviews, federal case law, and state case law.

PAIS  Indexes and abstracts international publications of all kinds in the social sciences and public policy, from the mid-1970s to present.

ProQuest This is a family of databases that includes some full-text journals and newspapers.   It includes the full text of the New York Times from 1851.
 
 
 

LOCATING PERIODICALS/JOURNALS:  Periodicals are arranged according to the Library of Congress classification system.  Use Journals at PLU to identify the call number of the journal you need.  Current issues of journals are shelved on the first floor.  Older issues (bound volumes and microfilm) are interfiled with the books in the main collection on the second (J-Z) and third (A-H) floors. Journals at PLU will also help you find full-text journals online.

 

REFERENCE MATERIALS

Demographic yearbook. Annuaire demographique (ref. HA17.D45)
Encyclopedia of the Third World (ref. HC59.7.K87 1992)
Encyclopedia Of Violence, Peace & Conflict (ref. HM886.E53 1999)
Encyclopedia of world terrorism (ref. HV6431.E53 1997)
Great debates at the United Nations : an encyclopedia of fifty key issues 1945-2000
    (ref. KZ4968.G67 2001)
Statistical Abstract of the United States  (ref.HA202; newest behind Reference Desk)
Statistical Portrait Of The United States: Social Conditions And Trends (ref. HA214.S84 1998)
Statistical yearbook. Annuaire statistique (ref. HA12.5.U63)
United States in the Vietnam War, 1954-1975 : a selected annotated bibliography
     (ref. Z3226.P43 1986)
Wealth & poverty : an economic history of the twentieth century (ref. HC79.W4W39 1990)
Women in the Third World : an encyclopedia of contemporary issues
    (ref. HQ1870.9.W6548 1998)
World Economic And Social Survey (ref. HC59.A169)
 
 

INTERNET RESOURCES

Thomas—Legislative Information on the Internet (http://thomas.loc.gov/)
U.S. Census Bureau (http://www.census.gov/)
U.S. Department of Health & Human Services (http://www.hhs.gov/)
 

BEYOND PLU

PLU's library may not own all of the materials you want to use.  You may either order them from Interlibrary Loan or go to a local library personally.  We are part of a consortium of libraries that includes:  Northwest College, St. Martin's College, University of Puget Sound, Seattle Pacific University, and Seattle University.  You may use your PLU ID card to check out materials from these libraries.  If you wish to order from Interlibrary Loan, be sure to allow sufficient time for the materials to arrive.
 
 
 

If you have questions while doing library research, ask for help at the reference desk or make an appointment with me for personal research assistance.

 

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