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Permanent Missions of Members http://www.un.int/index-en/webs.html
United Nations Bibliographic Information System UNBISNET http://unbisnet.un.org/
United Nations general website http://www.un.org/english/
United Nations Security Council http://www.un.org/Docs/sc/
United Nations Official Documents System http://databases.lib.lehigh.edu/finder/dbfull.asp?DBID=165
There are some internet tools that can help with translations...no guarantees that the translations are especially accurate, but you might try the following:
http://www.google.com/language_tools?hl=en
Findlaw Resources by Country
Use this website to locate government websites of foreign countries. Results may vary depending on country.
Foreign Affairs Online
This metasite on Foreign Affairs designed by a professor of International Law offers brief annotations and recommendations on a wide variety of Internet resources germane to the subject. Included here are annotated listings of official US and foreign government sites; UN sites; nongovernmental and intergovernmental organization sites; think tanks; news sources; sites devoted to human rights, international relations, and law; and much more. The section on map resources is particularly good, offering a number of "highly recommended" sites that researchers are likely to find valuable. Copyright Internet Scout Project, 1999.
Useful tips about research strategies and library resources. Use these tools to gain a better understanding of how to locate and retrieve information, evaluate the resources you’ve found, as well as how to properly use the information once you’ve got it.
Use ASA the library online catalog to locate books, search for journal titles, find and connect to government publications etc.
The library makes over 150 different types of databases available for students and faculty use. Many of them will serve as your gateway into the literature of international relations and political science. Often the articles they index are available electronically in full text. To see the complete list of Lehigh's Databases, use the Database Finder.
Your MyLibrary gateway, which you can access from the Lehigh Portal, is also designed to help you identify the important databases and resources in your major. It can be adapted and customized as you progress through your career at Lehigh.
Useful databases in International Relations and Political Science include:
Maps
Maps can be found in any of a number of atlases housed in the Atlas cases in Government Documents area in Fairchild Library, 2nd Floor, South Wing.
Also, the Government Documents Department in Fairchild library has a collection of useful boundary maps with major geographic and political features that are produced by the CIA. They can be found under the Superintendent of Documents Classification number: PREX 3.10/4: Ask the staff of the Goverment Documents Department for assistance locating them.
For further assistance, contact:
Roseann Bowerman, Social Sciences Librarian
Fairchild Library Room 621, 610- 58-3053
After March 19 - office in Linderman Library
Call or email for an appointment or stop by the Librarian's consulting room behind the FM library helpdesk on Weds. afternoons from 1:30 until 5pm.
email: rb04@lehigh.edu
February 2007