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National Security Archive/U.S. State Department.
Available online.
George Washington University's National Security Archive (not a government agency) has released the contents of documents generally referred to as the State Department's Future of Iraq plans, compiled before the invasion of Iraq. Materials were obtained through Freedom of Information Act procedures.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
Nuclear Threat Initiative/Center for Nonproliferation Studies.
Available online.
The NTI monitors about 25 countries and provides "in-depth profiles and short overviews of each country's nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and missile development programs, policies and activities."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
American Political Science Association.
Available online. Also available in printed form in the July 2006 issue of the journal PS.
"Six contributors study the sharp differences in partisanship and voting behavior which often emerge around commonplace demographic characteristics such as gender, worship attendance, and age. These studies of voting based on gender, religious attendence, income, and locale show that Americans are divided on a wide range of political fronts that go beyond the simplistic 'red state, blue state' rubric."
Career Education Institutes.
Available online.
Online access to internship opportunities through over 2,500 organizations, divided into a dozen or more topical guides, such as International Affairs, Women's Rights, and Congressional.
Links are maintained on several library Web site pages, including here.
Middle East Media Research Institute.
Available online.
MEMRI's primary research project is to translate Middle Eastern media sources from their original languages into English, covering such countries as Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran, and others. The database of translations is also searchable by keyword(s).
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning and Engagement.
Available online.
Fact sheets on "the characteristics of young voters nationally and by state, including estimates of the number of young voters, voter turnout in 2002 and 1994 for various sub-groups of young people, and estimates of young voter partisanship in 2002 and 2006."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
The Washington and Lee University Library subscribes to JSTOR, a digital archive of about 800 important scholarly journals. Our access page is here.
JSTOR recently added a number of new titles to its database, including the following ones:
American Journal of Economics and Sociology
Vols. 1 – 59, 1941-2000
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: American Journal of Economics and Sociology, Inc.
California Law Review
Vols. 1 – 90, 1912-2002
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: California Law Review, Inc.
Environmental Health Perspectives
Vols. 1 – 114 (Issue 3), 1972-2006
Moving Wall: none
Publisher: National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
Law and Philosophy
Vols. 1 – 21, 1982-2002
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Springer Science + Business Media
Luso-Brazillian Review
Vols. 1 – 40, 1964-2003
Moving Wall: 2 years
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Review of Religious Research
Vols. 1 – 45 (Issue 2), 1959-2003
Moving Wall: 2 years
Publisher: Religious Research Association, Inc.
Social Scientist
Vols. 1 – 30, 1972-2002
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Social Scientist
The "moving wall" refers to the range of most recent issues/volumes which are not available.
In addition to the above changes, JSTOR has announced a reduction in the "moving wall" for these two important social science journals:
Annals of the American Academy of Political an Social Science
Moving Wall: 3 years (previously 5 years)
Publisher: Sage Publications, Inc. in association with the American Academy of Political and Social Science
International Political Science Review / Revue internationale de science politique
Moving Wall: 3 years (previously 5 years)
Publisher: Sage Publications, Ltd.
Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
Available online.
This report examines "North Korea’s nuclear program in the context of its rivalry both with South Korea and with its nominal East European allies, concluding that for Kim Il Sung, nuclear capability was not merely a means of electrical power generation and a diplomatic trump card, but was also a symbol and guarantee of economic, political, and military self-reliance."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
This is a reminder that Leyburn Library maintains a subscription to the online Oxford English Dictionary, almost certainly the most important modern English-language dictionary.
Unlike the set-in-stone printed OED, the online form is updated several times a year and Oxford University Press always releases lists of new (newly-acceptable) words and new meanings. The latest additions include, among others:
bling
Lollywood
bada-bing
drive-by
offshoring
liposculpture
If you should want to check on any of these, or other terms, here is our link to the Oxford English Dictionary.
You might notice that the opening screen includes a link to New Words.
Cambridge University Press.
Available online.
Published in 2006 as a five-volume set, HSUS is a database of over 37,000 data series (statistical categories) from U.S. and Colonial history. The database also contains extensive essays on the measurements of U.S. history. Data are available as published tables, spreadsheet files (Excel), PDF documents, and custom graphs or charts. This is the first update -- and major expansion -- of a two-volume set published by the U.S. Census Bureau in 1976.
The search and display functions of this database take a while to get used to, so if you have any questions, please let me know.
Links will be maintained in several location in our Web site, including here.
Intelligence Research, Ltd.
Available online.
News and analysis on contemporary Latin America, published since 1967. The database, which appears to be updated on Tuesdays, is pretty simple to navigate and use. The one possible stumbling block might be the fact that our account allows only one W& user at a time to be logged in to the database -- other logins will be blocked. To avoid this becoming a problem, please remember to log out when you have finished a session.
Links will be maintained in Annie and in several places in the library Web site, such as here.
World Bank.
Available online. Printed copy on order.
This latest annual edition focuses on youth, aged 12 to 24, emphasizing five "phases" -- learning, starting to work, developing a healthful lifestyle, beginning a family, and exercising citizenship.
Scan down the opening page to access individual chapters, including the final one, "Selected Indicators," an annual compilation which is an invaluable source of social and economic data on the world's countries. (Leyburn Library also will receive a more comprehensive form of these indicators in CD-ROM and printed forms.)
Public Broadcasting System.
Available online.
State-by-state listings of proposals on the ballot in the upcoming November elections (links go to state election offices), as well as information on each state's campaign finance disclosure laws (links go to the Campaign Disclosure Project).
After you click on the appropriate state, links will appear at the bottom of the screen. Not all states have ballot initiatives this year.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
LegiStorm, LLC.
Available online.
Intended to provide "a variety of important information about the U.S. Congress." Thus far, the only information is the salaries of Congressional staffers, data formerly accessible only in printed sources in Congressional offices.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
National Security Archive.
Available online.
The prospects of a Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in the early 1990’s led China to accelerate its testing schedule and discuss differences within the Russian government over testing, according to documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and archival research by the National Security Archive at George Washington University. The documents illustrate the efforts of the U.S. Intelligence Community to understand developments at Russian and Chinese nuclear test sites from 1990 to 2000.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
This page contains all entries posted to New for Politics in September 2006. They are listed from oldest to newest.
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