1.  In IUP Library

 

Search Pilot, the library’s online catalog. 

-          at the library website, select “Books and More…” and then “Online Catalog”.

-          At the search screen, select “Guided search” tab, enter “latin america” in the first box, “foreign relations” in the second box, “government document?” in the third.

 

Search Indexes & Databases  IUP library subscribed. 

-          At the library website, click on “Articles and More…” and then “All databases”.

-          At “Indexes & Databases” screen , select “MARCIVE WebDocs”

-          At MARCIVE, select “subject” for the search and enter the subject terms:  “latin America-foreign relations-united states”.

         

Monthly Catalog of Government Publications

           To find documents published before 1976, IUP Library has printed edition of the catalog

            covering the year 1931-2004 kept at Index/abstract area:  [INDEX] J83 .A18

The online version of the catalog is available through GPO Access, covering 1995-present.

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cgp/index.html

-          At the main page, select “Advanced Search” on the left panel of the screen.

-          Enter terms, for example, “latin america” and “united states”,

-          Click on a record link from the result list if the record is full text online.  If not, you can find out which local library has the item by clicking on “Local Libraries” and then search local depository libraries by state or area code.

 

CIS Index (Congressional Information Service)

The printed version is kept at Reference section on the first floor: [REF] KF .49.C62.  To access the bibliographic records, descriptive annotations, and the actual publication on microfiche, you need to:

    -    Consult the index under subject, title, or name, and record the entry number.

    -    Look in the abstract volume under the entry number and read the abstract.

    -    If you want to read the publication microfiche, request it in the Serials  Department by the collection name (CIS) entry  number, and year of the index.

The  online version of CIS Index is available through Congressional Universe - Lexis-Nexis database.

  

WorldCat - OCLC's Online Union Catalog

Search can be limit to government documents.   

-          From IUP Library's website, choose "Articles and More".

-     At “Indexes & Databases” screen, select “WorldCat”

-          At “Jump to Advanced Search”, select “WorldCat”.

-          In the first search box, enter terms “latin America”, for example; enter “ foreign relations” in the second box;

-          In the third box, enter “ngp” for “national government publication” and then select “material type” from the pull down menu that follows the third box, so that all the entries show up would be government documents.

-          If you want  to use internet resources only, check the box “Internet resources” from “Limit the Type to:” section.

 

2.     Government websites/search engine:

 

Firstgov 

-          At Information by Topic section, select “defense and international”

-          “Countries and regions” section, click on link that interests you.

-          At the same page on the right panel, links are provided for “U.S. Foreign Policy” and “Foreign Government Websites”.

GPO Access

-          At “Federal-wide resources” section, selecting “Federal resources by topic”;

-          At the pull down menu of “brows by topics”, select “foreign affairs of the U.S.”  or “foreign country studies” and click on “Go”.

 

State Department 

-          At State Department’s main page, click on “Press and Public Affairs”;

-          Under “Publications”, click on “Major State Department Publications”;

-    To find historical record of American foreign policy, click on “Foreign Relations of the United States”. 

(Note:  Only recent volumes of this series, from Truman Administration to Nixon-Ford Administration (1945-1976), are online.  IUP library has a full set of this series in printed edition shelved at Reference section:  [FEF] JX 233.A3.  University of Wisconsin Digital Collections provides online access to this series covering the year from 1861 to 1960.  It is a searchable database. http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/

-          To find information on a country's history, government, political conditions, economy, and relations with the U.S., select “Background Notes”.

 

3.     Non-government website/search engine

 

National Security Archive

-          To search a declassified document, click on “Documents” at top of the main page.

-          Under “Latin America” section, click on a topic you want to read.

 

INFOMINE

-          At the main page, click on “Government Info.”

-          At the “Search for” box, enter a topic and then select “Government Resources, United States” at the “Limit Search to” section.

 

Google Uncle Sam

-          At the search box, enter a topic, e.g. Cuban missile crisis.

It searches only government and military sites.

 

4.     Citing government documents

 

The bluebook : a uniform system of citation.

Shelved at Reference Desk:  [REF] KF245 .B58 (2000 edition)

 

How to cite electronic, print and microfiche congressional publications? via  Congressional Universe-LexisNexis

-         At Congressional Universe page, select “How do I?at the top right corner of the screen,

-         At the “How do I? list, go to no. 11 and click on the link “How to cite..”

 

Citing Legal documents and government publications via Library of Congress

http://learning.loc.gov/learn/start/cite/index.html

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