[New for Journalism, Politics, and Sociology -- now retired]

Oxford University Press.
Available online.
Leyburn Library has begun a subscription to this brand-new database, which contains over 7,500 entries on African American history and culture, mostly from significant Oxford University Press encyclopedias and other reference sources, along with primary source materials, maps, images, and more. Additional sources will be added to the database as they are published.
Links will be maintained in Annie and on various Leyburn Library pages, including this one.

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Administration and Cost of Elections (ACE) Project.
Available online.
Collections of essays in 12 topic areas within "election management," such as electoral systems, voter registration, media and elections, more.
Links will be maintained on several Leyburn Library pages, including here.

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International City/County Management Association.
Shelved in the Reference collection: REF JS.A2 I52 2006
This annual ICMA publication presents an overview of events and issues in U.S. local government, along with statistical tables and directories of officials. For more information, see the ICMA Web site.
Previous editions are available in the Leyburn Library collection.

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United Nations.
Shelved in the Reference collection: REF HQ 1154.W95 2006 (Various editions in the collection.)
Also available online.
This periodic report from the UN contains extensive international "sex-disaggregated statistics in such areas as demographics, health, education, work, violence against women, poverty, human rights and decision-making."
A link will be maintained on this Leyburn Library page.

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The journals described below are among the most recent additions to our JSTOR account.
Links will be available in Annie, in our Periodical Finder, and in various commercial databases, including JSTOR, of course.

African Arts
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 33, 1967-2000
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: James S. Coleman African Studies Center , University of California, Los Angeles

Bulletin of Latin American Research
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 14, 1981-1995
Moving Wall: 10 years
Publisher: Blackwell Publishing on behalf of the Society for Latin American Studies (SLAS)

The Canadian Journal of Sociology/Cahiers canadiens de sociologie
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 28, 1975-2003
Moving Wall: 2 years
Publisher: Canadian Journal of Sociology

Frontiers: A Journal of Women Studies
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 21, 1975-2000
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Journal of Public Health Policy
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 23, 1980-2002
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Journals

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Center on Alcohol Marketing and Youth.
Available online.
"This report examines the scope and consequences of underage drinking in the United States, how youth get access to alcohol, and how this can be prevented, how alcohol appeals to youth, including the extent to which youth are exposed to, aware of and influenced by alcohol advertising," and more.
A printed copy will be added to the Leyburn Library collection.

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Transparency International.
Shelved in our Reference collection: REF JF 1081.G56 2006
The latest edition of this annual compilation provides a focus on the damage done to worldwide health care by corruption. It also contains the usual annual compilation of country reports.
A link to the online form of this report will be maintained on this Leyburn Library page.

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MIT Center for International Studies.
Available online.
"There has long been a widespread perception among U.S. defense intellectuals, politicians and pundits that, while we can live with the nuclear weapons of the five official nuclear nations for the indefinite future, the proliferation of nuclear weapons to nuclear-threshold states in the Third World, especially the Islamic world, would be enormously dangerous." In this paper the author offers a contrary, of at least skeptical, viewpoint.
A printed copy will be added to the Leyburn Library collection.

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The old "New from Leyburn Library" blog, used for new Journalism, Politics, and Sociology materials, is still available from this site.

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