Global Development Studies
Adrienne Meier - Adrienne is the librarian for Global Development Studies. She is available to help with research questions for all global development studies classes. To ask a question or to schedule an appointment, write to her at ameier@spu.edu
For information on global development studies, see the resources below.
Core Resources
- Academic Search Premier - This multi-disciplinary database provides full text for more than 4,600 journals, including nearly 3,900 peer-reviewed titles. Its coverage ranges from 1984 to the present, with some back files (to 1975) and searchable cited references available.(SPU Only)
- GreenFile - offers a collection of scholarly, government, and general-interest titles covering all aspects of human impact to the environment.(SPU Only)
- In the First Person - offers an in-depth index to collections of letters, diaries, and personal narratives in English from around the world.
Additional Resources
- Culture Grams - offers educational resources for educators, librarians, and administrators of K-12 schools.(SPU Only)
- Europa World Yearbook - offers an online, dynamic version of the Europa World Year Book, first published in 1926.(SPU Only)
- Google Scholar - This search engine searches for scholarly research across many disciplines and sources. By starting your Google search from the SPU pages, the results will link to SPU-owned full-text.
- MEDLINE via EBSCOhost - MEDLINE covers all areas of healthcare, including medicine, dentistry, nursing, psychiatry, and nutrition. MEDLINE via EBSCOHOST offers some full text and the ability to search PsycINFO simultaneously.(SPU Only)
- New York Times Index - offers full-text coverage of the U.S. newspaper of record. Important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and presidential press conference transcripts are included.(SPU Only)
- Research Library Complete - covers a broad range of topics, with coverage extending from 1971 to the present.(SPU Only)
- Sociological Abstracts - covers anthropology, criminology, crisis intervention, demography, social psychology, urban studies, violence, and other sociological and social work topics. Its coverage extends from 1963 to the present.(SPU Only)