CIAO, Columbia International Affairs Online is designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. Each section of CIAO is updated with new material on a regular schedule. Working papers are augmented every month, as are conference proceedings, policy briefs and economic indicators. Links and resources, the schedule of events and the response files are updated weekly. New journal issues and books are added as they become available. -- Simultaneous Users: Unlimited
This book is aimed at all librarians and information professionals working in culturally diverse environments. It addresses the issues of communication, diplomatic etiquette, and common courtesies from a wide range of cultures and how to provide library services across cultural boundaries and languages.
This resource consists of declassified government documents covering U.S. policy toward critical world events – including their military, intelligence, diplomatic and human rights dimensions – from 1945 to the present. USF has access to collections 1 through 62. Each collection is assembled by foreign policy experts and features chronologies, glossaries, bibliographies, and scholarly overviews to provide unparalleled access to the defining international issues of our time.
Research briefs present policy-oriented summaries of individual published, peer-reviewed documents or of a body of published work. Each is available for online reading (in HTML format), and some are also available as print-friendly PDFs. Categories: The arts -- Child policy -- Civil justice -- Education -- Energy and environment -- Health and health care -- International affairs -- Latin America -- Methodology -- National security -- Population and aging -- Public safety -- Science and technology -- Substance abuse -- Terrorism and homeland security -- Transportation and infrastructure.