By virtue of our membership with the Center for Research Libraries, we now offer Latin American Newspapers, a collection of thirty-five newspapers published between 1805-1922 in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela, and elsewhere. You can search in individual , several or all of the newspapers simultaneously.
If you have questions or comments, contact Peter Stern, Portuguese and Spanish Liaison Librarian at 413-545-3967.
The HeinOnline includes complete coverage beginning with the first volume of more than 1,200 law and law-related periodicals, classic legal treatises from the 18th and 19th centuries, and English Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1867). You can browse through or search within the libraries, or look up specific titles. The 12 distinct libraries are:
For more information or assistance using HeinOnline, contact Barbara Morgan, Law Reference Librarian, at 413-545-6850.
The UMass Amherst Libraries now subscribes to Public Administration Abstracts which provides indexing and abstracts for articles in the field of public administration, including theory. Coverage of the literature goes back to 1974.
If you have questions or would like assistance, contact Barbara Morgan, political science library liaison at 413-545-6850.
ProQuest Political Science is a collection of 145 political science and international relations journals with coverage back to 1985.
The trial runs through August 15th, 2009. Contact Barbara Morgan, Political Science Subject Librarian, at 413-545-6850 with questions or comments.
GreenFILE covers multidisciplinary research on the interaction between humans and the natural environment, including the topics of green building, pollution, recycling, renewable energy and sustainable agriculture. It offers abstracts and indexing for scholarly, government and general interest publications, as well as full-text for open access titles.
For assistance using this database, contact a reference librarian at 413-545-0150.
PolicyFile contains policy papers from research institutes and agencies about U.S. foreign and domestic issues. You can browse through an alphabetical list of organizations, visit their web sites and retrieve their position papers, or browse through a subject list. You can aslo search for documents by keyword, author, organization and organization type, subject and date.
For more information or assistance using this resource, contact the political science liaison, Barbara Morgan, at 545-6850.
PolicyFile offers reports, papers, and documents from think tanks, research institutes, and agencies about U.S. foreign and domestic policy. The trial is good through September 21st, 2009. Direct comments and questions to Barbara Morgan.
The UMass Amherst Libraries have added CQ Weekly to our electronic collections. This authoritative and essential source for news and analysis about the business of the U.S. Congress is now available online back to 1983. You can search by topic, page number, committee, “exact phrases or words,” bill number, byline or reporter and by Boolean full-text and date searches, or browse articles and floor votes by topic and date.
Find CQ Weekly via the UMass Amherst Library catalog or the E-Journals list.
The UMass Amherst Libraries have added two new resources from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Archives. RoperExpress offers on demand access to datasets from archived public opinion surveys, and iPOLL provides 500,000 questions and answers gathered from surveys conducted in the United States since 1935. A UMass Amherst email address is required to login to these resources.
For questions or assistance using these resources, contact Barbara Morgan, liaison librarian for legal studies, political science and public policy.
IBSS provides global coverage of the social sciences literature from journals, books and reviews since 1951. Works from over 100 countries and languages are represented.