General Background | Country Data | Subject Headings
Periodical Indexes/Abstracts/Databases | Journals | News Sources
Government Information

• Dictionary of environment and sustainable development. Alan Gilpin. Chichester ; New York : Wiley, 1996. HC79.E5 G518 1996 Bios, Envi, Doe Ref
• Dictionary of development : Third World economy, environment, society. edited by Brian W.W. Welsh and Pavel Butorin. New York : Garland Pub., 1990. 2 vols. HC59.7 .D513 1990 Doe Ref, Envi

  Covers definitions and descriptions of the major facts, concepts, and issues related to the development process. Includes list of NGOs involved in development and a list of periodicals/newsletters devoted to development topics.

• Directory of development organizations (2006). http://www.devdir.org/

  Guide to international organizations, governments, private sector institutions, development agencies, universities, research and training institutes, NGOS, grantmakers, etc. Arranged by 7 geographic areas and then by 9 categories.

• Encyclopedia of International Development. Edited by Tip Forsyth. London; New York: Routledge, 2005. HD82. E547 2005 Doe Reference

  Provides definitions and discussion of key concepts, controversies, and actors associated with international development for a readership of development workers, teachers, and students. With 600 entries, ranging in length from shorter factual studies to more in-depth essays, a comprehensive system of cross-reference and a full index, it is the most definitive guide to international development yet published.

• Historical dictionary of aid and development organizations. Guy Arnold. Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 1996 HC60 .A738 1996 Gov Ref

  Presents major organizations with their programs and projects; includes chronology of principal events.

• The international development dictionary. Gerald W. Fry, Galen R. Martin. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, 1991. HF1359.F79 1991 Doe Ref, Moff

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• Country studies. Library of Congress. http://memory.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

  Monographic series providing in-depth information on particular countries. Also referred to as Area Handbooks. More useful for background and historical information as the volumes in the series are not being updated. Hardback copies in GREF (Heyns Reading Room). In catalogs search as series "area handbook series" to find volumes on different countries.

• Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Country reports and profiles. http://db.eiu.com/publications.asp

  These studies provide objective and timely analysis and forecasts of the political, economic, and business environment in more than 180 countries. Coverage is from 1996 to present.

• The Europa world year book. London : Europa Publications. Annual AY754.E783 Doe Ref-Govt/Stat (latest) Provides concise economic, social and political background information on countries.
• World factbook. Central Intelligence Agency. Annual. G122.U56 Doe Ref-Govt/Stat (latest) http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

In addition , there is an extensive collection of foreign and IGO statistical yearbooks located in GREF in Doe. World Bank and IMF statistical publications are located here as well (for more details see section in this guide under "Government Information"). Ask for assistance at the Doe Reference Desk.

For a general index to international, federal, and state statistical publications see: Lexis/Nexis Statistical (on Library web under Electronic Resources/Statistics). Publications are available on fiche (GREF) with some also in paper and online.

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Use the following subject headings to search the online catalogs: PATHFINDER or MELVYL. Most of the headings can be subdivided by a specific country or region (ex. Debt relief-Brazil or Development banks-Africa. Country names can also be subdivided (ex. Senegal-economic policy)

Debt relief
Debts, external-developing countries
Developing countries

[economic conditions, economic policy, foreign economic relations, politics and government, social conditions, etc]

Development banks
see also: Asian Development Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, African Development Bank

Economic assistance
Economic development
[environmental aspects, government policy, social aspects, etc]

International business enterprises (use for multinational companies)
Globalization
[economic aspects, political aspects, social aspects]

International economic relations
International Monetary Fund
Investments, foreign
Loans, foreign
Poverty
Rural development
Technical assistance
Women in development
World Bank

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Search the following licensed e- resources for articles, reports, books, documents. Access from the Library web page at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu. Click on "Articles/Article Databases A-Z."

Start by searching keywords in general databases like Expanded Academic ASAP or Proquest Research Library that cover magazines, news and opinion weeklies as well as scholarly journals covering all fields. Many of the articles will be available in full text or you can use UC-eLink to connect to Melvyl for library holdings or publisher web sites for text of articles (if available).

Other more specialized databases include:

• Alternative Press Index.

  Indexes alternative, radical and left publications.

• CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online).

  Excellent for full text coverage of working papers, conference proceedings, books, abstracts of journal articles related to international and area studies. UCB is a contributor to this database.

• Econlit.

  Provides indexing and abstracting for worldwide economic literature covering major economic journals, books, book reviews, theses, and working papers.

• Geography.

  Indexes/abstracts international development issues, providing access to information from over 2000 journals, books, conference reports and theses.

• PAIS International.

  Indexes books, articles, documents, reports of public and private agencies related to business, economic, political and social issues in the world.

• Sociological Abstracts.

  Comprehensive index/abstract source for core journals in sociology and related fields.

• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.

  Indexes the international serials literature in political science.

• Area studies indexes:

African Studies
Bibliography of Asian Studies
Handbook of Latin American Studies
HAPI (Hispanic-American Periodicals Index)

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Browse development studies journals in the HC-HD call number areas in Current Periodicals on the second floor of Doe. Many are now available in full-text. Some of the key titles in the field include:

Development: journal of the Society for International Development. HC60I59
Development and change. HD82D387
Development dialogue. HD82D389
Development in practice. HD59.8D484 (social dimensions of development)
Development policy review: The Journal of the Overseas Development Institute. HC59.7D48
Economic development and cultural change. HC10.E366
Journal of development studies. HC10J58
Journal of environment and development. HC79E5J68
Journal of international development (Inter. Development Studies Association). HD72M38
Studies in comparative international development. H31.S873
Third world quarterly; journal of emerging areas. HC59.7T458
World development. HC4.W66

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• Lexis/Nexis Academic.

  Full-text of over 5000 news, legal, and business sources.

• Global Newsbank.

  Full text translations of foreign news sources by BBC Monitoring Service.

• ISI Emerging Markets.

  Delivers news, company, and financial data from emerging markets in Latin America, Asia, Central and Eastern Europe, North Africa/Middle East and Central Asia.

• World News Connection (NTIS).

  Web version of FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service). Translations of foreign news sources from 1996 to present.

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See "Government Information" on Doe/Moffitt web page at http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/doemoff/govinfo/ for additional links to "Foreign Governments" and "International Organizations" links.

Indexes:

• United Nations. (http://www.un.org)

  The Library is a UN depository and receives UN publications in various formats: paper, fiche, cdrom and online. Check the online catalogs for a particular title or consult an index to UN publications like:

• AccessUN. (Library web-click on Electronic Resources/Government Info Sources)

  Indexes UN publications from 1944 to present with many available full text. GREF (Heyns Reading Room) has fiche for documents 1983 to present. Includes Official Records, resolutions, meeting records, etc. See also UNBIS-net (http://unbisnet.un.org) which is a catalog of the UN Library and includes UN and non-UN publications.

Some of the UN programmes and specialized agencies websites and publications include:

• UN Development Programme (UNDP). (http://www.undp.org)

  Main body for coordinating UN development work; largest provider of development grant assistance in the UN.

AccessUNDP

Index to a collection of UN Development Programme project reports issued between 1972-1998. Fiche of the reports available in GREF ( Heyns Reading Room).

Human Development Report. (http://hdr.undp.org) HD72. H8 Doe Ref-Govt/Stat-latest

• UN Environmental Programme (UNEP). (http://www.unep.org)

  Sets global environmental agenda, promotes environmental aspects of sustainable development, advocate of global environment.

• UN Population Fund (UNFPA). (http://www.unfpa.org)

  Funds population and reproductive health programs.

State of world population. (http://www.unfpa.org/swp/swpmain.htm) HA154.S72 Gof Ref

• UN Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD). (http://www.unctad.org)

  Promotes trade and economic development particularly of developing countries. Least developed countries. Presents basic data on about 49 LDCs. HC59.7L3219 Gof Ref

UNCTAD handbook of statistics. HF1017.U5 Doe Ref-Govt/Stat-latest

Trade and development report. HF1007.U5 Doe Ref-Govt/Stat-latest

• UNESCO. (http://www.unesco.org)

  Focus on educational, scientific and cultural issues.

UNESCO statistical yearbook. AZ361.U45 Doe Ref-Govt/Stat-latest

• UNICEF. (http://www.unicef.org)

  Focuses on child and maternal health and education.

State of the world's children. HQ792.2 S73 Gof Ref -latest ed.

• World Food Programme (WFP). (http://www.wfp.org)

  World's largest food aid organization; assists poor people in developing countries by combating world hunger and poverty.

WFP in numbers. (http://www.wfp.org/index.asp?section=1)

• World Bank. (http://www.worldbank.org)

  Group of five institutions whose aim is to promote economic growth and development among poor countries-largely by making loans to governments for capital, technical assistance, and policy advice.

World Bank e-Library. (http://www.worldbank.org/elibrary)

Fully searchable database of over 1,200 full-text World Bank publications, from 1993 to the present, covering a wide range of topics: economics and finance, public policy, education, international development, technology, poverty, gender, the environment, and more. Publications also browseable alphabetically by title and geographic region.

World Development Indicators. (http://devdata.worldbank.org/dataonline) HC59W62 Doe Ref-Govt/Stat-latest

Provides access to more than 550 development indicators for 280 countries from 1960-2002.

World Development Report. (http://econ.worldbank.org/wdr) HC59.7A1W6 Doe Ref-Govt/Stat World Development Sources. (http://www-wds.worldbank.org/)

Full-text of World Bank project reports, including evaluation reports, working papers, and project appraisals.

World Bank country study series of reports can be found by doing a series search in the online catalogs: "world bank country study."

For further resources see the research guide Guide to Development Information on the "Government Information" page of the Library web site.

For assistance with any international documents research contact Jim Church, our UN/IGO librarian at jchurch@library.berkeley.edu. For general reference assistance contact the Doe Reference Desk, 2nd floor Doe. For more specialized help contact Jesse Silva, Political Science Librarian, jsilva@library.berkeley.edu

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