International Studies: ITS 201: LaFever

Researching a University Program

Use Google to identify a location particularly tied to your issue
Follow up with identifying universities and/or research centers in that location
Many universities have websites that end in .edu, even internationally. Limit search results by adding site:.edu to your search. BUT remember that this isn't always the case, so this might not always be useful
Search the university's website for programs related to your issue

Country Information

UN Data
Search UN data on a variety of topics including refugees, populations and demographics, labor, and global indicators. Search by topic or country
World Bank Data
World Bank data on a range of topics including infrastructure, economy, education, gender, and education.

eHRAF World Cultures
Oxford campus users only. eHRAF of Ethnography contains mostly primary source materials (mainly published books and articles), and includes some unpublished manuscripts and dissertations on selected cultures or societies representing all major regions of the world. This collection does not include all of the culture groups from the original HRAF files so be sure to consult the Encyclopedia of World Cultures if a culture group is not included in this collection. Click here forÂ additional help searching eHRAF.
Nexis Uni
Previously called LexisNexis Academic. Nexis Uni is an outstanding source for researching news, business, and legal topics. It contains more than 6,000 sources from all over the world, drawn from print, broadcast, and online media.

Use the Easy Search form if you just need a quick answer to a simple query, you're not familiar with advanced searching methods, or you're not sure which sources to use. Enter any terms or phrases, with or without connectors, and Easy Search will determine the best searching method (terms and connectors or natural language) based on what you entered.

Finding Journal Articles

Historical Abstracts
Historical Abstracts (HA) indexes journal articles, dissertations, book reviews, and media reviews on world history (excluding the United States and Canada-see America: History and Life). HA covers history from 1450 C.E. to the present. This index also includes major European-language journals. Search HA by keyword and limit the search by the time period covered by the article.
EconLit
EconLit indexes scholarly journal articles, books, dissertations, and working papers throughout the field of Economics. Topics covered include economic development, forecasting, history, fiscal and monetary theory, business and public finance, healthcare economics, and international, regional, and urban economics.
Business Source Complete
Business Source Complete indexes and abstracts 4,450 scholarly business journals, of which over 3,600 are available in full-text. This database covers the subject areas of management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and marketing.

It also includes other sources of full-text information such as country economic reports and detailed company profiles for 10,000 of the world's largest companies through Datamonitor.
GeoRef
Oxford campus users only. Produced by the American Geosciences Institute, this comprehensive geosciences database contains bibliographic records for geosciences literature from around the world. GeoRef contains a vast amount of indexed information, including 3.7 million bibliographic records from more than 3,500 journals covering a wide spectrum of geoscience literature.

Other records featured within the database include indexed books, maps, government reports, conference papers, theses and dissertations. Coverage within the database includes the geology of North America from 1669 to the present, as well as global coverage dating back to 1933.

Citing your Sources

APA Style Guide for Electronic References
An online resource published by the APA that offers citation guidance for digital resources. Miami users may print copies for personal use only.

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