Selected Library
Resources for First Year Seminar 029
“Why Aren’t All
Countries Rich?”
Online version available at http://people.hws.edu/hunter/tessendorfFYS.htm
Prof.
Jennifer Tessendorf
Michael Hunter Reference Librarian
Reference
and Main Collection Works:
Print:
Encyclopedia of Human Rights REF JC
571 .E67
Europa
World Year Book REF JN
1 .E85
A Manual
for Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations
REF PN 147 .T8
Online:
Books:
Locate books
in the HWS Library by using our catalog in the Lobby or through our Web page http://library.hws.edu. You can identify more books on a given
subject by searching over 1.5 billion books in Worldcat and placing interlibrary loan requests for
items you would like. Time required is
usually a week to 10 days
Scholarly
Databases:
Public Affairs Information Service, Social Science Abstracts, EconLit
Newspapers :
Lexis-Nexis – Click Power Search for US newspapers
and Major World Newspapers
Newspaper Source - Major
Internet
Examine
information from the Internet carefully before using it for research
purposes. Always be aware of who is
responsible for the material, and what credentials they have for writing on the
subject(s).
Some
recommended scholarly websites relevant to this course:
See Prof.
Tessendorf’s Blackboard site for additional sites.
1. World Bank
Country Overviews
http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/COUNTRIES/0,,pagePK:180619~theSitePK:136917,00.html
2. World
Development Indicators http://data.worldbank.org/data-catalog
3. United
Nations Statistics Division http://unstats.un.org
4.
Government Data Sources – University of Michigan
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stforeig.html
5.
International Monetary Fund Data and Statistics
http://www.imf.org/external/data.htm
6.
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)