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Thanks and kudos to the Library for making electronic copies of all articles from Nonproliferation Review available to MIIS students. Founded and edited at our own Center for Nonproliferation Studies, NPR is the pioneering journal in its field and is an invaluable source for theoretical, historical, and policy studies on nonproliferation. For years, however, the MIIS community didn’t have online access to its own journal…but this anomaly is now a thing of the past. Our students, faculty, and copy machines thank you.

–Fred Wehling, GSIPS and MonTREP

To access The Nonproliferation Review, go to our AtoZ Periodical List from our Print & Online Journals page. If you search for Nonproliferation Review, you’ll see a link to the publisher’s website where you can access full text articles dating from Vol. 1, No. 1 in 1993 to the current issue.

Fall is officially here and the library is here to help you with you new classes. Here are a few tips that might be helpful in this first week of classes:

Finding your reserve readings: If your instructor has put a book on reserve for your class, you’ll find it at our front desk. You’ll be able to check it out for 2 hours. Articles and book chapters will be on ereserve (electronic reserve). Your instructor will give you a password to access the ereserve readings for your course. To find your ereserves, go to Course Reserves and click on Ereserves.

Copy cards: If you’d like to buy a copy card for our photocopiers, you may purchase one for a $1 deposit at the front desk. When you put the card in one of the copiers and then put money in the machine, that money will go on your copy card. You can keep adding money to your card as you need to.

If you need any help with our copiers and printers, please let us know. We are happy to help if you have paper jams or any other problems.

If you’d like to know more about the library, stop by on Tuesday or Thursday at 3PM for a 45 minute general tour.

If you’d like to know which databases and ejournals will be useful for your research, sign up for a databases workshop. Here are the workshop schedules for the month of September:

IPS Databases Workshop Schedule

Business Databases Workshop Schedule

TESOL/TFL Databases Workshop Schedule

If you’d like to sign up for a workshop, stop by the reference desk or email Ann Flower.

Let us know if we can help!

Thanks to a generous donation from Laurence and Jean Horan, we have a collection of Pre-Colombian artifacts on exhibit in the Library Reference Room. The collection includes 35 pieces, including pottery and jewelry.

To see photos of the collection click here.

Stop by the library front lobby to see our Olympics display. If you are an Olympics addict, you can read all about the politics, history and economics of the Games.

You’ll also find the full set of rule books for all events from the Atlanta Summer Games in our Vertical File. And in our Reference Collection, we have glossaries of Olympic terms in Chinese, Russian, French, German, Spanish and English.

For more information on the Olympic Games, visit the website of the International Olympic Committee, the official website of the Beijing Games and NBC Summer Olympics in Beijing.

We are excited to announce the implementation of our new Interlibrary loan system, ILLIAD.

We believe ILLIAD will provide more timely and better service to you.  It’s easy to use -
First time users will need to set up a personal account.  Once you have set up an account, you can request materials that we do not own in our library - articles, books, theses, etc.  You will be able to track your requests, see where they are in the process, cancel requests, renew, and receive electronic PDF files, all online!  No need to come and pick up your articles at the front desk.

Please take the time to set up an account by clicking on the link below.  We hope this will provide you with faster service for your research needs.  Any questions - stop by the front desk or email megan.kortemeier@miis.edu.

ILLIAD

We’re pleased to announce that the library has a new subscription to Global Market Information Database (GMID) from Euromonitor International. You’ll find a link to this database on our Research Databases page.

GMID is a vast resource of business intelligence on industries, countries and consumers. It supports a wide range of research, including international business and marketing, economics, social sciences, humanities, international relations, travel and tourism, hospitality management and food marketing.

Intelligence on Countries

• Internationally comparable demographic, economic and “other” country statistics
• Analysis of business environment and economic outlook
• Country and regional profiles

Intelligence on Industries

• Market size data for hundreds of consumer products
• Forward-looking industry analysis and sector reports
• Company profiles, market shares and brand shares

Intelligence on Consumers

• Detailed income, expenditure and lifestyle statistics
• Analysis of lifestyles and changing demographics
• Emerging consumer trends and attitudes

Geographic Coverage
205 countries are researched, both developed and emerging markets. All data is comparable across countries.

Interested in learning more? Try this online tutorial or stop by the Reference Desk.

Looking for some good reading recommendations for the summer?

Dr. Phil Morgan of GSIPS suggests the following books on current issues in Africa:

Africa’s Silk Road: China and India’s New Economic Frontier by Harry G. Broadman. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 2007.
Patterns and performance of African-Asian trade and investment flows.
(available in PDF on the World Bank E-Library)

China in Africa: Partner, Competitor or Hegemon? by Chris Alden. London/New York: Zed Books, 2007.
China’s new foreign policy toward Africa: development partner, economic competitor, or new colonizer?
(On order for our Circulating Collection)

South Africa in Africa: the Post-Apartheid Era edited by A. Adebajo, A. Adedeji and C. Landsberg. Scottsville, South Africa: University of Kwazulu-Natal Press, 2007.
Analyses of regional challenges for South Africa’s foreign policy, both conventional (leadership, military, economic) and unconventional (land reform, HIV/AIDS).
(In our Circulation Collection: DT38.9.S6S685 2007)

Global Shadows: Africa in the Neoliberal World Order by James Ferguson. Duke University Press, 2006.
A socio-cultural perspective on the consequences of a globalized economy on local African ways of thinking.
(On order for our Circulating Collection)

Marginal Gains: Monetary Transactions in Atlantic Africa by Jane I. Guyer. University of Chicago Press, 2004.
An examination of diverse popular economic systems in Africa, with emphasis on currencies, quotidian transactions and financial institutions. A special issue of the African Studies Review, the journal of the African Studies Association, was devoted to the above work by Guyer indicating its provocative impact. (Vol. 50, No. 2, September 2007)
(On order for our Circulating Collection)

African Development: Making Sense of the Issues and Actors by Todd J. Moss. Boulder: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2007.
A sharp chronological synthesis of development approaches and strategies of both donors and local power elites over forty years, concluding with an african inspired reform agenda.
(In our Circulating Collection: HC800.M6775 2007)

Political Topographies of the African State: Territorial Authority and Institutional Choice by Catherine Boone. Cambridge University Press, 2003.
A detailed empirical study of three countries and the patterns of state-building, within each, as determined by geography, the nature of the rural economy, and the strategic interaction between rural and state elites.
(In our Circulating Collection: JQ1879.A15B66 2003))

Somalia: Diaspora and State Reconstitution in the Horn of Africa edited by Osman Farah, M. Muchie and J. Gundel. London: Adonis and Abbey Publishers, 2007.
The editors bring together multiple perspectives on efforts at reconstituting the failed Somali state and the role played by the Somali Diaspora and civil society groups.
(On order for our Circulating Collection)

The French Betrayal of Rwanda by Daniela Kroslak. Indiana University Press, 2008.
How to evaluate the responsibility of the French government in the 1994 genocide in Rwanda? This balanced study examines “French awareness of the impending disaster, French involvement before the genocide, and French diplomatic efforts and military capacity to change the tide.”
(In our Circulating Collection: DT450.435.K769 2008)

Welcome to all of our new summer language students!

The library is here to help you with your language studies this summer. We’ve got a great collection of dictionaries, grammar guides, magazines, newspapers and even foreign language novels. Stop by the Reference Desk if you’d like a quick tour of our collections.

If you are here studying English, stop and look at the display case when you walk into the library. We’re featuring some books on learning English grammar, building your vocabulary, and improving your writing. We have a good collection of English dictionaries in the Reference Collection - look for the PE section and you’ll find dictionaries, thesauri, and grammar guides. We also have the online version of Encyclopaedia Britannica - you’ll find the link to it on our Research Databases page.

Are you learning Spanish or French? Our dictionary collection for both languages is located in the PC section. You’ll even find some dictionaries that you can check out and use at home in our Circulating Collection. Our online collection includes Termium - a huge glossary of French terminology and Encyclopaedia Britannica Spanish Reference Center which features Gran Enciclopedia Planeta and Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol.

Our Arabic collection is new and growing quickly. In the last year, we’ve added lots of new dictionaries to our Reference Collection - you’ll find them in the PJ section. We have several new magazines and 21newspapers that you can access through the PressDisplay collection of digital newspapers.

For those of you who are studying Chinese or Japanese this summer, check out our collection of dictionaries in the PL section of the Reference Collection. You’ll also find some good language learning sources in our Circulating Collection upstairs.

Thanks to Provost Amy Sands, the library has a copy of the newly published Five Dimensions of Homeland & International Security from the Center for Transatlantic Relations. Dr. Sands co-authored the chapter entitled “Chemical Weapons Terrorism: Need for More Than the 5Ds”.

For those of you who are embarking on your International Business Plan Project this summer, here are some ways that the library can help.

The library subscribes to several great business databases that will help you with your research:
For country economic and political risk profiles and international industry analysis, look at Business Monitor Online. EIU Country Reports & Profiles is also a good database for current country economic and political profiles. LexisNexis, Proquest, and Business Source Elite will help you with your competitor analysis and market research. You’ll find market research reports and country marketing guides using STAT-USA.
All of these databases are linked to our Research Databases page. If you are off-campus, you’ll need to log onto your network account to access these and other subscription databases. Any questions about how to use these online resources, just ask!

If you’d like to refer to business plans from past years, you’ll find them in our Thesis Collection. Right next to the theses in the Fletcher Jones reading area, is our fabulous Business Reference Collection. This collection of international statistical yearbooks, country marketing guides, and company directories compliments our online research tools.

Stop by the display case in the front lobby to see some of the books we have on how to write a business plan. All of these books are available for checkout, so if you see something you’d like to use, just let us know.

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