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CITY 229 : Comparative Urbanism (BMC)

Finding books:

Tripod library catalog.

The library catalog of Bryn Mawr, Haverford and Swarthmore Colleges.

To locate BOOKS, try a keyword search, such as violence nationalism algeria

View records of interest to view other related Library of Congress subject classifications. Some useful subjects for Cities include "city planning," "sociology, urban," "cities and towns," and "housing."

Look closely for subdivisions including "Bibliography", "History and criticism", "Study and Teaching" and for regional specifications such as "Subculture -- Japan -- Case Studies " or "Urban ecology -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro -- Congresses"

Call number browse - when you've found a relevant item, click the call number in the Tripod record to browse the items that would be near it on the shelves at all three libraries.

Tripod course reserve for Comparative Urbanism

Check here for the books and videos that are on reserve for this course

WorldCat

Provider: OCLC

A catalog of the holdings of books, journals, and other materials held by OCLC (Online Computer Library Center) member libraries. Includes manuscripts, maps, films and sound recordings. Covers works published before 1,000 BC-present.

Interlibrary Loan and E-ZBorrow

If the books and articles you need are not available from the Tri-College libraries, use one of these systems to borrow from another library.

Finding scholarly journal articles (all disciplines)

ProQuest Research Library

Provider: ProQuest

Provides citations and full-text magazine and journal articles in a wide variety of disciplines, both scholarly and popular in scope. Covers 1971-present.

JSTOR

Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.

Finding scholarly journal articles (discipline-specific)

Avery index to architectural periodicals

Provider: CSA

Provides citations to journals in the fields of architecture, city planning, interior design, historic preservation and archaeology. Covers 1930-present.

Historical abstracts

Provider: EBSCO

Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book reviews and dissertations that cover world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada which are covered in "America: History and Life"). Includes publications from 1953-present.

PAIS international

Provider: CSA

Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, government documents, statistical compilations, committee reports, intergovernmental, and private organizations reports. Areas covered include political, economic, social and public policy issues. Covers 1915-present.

Sociological abstracts

Holdings:
1963-

Publisher: Bethesda, Md. : Cambridge Scientific Abstracts,

Provider: CSA

Provides abstracts of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations and conference papers in the fields of sociology, social work and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. Records added after 1972 contain in-depth abstracts of journal articles. Covers 1963-present.

Worldwide political science abstracts

Provider: CSA

Provides citations and abstracts of journals in political science and related fields including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. Covers 1975-present.

For resources in other disciplines, go to our Subject Portal main page and select your discipline. We have pages for Education, Film Studies, Women's Studies, Environmental Studies, and more.

Finding materials with a regional focus:

Africa-wide

Provider: NISC

Offers access to multi-disciplinary information on Africa including books, journal articles, maps and music recordings. Some materials are in full-text. Covers 19th century-present.

Bibliography of Asian studies

Provides citations to journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festshriften on all subjects pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia. Covers 1971-present. Complete citations end with the 1991 records. Since 1992, newly published books are no longer being added.

Asia-studies full-text

Provider: IIS

Contains over 8,000 full-text reports on finance, trade, environment, human resources development, best practices in government, fisheries, tourism, education, women's studies, etc. for 53 countries. Updated weekly.

HAPI

Provider: UCLA

Contains citations to scholarly journal articles published in Latin America, Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean, and to materials that address this region and U.S. Hispanic topics. Covers political, economic, and social issues. Some citations link to full-text articles. Covers 1970-present.

Middle Eastern Studies subject guide

This subject guide has links to the major indexes, encyclopedias, and reference works in middle eastern studies.

Governmental information & Statistics:

CIA world fact book

Provides detailed profiles of all of the countries of the world. Offers information on each country's geography, people, government, economy, communications, military, and transnational issues, as well as maps and flag images. Covers 2000 - present in PDF; current interactive edition is continually updated.

Statistical agencies (international)

List of links to foreign governmental statistics departments.

UN Statistics Division common database

Database that covers all countries and areas and selected series from more specialized international data sources.

WDI online.

Contains development data covering more than 575 indicators, 225 countries,and 18 regional and income groups. An extensive collection of data that includes population, income, social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. Covers 1960-present.

AccessUN

Provider: Readex

Provides abstracts and full-text to most United Nations publications including journal articles, official records and documents from sessional/standing committees, functional commissions, conferences and regional bodies. Indexes 1945-present. Full-text coverage from 1974-present.

Finding newspaper articles:

U.S. and international news sources

This links to the subject guide for US and international news, including Al Jazeera, AllAfrica.com, GenderWatch, Ethnic Newswatch, as well as BBC Online, CNN. Some coverage starts in the 1970s, but it varies depending on the source.

Ethnic newswatch

Offers full-text articles from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. In English and Spanish, it offers additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press. Covers 1990-present.

Access world news

Provider: NewsBank

Newspaper collections from NewsBank provide full-text articles from the electronic editions of record for more than 700 newspapers around the globe. Database covers 1977-present.

LexisNexis academic

Provider: LN

Full-text of thousands of newspapers, magazines, news transcripts, reference works, and legal materials. To find newspapers from a specific region, click the Sources tab and search or browse. Includes NY Times (1980-current).

Maps:

Tripod Searches:
In Tripod under the tab for "more searches" select maps

Keyword: street map philadelphia
Title: geology of the chesapeake and delaware canal area
Author/Creator: hyde ralph
Author/Creator: geological survey us
Author/Creator: new jersey geological survey
Subject: roads pennsylvania [use the exact LC Subject Heading]

See the subject guide for maps and geography for links to current and historic maps online

Perry-Castaneda Library map collection

Provides more than 11,000 digital images produced from originals in the map collections of the University of Texas. Physical, political, historical, topical and thematic maps from nearly every region in the world are included.

Places in time: Historical Documentation of Place in Greater Philadelphia This site has links to a rich variety of images, documents, maps, and views of Philadelphia and surrounding counties from throughout its history; site built and maintained by Cites Professor Jeff Cohen.

Images:

See the subject guide page for images for links to online image collections, including ARTSTOR, AccuNet/AP multimedia archive
The Visual Resources page has links to MDID, the Bryn Mawr Lantern slide collection, Perseus, and many other image collections.

Citing your sources:

Citation and Style Guides

Includes examples of Chicago citation style, with links to other help guides.

A manual for writers of term papers, theses, and dissertations

Author: Turabian, Kate L. Grossman, John, 1924-

Publisher: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Managing your citations

This page provides information about several tools you can use for managing and tracking your citations to books, articles, websites, etc.. EndNote Web is a good option; visit this page to find help documentation and additional info.

Getting help!

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