NES 696Y - Islam, Ethnicity, and Nationalism
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This guide links students to the best online resources at the University of Arizona Library for finding information relating to Islam, Ethnicity and Nationalism. Read the content descriptions, which will describe the dates and geographical coverage as well as the source material indexed.
Indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. Includes work written not only about the Middle East and all Islamic communities. Indexing covers publications written since 1906, but the subject of coverals is the entire history of the Islamic world. Marterials indexed include journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, and dissertations.
An index to world history beginning with the chronological date of about 1400. Historical Abstracts indexes journal articles from the major journals in history, books, and dissertations. Some citations are linked to full articles if those articles are part of the JSTOR or Project Muse databases. It is possible to limit searches by historical time period. To find proper format for search by time period, place your cursor over the words "Time Period" and follow directions.
Index of literature on all religious traditions. Sources include books, journal articles, book reviews, essays. Some of the article link to the full-text article.
Focus is on the scholarly literature from an international sociological perspective, including family, marriage, and other areas of social interest. Contians articles, dissertations and conference papers.
Citations and abstracts to articles from over 500 economics journals and articles from books and dissertations. Areas covered include basic economics and economic aspects of history, health, education, policy, and agriculture as well as accounting and monetary policy.
This database contains a digitized image of every page and is searchable by every word. It includes many respective academic journals in Near East History as well as many journals in athropology, history, finance, economics, and sociology. Journal coverage begins with first issue up until 2-3 years ago.
Similar to JSTOR in providing fully digitized images of important journals. Rather than going back to the first issue (as JSTOR does), Project Muse provides access to the most recent issues.
WorldCat
A catalog of the holdings of over 40,000 libraries, mostly U.S. but now includes some major international libraries. Worldcat identifies everything libraries own, from books and journals, to maps, manuscripts, videos, memoirs and more. It indicates if the material is owned by the UA library and if not owned there is a link to an InterLibrary Loan request form from each record.
A very popular database that includes both indexing and full-text of article from popular as well as scholarly sources. Among journals indexes are Islamic Law & Society and the Journal of the Economic & Social History of the Orient.
Full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources. Coverage begins in 1996. Some sources are translated by BBC. All articles indicate who the translator is.
An up-to-date source of factual information about a 250 contries and territories, including demographic, social, educational, economic information, discussions of current events, information about newspapers, TV stations and other media types, imports and exports, the country's constitution and organization of government. Links to home pages of media outlets.
This is a major index to newspaper and magazine articles. Most of the content links to full-text. When you access this dabase, the default will prompt you to select a "new catagory." You will find both "General News" and "World News" as categories for this class. Coverage of the news does not go back before the early 1980s.
New York Times (Historic from ProQuest)
http://www.library.arizona.edu/search/articles/dbfind?shortname=nytimes Fully searchable and retreivable, cover to cover of everthing published in the New York Times from it's first issue in 1851 to 2002. To limit by date, it requires that you use the following format month/day/year e.g. 01/11/2003
Fully searchable and retreivable, cover to cover from The Times from 1785-1985. The images of the articles are easy to read and can be printed.
FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service)http://www.library.arizona.edu/search/articles/dbfind?shortname=fbis Translations of foreign broadcasts from 1975-1996. FBIS is an index to a fiche collection. FBIS will tell you the FBIS region, and then date of the broadcast. The fiche are in the compact shelving for microfiche, 1st floor, Aisle 22, Cabinet 78. NES (NearEast) is in the 5th and 6th drawer by date.
A page in alpabetical order by country linking to online newspapers.
Created by Ruth Dickstein
Last updated February 20, 2006