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Gateways

Overviews, Guides, Introductions, and Focus Pages

The Connexions website has tens of thousands of pages and images related to many different issues and topics. To help you navigate the site and find what you are looking for (or perhaps what you didn’t even know you were looking for) Connexions offers a variety of overview pages designed to provide introductions and pathways to exploring different topics and issues. A number of those pages are listed below. They also all provide links to the Subject Index as well as to individual articles and books. The Subject Index and the Search engine are tools designed to help you explore Connexions as well as to do in-depth research.

Popular Pages in the Subject Index Other Languages History

Search and Find

Connexions features multiple tools to help you find what you’re looking for:

  • Connexions Search
    Searches names, titles, and topics related to your query.

    • Connexions Search simultaneously performs two kinds of searches.

    1) It searches the Connexions Library, Connexions Directory, Sources Directory, and Sources Library for records whose key elements – titles, subtitles, authors, organization names, descriptions, or assigned subject headings – contain your search term(s).

    2) It searches the Connexions Subject Index to find subject headings which contain, or are related to, your search term. The intelligent search feature brings up topics related to your term even though they may not actually contain the term. For example, a search for "global warming" will also suggest topics such as "climate change", "climate & carbon dioxide", "greenhouse effect", "industrial emissions", "Kyoto Protocol", etc.

    Results are presented in two columns.

    The right-hand column contains topics related to your search terms. Click on a topic to see resources related to it.

    The left-hand column presents titles or names of actual resources, e.g. articles, books, groups. Click on a title to view the bibliographic record for the resource, or organization profile for a group or website. If the actual resource is available online, clicking the link in the bibliographic record takes you there. However, many of the records in the Connexions Library are for books and other materials which are not available in electronic form: you'll need to find them in a bricks-and-mortar library.

    Search results for the different parts of the library and directory are currently presented separately, below each other. Resources (books, articles, films, etc) are first; followed by groups; followed by experts and resources found in www.sources.com, the resource portal for journalists.

    NOTE that the Connexions Search in NOT a full-text search. We use a system of pre-coordinated subject headings because this makes for more relevant results than a full-text Google-style search.
    If you would like to do a full-text search on the Connexions site, we recommend using a search engine such as Ixquick and restricting your search to the domain www.connexions.org (Advanced Settings: “at this domain name”).


  • Subject Indexes
    Controlled-vocabulary index of more than 12,000 cross-referenced topics to help you find resources in the Connexions Library, Connexions Directory, and Connexipedia.

  • Title Indexes
    Titles + brief descriptions of resources in the Connexions Library and Connexipedia.

  • Organization Name Index
    Names of organizations and websites in alphabetical order in the Connexions Directory.

  • Author Index
    All Authors with titles & brief descriptions of their articles & books. Plus a Recommended Authors page.

  • Chronological Index
    Publications grouped by decade they were published in.

  • Format Indexes
    Resources listed by format: Books, Articles, Periodicals, Websites, Film & Videos, Audio, etc.

  • Organizations
    Alphabetical by Name & by Issues.

  • Dewey Index
    Books ordered by Dewey Decimal classification.

  • Library of Congress
    Books ordered by Library of Congress classification.

  • French, Spanish and German Subject Indexes
    Some (but not all) of the Connexions Library subject index has been translated. (Translators always needed!)

  • Sources
    Media profiles of organizations and spokespersons. A resource for the media and for groups that want to reach the media with their message.



Ulli Diemer: Struggles for justice are not a fringe phenomenon. They are a force that has changed the world, that can change the world, and that will change the world.