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Want to see if a journal is peer-reviewed? Check the title in Ulrich's. If it says Academic/Scholarly in the Content Type heading, then it is an academic journal, which may or may not be peer-reviewed. If it says "yes" next to Refereed? then it is a peer-reviewed journal.
Background Notes - Country Information - U.S. Department of State background notes, arranged by country.
Elections Around the World: Wiki provides a comprehensive and detailed anaylses of recent elections. Now a part of Wikipedia.
Electronic Embassy provides links to staff and resources for the DC embassy community. For a directory of embassies worldwide use Embassy World.
Statesman's Year Book. (Ref 305 St29) New York: St. Martin's, Annual.
World Government Data - Compiled by the Guardian (UK), a metasearch of governmental data from multiple countries, with downloadable data sets.
Constitutions, Treaties and Official Declarations Around the World - An alphabetical listing of approximately 140 countries, with links to their constitutions, and other links if available to treaties.
Americas Program - Policy briefs and analysis from the International Relations Center. Includes information on migration, sustainable development, and trade.
Borderlands Encyclopedia - Search by general subject, in such categories as Economics and Business, Culture and Media, and Family Life and Population Groups. Also available in Spanish.
Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) - Searchable by subject. Also included in print in the Reference room: (Ref 980.16 H191) 1935 to present.
Language Policy and Political Issues in Education (Ref 370.78 C818 v. 1) 1997
Also, search Albert using such keywords as country name, education
Handbook of Social Justice in Education (Ref 370.115 Ay24h) New York: Routledge, 2009.
Sage Handbook of the Sociology of Religion (Ref 306.6 B388) Los Angeles: Sage, 2007.
Women and Politics Around the World: A Comparative History and Survey (Ref 305.4 G280) Santa Barbara: ABC-Clio, 2009.
Includes Encyclopedia of Identity, and the Sage Handbook of Social Gerontology. Includes the Blackwell Companion to Political Sociology. Includes Comparative Democratic Politics: A Guide to Contemporary Theory and ResearchPeriodicals
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Want to see if a journal is peer-reviewed? Check the title in Ulrich's. If it says Academic/Scholarly in the Content Type heading, then it is an academic journal, which may or may not be peer-reviewed. If it says "yes" next to Refereed? then it is a peer-reviewed journal.
Chicago Manual of Style (Author-Date) - a quick guide from the SMC Library
Chicago/Turabian Documentation - From the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
Quick Guide to Chicago Style from the Chicago manual publishers. Scroll down to the Author/Date tab, and select that for a list of examples of citation.
A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations: Chicago Style for Students and Researchers (Ref 808.02 T840c) 7th ed., Chicago: University of Chicago, 2007.
Complete Guide to Citing Government Information Resources: A Manual for Writers and Librarians
(Ref 808.02 G186a) Bethesda, MD: Congressional Information Service, 1993.
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