Warren Hunting Smith Library

 

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:

Encyclopedia of Population

 

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 US newspapers, citations only

 

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)

          http://www.oecd.org