New for Politics

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.

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:

• Baby Boom: Americans Born 1946 to 1964


• The Millennials: Americans Born 1977 to 1994


• Social Change in America: The Historical Handbook, 2006

University of California, Santa Barbara.
Available online.
Primarily useful as a compilation of documents, including a searchable database of thousands of presidential documents, including signing statements, speeches, fireside chats, etc. Also other documents, statistical data, audio and video archive.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

Cambridge University Press / NetLibrary.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
A concise account (2006) of international law, explaining how states and international organizations, especially the United Nations, make and use international law.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

Council on Foreign Relations.
Available online.
"The U.S. midterm elections for Congress, typically dominated by domestic concerns, may turn on how the public views the role of majority Republicans on a wide range of foreign-policy-related issues, including the war in Iraq, national security, and immigration.”
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

International Institute for Strategic Studies / Taylor & Francis.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
This annual overview of strategic developments throughout the world long has been an essential one-volume analytical encapsulation of the year’s key events in international relations for students, scholars, policy-makers, journalists, business leaders and other leading think-tanks.
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.

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.

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).

Thomson Gale.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
A 2006 "electronic book" collection of about 200 documents, including "speeches, magazine and newspaper articles, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, essays, and much more," on terrorism in the past three centuries. Each entry is accompanied by commentary of the document's context and significance.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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.

National Security Archive.
Available online.
Sub-titled Previously Secret Documents from U.S. and Soviet Archives on the 1986 Reagan-Gorbachev Summit, this collection commemorates the 20th anniversary of the summit by releasing 29 documents, accompanied by commentary.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

University of Chicago.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Complete and up-to-date contents of the 15th edition.
Links will be maintained in Annie and via this library Web page.

Scribner's / Gale Virtual Reference Online.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
The ebook form of this second edition (2002) contains about 120 essays by respected scholars.
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, legal and constitutional issues, business, media, literature, and more.
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.

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.

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.

Routledge / NetLibrary.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Over 500 signed articles examining the idea of the city from an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary perspective, including fields such as politics, sociology, history, urban design, cultural studies, and psychology. Published 2005.
Links will be maintained in Annie and in several locations in our Web site, including here.