Internet Resources for Government
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Academic Departments
Archives of Websites
Political Associations
Think Tanks and Policy Institutes
Citing Government Documents
- Harvard System of Notation
Electronic Journals
Academic Departments
University of Sydney: Government and International Relations
url: http://www.econ.usyd.edu.au/govt/welcome.htm
Politics Departments and Related Units in Australia
url: http://www.anu.edu.au/polsci/austpol/aust/depts.html
Academic Information
Ready-Reference site which includes listings of Australian and overseas universities.
url: /subjects/readyref/academic.html
Archives of Websites
Pandora Archive - Australian Government Sites
Snapshot archive of government and political websites preserved for historical interest by the National Library of Australia.
url: http://pandora.nla.gov.au/subject/21
UK Central Government Web Archive
The UK Central Government Web Archive is a selective collection of UK Government websites, archived from August 2003, which has been developed by the National Archives of the United Kingdom, using the services of the Internet Archive.
url: http://www.pro.gov.uk/webarchive/
The Memory Hole
Archive of websites (mostly US) removed from the www.
url: http://www.thememoryhole.org/
CyberCemetery
An archive of documents of defunct government
agencies maintained by the University of North Texas and the U.S. Government Printing Office.
url: http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/
Project on Government Secrecy
Produced by the Federation of American Scientists, this site has links to government sources which give information about secrecy provisions.
url: http://www.fas.org/sgp/
Political Associations
Australasian Political Studies Association
url: http://auspsa.anu.edu.au/
American Political Science Association
url: http://www.apsanet.org/
Political Studies Association of the UK
url: http://www.psa.ac.uk/
ippr: istitute for policy research
url: http://www.ippr.org.uk
Canadian Political Science Association
url: http://www.sfu.ca/igs/CPSA.html
Think Tanks and Policy Institutes
Political Science Resources (University of Michigan): Think Tanks
url: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/psthink.html
Google Directory of Policy Institutes
url: http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/Policy_Institutes/
World Press Review: Index of International Think-Tanks and Research Organizations
url: http://www.worldpress.org/library/ngo.htm
National Institute for Research Advancement (NIRA): World Directory of Think Tanks
url: http://www.nira.go.jp/ice/nwdtt/
Citing Government Documents
Style Manual for Authors, Editors and Printers
Australian Government official style manual 5th Edition 1994, Chapter 9: Notes, references and bibliographies. Use this for examples of how to cite Australian government documents.
url: http://www.agimo.gov.au/__data/assets/file/18829/chp9.pdf
The whole style manual is at:
url: http://www.agimo.gov.au/information/publishing/style_manual
Citing Government Documents
Columbia University Library Guide to citing government documents in print and electronic format.
url: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/libraries/indiv/dsc/citation.html
Uncle Sam - Brief Guide to Citing Government Publications
University of Memphis Library Guide to citing US government documents in all formats.
url: http://exlibris.memphis.edu/resource/unclesam/citeweb.html
United States Government Printing Office Style Manual 2000
url: http://www.access.gpo.gov/styleman/2000/style001.html
Citing Print Sources: The Style Manual for Political Science
The American Political Science Association guidlines for citing print materials.
url: http://www.depts.washington.edu/pswrite/cite.html
How to Write Bibliographic Citations for Government Publications
Excellent site from McMaster University Library in Canada, which has examples which can be adapted to Australian documents.
url: http://library.mcmaster.ca/research/gpcite-1.htm
Harvard System of Notation
This is the style preferred by the Discipline of Government and International Relations.
Harvard system: in-text references, reference lists and bibliographies guide
A thorough guide based on Australian documents, based on the Australian Government style guide. Produced by Swinburne University of Technology Library
url: http://www.swin.edu.au/lib/guides/harvard_system.pdf
Harvard Style examples
A self-learning site with many useful examples of the Harvard system and a tutorial. Produced by Monash University Library
url: http://www.lib.monash.edu.au/vl/cite/harvex.htm
Harvard Referencing. Curtin University(WA) Library
url: http://library.curtin.edu.au/referencing/harvard.html
Referencing & Citation, Harvard Style. University of Queensland LIbrary
url: http://www.library.uq.edu.au/training/citation/harvard.html
Harvard System (Bournemouth University)
A detailed site with many useful examples of the Harvard system of notation for both paper and electronic documents.
url: http://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/library/using/harvard_system.html
Citing Electronic Materials
Citing Electronic Resources
University of Sydney Library compilation of information about citing electronic documents.
url: /subjects/readyref/citing.html#electronic
Electronic Journals
Subject listing of journals
Electronic journals available are available to staff and students of the University of Sydney. Some subjects are:
international relations
political risk
political science
politics, practical (agency reports, government directories, documents etc)
world politics
social services
There is also an
alphabetic listing of e-journals
Current University of Sydney staff and students may access many of these from their home or office using an Extro Account or the Remote Access Service. In some cases, passwords may be available.
NB Remember, there may be printed copies of the journals, especially earlier issues, in Fisher Research Library.
See also local publications such as:
The Drawing Board: An Australian Review of Public Affairs
produced by the School of Economics and Political Science at the University of Sydney.
PeaceWrites: the newsletter of peace studies, seminars, books, and peace initiatives
produced by the University of Sydney's Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies.
The Library subscribes to a range of vendors of electronic journals. The most useful sources for Politics and Government are:
Blackwell Synergy
ScienceDirect
JSTOR
Sage Political Science
Project Muse
Kluwer Online
Ebsco Electronic Journals Service
Ingenta
Australian Journals Online - Politics and Government
This site at the Australian National Library has links to approximately 50 Australian electronic journals in politics and government.
url: http://www.nla.gov.au/oz/ausejour/politics.html
See also the Electronic Documents section of the guide to Political Science.
