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Go to http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:HUL.ejournals:sfx963017844294 for access back to 2000 for Journalism: Theory, Practice, & Criticism.

From the Publisher: Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism is a major international, peer-reviewed journal that provides a dedicated forum for articles from the growing community of academic researchers and critical practitioners with an interest in journalism. The journal is interdisciplinary and publishes both theoretical and empirical work and contributes to the social, economic, political, cultural and practical understanding of journalism.

Published twice a year, Economics of Energy & Environmental Policy (EEEP), established as an IAEE publication in 2012, is a policy oriented journal.  It provides a scholarly and research-based, yet easily read and accessible source of information on contemporary economic thinking and analysis of policy issues in the interface between energy and environmental economics.

To read the articles from the journal, go to http://www.iaee.org.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/en/publications/eeepjournal.asp and select an issue from the drop-down menu at the top of the screen.

• To select a paper, click on “Add to Cart (html and pdf)”
• Click on “Proceed to Checkout”
• In the paragraph, click on “here”
• Click on the article title. The full-text will now be displayed. There is also a button to “Download PDF” under the image.

The HKS Library now provides access to The Review of Faith & International Affairs. Access to this peer-reviewed journal is available from 2003 to the present.

From the Publisher:  The Review of Faith & International Affairs is a quarterly journal dedicated to providing analysis and commentary regarding the role of religion – for good or ill – in global affairs. The Review of Faith & International Affairs brings together many of today’s most innovative and distinguished thinkers, making their research and commentaries available not just to specialists but to a wider audience of globally concerned readers. It is published out of the Center on Faith & International Affairs (CFIA) at the Institute for Global Engagement.

The HKS Library now provides access to the Journal of Political Marketing. Access to this peer-reviewed journal is available from 2002 to the present.

From the Publisher: The Journal of Political Marketing is vital reading for politicians and candidates at every level of office as well as political party officials, political consultants, corporate lobbyists, pollsters, media specialists, journalists, and students and educators in these and related fields. In comparison to competing publications, this journal puts exciting articles with a high level of sophistication and detail in your hands, keeping you on top of current developments in political marketing and campaign strategy. The journal’s focus includes current and predicted future trends such as the application of Internet marketing techniques to politics, which may be at the forefront of future politics around the world.

Nooks and Kindles are now available for borrowing from the HKS Library’s Circulation Desk. These E-Readers may be checked out for 28 days and come pre-loaded with fifty popular and new-release fiction and non-fiction titles.

Contact the Circulation for more information at (617) 495-1300 or at hkscirc@hks.harvard.edu.

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

Several new workshops have been added to the HKS Library’s schedule:

• Starting from Scratch: Developing Search Strategies (additional sessions added)
• Find it @ Harvard: HOLLIS, the Harvard Library Portal, eResources, and More (additional sessions added)
• Introduction to Web2.0 (additional sessions added)
• Managing the Information Overload in Your Field: Keeping up with Start Pages, RSS, Blogs, and Podcasts (NEW!)
• All about Twitter (NEW!)
• News Searching 101 (NEW!)
• LexisNexis 101 and LexisNexis Advanced
• .gov Research (NEW!)
• Google Hacks: Find Anything in Google (NEW!)
• Country Research (NEW!)
• Research Tools for Firefox (NEW!)
• RefWorks

Since seating is limited, please register in advance for sessions. Full details available here.

We look forward to seeing you!

The Harvard Kennedy School Library & Knowledge Services is now on Twitter! Follow us at http://www.twitter.com/HKSLibrary to see our posts and learn more about the issues that matter to us.

And if you’re not yet using Twitter, stay tuned — we’ll be offering workshops this fall about Twitter and other social networking tools.

Here are some books we’ve recently added to the HKS Library’s collection. Click the titles for availability information. You can also receive email notifications of new books by subject area.

Ziliak, Stephen Thomas, 1963- The cult of statistical significance : how the standard error costs us jobs, justice, and lives / by Stephen T. Ziliak and Deirdre N. McCloskey. Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008.

McGeough, Paul, 1954- Kill khalid : the failed Mossad assassination of Khalid Mishal and the rise of Hamas / Paul McGeough. New York : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Co., 2009.

Smil, Vaclav. Global catastrophes and trends : the next 50 years / Vaclav Smil. Cambridge, Mass. : The MIT Press, c2008.

Wolff, Michael, 1953- The man who owns the news : inside the secret world of Rupert Murdoch / Michael Wolff. New York : Broadway Books, c2008.

Ahamed, Liaquat. Lords of finance : the bankers who broke the world / Liaquat Ahamed. New York : Penguin Press, 2009.

Sadat, Jihan, 1933- My hope for peace / Jehan Sadat. New York : Free Press, 2009.

Megacommunities : how leaders of government, business and non-profits can tackle today’s global challenges together / Mark Gerencser … [et al.]. New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.

Here are some books we’ve recently added to the HKS Library’s collection. Click the titles for availability information. You can also receive email notifications of new books by subject area.

De Vries, Jan, 1943 Nov. 14- The industrious revolution : consumer behavior and the household economy, 1650 to the present / Jan de Vries. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.

Todd, Chuck, 1972- How Barack Obama won : a state-by-state guide to the historic 2008 presidential election / Chuck Todd and Sheldon Gawiser ; with Ana Maria Arumi and G. Evans Witt. New York : Vintage Books, 2009.

Cohan, William D. House of cards : a tale of hubris and wretched excess on Wall Street / William D. Cohan. New York : Doubleday, c2009.

Roberts, John B. Freeing Tibet : 50 years of struggle, resilience, and hope / John B. Roberts II, Elizabeth A. Roberts. New York : AMACOM, c2009.

Blight, James G. Vietnam if Kennedy had lived : virtual JFK / James G. Blight, Janet M. Lang, and David A. Welch. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2009.

Steavenson, Wendell, 1970- The weight of a mustard seed : an intimate story of an Iraqi general and his family during thirty years of tyranny / Wendell Steavenson. New York : Collins Pub. Group, 2009.

Frank, Nathaniel. Unfriendly fire : how the gay ban undermines the military and weakens America / Nathaniel Frank. New York : Thomas Dunne Books, 2009.

Talbott, John R., 1955- Obamanomics : how bottom-up economic prosperity will replace trickle-down economics / John R. Talbott. New York : Seven Stories Press, c2008.