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GOV215: The Clinton Years
Spring 2008 - M. Lendler
reference contact: Sika Berger x2963

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BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Reference Source Reference Call Number
Encyclopedia of the Clinton Presidency Neilson Reserve E 885 L48 2002
Bill Clinton: A Bibliography Neilson Reserve E 886 M477 2002
The Presidents: A Reference History ref E 176.1 P918 2002
Presidents From Reagan Through Clinton, 1981-2001: Debating the Issues in Pro and Con Primary Documents Neilson Reserve
E 176.1 P922 2002
CQ Public Affairs Collection (online) Smith libraries subscription
Congressional Quarterly Almanac (annual, 1948+) Neilson JK 1 C66
online for Smith community
Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations (4 vols.) ref E 183.7 .E53 1997
Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy (3 vols.) ref E 183.7 E52 2002

Historical Encyclopedia of U.S. Presidential Use of Force, 1789-2000.  Also online.

ref E 176.1 .H56 2001
ebrary book

National Service and AmeriCorps:
An Annotated Bibliography
Neilson HD 4870 U6 M58 1997

BOOKS:The Five College Library System

Use keywords to combine concepts, or "Subject Heading begins with" for terms such as these:

Clinton, Bill, 1946-
Presidents - Legal status, laws, etc.
    - United States - History - 20th century
Executive power - United States - History
United States - Politics and government
- 1993-2001
United States - Officials and employees
- Selection and appointment
Judges - Selection and appointment
- United States
United States - Armed Forces - Foreign countries
United States - Foreign relations - [country]
Intervention (International law)
Free trade - Political aspects - United States
Free trade - North America
Foreign trade regulation - North America

Public welfare - United States
Welfare state - United States - History
United States - Social policy
Poor - Government policy
War and emergency powers
United States - Military policy
Campaign funds - United States
Waco Branch Davidian Disaster, Tex., 1993
Oklahoma City Federal Building Bombing, Oklahoma City, Okla., 1995
Political violence - Oklahoma - Oklahoma City
Terrorism - Government policy
Gays - Government policy - United States
United States - Armed Forces - Gays
AmeriCorps (U.S.)

Note: UMass Amherst library holdings include records for government documents from 1976 to the present. Often older hearings can be found at Smith at the same SuDoc (us doc) call numbers, although they don't appear in our own catalog if published before 1997.

Enter a journal title to search the Journal Locator and then connect with the full text of many journals available at Smith. Bound periodicals are shelved by call number on the second floor in Neilson Library.

ARTICLES & MORE

Source Access
Academic Search Premier. 1965+ [EBSCO] both academic & news sources
Social Sciences Abstracts. 1983+ indexes core journals
LexisNexis Academic. 1970's+ texts from news and legal sources
LexisNexis Congressional. 1789+ Congressional documents & news
America, History and Life. 1953+ allows limit by decade researched
Alternative Press Index. 1972+ Sources outside mainstream
Expanded Academic Index. 1980+ [InfoTrac] includes some academic, some news

INTERNET LINKS

Source Access
Public Papers of the Presidents http://www.gpoaccess.gov/pubpapers

William J. Clinton Presidential Library & Museum, including alternate access to the
Public Papers of the President

http://www.clintonlibrary.gov

Connect by topic, through index

White House Websites. 1993+
Including the Public Papers of the President
and the Weekly Compilation of Pres. Docs.
Search contents of "frozen" sites

Government Information:
See library class guide for The Presidency

GOV206:...Government Information
GPO Access: Legislative Branch Resources. mid-1990's+ http://www.gpoaccess.gov/legislative.html
NationalJournal's Policy Central. 1977+
Advanced Search includes date limiting
Available to Smith community
U.S. State Department. - 2000 archive.
Regions & Countries
http://www.state.gov/www/regions.html

CONNECT TO GOV215 SITE

Use Moodle to access course documents and communication tools: GOV215

CITATION STYLE

There are some guides to creating citations to electronic sources right on the Web.

Citing Sources (Duke University Library) Guides for Turabian, Chicago Manual of Style, MLA, and APA. Includes examples of types of works cited, plus information on when to cite and avoiding plagiarism.

Up-to-date style guides and more help are available at the Reference Desk in Neilson library, or try Smith's new online software - RefWorks.

HELP FROM A LIBRARIAN

Use Need Help? Ask a Librarian! to send a question at any time, call Reference at x2960, or contact Sika Berger, reference librarian, directly at x2963: sberger@email.smith.edu

Please provide us with feedback on the library instruction session for GOV215. Thanks!

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