Citation tools help you collect, store, and manage reference information, research notes, and documents. They work with your word processor to manage in-text citations, create footnotes, and to build bibliographies in nearly any format. This guide, linked below, gives you a wealth of information on using RefWorks, Endnote and Zotero.
The online edition of the Washington Information Directory provides contact and descriptive information for more than 10 thousand government offices, regulatory agencies, congressional committees, judicial offices, public interest groups, non-governmental and international organizations located in and around Washington, D.C. It is searchable and browsable and offers a letter template tool and customizable address book.
Looking for Earth Day resources? The University at Buffalo Library has compiled a cyberexhibit commemorating Earth Day. The web site includes: a brief history of Earth Day, a listing of selected international, national, state, and local Internet resources, and other materials.
If a link to an online reading is broken or not provided at all, you can still access the article using one of two library tools.
The first option is to use Google Scholar. Type in the title of your article and hit the Search button. Once you locate your article in the results, click the Find It @ Harvard button next to the title.
If your article is available online, you should see one or more options under FULL TEXT ONLINE. The differences between these options are slight, so you can start at the top of the list.
Once you’ve chosen an option, you will be connected with the actual article. If you don’t see the full text right on the page, look for a link to full text or a PDF.
The second option for locating articles is Citation Linker. Instead of searching by article title, you will search by journal title. Just type in the name of the journal that the article was published in, ignore all the other boxes, and hit the Find It button.
You may need to pinpoint your specific journal from a list before being taken to your list of options. Again, if your article is available online, you should see one or more options under FULL TEXT ONLINE. Choose one with a date range that includes your article. Then look for the full text or PDF link.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact the library for help.
The RGE Monitor aggregates and categorizes “up to the minute†(24 hour) global macroeconomic and geostrategic news and data. Daily Digests are provided for over 130 topics and countries and can be delivered to your desktop via email on any topic(s) of your choice. Original content consisting of commentary, research and analysis is provided by Nouriel Roubini, RGE Chairman, Brad Setser, RGE Head of Global Research, and other internationally known experts in the field. The commentary and analytic writings help place the current domestic and global economic situation in perspective and inspire debate. RGE Monitor links all topics and countries covered to “the best blog coverage on the Web.†Also available are blogs maintained by Roubini and Setser. [Link to RGE Monitor] Harvard I.D. and PIN required.
Please note: You will need to set-up a free account before accessing the content in the RGE Monitor. To create an account, login to the RGE Monitor with your Harvard I.D. and PIN and choose â€Click Here to Create your RGE Monitor Account.†Please contact us if you need help setting-up your free account.
ClimateWire is a daily environmental newswire covering the key issues that surround the debate over climate policy and its effects on business, the environment and society. Greenwire, also a daily environmental newswire, aggregates coverage of energy and environmental policy issues from hundreds of print, broadcast and online sources. To access both ClimateWire and Greenwire, click here.
Keep your research organized by easily sending references from Harvard’s resources to your RefWorks account. Once it’s time to write your paper, RefWorks will help with inline citations and footnotes and will automatically build a bibliography with the appropriate citations.
The HKS Library will be offering small training sessions once the fall semester gets going, or feel free to schedule an appointment with a librarian to get started right away.
If you’re not using RefWorks, you’re working too hard.
Here is a selection of resources online and in print dealing with climate change, international agreements on global climate change, environmental protection, and environmental policy.
The Harvard Project on International Climate Agreements (Harvard University)
Global Environment Outlook (UN Environment Program)
For Further Research
Finding Journal Articles on Environmental Topics
This helpful quick reference source is now available online as well as in print at Harvard. The Handbook provides data and information on population, geography, languages, religion, regime type, heads of state, political parties, legislatures, cabinets, political history, recent elections, communications, and news media for the countries of the world. Also included are listings of over 120 intergovernmental organizations and major UN conferences. Login to the Political Handbook of the World.
Balance of Payment Statistics (International Monetary Fund)Â
Provides annual aggregate and detailed time series for balance of payments and international investment statistics for individual countries.
Direction of Trade Statistics Online (International Monetary Fund)
Time series data beginning in 1980 to the present, detailing the value of merchandise exports and imports between each country and all its trading partners.
EIU City Data (Economist Inteligence Unit)
Pricing data on more than 160 products and services in 140 cities worldwide.
EIU Market Indicators and Forecasts (Economist Intelligence Unit)
Data on market size and growth potential for 60Â countries.
EIU World Investment Service (Economist Intelligence Unit)
Provides detailed analysis on political and economic background, business environment, foreign investment regulations and trends in foreign investment for the world’s 60 largest economies.
Social Explorer (Queens College, CUNY)
Historical census data for the United States through the use of interactive maps and reports. Data is available from 1940 to 2000 at census tract, county, state and national level.
