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Human Rights ArchivesUConn Libraries are pleased to announce the new and improved Citation Linker/Full Text Article Finder. It can aslo be found on the library website Most Used Databases page. (Look for the UConn Links button: )
The Citation Linker is a great tool because it allows you to quickly determine if the library has full text access to a particular article. All you have to do is type in the citation information, and voila!
Happy first day of classes at UConn!
A couple of quick things to note for returning students and faculty:
InfoTrac OneFile is now known as Academic OneFile. If you search All Databases on the UConn Library’s website, make sure to search for it under the new name.
Vista, UConn’s course software has undergone yet another name change. It’s now HuskyCT. So far, the link is still the same: http://vista.uconn.edu
Just a reminder: The Research Database Locator is a great resource to help you find journals and articles on most academic subjects, including human rights.
Looking at the stats for this website, it looks like many people who come to this website do so after googling “full text human rights articles” or something similar.
For those looking for full text articles on human rights, there is good news and there is bad.
First the bad: Using Google, Yahoo!, or any other internet search engine is going to provide very limited results. You may come up with a random article that someone cut and pasted and added to their website. You may come up with essays on human rights that people have written on personal blogs. Unfortunately, neither of these results are appropriate for academic human rights research.
Instead, you need to find articles in peer-reviewed journals. Examples of peer reviewed journals include titles like The Journal of Human Rights and Human Rights Quarterly, While there are a few journals freely available online, such as the Harvard Human Rights Journal, the bulk of them are only available through subscription databases such as Academic Onefile (formerly InfoTrac), Proquest Research Library, J-STOR, Academic Search, etc.
But now the good news! University students only need to go to their school’s library website to access subscription databases for their research. UConn students have a number of tools available to them for finding journal articles.
The Human Rights Research Guide has an entire page devoted to databases and finding journal articles on a variety of human rights subjects. For UConn students, all you have to do is click on the database links. (If you’re off campus, login to the UConn Virtual Private Network (VPN) first.)
Once you’re inside the database, many of them have ways to search for full text articles only. But what if the perfect article for your paper comes up and it isn’t available full text?
For example, this citation, taken from the PAIS International database. The article does not come up as full text.
Global Challenges: Climate Chaos and the Future of Development.
Sachs, Wolfgang
IDS Bulletin, vol. 38, no. 2, pp. 36-39, Mar 2007
… development issues including economic growth & equity, human rights & wellbeing. He argues that the growth of the West was made possible by unsustainable exploitation of carbon resources & the colonies, & this can never again be repeated. The …
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But, don’t despair!
Click on the button at the bottom of the citation. When you do this, a new window opens telling you that UConn does in fact have this article available full text in another database.
If you find an article that isn’t available full text in any of UConn’s databases, you can request the article through Document Delivery/Inter-Library Loan (DD/ILL) and a pdf copy will be emailed to you within 2-5 days.
For human rights articles in particular, here are a couple of databases that I recommend.
Includes most disciplines (multidisciplinary) with good coverage of both popular and scholarly publications. Click on the boxes to limit to peer reviewed articles. Can also limit search to full text only.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
Articles and reports on international affairs. Includes scholarly articles, papers from university research institutes and non-governmental organizations, foundation-funded research projects, and conference proceedings.
The Human Rights Film Collection has been updated and expanded for the new academic year to include almost 400 films. An annotated pdf listing of films (55 pages, 429 KB) is now available on the human rights research guide’s film page. Films are listed in alphabetical order by title and include summary information, call number, format, and location.
Unfortunately, the bulk of the films are VHS cassette tapes, but we are continually updating the collection to include more DVDs. Most titles purchased since 2002 are in DVD format. To browse the film collection in person, go to the media room on the 3rd floor of Babbidge Library.
A small sampling of titles from the Human Rights Film Collection:
The 3 Rooms of Melancholia/ Millennium Film, a film by Pirjo Honkasalo. 2004. DVD.
Reveals the psychological devastation the Chechen conflict has inflicted on children. DK 511 .C37 T4 2004
All About Darfur. written, produced and directed by Taghreed Elsanhouri. 2005. DVD.
Includes interviews with ordinary Sudanese in outdoor tea shops, markets, refugee camps and living rooms to illuminate the deeply rooted prejudices at the heart of the current ethnic violence. DT 154.6 .A45 2005.
Hunger in America/ produced by Martin Carr; written by Peter Davis. DVD
A researched study of hunger and malnutrition in the United States, focusing on communities in Alabama, Arizona, Washington DC and Texas. There is also analysis of US government food programs, including farm subsidies, food stamps, and surplus food. HV 696 .F6 H85
The Torture Question. Written, produced and directed by Michael Kirk; a Frontline coproduction with Kirk Documentary Group, Ltd. ; WGBH Educational Foundation. DVD
Episode of the PBS series, Frontline, which explores decisions made in Washington, D.C. in the immediate aftermath of September 11th which led to policies which allowed for prisoner abuse in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay, and Iraq.
For more films, please see the complete film listing.
Human rights in the United States: a dictionary and documents, by Rita Cantos Cartwright and H. Victor Condé. (UConn access available here.)
Globalization and health, edited by Ichirō Kawachi, Sarah Wamala. (UConn access available here.)
Human rights worldwide: a reference handbook, by Zehra F. Kabasakal Arat. (UConn access available here.)
Which rights should be universal? by William J. Talbott. (UConn access available here.)
Human rights in the ’War on Terror’, edited by Richard Wilson. (UConn access available here.)
Today’s NY Times features a very interesting article about CARE’s decision to turn down US governement funding for food relief in Africa.
For more information on the problems and issues with humanitarian aid, check out the following resources:
Do No Harm: How Aid can Support Peace–or War, by Mary B. Anderson, 1999.
The White Man’s Burden: Why the West’s Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good, by William Easterly, 2006.
Dangerous Sanctuaries: Refugee Camps, Civil War, and the Dilemmas of Humanitarian Aid, by Sarah Kenyon Lischer, 2005.
The Trouble with Africa : Why Foreign Aid Isn’t Working, by Robert Calderisi, 2006.
Instead of just looking at the websites for Amnesty International, Doctors without Borders, and Oxfam, why not check out some books that have been written about these organizations?
Keepers of the Flame : Understanding Amnesty International, by Stephen Hopgood. 2006.
Diplomacy of Conscience : Amnesty International and Changing Human Rights Norms, by Ann Marie Clark. 2001.
Like Water on Stone : the Story of Amnesty International, by Jonathan Power. 2001.
A Cause for Our Times : Oxfam : the First 50 Years, by Maggie Black, 1992.
Bridge of People: a Personal View of Oxfam’s First Forty Years, by Ben Whitaker, 1983.
Hope in Hell : Inside the World of Doctors Without Borders, by Dan Bortolotti, 2006.
Thanks for your patience while I was away studying human rights violations and genocide– being in class 7 hours a day with 75 pages of reading each night doesn’t allow a lot of time left for updating!
Look for a new post on human rights research tools later today, or tomorrow at the very latest!