Library Home Page > Research Topics the millennium This guide is an introduction to the research process that, while not being an exhaustive list of information resources available, should be helpful in getting started in your research about the millennium.  Below you will find pointers to suggested research terms about the millennium, materials in the library catalog about the millennium, websites relevant to the millennium, and links to library databases that contain information about the millennium.  Please use our email reference service, contact us at (310) 434-4254, or visit us in the library at the reference desk if you need further assistance. Go to:    Suggested Research Terms    Materials in the Library Catalog     Websites    Library Databases Suggested Research Terms One of the really helpful things when searching for information about a topic is a short list of terms related to a topic.  We think the following terms will help with your research about the millennium: millennium millenarianism millenianism second coming adventism the future Back to top of page Materials in the library catalog related to the millennium We have the following materials in the library catalog related to the millennium: millennium eschatology millennialism disasters social change technology Back to top of page Websites on the millennium The following websites will help you with your research on the millennium: The New Millennium: Answers to all your Questions about the Start of the New Millennium  The United Kingdom's Royal Observatory Greenwich lists and answers FAQs about reckoning the time/arrival of the new millennium, with technical astronomic information included. We the Peoples: The Role of the United Nations in the 21st Century "The new millennium, and the Millennium Summit, offer the world’s peoples a unique occasion to reflect on their common destiny, at a moment when they find themselves interconnected as never before.... The United Nations can help meet [the] challenges.... This is a chance to reshape the United Nations so that it can make a real and measurable difference to people’s lives in the new century." U. S. Naval Observatory: The 21st Century and the Third Millennium: When Will They Begin Addresses the debate about whether the year 2000 or the year 2001 begins the third millennium, and explains the methods of calculation used to determine the proper dates. The Difference Between The Millennium And Year 2000 Think 01/01/01/! What is it? If your "final answer" is the starting of the Third Millennium/21st Century, you've "won" the hearts of true millennium buffs. This page supplies a host of questions and answers educating and perhaps satisfying the most skeptical: those who believe the year 2000 was the millennium year. Calendars generates calendars up to the year 3999, while Counters counts down to the time of your choice (e.g. 2001, your 100th birthday, or any special occasion). In addition, World Clock, Time Zones, and other sites provide international information. Millennium Project Global Futures Study and Research "The Millennium Project of the American Council for the United Nations University is a global participatory futures research think tank of futurists, scholars, business planners, and policy makers who work for international organizations, governments, corporations, NGOs, and universities."  Millennium Project Futures Matrix A table of selected "scenarios", "challenges", "developments", etc. related to such topics as demographics, technology, and governance, and addressing possible long-range future outcomes in the topic areas. Back to top of page Library Databases relevant to the millennium The following Santa Monica College Library online databases may contain material relevant to the millennium.  Databases may include magazine, newspaper and journal articles.  Please note: you must be a Santa Monica College student, faculty or staff member to use these services. Academic Search Premier, MasterFile Premier Academic Search Premier and MasterFile Premier provide full text for over 6200 periodicals including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. Philosophy and Religion Collection Covers such topics as epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy, world religions, biblical studies, religious history. Includes more than 300 full text journals. Science Full Text Select Coverage includes popular science magazines as well as professional journals. Also covers The New York Times Science Section. Full text coverage begins in January 1995. National Newspapers (U.S.) Searchable index for recent issues of the Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and the Christian Science Monitor. Full-text for newer issues and citations for older materials. More information on coverage Newspaper Source (Regional, National and International) Provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international newspapers. The database also contains full text television & radio news transcripts, and selected full text for more than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers. Encyclopedia Americana Includes 45,000 articles, plus thousands of hypertext links to web sites featuring additional data. It is updated quarterly. Encyclopedia, Funk and Wagnalls New World Provides over 25,000 encyclopedic entries covering a variety of subject areas. Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection Provides coverage of nearly 550 full text journals, covering topics such as emotional and behavioral characteristics, psychiatry & psychology, mental processes, anthropology, and observational and experimental methods. JSTOR Back issues of over 300 scholarly journals in a wide variety of disciplines: African American Studies, African Studies, Anthropology, Archeology, Art and Architecture, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, Geography, History, Language & Literature, Latin American Studies, Mathematics, Music, Middle East Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Slavic Studies, Sociology and Statistics. Military and Government Collection Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, provides cover-to-cover full text for more than 350 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 450 titles. Oxford Reference: Military History Dictionaries and reference titles on military history. Ethnic NewsWatch News, culture and history from the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press -- English and Spanish language. Researched and evaluated by: ap 5/12/02 Back to top of page