New for Politics

The library recently acquired online access to several of the most valuable reference sources on U.S. politics and government, all published by Congressional Quarterly Press. Most of these series are standards in the field, published for years as printed books and only now available in digital form.

CQ Guide to the Presidency

CQ Guide to Political Campaigns

Links to each of these items will be available in multiple locations in our Web site, such as here.

U.S. State Department.
Available online.
Annual U.S. State Department report on "severe forms of trafficking in persons" in countries of the world.
A link will be maintained on this page in our Web site.

U.S. Congressional Research Service.
Available online.
"Legislation that would repeal or otherwise provide for a summer-long moratorium of federal transportation fuel taxes has been introduced in the 110th Congress... Those seeking to alter federal fuel tax collection are doing so in the belief that a reduction in fuel taxes would give Americans a modest level of economic relief from high pump prices. Current market conditions and the marginal amount of tax relief incorporated in most proposals, however, raise uncertainty as to whether prices to individuals and businesses would fall and whether any price decline would be meaningful to consumers in economic terms. Also of concern is the possible impact of any repeal or moratorium on the overall federal budget deficit."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

Pew Global Attitudes Project.
Available online.
Survey of over 24,000 people in 24 countries finds that "Five years after the start of the war in Iraq, the image of the United States abroad remains far less positive than it was before the war and at the beginning of the century. However, the latest survey by the Pew Global Attitudes Project finds some encouraging signs for America's global image for the first time this decade."
Links will be maintained in several locations in our Web site, including here.

Wiley-Blackwell / Blackwell Reference Online.
Available online.
Created under the auspices of the Interntional Communication Association and published in 2008 as a 12-volume set, this digital product contains over 1,300 signed entries, up to 6,000 words in length, "spanning the scholarship, evidence, and methodology of communication research."
Links will be maintained in several locations in our Web site, including here.

Washington and Lee University has gained access to a group of subscription-only databases which should further improve our abilty to retrieve articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers.
All these products are made available through our participation in the VIVA consortium of academic libraries in Virginia.

Politics students and faculty might be particular interested in two of the newly-available databases -- Academic Search Complete and Newspaper Source Plus.

You can view a complete list of these new products, including specialized databases in environmental issues, law, women's studies, and religion, by clicking on Continue reading...

Routledge / NetLibrary.
Available online.
Reference guide (2008) to the region, from the Treaty of Versailles to the present day, with particular focus on the early nationalist and subsequent fascist and communist periods.
Links will be maintained in several locations in our Web site, including here.

Oxford University Press.
Available in printed form only via Annie.
Described by the publisher as "a stem-to-stern updating and expansion" of the 1993 edition, adding such terms as "Axis of Evil," "Triangulation," "Compassionate Conservatism," "Islamofascism," "Earmark," "Wingnuts and Moonbats," "Slam Dunk," "Hanging Chads, and, of course, "9/11."
When and if this becomes available as an online e-book, rest assured we will acquire that, too.