Population, Migration and Refugee Studies: Getting Started

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• Check hours of our libraries, departments and services.

• Borrowing privileges 
• Course Reserves
• Reserve Study Space
• Visitors 

​If we don't have a resource you need:

• Books from the Health Science Library
• Borrow Direct enables you to borrow books directly from other university libraries if the book you need is unavailable or is not owned by Columbia University.
• Interlibrary Loan is the service to for getting journal articles and book chapters scanned and emailed to you.
• Recommend a title for purchase

See the Streaming Video Research Guide for more resources. 

• 60 Minutes: 1997-2014, Provides streaming video access to the 60 Minutes news show archive for the third and fourth decades of this long-running show, plus segments from the CBS News program Sunday Morning.
• Linked-In Learning (formerly Lynda.com)
• PBS video collection. 

Use CLIO, the libraries' primary search interface to find: books, databases, journals, newspapers, and DVDs. For guidance about finding scholarly articles go to the "Find Articles" tab. 

• EDUCAT the online catalog of the Milbank Memorial Library of Teachers College. Contains records for all materials cataloged since 1975, except current periodicals; selected educational materials published between 1900-1960; the Adelaide Nutting History of Nursing Collection; the American Curriculum Collection; the David Eugene Smith Collection in Mathematics Education.
• Pegasus : catalog of the Arthur W. Diamond Law Library: Online catalog of the Arthur W. Diamond Law Library of the Columbia University School of Law. Contains U.S. federal and state law, selected commonwealth jurisdictions, major foreign language collections (e.g., the legal literature of Germany, France, Italy and Argentina) and, since 1983, vernacular and Western language materials pertaining to law in Japan and the People's Republic of China.
• WorldCat. Contains over 48 million records, covering all materials cataloged by OCLC member libraries around the world.

• Librarians are available to assist you with research support in person. You can email the librarian any time to schedule a in-person research consultation.
• From 10 am to 5 pm Monday through Friday you can use the virtual reference Ask a Librarian. A librarian will answer any questions you have in real time! 

As a Columbia University student you have access to several newspapers:

• Financial Times
• New York Times: We recommend you use the ProQuest for PDFs, and use Factiva for international news, web exclusive topics, morning & evening versions. 
• The New Yorker
• Washington Post 
• Wall Street Journal 

• Data & Statistics 

• Federal Government (shutdown) 

• Environmental & Energy Research Guide
• Global Studies Division
• Government Information resources

• Housing

• Immigration

• International & Public Affairs Research Guide

• Non-profit Organizations

• Social Explorer: Visually displays census data in the U.S. since 1790
• Social Work Research Guide
• Software and Tools Master List
• Streaming Video Research Guide 
• Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies Research Guide