Columbia University Libraries

Columbia University Libraries
Resources from the many Columbia University libraries

Covering dozens of libraries, catalogs, collections hosted at NYC’s Columbia University (over 10 million volumes, 100,000 current jouand many more different items), the CUL website provides detailed info about use and access, e-journal abstracts, full-text papers, database listings and more. Covering any possible topics in the academic world and managed by a professional staff, this website makes a great use of innovative technologies and sophisticated features. Digital resources and archives, several library catalogues, abstracts of more than 9,000 dissertations, webresources lists ordered by type and nature, are the main sections of the Columbia’s Libraries and its website. A library account (with online login) is required to access parts of online databases and resources, while some content is open to the public with plenty of pdf files for downloading. Access to the actual libraries is free to students and faculty, and partially also for relatives, alumni, and local residents. The CUL advanced search options can easily be limited to a specific section (main library catalogue, databases, e-journal, website) or used as a cross-search facility. The search page is also available in a text-only version. A consistent outline helps to navigate successfully in a sometime overwhelming quantity of different materials.

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Library Catalogues

The Library Online Public Access Catalogues or OPAC are integrated databases provided with their own search engines. The Library of Congress, the largest library in the world, provides access to nearly 128 million items in 450 languages, many millions of records in a broad range of formats from books to multimedia. The Online Computer Library Center, as a co-operative of 50,000 libraries and research organizations, produces and maintains WorldCat with 50 million records in 400 languages.
Library Catalogues
Indexes and Abstracts
Articles and Books
Encyclopedias

Participation
The bulletin of the International Political Science Association.
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International Political Science Review
The IPSA Journal, with five issues per year.
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International Political Science Abstracts
abstracts with worldwide coverage and perspective.
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Poznań 2016
The IPSA World Congress of Political Science, July 23-28, 2016.
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