Globalisation : a guide to library resources

Reference works

When you need to define your topic and/or get some background reading try consulting specialised dictionary or encyclopedia.

Dictionary of globalization [print]

Palgrave dictionary of transnational history [print]

International handbook on globalisation, education and policy research [electronic]

The following atlases provide international coverage of demographic issues
AAAS Atlas of population & environment [web access] - also available in print format

Globalis: global health atlas [web access]

Penguin atlas of diasporas (1995) [print]

Where the poor are: an atlas of poverty [web access]

Starting Points

Its important to think about what you are searching for. Try to think of other terms, alternative terms, synonyms. Be mindful of alternative spellings.

Search techniques

Boolean operators, i.e. AND, OR allow you to decrease or increase the amount of material you retrieve.

AND search

globalisation and education

globalisation and education and australia

OR search

power or influence

Phrase search
By putting quotatio marks around words you are telling the database you want to find adjacent words e.g.

"population growth"

"nation-state"

"world population trends"

Combine with Boolean operators

"global cities" or "world cities"

("global cities" or "world cities") and globalisation

**you must bracket the OR search if used with an AND search

Truncation

geograph*

Finds all the words that come after the stem
i.e. geography, geographies, geographical

Wildcard

globali?ation

Replaces a character and allows you to find alternative spellings
i.e. globalisation, globalization

Always check out the Help section of the databases you are using as truncation symbols and wildcards, may differ.

Click here if you need more help with constructing searches using techniques such as truncation and Boolean operators.

Finding Books

Books can be found by searching the Library catalogue or by searching in Summon and refining your search to just books or/and ebooks.

Recommended books (from course coordinator)

The global cities reader (2006)

An introduction to human geography : issues for the 21st century (2008)

A companion to cultural geography (2004)

A globalizing world? : culture, economics, politics (2004)

The global transformations reader : an introduction to the globalization debate (2000)

Geographies of globalization : a critical introduction (2009)

Geographies of global change : remapping the world (2002)

Globalization : theory and practice (2008)

Global governmentality : governing international spaces (2004)

The globalization reader (2008)

Geographies of globalization (2006)

The cultural geography reader (2008)

Contested worlds : an introduction to human geography (2005)

The Blackwell companion to globalization (2007)

Globalization : a critical introduction (2005)

The SAGE handbook of social geographies (2010)
also in print

Search by subject heading in the Library catalogue

Culture and globalization

Globalization

Globalization Social aspects

Human rights and globalization

Education and globalization

Emigration and immigration

Forced migration

Social justice

Finding Journal Articles

Journal articles can be found through Summon or through the databases listed in the Databases for Geography guide.

Specialised population databases:

Popline [web access]
[Database on reproductive health. Coverage is from 1973 onward]
PERN eLibrary [web access]
[An index to population-environment literature]

Population Index [electronic]
[Useful for its early coverage of the world's demographic & population literature from 1935 until its cessation in 1999]

Statistical Data

Global Statistical Data

Database on Immigrants in OECD and non OECD countries [web access]
[Provides free access to statistical datasets and data tables DIOC covering 28 OECD countries as well as 27 non-OECD countries]
International health data reference guide [web access]
[From the US National Center for Health Statistics this is a guide to the availability of selected world-wide national vital statistics & national population-based surveys]
Population and Health Data Search [web access]
[This database from the Population Reference Bureau contains data on demographic variables for countries, regions and the world as a whole]
UNHCR Statistics [web access]
[Statistical data from UNHCR - the UN refugee agency]

World health statistics [web access]
[Global health statistics from the World Health Organization. Also available in print format]

Web Resources

The following are starting points for locating resources on the Web

International Organization for Migration
[IOM is an inter-governmental organization in the field of migration which works closely with governmental, intergovernmental and non-governmental partners on issues of migration]
Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC), established in 1998 by the [Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC), is the leading international body monitoring conflict-induced internal displacement worldwide]
United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)
[Key UN agency for refugees]

United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA)
[UNFPA assists countries to address reproductive health and population issues]

WWW Virtual Library : Medicine & Health Epidemiology

WWW Virtual Library : Ercomer Virtual Library [Migration & Ethnic Relations]
[The WWW VL guides provide key links for particular subject areas & are widely recognised as being amongst the highest-quality guides to Web resources]