JCU Library Resources for Young Diplomats Program

Library Resources

note: some of these resources will only be accessible on site at the JCU Library

Tropicat is the public access catalogue of James Cook University Library which

• lists all print, electronic and audio-visual resources held
• shows where a resource is located, its call number, and if it is available for loan
• allows you to place holds on borrowable items.

Xrefer is a giant online reference library that provides you with access to a selection of reference books from a total of 240. xreferplus includes encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri and books of quotations, not to mention a range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy and literature to law.

Some Key Journals

• New Scientist located at call no.: 500 P26
  • May 19th 2007 issue on Climate Change: a guide for the perplexed
  • New Scientist - Climate Change Report
• Scientific American located at call no.: 500 P41
• New Internationalist located at call no.: 309 P4
• Nature located at call no.: 500 P24
  • Nature Online
  • Nature Climate Change Report

Journal Databases

• Proquest (only available on site at JCU Library )

  Tip: use the advanced search option and type in your keywords. Remember that phrases like south pacific should have quotation marks around them. For example: "south pacific", "kyoto protocol"

Useful Websites

• Climate change: A guide to the information and disinformation
• Climate Change and Energy Security Impacts and Tradeoffs in 2025 (World Resources Institute)
• Climate Change - Friends of the Earth
• Climate Connections from NPR and National Geographic
• Climate - Greenpeace
• Earth: A Graphic Look at the State of the World
• Global warming - US EPA
• Global Warming Articles
• Intergovernmental panel on climate change
• New Scientist - Climate Change Report
• UK Meteorological Office
• UK Meteorological Office - Extreme weather
• Worldwatch Institute

CIA World Factbook

• CIA World Factbook Web Site
• CIA Factbook - Fiji

United Nations Links

• Fiji Mission Website
• Mission Office
• UN Works for Small Island Nations
• United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
• United Nations Environment Programme
• Kyoto protocol
• United Nations Documentation: Research Guide - Environment
• ew Web Resource: Gateway to the UN System's Work on Climate Change
  Includes: Background, News, UN Leadership Comments, Webcasts, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Reports, Materials for Children, Climate Change Events (Calendar)

Wikipedia

• Fiji Mission to the United Nations (a useful starting point but note not as up-to-date as the UN site. i.e. doesn't indicate that there is no current ambassador)

News

• Fiji: Mission On Post-Coup Situation Finishes Work
• BBC News - Stern Report

JCU Library Contact

Helen Hooper, Faculty Librarian - Arts, Education and Social Sciences

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