New Data on African Health Professionals Abroad Estimates of African-born doctors and professional nurses working in developed countries. Good for: students investigating international labor mobility and global development Primary Investigator: Michael Clemens Publishing Organization: Center for Global Development (CGD) Related Publication: CGD working paper 95 Time period: 2000
A New Nation Votes: American Election Returns, 1787-1825 This collection of early U.S. election returns has been painstakingly created using official reports, original election ballots, contemporary newspaper accounts, and 19th century county histories. All levels of elections are included, from town clerks to presidential. Search by keyword, state, year, office, candidate, party or election type…
Search Engines: Technology, Society, and Business. Part of UC Berkeley’s new YouTube campus, a web site of lectures uploaded for viewing by the public, is a series of lectures about search engines. The lectures are part of a course taught in the School of Information by Dr. Marti Hearst. Some of the lectures are a…
The CIAO database (Carleton only link), as of fall 2007, contains selected data and information from the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU), a respected and highly cited source in political economy. EUI country information now in CIAO Detailed country maps Basic information and data for 201 countries Political and economic structures and backgrounds (coming in October)…
Did you know that you can use the Social Sciences Citation Index to identify articles that cite a particular article? Whenever you need to find out what has been written on a given topic since the time of an important publication, the SSCI is the tool to use. Contact me or any of the other…
When you find a document in LexisNexis, it is now possible to create a URL that will take you directly back to that document in the database, precluding the need to search again. Just use this beta tool.
As the 2007-08 school year approaches and you begin to collect readings for your comps, now is a good time to think about how you will organize your research. One possibility is to use EndNote, citation management software that you can use as current Carleton students. EndNote is software installed on all lab computers. If…
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930 The Harvard University Library Open Collections Program has created this digital library of historical documents on immigration. “Concentrating heavily on the 19th century, Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, includes approximately 1,800 books and pamphlets as well as 9,000 photographs, 200 maps, and 13,000 pages from manuscript and archival…
The LexisNexis Academic database of news and other research sources has a new interface designed to be more intuitive and fast to search. If anyone would like some tips on using the new interface, please send me an email or call. Is anyone interested in a drop-in workshop? In the meantime, here are some basic…
Foreign Policy has published its third annual Terrorism Index, a survey of over one hundred foreign policy experts from both major parties: “[The Index is] the only comprehensive, nonpartisan effort to mine the highest echelons of the nation’s foreign-policy establishment for its assessment of how the United States is fighting the war on terror. First…