Resources on Iraq 2003

When using any material found on the Internet, apply some evaluation criteria to it before you accept it as fact or as a reliable source. See "Thinking Critically about WWW Resources" on the UCLA College Library's Web pages:
http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/college/help/critical/index.htm

RECOMMENDED STARTING POINT

A great link-filled site with which to start is Librarians' Index to the Internet: War & Peace: Resources on Iraq.

Go to http://www.lii.org/ and then, under the Themes box on the right, select War & Peace: Resources on Iraq.
"The Librarians' Index to the Internet (LII) is a searchable, annotated subject directory of more than 8,300 Internet resources selected and evaluated by librarians for their usefulness to users of public libraries. LII is meant to be used by both librarians and non-librarians as a reliable and efficient guide to described and evaluated Internet resources." quoted from "About the LII"

U.S. GOVERNMENT SOURCES

U.S. State Department
http://www.state.gov/

The White House
Link from here to President for the latest speeches and statements.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/
Go to the "Latest News" link for breaking news and speeches.
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/

Write to Your Congressional Representative
http://www.house.gov/writerep/

Write to Your Senator in Congress
http://www.senate.gov/contacting/index_by_state.cfm

INTERNATIONAL ORGANIZATIONS

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation
http://www.nato.int/

United Nations
http://www.un.org/

United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
http://www.unhcr.ch/

NEWS and MEDIA RESOURCES

Afghanistan: An Online Newshour Special Report
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/asia/afghanistan/index.html

British Broadcasting Corporation
http://www.bbc.co.uk/

CNN
http://www.cnn.com/

Frontline: "The War Behind Closed Doors"
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/iraq/
"Frontline" public televison program. For additional information be sure to view the Readings and Links from the program's main page; see also press reaction to the program. See also the PBS Frontline home page for other material such as The Roots of Terrorism.

Google News
http://www.google.com/news/
Links to national and international news sources.

Islamic Gateway Resource Center: Muslim News and Media
http://www.ummah.com/directory/menu/muslimnews.html

Media Channel
http://www.mediachannel.org/
Listen to streaming audio for live broadcasts.

National Public Radio
http://www.npr.org/
Listen to streaming audio (RealPlayer required) for live broadcasts. See also NPR: Confronting Iraq for special reports.

The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/
Scroll down your screen to see special features. You must register in order to see them, but registration is free.

Related New Yorker magazine articles
The New Yorker has assembled a few articles from its archives: an article on the World Trade Center towers from 1972 when they were under construction; a January 2000 profile of Osama bin Laden; and a New Yorker article from the December 1941 issue, written shortly after the bombing of Pearl Harbor.
http://www.newyorker.com/FROM_THE_ARCHIVE/PREVIOUS/

"The Real Bin Laden" by Mary Ann Weaver. Originally published January 24, 2000.
http://www.newyorker.com/FROM_THE_ARCHIVE/ARCHIVES/?010924fr_archive03

Reuters
http://www.reuters.com/

TIME magazine
http://www.time.com/time/

World Press Review Online
http://worldpress.org/

COMMENTARY AND ACADEMIC SITES

Online Journalism Review
http://www.ojr.org/ojr/page_one/index.php
from the University of Southern California Annenberg School for Communication

Web Resources for Journalists Covering The Terrorist Attacks
http://www.journalism.berkeley.edu/weblinks/
from the University of California, Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism

OTHER/ALTERNATIVE VIEWPOINTS

An interesting article about protest groups appeared in the Philadelphia Inquirer Sunday magazine on March 30, 2003: http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/special_packages/inquirer_magazine/5505696.htm

American Civil Liberties Union
http://www.aclu.org/

American Friends Service Committee
http://www.afsc.org/default.htm

ArabNet ("The Resource for the Arab World in the Middle East and North Africa" [title bar of page])
http://www.arab.net/

Common Dreams NewsCenter: News and Views for the Progressive Community
http://www.commondreams.org/

Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
http://www.fair.org/

Independent Media Center
http://www.indymedia.org/

Mother Jones: News and Resources for the Skeptical Citizen
http://www.motherjones.com/

Philadelphia Regional Anti-War Network
http://www.phillyprawn.net/

United for Peace and Justice
http://www.unitedforpeace.org/

Win Without War
http://www.winwithoutwarus.org/

UArts UNIVERSITY LIBRARIES RESOURCES

You may want to look at our subject guide for September 11, 2001.

BOOKS
Greenfield Library REF indicates an item in the reference section; Greenfield Open Stacks are circulating materials.

Barakat, Halim Isber. The Arab world : society, culture, and state. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1993.
Greenfield Library Open Stacks 909.0974927 B231a

Cultural atlas of Islam. New York : Macmillan ; London : Collier Macmillan, c1986.
Greenfield Library REF 953 Al1c

Encyclopedia of religion. New York : Macmillan Library Reference USA, 1998.
Greenfield Library REF 291.03 W893m

From Hanoi to Hollywood : the Vietnam War in American film. Edited by Linda Dittmar and Gene Michaud. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, c1990.
Greenfield Library Open Stacks 791.43658 F925d
Representations of the Vietnam War in documentary film and television reporting, examining the ways the power of film is used to deliver political messages. Thanks to Dr. Barry Dornfeld, UArts College of Media and Communication, for this annotation.

The Oxford history of Islam. Edited by John Esposito. New York, N.Y. : Oxford University Press, 1999.
Greenfield Library Open Stacks 297.09 Ox2es

ARTICLES
Access articles about the war on any computer connected to the campus network.

Go to the University Libraries' ELECTRONIC INDEXES AND DATABASES page.

For the most current information, including newspaper articles (New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post) and broadcast transcripts, select LEXISNEXIS ACADEMIC from the database list.
Here are some search tips.

For newspaper articles in LexisNexis:

Select Guided News Search.
Step 1: Select General News.
Step 2: Select Major Papers.
Step 3: Enter your search terms.
Step 4: Note that under Step Four, the default time period in the drop-box is the last six months. Change this if it's appropriate to do so for your search.

For transcripts of news broadcasts in LexisNexis:

Use Guided News Search.
Step One: Select News Transcripts.
Under Step Two, make your selection. The News Transcripts sources include ABC, CBS and NBC news, CNN, Fox, National Public Radio, Newshour with Jim Lehrer, and the Official Kremlin International News, among others.
Once you've completed Step One and Step Two, enter your search terms in the search boxes. For help with searching click the Help in the black area at the top right of the screen. Start with Basic Search Steps, and, if you expect to use it a lot and want to get really good at searching LexisNexis, read Researching--The Basics. You are not required to read the help, but it sure does help.
Note that under Step Four, the default time period in the drop-box is the last six months. Change this if it's appropriate to do so for your search.

Please note that while you must be on the UArts campus network to search LexisNexis or any of our other subscription databases, the articles may be e-mailed to any e-mail address.

By putting an exclamation point(!) at the end of your search words, e.g., terror!, you will retrieve articles that include the words terror, terrors, terrorist, terrorists, terrorism, etc.
You get the entire article online for free and can e-mail it anywhere.

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