Kennedy School Library Blog

Due to inclement weather, the Harvard Kennedy School and the Library will be closed Wednesday, February 2nd. More information is available on KNET

The Library & Knowledge Services (LKS) staff is pleased to announce a new partnership with the Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU), an independent research institute based in Kabul, Afghanistan. Through this partnership we seek to provide greater access to AREU publications for the HKS and Harvard communities. The Library has recently added many of AREU’s reports in print and electronic formats to its collection and will be adding more as they become available. In addition, the HKS Library has created a research guide with links to news, research centers, NGOs, international organizations, and other resources to aid in conducting research on Afghanistan.

Please contact Leslie Donnell or Keely Wilczek if you would like more information about these materials or about the library’s relationship with AREU.

The Congressional Research Service provides reports to members of Congress on a variety of topics relevant to current political events.  These reports are not automatically made available to the public but instead are usually released by a member of Congress upon request. The gathering of the reports in away that is searchable to the general public has fallen to educational institutions and organizations. Our new Congressional Research Service Reports Research Guide provides links to those public websites as well as to a Harvard University subscription database which provides access to these reports.

The HKS Library has created a new research guide on the topic of  Women & Development: The Global Gender Gap. The guide contains links to databases, organizations, and research centers which contain publications about women and various development issues. There are also resources grouped by the subjects of health, education, crime, and poverty.

Please contact a research librarian for assistance in researching this topic and any others at Ask A Librarian.

The World Bank now provides free access to their collection of World Development Reports back to 1978. These reports contain the World Bank’s knowledge of and policy recommendations on key global development trends.

Poverty & Public Policy

Journal of Time Series Econometrics

Risk Hazards & Crisis in Public Policy

Journal of Globalization and Development

World Medical and Health Policy

California Journal of Politics and Policy

All of these journals can be found at Berkeley Electronic Press.

Harvard’s library catalog, HOLLIS, is now available in a mobile-friendly form.

Hollis Mobile

• initiate a basic search,
• view the search results
• select an item to display more information about that item, which libraries have it available and to request it.

World Newspaper Archive includes newspapers from Africa, Latin America, South Asia, and the United States dating from the 19th to the early 20th century.

We have now added Military Studies as a subject for our research guides. It is a great place to start if you are looking for information about military policy and analysis.

We have now added Food Policy as a subject for our research guides. It is a great place to start if you are looking for information about food security and aid.