Great source for International Relations researchers
At the reference desk today I was asked for background on modern day piracy. This question helped me re-discover Columbia International Affairs Online [CIAO] one of my favorite too-often-overlooked resources. Sponsored by Columbia University Press, CIAO has great content - authoritative, extensively researched and in-depth - on all kinds of topics.
If you're curious, try searching your topic du jour. Advanced search lets you limit results to the previous year or two. The site is kinda clunky, but the results are amazingly rich and varied. Here's a search on North Korea's nuclear program, to give you an idea. Note the range of ideological perspectives.
Watch out though, some of these files are huge pdfs, so may be slow to download and slow/wasteful to print. Please leave me a comment and tell me what you think.
Mark
