Finding Books: basic searching

• Go to Swem Library's home page (swem.wm.edu).
• Click on Library Catalog.
• Type in keywords:
  
      Examples:
  • globalization and human rights
  • globalization and "moral and ethical aspects"
  • globalization and "political aspects"
  • globalization and education
  • globalization and (economy or capitalism)
  • "non-governmental organizations" and environment
    
    
• Leave the Search Type as keyword.
• Click the Search Everything button.

Finding Journal Articles: basic searching

• Go to Swem Library's home page (swem.wm.edu).
• Click on Databases.
• From the list of Categories, click on SOCIOLOGY.
• Click on Sociological Abstracts.
• Enter your keywords, using same search tips as above.
• From the list of articles that appears, choose ones that look useful.
• Check to see if Swem Library owns those journal issues:
  • Go to the Library Catalog.
  • Type in the journal's name (e.g., Third World Quarterly).
  • For Search Type, click on Begins with.
  • Click on the Periodical Title button.
• If the title appears in the list, click on it. If there's more than one entry for the journal title, click on the View button for the one owned by Swem Library. Then scroll to see which issues Swem Library owns. Note whether the issue you need is in the stacks, on microfilm, online, etc. Ask library staff for assistance in locating the issue in the library.
• If Swem Library doesn't own the journal, ask at the Reference Desk about how to obtain a copy of the journal article through interlibrary loan.
• If you need additional articles, repeat the first steps above and try other databases, such as InfoTrac OneLine, EconLit, and PAIS International.

Finding Web Sites

A.  Links from Amory Starr's book Naming the Enemy: Anti-Corporate Movements Confront Globalization (New York : Zed Books. Distributed in the USA exclusively by St. Martin's Press, 2000).

Fighting Structural Adjustment
50 Years Is Enough
Jubilee 2000
Green Scissors

Peace and Human Rights
Project Underground
Human Rights Watch
Witness for Peace
Sustainable Energy and Anti-Uranium Service

Land Reform
FoodFirst Information and Action Network (FIAN)
The Land Is Ours
Via Campesina
Greenbelt Alliance
Homes Not Jails Boston
Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST)
Confederation Paysanne

The Explicit Anti-Corporate Movements
Council of Canadians
Corporate Watch (USA)
Corporate Watch (UK)
Corporate Europe Observatory
Adbusters
INFACT
Essential Action
Alliance for Democracy
Reclaim the Streets

Cyberpunks
2600: The Hacker Quarterly
Hackers.com

Environmentalism
European Federation of Green Parties
Industrial Shrimp Action Network
Greenpeace International
Rainforest Action Network
Ecodefense

Labour
Korean Confederation of Trade Unions
National Labor Committee
Industrial Worker Online
Banana Action Net

Socialism
World Socialist Web Site
Socialist International
Democratic Socialists of America
International Cooperative Alliance
Cooperatives On-line

Anti-FTA
Third World Network
Peoples' Global Action
International Forum on Globalization
Public Citizen Global Trade Watch
Inter-Continental Caravan

Zapatismo
Chiapas 95
Ejeccito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional
Servicio Internacional para la Paz

Anarchism
Food Not Bombs (first chapter)
Workers' Solidarity Movement
An Anarchist FAQ
International of the Federations of Anarchists (Norway)
Anarchist Archives
Anarchism in Australia

Sustainable Development
City Farmer
Toronto Food Policy Council
Planet Drum Foundation (founder of 'bioregionalism')
Permaculture Activist
Slow Food
Schumacher Society
Chefs Collaborative 2000
Community Food Security Coalition

Small Business
Landsman Community Services Ltd. (LETS Community Currency System)
Ithaca Hours
Open Air Market Net
SprawlBusters
Angry, Young & Poor
The Opiate Independent DIY Distribution
Tony Brown Productions

Sovereignty Movements
Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
Center for World Indigenous Studies and Fourth World Documentation Project
Abya Yala Net

B. Additional websites on globalization:

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Civicus, World Alliance for Citizen Participation
Coalition for Environmental Responsible Economies (CERES)
Copenhagen Center on Social Responsibility
Development Alternatives Group
Earth Action
Ethical Trading Initiative
50 Years Is Enough
Global Exchange: World Bank and International Monetary Fund
Global Exchange: Free Trade Area of the Americas
Heinrich-Boell Foundation/Asia Europe Dialogue
Institute for Policy Studies
International Forum on Globalization
Jubilee USA Network
Mobilization for Global Justice
New Economics Foundation
Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch
Stop the FTAA!

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This page was last updated on October 27, 2005