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SAIS Library has several new databases, including:

Political Risk Yearbook, a new product for political risk assessment, is now included in the EBSCO Business Source Premier database, from 2003 to present. This online yearbook includes analysis of the current political, financial and economic risk in each of 100 countries; forecast scenarios; and economic and social data going back ten years. You can access PRY records by:

1) Connecting to the EBSCOHost databases from the Library's homepage and selecting the Business Source Premier database. Type political risk yearbook x [x being the country of your choice] in the Publication Name field.

2) Doing an alphabetical search for political risk yearbook in the JHU Libraries Catalog and clicking on the relevant country link.

Index Islamicus indexes literature on Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world, from 1906 to the present. Material cited in the Index Islamicus includes not only work written about the Middle East, but also about other areas of the world with Muslim populations. Over 3,000 journals are monitored for inclusion in the database, together with conference proceedings, monographs, multi-authored works, and book reviews. LINK via CSA Databases

Oral History Online provides in-depth indexing to more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world. The collection also provides keyword searching of more than 250,000 pages of full-text by over 6,000 individuals and contains pointers to 1,900 audio and video files and over 13,500 bibliographic records. LINK to OHO

Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy (REP) provides access to the latest scholarship and major developments in philosophical inquiry worldwide. The online equivalent of a 10-volume print encyclopedia, REP is regularly upgraded with new material, revisions, and bibliographic updates. LINK to REP

Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage back to 1980 of journal articles and dissertations relating to social welfare, social policy, and community development. LINK via CSA Databases

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts is the result of a merger of Political Science Abstracts and ABC POL SCI. The database provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. LINK via CSA Databases.

Wilson Web databases offer the following enhancements:

1) The main menu has been redesigned, making it easier to view your database options.

2) Previously the WilsonWeb search engine defaulted to searching within full text, sometimes leading to large sets of results, with many irrelevant items. You can now choose to expand a search to include the full text, but if you do not choose this option, the search engine will look for your terms only in the title, subject headings, abstract, and author.

3) On the main search screen, clicking on “Journal Directory” offers many options for finding out which titles are covered by the WilsonWeb databases. You can search by database, subject area, or titles available in “full text” only.

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Some valuable new EBSCOhost features include:

1) You now have the option of registering for a personal account. Look for the Sign in to My EBSCO link on the top of the screen, just below the EBSCOhost logo. When you log into your account, you can save citations and searches from one session to the next, and set up an email alert. FirstSearch databases also offer an option of setting up your own account, allowing you to save searches and change some of the display settings.

2) The ability (in some EBSCOhost databases) to search for cited references.

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts improvements include the following:

1) CSA has a redesigned main page and search engine, with greater choices for limiting or expanding a search, and offering the ability to set up a personal account to save searches and request email alerts.

2) Some of the databases available through CSA offer a particularly valuable feature in that many of the post-2000 records include a list of the references cited in the article’s bibliography. Each individual reference may also have links to an abstract and/or to other papers that cite the reference; these links increase the possibility of finding more potentially relevant articles.

PAIS International (covering 1972 to present) and PAIS Archive (covering 1915 to 1976) are now both available through FirstSearch. The PAIS databases offer excellent coverage of global public policy issues. LINK via FirstSearch

International Political Science Abstracts is now available through the EBSCOHost databases. LINK via EBSCOhost

Sociological Abstracts and International Bibliography of the Social Sciences are now available through CSA. LINK via CSA Databases

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