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Wiley / NetLibrary
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Clear, useful guide (2nd. ed.; 2001) to parliamentary procedure, with information on effective and reliable procedures for nominations, elections, ballots, balloting, and ballot counting.
Links will be maintained in Annie and on this page in our Web site.
Congressional Quarterly Press.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Contains over 225 tables and charts on American politics dating back to 1788, including data on presidential, gubernatorial, and congressional elections, party competition, public approval of the president, Congress, and the two major political parties, the federal budget and the national debt, and more. Data are supplied in HTML, Excel, and comma-separated variable formats.
Links will be maintained in Annie and in several locations in our Web site, including here.
Congressional Quarterly.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Authoritative coverage of the events, trends, and controversies in the U.S. Congress and Presidency from the administration of Harry S. Truman through the first term of President George W. Bush, including review and analysis of legislation and policy during each Congressional session and presidential term, organized by policy area.
Links will be maintained in Annie and in several locations in our Web site, including here.
Greenwood Press.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Searchable and browseable database of thousands of entries from encyclopedias and other reference books, monographs, collections of interviews, collections of primary source documents, audio clips, images, and Web sites. Coverage includes history, politics, business, media, literature, and more.
Links will be maintained in Annie and in several locations in our Web site, including here.
Association of College and Research Libraries.
Available online.
Compilation of sites is particularly useful for identifying free-of-charge Internet sites containing general public opinion polls.
Please note that Leyburn Library subscribes to several commercial online services which provide access to a wide range of polling data, accessible to W&L users from this Web page.
The W&L University Library is planning to take advantage of an offer from Blackwell Publishing to expand our access to their scholarly journals collection from the current 103 titles to 759 titles.
As part of this deal, which would take effect 1 January 2007, we agree to convert our current Blackwell subscriptions from print to online access only.
As with other online journals, all these titles would be available online to W&L students and faculty anywhere in the world through the W&L computing network.
You can see a list of the new online journals and a list of the current subscriptions which are to be converted to online-only by clicking on the Continue reading...link, below.
Please let me know if you have any objection to this change.
Another advantage: All online Blackwell journals are able to provide tables of contents of new issues by e-mail or RSS. This notification, which includes online access to the complete articles, usually is provided well before a printed issue would be available.
If you are interested in setting up this service, you can contact me (Dick Grefe).
The full list of 759 Blackwell journals, sorted by subject, is HERE.
Please note that there are significant additions in such subject areas as business and management, development studies, economics, law, politics, and sociology.
Current Blackwell journals (These current print subscriptions would become online-only.)
I have highlighted the titles in which I think the Journalism and Mass Communications Department might have the most interest. A bit of guess-work here...
AMERICAN BUSINESS LAW JOURNAL
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF AGRICULTURAL ECONOMICS
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS AND SOCIOLOGY
AUSTRALIAN JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND HISTORY
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF POLITICAL SCIENCE
ANALYSIS
ANNALS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS
Annual bulletin of historical literature
ANTHROPOLOGY TODAY
BUSINESS AND SOCIETY REVIEW
BIOETHICS
THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY
THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF POLITICS AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
BASIN RESEARCH
CANADIAN JOURNAL OF ECONOMICS
CONSERVATION BIOLOGY
CHILD DEVELOPMENT
CELLULAR MICROBIOLOGY
CRITICAL QUARTERLY
Current directions in psychological science
DECISION SCIENCES
Decision sciences journal of innovative ed.
Developing world bioethics
DIPLOMATIC HISTORY
ECONOMICA
THE ECONOMIC JOURNAL
THE ECONOMIC RECORD
THE ECONOMICS OF TRANSITION
ECONOMIC HISTORY REVIEW
ECOLOGY LETTERS
ENGLISH LITERARY RENAISSANCE
EUROPEAN LAW JOURNAL (received by the Law Library)
FAMILY BUSINESS REVIEW
FAMILY COURT REVIEW (received by the Law Library)
FINANCIAL MARKETS, INSTITUTIONS AND INSTRUMENTS
GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY
GERMAN LIFE AND LETTERS
HISTORY
HISTORY AND THEORY
INTERNATIONAL ECONOMIC REVIEW
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF JAPANESE SOCIOLOGY
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
INTERNATIONAL STUDIES QUARTERLY
International studies review
JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY
JOURNAL OF BUSINESS FINANCE & ACCOUNTING
JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION
JOURNAL OF ECOLOGY
THE JOURNAL OF LAW, MEDICINE AND ETHICS
JOURNAL OF LEGAL STUDIES EDUCATION (received by the Law Library)
JOURNAL OF ACCOUNTING RESEARCH
JOURNAL OF CHINESE PHILOSOPHY
THE JOURNAL OF FINANCE
THE JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS
JOURNAL OF MARRIAGE AND FAMILY
JOURNAL OF POLITICS
JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS ETHICS
JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ISSUES
THE JOURNAL OF THE ROYAL ANTHROPOLOGICAL INSTITUTE
JOURNAL OF SMALL BUSINESS MANAGEMENT
JOURNAL OF SUPREME COURT HISTORY (received by the Law Library)
JOURNAL FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF RELIGION
JOURNAL OF URBAN AFFAIRS
KYKLOS: INTERNATIONAL REVIEW OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
LAW & POLICY
LAW AND SOCIETY REVIEW
LEGAL STUDIES (received by the Law Library)
THE MANCHESTER SCHOOL
MOLECULAR ECOLOGY
Molecular ecology notes
MIDDLE EAST POLICY
MIND & LANGUAGE
THE MILBANK QUARTERLY
THE MODERN LAW REVIEW (received by the Law Library)
MODERN LANGUAGE JOURNAL
MODERN THEOLOGY
Music Analysis
THE MUSLIM WORLD
NEGOTIATION JOURNAL (received by the Law Library)
NEW PERSPECTIVES QUARTERLY
OXFORD BULLETIN OF ECONOMICS & STATISTICS
OIKOS
OPEC REVIEW (received by the Law Library)
POPULATION AND DEVELOPMENT REVIEW
PHILOSOPHY AND PUBLIC AFFAIRS
PLANT CELL & ENVIRONMENT
PERSONNEL PSYCHOLOGY
PHILOSOPHICAL INVESTIGATIONS
PLANT SPECIES BIOLOGY
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Psychological science in the public interest
POLICY STUDIES JOURNAL
PRESIDENTIAL STUDIES QUARTERLY
PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REVIEW
PSYCHOLOGY OF WOMEN QUARTERLY
REVIEW OF EUROPEAN COMMUNITY AND INTERNATIONAL ENVIROMENTAL LAW (received by the Law Library)
RENAISSANCE STUDIES
THE REVIEW OF ECONOMIC STUDIES
REVIEW OF INTERNATIONAL ECONOMICS
Review of policy research
RELIGIOUS STUDIES REVIEW
THE RUSSIAN REVIEW
SEDIMENTOLOGY
SOCIOLOGICAL INQUIRY
SOCIAL SCIENCE QUARTERLY
THE SOCIOLOGICAL QUARTERLY
THE YALE REVIEW
Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania.
Available online.
Non-partisan program funded by the Annenberg Foundation which monitors "the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases." Recent discussions include claims in the Allen/Webb Senate race in Virginia and efforts to capture Osama bin Laden.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
Religion Newswriters Association.
Available online.
This is a fascinating compilation of voter guides that U.S. religious organizations are distributing "to inform the faithful about issues and candidates." Categories include conservative Christian, mainline Christians, watchdog groups, etc.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
Newspaper Association of America.
Available online.
The lastest update (Fall 2006) to the NAD indicates, among other things, that "newspaper Web sites have also helped drive a 15 percent increase in total newspaper audience for 25- to 34-year-olds and 10 percent increase for 18- to 24-year-olds." Date on top newspapers, top newspaper Web sites, demographic and geographic analyses, and more, are available in PDF and Excel formats.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
Aspen Institute.
Available online.
"Hurricane Katrina revealed how the traditional top-down paradigm of crisis communication is being replaced by a more dynamic flow of information that empowers citizens and creates ad hoc distributive information networks."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
In addition to the previously-announced Historical Statistics of the United States, Leyburn Library recently has purchased online access to three statistical compilations in "electronic book" form:
Thomson Gale.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
This is a new article database for the college and university market, providing broad coverage of most academic disciplines, including social sciences, business and economics, arts and humanities, natural and physical sciences, etc. It includes articles from over 9,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers, of which nearly 7,000 are academic journals, and most are available in full-text formats.
This new database probably makes obsolete the same publisher's Expanded Academic ASAP, at least for W&L researchers.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.