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Emory University Libraries The Department of Political Science is extremely well supported by the . What follows is a summary of available materials and resources. For all questions or inquiries, please feel free to contact Chris Palazzolo, PhD, the librarian for political science and international documents. A significant objective of the Woodruff Library is to integrate traditional library resources with emergent and developing technologies so to develop and assist student (both graduate and undergraduate) and faculty research and inquiry. Therefore, not only does one have access to an impressive print collection, but also to state-of-the-art technological applications and assistance, in such areas as the Electronic Data Center, the LearningCommons, Electronic Classrooms, and the Emory Center for Interactive Teaching (ECIT) which offers opportunities for integrating technology into your research and teaching using such tools as web design, multimedia software, etc. • There are numerous (both by subfield and by course) that are available to you which highlight print and electronic resources at your disposal here at Emory. • Of particular interest to those number-crunchers among you should be the Electronic Data Center (EDC) which supports faculty and students in the identification and management of statistical information and data. Emory is member of the Inter-University Consortium of Political and Social Research (ICPSR) which acts as a clearinghouse of sorts of numerous social science data. The EDC has access to many statistical resources, such as SourceOECD, UN Comtrade, Eurostat, and many others. For those interested in the use of geospatial data, we now have a geospatial data librarian, . • Emory Libraries also has subscriptions to the premiere online databases in political science, such as the Economist.com, Social Science Abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, Social Science Citation Index (part of Web of Science), LexisNexis Congressional, Social Science Abstracts, and the CQ (Congressional Quarterly) Electronic Library, all of which are located under “Databases” on the library’s main page. These sources are restricted to Emory users/patrons; however, they can be accessed remotely with an Emory ID and password from anywhere in the world. • We also provide access to databases specific to related social science disciplines, such as Economics (e.g., EconLit) and Sociology (e.g., Sociological Abstracts, SocINDEX) as well as more general news sources such as LexisNexis and World News Connection (among many others). • We have strong and wide-ranging print collections—monographs (books) and journals—in all major subfields of political science (Comparative Politics, American Politics, International Relations, and Political Theory) and are always aiming to add to and strengthen our collections in specific areas within these subfields, as needs and demands arise or may require. Political science receives a substantial budget each fiscal year to support the purchase of new collections and support the research of faculty and graduate students. • For titles that we do not currently hold, we provide an Interlibrary loan (ILL) service that is quite resourceful. Emory also has agreements with numerous local institutions (Georgia Tech, University of Georgia, Georgia State) that allow you to borrow materials from their collections. • Being that Emory is an official federal depository for US government documents, there is an impressive collection of primary federal government sources (in particular, congressional) available for research in multiple formats. We own a rather complete Serial Set, which is a collection of various Senate and House Reports on numerous topics—political, economic, social, and the like. We also hold many documents from the principal federal governmental agencies. We subscribe as well to Lexis-Nexis Congressional, which indexes materials produced by the Congressional Information Service (CIS). • In addition to US government documents, Woodruff also possesses an impressive number of United Nations documents to support research on international issues. • The Macmillan Law Library acts as an official depository for primary European Union documents. The Law Library also has an impressive collection of international law materials. We have a significant collection at Woodruff of judicial materials which are supplemented by the Law Library’s collections. • Numerous workshops are held each semester and during the summer to introduce and inform students and faculty about better searching strategies, new databases and electronic resources, and various other library services (such as Endnote, using RSS feeds, using government documents, etc.). • Wireless connectivity is available throughout the library. Useful Library Links: As your liaison to the library, please feel free to inquire or request acquisitions --
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