HKS Library News

We are currently featuring new ebooks recently licensed by HKS Library on our New @ HKS Library site:

Some ebooks can now be checked out for a period of 14 days. You can browse all ebooks licensed by Harvard Library in HOLLIS by limiting the location to Networked Resource.

Earlier this winter we launched New @HKS Library, which is designed to market some of the latest books and databases available to the HKS community. We have also created New in Voting & Elections, New in Criminal Justice, and most recently, New in Cybersecurity, to highlight books and other resources added to the HKS collection on those subjects.

Visit New in Cybersecurity to browse new books and films available online and at HKS Library as well as database recommendations and our Security & Military Studies Research Guide.

Are you traveling abroad for the holidays or during J-Term? Are you visiting a new city in the US for an internship or to conduct research for your PAE?

Take advantage of the Harvard Library databases listed below to generate country profiles or to look up recent news stories and events in local newspapers. Also visit an “Ivy League Plus” University in-person to borrow books through the Borrow Direct Plus On Site Borrowing Program.

News Databases

LexisNexis Academic provides access to thousands of newspapers from around the world. Select the browse link to filter by publication: news and to select specific countries or regions.

Factiva provides access to newspapers that can be browsed by country or region. To browse recent issues of popular publication by geographic region or country, select News Pages at the top of the screen, Factiva Pages, and then change the default search, United States to a different country or geographic region in the drop down menu.

Emerging Markets Information Service EMIS (formerly ISI Emerging Markets) provides current company information and business news from more than 500 sources for emerging markets in Asia, Latin America, Eastern Europe, and the Middle East-North Africa.

Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for regional business publications. This database has full text for more than 50 sources. News wire services cover a number of difference geographic regions. Also, includes local city business newspapers in the United States and Canada.

HKS Library News & Media Research Guide lists regional newspapers databases by continent, geographic region and country.

Country Profile Databases

Economist Intelligence Unit provides country profiles and data. The information includes descriptions of the politics, economy, risk, regulation, and business environment, of a country.

Europa World: The Europa World Year Book Online provides information on countries and territories as well as profiles of international organizations

Oxford Business Group Country Reports are in-depth reports for 39 developing nations and sectors. Includes reports by country and industry. Click on news and views tab to search for economic updates by country.

Political Handbook of the World provides basic country-by-country data (e.g., population, languages) as well as detailed information about political history, politics, social movements, economics, and current issues.

Statesman’s Yearbook Online provides information on country officials, history, basic statistics and profiles of important cities. It also includes profiles of international organizations.

Last month we launched New @HKS Library, a site designed to present some of the latest books and databases added to our collection. We created New in Voting & Elections to highlight books and other resources added to the HKS collection on those subjects.

We have now added New in Criminal Justice to this site. Visit this page to browse 15 books about policing and criminal justice added to the HKS collection this year as well as other top databases for locating criminal justice research, data and more.

You can now visit our New @HKS Library site to view some of the latest books and databases added to our collection. We will also be adding subject-based tabs. Check out our first of this kind, New in Voting & Elections, which highlights books and other resources added to the HKS collection on these subjects in 2016.

Monitor Academic Blogs with ACI Scholarly Blog Index

The ACI Scholarly Blog Index is a curated collection of abstracts of scholarly blogs as well as social media. It is compiled by researchers and librarians and is intended as a current awareness, research and reference database for the academic community. Search by name using “exact quotes” or search by keyword or institution, and then sort your results by relevance, date and/or popularity. You can also narrow your results to the postings with the most comments, by author, by author degree and by affiliated institutions.

Browse the Latest Issue of Scholarly Journals and Stay Up-to-Date on New Scholarship with BrowZine

BrowZine is both a web and a mobile application that allows users to browse, read, and monitor some open access journals and subscription-based journals licensed by the Harvard Library. You can download the BrowZine mobile app for free from your device store. If prompted, select the Harvard Library as your library and enter your Harvard Key. Create your own BrowZine account to enable the My Bookshelf feature which will allow you to curate your own collection of journals to read. See our Fast Answers about BrowZine.

Browse the Last Two Weeks of Popular Newspapers Using Factiva

Did you know that you can browse the last two weeks’ issues of popular newspapers in Factiva? Go to Factiva and select the “News Pages” Tab at the top of the screen. This defaults to popular U.S. newspaper titles including The Wall Street Journal, Chicago Tribune, and The Washington Post. Change the default setting from United States to another country, region or to a specific industry using the dropdown menu on the left.

Have questions or want to learn more? ASK US! – We’re here Monday-Friday, 9-5. Email: library_research@hks.harvard.edu

Come by the Library to check out our new Career Collection!

Created in collaboration with OCA, all books in this collection are available to borrow and are located next to the New Books near the Main Desk.

Titles include:

501+ Great Interview Questions for Employers and the Best Answers for Prospective Employees

Women and public service: barriers, challenges, and opportunities

Down Range: a transitioning veteran’s career guide to life’s next phase

For ebooks and other job resources see Library Resources for Your Job Search.

As commencement approaches, we want to emphasize that HKS Library and Knowledge Services can serve as an important resource to you even after you graduate. Alumni have access to a number of databases including several with full-text scholarly articles and books. You may borrow books in-person with an HKS Alumni Library Card and access all Harvard-wide databases using our on-site guest computers. HKS librarians are also still here to help you and have created Beyond Harvard: Public Policy Research as HKS Alumni as a starting point.

Attend a 30-minute workshop this month to learn more about these resources:

Where: HKS Library Instruction Room (Littauer G14)

When:

• Wednesday, May 11th at 12 p.m.
• Friday, May 13th at 12 p.m.
• Monday, May 16th at 3:30 p.m.
• Wednesday, May 18th at 3:30 p.m.

No registration required. Space is limited so attendance is first come, first served. If you are unable to attend these workshops, please e-mail library_research@hks.harvard.edu to make individual or group appointments with a member of our research staff.