ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


C&RL News •  A p r il 2002 /  297

I n t e r n e t  R e v i e w s
Joni R. R o b e rtsa n d  
Carol A. Drost, e d ito rs

C a r n e g ie  E n d o w m e n t  f o r  I n t e r n a ­
t i o n a l  P e a c e . Access: h t tp : // w w w . 
c eip .o rg /.
The Carnegie Endow m ent for International 

Peace (CEIP) is a think tank in W ashington, 
D.C., d e d ic a te d  to advancing c o o p e ra tio n  
am ong nations a n d  prom oting active inter­
national engagem ent by the United States. The 
nonprofit, nonpartisan organization publishes 
Foreign Policy m agazine, conducts research, 
publishes books and policy papers, and sp o n ­
sors c o n fe re n c e s  o n  in te rn a tio n a l topics. 
Founded in 1910 by A ndrew  Carnegie, the 
organization has a long histoiy o f studying 
w a r a n d  prom oting p eace and international 
cooperation.

The CEIP Web site provides full-text policy 
p ap ers o n  topics ranging from  the situation 
in Afghanistan to tensions b e tw e en  India and 
Pakistan to the political a n d  econom ic crisis 
in Argentina to U.S-Taiwan-China relations. 
Russian politics is an other strong area o f in­
terest; the CEIP has a center in Moscow. Most 
of the policy briefs on  the site w ere w ritten 
by the CEIP staff, w hich includes academ ics, 
journalists, a n d  p e o p le  w h o  have w o rk ed  in 
governm ent a n d  foreign service. Like th e ar­
ticles in Foreign Policy m agazine, the papers 
are readable. They are n o t academ ic journal 
articles, b u t scholarly essays o f opinion. At 
the e n d  of each paper, rather th an  footnotes, 
there is a list of related resources.

The site also includes audio and video pro­
grams. Media selections include speeches by 
CEIP staff experts a n d  visiting governm ent 
officials from  Russia and o th er countries. A 
recent video o n  the site is a sp eech  by Presi­
den t M usharraf of Pakistan. Audio program s 
are available of panels of experts on  subjects 
such as China and the WTO, nuclear n o n ­
proliferation, Russia a n d  Central Asia, Africa 
and Islam, a n d  o th er topics. The site also in­
cludes transcripts of presentations a n d  sp e ­
cialized resources related to topics u n d e r dis­
cussion. For exam ple, the Pakistan p resen ta­
tion is accom panied by related sources, in­
cluding a m ap of Pakistan’s nuclear facilities.

The site includes a helpful search func­
tion. A search on Afghanistan brings u p  244

m atches, including CEIP articles a n d  external 
sources. A nother useful feature is the CEIP 
library page, w hich includes links to other 
p eace a n d  conflict organizations, plus links 
to reference sources, area studies, a n d  inter­
national relations Web sites.

This site w o u ld  be helpful to students and 
faculty w h o  are looking for policy p ap ers on 
international conflict or w h o  are interested in 
analyzing speeches by  prom inent p e o p le  in 
the field of international relations.— Susan E. 
Clark, University o f  W ashington, seclark® 
u . wash in g to n . edu

A r m e n ia n  N a tio n a l In s t itu te . Access: 
http://w w w .arm en ian -g en o cid e.o rg /.
The nonprofit Arm enian National Institute 

(ANI) w as incorporated in 1997 as a subsid­
iary of the A rm enian Assembly of America. 
In 2000, th e assem bly also p u rch a se d  the 
form er National Bank of W ashington build­
ing, located tw o blocks from the White House, 
to be the hom e of a future A rm enian G eno­
cide M useum  and Memorial (as w ell as the 
ANI’s headquarters).

As stated o n  its Web site, the ANI is ded i­
cated to the study, research, a n d  affirmation 
of the Arm enian G enocide, referring to the 
attem pt by the O ttom an Turks to destroy the 
A rm enian p eo p le from 1915 to 1923- To e d u ­
cate the public a n d  com bat genocide-denial, 
the site offers a wealth of materials docum ent­
ing the tragedy. Unlike the denial o f the H o­
locaust, w hich is usually e sp o u se d  by either 
anti-Semites or cranks, the A rm enian g e n o ­
cide is actively d isputed by a major nation 
(Turkey).

Joni R. Roberts is associate university librarian fo r  public 
services and c o lle c tio n  d e v e lo p m e n t a t W illa m e tte  
University, e-m ail:jroberts@ w illam ette.edu, and Carol A. 
Drost is associate university librarian fo r technical services 
a t W illam ette University, e-mail: cdrost@willamette.edu

ceip.org/
http://www.armenian-genocide.org/
mailto:jroberts@willamette.edu
mailto:cdrost@willamette.edu


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This site is divided into three m ain sec­
tions: “International Affirmation” contains pri­
mary docum ents, such as United Nations re­
ports, governm ent resolutions, and official 
statements from U.S. presidents, w orld lead­
ers, national legislatures, m unicipal govern­
ments, and international organizations relat­
ing to the genocide, as well as the verdict of 
the 1919 Turkish Military Tribunal; “Educa­
tional Resources” offers materials useful for 
teachers and students, including 16 articles 
reprinted from the Encyclopedia o f  Genocide, 
a course outline, and a bibliography of m odel 
curricula guides, recom m ended books, p u b ­
lished d o cu m en t collections, a n d  videos; 
“G enocide Research” w ould be m ost useful 
for faculty m em bers and advanced students 
because it contains 45 archival photographs, 
a chronology, select original docum ents from 
U.S. and British archives (available as both 
images and text), and 8 contem porary press 
accounts of the genocide.

Also available on this site and valuable for 
students are a genocide FAQ and a color geno­
cide m ap of the Ottoman Empire. Links are 
provided to other sites dealing with genocide 
and to other Armenian organizations. Back­
ground information is also given on the ANI, 
including its objectives, mission, and structure.

The Armenian National Institute’s Web site 
will provide students and faculty w ith pri­
mary and secondaiy source materials on an 
often overlooked episode of 20th-century his­
tory. ANI should be featured o n  any library’s 
site that deals with genocide studies, World 
W ar I, o r th e  2 0 th  c e n t u r y .—J o h n  A. 
Drobnicki, York College/CUNY, drobnicki®  
york.cuny.edu

N a tio n a l F o u n d a tio n  f o r  In fe c tio u s
D ise a se s. Access.- h ttp://w w w .nfid.org/.
The National Foundation for Infectious 

Diseases (NFID) site has information for many 
levels of students from undergraduates to 
practicing physicians. The site supports the 
NFID’s m ission to m ake available public

health education information and to aid in 
the prevention of infectious diseases.

People researching infectious diseases will 
find “Publications and NFID-Recommended 
Web Sites and Virtual Library of Diseases” most

useful. “Publications” includes brochures, pro­
ceedings, and symposia on topics in infec­
tious disease, not all of which are full text. 
The most useful link may be to “Clinical Up­
d a te s,” w hich contains reports on current 
pharmaceutical com pany-supported research. 
Also available in “Publications” is the full text 
of current and archived issues of the NFID 
newsletter, “The D ouble Helix.”

“NFID-Recommended Web Sites and Vir­
tual Library of Diseases” includes a variety of 
links to Web sites on  specific diseases and 
other information. Each disease link goes to 
a short list of resources on the topic, which 
often includes a link to a Center for Disease 
Control (CDC) information sheet. There are 
also links to information on  vaccines, current 
clinical trials, and the National Library of Medi­
cine Web sites.

At the time of this review, a special fea­
ture on the site was “Bioterrorism Resources.” 
The com prehensive links include general in­
formation, a new s conference on  the threat 
of bioterrorism, a CDC preparedness report, 
information about specific agents that could 
be used in a bioterrorism attack, plus a link 
to a series on bioterrorism  in nature.

The “NFID-Recommended Sites” are re­
view ed by independent reviewers and must 
m eet site criteria, including scientific accu­
racy. An e-mail link is provided to allow visi­
tors to suggest Web pages to b e  considered 
for inclusion on the list. The Web sites in the 
Virtual Library of Diseases have not b e e n  re­
viewed.

The “NFID Factsheets” are not as useful 
because they do not have current updates. 
For exam ple, the sheet on Creutzfeldt-Jakob 
Disease/Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy 
is dated May 1996. The CDC fact sheet on  the 
same topic is dated Septem ber 5, 2001, and is 
m uch m ore extensive.

The site is easy to navigate and is not 
merely lists of lists. There is a keyword search 
engine for the site, which brings up  a list of 
links, dates, and relevancy scores. Everything 

w o rk s w ell e x c e p t 
t h a t  t h e  r e c o m -  

m ended Web site on 
vaccines only w orks with Microsoft Internet 
Explorer and not Netscape. All levels of re­
searchers will find useful information here. 
— Carol McCulley, Linfield College, cmccull® 
linfield.edu ■

york.cuny.edu
http://www.nfid.org/
linfield.edu