This guide identifies key resources for global or world area studies resources and international economic and political development. It also highlights library services available to all students at Columbia University.

• Columbia University Libraries
• Map of campus libraries
• Library locations & addresses -and- Librarian Subject Specialists (2011-12)
  

• CLIO (all CU libraries EXCEPT the Law Library and Teachers College Library) -- Help
• Pegasus (Law Library)
• Educat (Teachers College)
• Other Catalogs
• WorldCat

These databases help you to identify articles, books, reports and other published materials. Some databases include the full text of the materials and others will provide an E-Link which will help you locate online or print copies of the items.

Select "PAIS International" and or select individual databases from a list.  See "Search Databases" on the main screen of the Proquest interface, on the upper left:

• PAIS International
• Sociological Abstracts
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
• Plus: ERIC (Education); Environment Abstracts; Water Resources Abstracts

See also:

• Columbia University Law Library -- Indexes and Databases (Select Foreign or International)
• Francis: International Humanities and Social Sciences
• International Political Science Abstracts
• JSTOR
• PubMed
• SAGE Journals: Political Science and Sociology

• Africa-Wide Information
• Bibliography of Asian Studies (East, Southeast, and South Asia)
• CEEOL (Central & East European Online Library)
• East View Universal Databases and ABSEES (Russia / CIS / East Europe)
• HAPI Online (Latin American Studies--journal articles only)
• MECAS (Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies)

• Emerging Markets Information Service
• Factiva
• World News Connection

• AllAfrica.Com
• Balkan Insight
• East View Universal Databases (Russia / CIS)
• Latin American Newsstand
• MidEastWire.com
• Samachar.com -and- Economic & Political Weekly (South Asia)

• CIA World Factbook
• Country Studies -and- Profiles (The Library of Congress)
• CountryWatch
• Demographic and Health Surveys
• Directory of Development Organizations
• East View UDB Statistics (Russia / CIS)
• EIU Country Reports (Economist Intelligence Unit)
• ELDIS--Electronic Development and Environment Information System
• Europa World Plus (Annual survey for all world areas; current ed.)
  For historical information, search in CLIO for "Regional surveys of the world"
• Maps: CU Lehman Library Map Collection & GIS ; IDPs ; Perry Castañeda Library ; UN Cartographic
• United Nations -- AccessUN ; FAO Documents and FAO Aquastat-Water & Agriculture ; UNDP and HDRs ;
  UNEP Environmental Data Explorer ; UNESCO on Education, Institute for Statistics and "Education for All"
  
• USAID Development Experience Clearinghouse 
• US Energy Information Administration ; US Dept of Energy's Open EI
• WHO country reports -and- data/statistics
  

• African Studies WWW-Virtual Library (Columbia University)
• LANIC--Latin American Network Information Center (University of Texas, Austin)
• Middle East Studies WWW-Virtual Library (Columbia University)
• PAIR--Portal to Asian Internet Resources (2010) (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
  -or- East & Southeast Asia (University of Redlands, CA)
• REESWeb--Russian & East European Studies WWW-Virtual Library (University of Pittsburgh)
• SARAI--South Asian Studies WWW-Virtual Library (Columbia University)

• Economic & Political Development
• Human Rights and Humanitarian Affairs
• International Conflict Resolution -and- Bibliography on ICR
• International Statistics
• Intergovernmental Organizations (IGOs)
• US Foreign Policy

• Global Studies
  • African Studies
  • Latin American & Iberian Studies
  • Middle East & Islamic Studies
  • Russian, Eurasian & East European Studies
  • South & Southeast Asian Studies
• Business and Economics Library
• Data Service (data and GIS/maps)
• Law Library
• Health Sciences Library
• Lehman Social Sciences Library
• Starr East Asian Library (China, Japan, Korea, Tibet)
• Bibliographic Software at Columbia (EndNote & RefWorks)