MIDP Master's Projects: Background Sources

This guide suggests resources--reference books, library databases, search engines and web links--to use for researching your Master's Projects. Use this table of contents or click on each tab to see each page.

Save time by first getting a thorough overview of the issue. Look in these reference sources for key terms, people, places, dates, events--and of course for related sources in their bibliographies.

• CQ Press Electronic Library (for United States politics)
• Gale Virtual Reference Library
• Oxford Reference Online
  includes sections on Economics, Environmental Sciences, Law, Political and Social Sciences
• Sage Knowledge
• Globalization and Security: an encyclopedia
  e-book available through Praeger Security Intl. database (browse Titles) or e-brary

Reference Books

Look for these in the library catalog (from the library portal)

Atlas of Global Issues (World Bank)

Encyclopedia of Globalization

Encyclopedia of International Relations and Global Politics

Encyclopedia of World Poverty (also available in Sage Knowledge)

Greenwood Encyclopedia of International Relations

Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History

Student Atlas of World Politics

World at Risk: A Global Issues Sourcebook (CQ)

World Encyclopedia of Peace

8 vols. covering events, people, history and theory

This guide explains how to use e-books available through Duke University Libraries:

http://guides.library.duke.edu/eBooks

Stuck? Ask a Librarian!