Selected Subject Databases
- CIAOColumbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) covering theory and research in international relations, from 1991 on.
- EconLit with Full TextFull-text articles in all fields of economics including capital markets, country studies, econometrics, economic forecasting, environmental economics, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory and urban economics.
- Historical AbstractsIdentifies articles, essays, books chapters and monographs on history worldwide (except the US and Canada. See above),
Offers strong coverage of political history,
From pre-history to the present.
Use the Advanced Search to search by historical period (era). - PAIS InternationalInternational coverage of public policy literature in economics, government, law, international business, political science and public administration.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts--Covers political science and its complementary fields,
--including international relations, law, public administration, and public policy.
--for best results, select the Advanced Search.
More Subject Databases
- Africa-wide: NiPadAfrica-wide NiPAD is an index covering material on Africa from the 19th century to the present.
- Bibliography of Asian Studies -- BASIdentifies principally western-language articles and book chapters on all parts of Asia published since 1971
- Eastview Universal DatabasesIn-depth, full-text information, from Russia and the former Soviet Union. Resources include newspapers, newswires, popular and scholarly periodicals, and government documents.
- GenderWatch"GenderWatch is a full text database of publications that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas." [publisher]
- HAPI Online: Hispanic American Periodicals IndexCovers Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region and Hispanics in the United States.
- Hein OnlineIncludes the Foreign and International Law Resources Database, with full-text text access to indexed legal journals and law reviews.
- Index to Foreign Legal PeriodicalsThe Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals, produced by The American Association of Law Libraries, provides access to legal literature worldwide, covering all forms of foreign (non-Anglo-American) law. This includes comparative law and legal systems, such as Islamic law; socialist law; public and private international law; and transnational commercial law.
- Index to Legal Periodicals & BooksCovers 1992 to date.
- International Bibliography of the Social SciencesIdentifies journal articles and books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries.
- Middle East and Africa Database"... a bibliographic and fulltext database that provides area coverage (especially for political development, social development, foreign policy, economic development, investment, oil and petrochemicals, trade and technological industries) for the Middle East, North Africa, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Arabs, Iranians, Turks and Africans worldwide, including in Europe and North and South America."
- Middle Eastern and Central Asian StudiesCovers research, policy and scholarly discourse on the countries and peoples of the Middle East, Central Asia and North Africa.
- PASCAL FRANCIS“The site offers free access to a searchable archive of two databases, FRANCIS (1972-2015) and PASCAL (1984-2015). FRANCIS covers 15 disciplines in human and social sciences with 2.6 million bibliographic references since 1972. PASCAL gathers 20 million bibliographic references in science, technology, and medicine. Emphasis on European academic journals.”
- Peace Research AbstractsCovers essential areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
- Philosopher's IndexIdentifies articles, books, contributions to anthologies, and book reviews published worldwide since 1940. Topics covered include aesthetics, axiology, philosophy of education, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, metaphilosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of science, social philosophy, and the philosophy of religion.
- SSRN Political Science NetworkPolitical science network (PSN) is a division of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Site offers a searchable database of published papers with abstracts and full bibliographic descriptions relating to political science research. Some articles in the elibrary require a fee and some features require free registration.
- Women's Studies InternationalProvides citations and some abstracts to the core areas of Women’s studies. Covers journals, newspapers, newsletters, bulletins, books, book chapters, proceedings, reports, theses, dissertations, NGO studies, websites and grey literature. annually.
Multidisciplinary Databases
- Web of ScienceChoosing "All Databases" allows you to search an index of journal articles, conference proceedings, data sets, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
- ScopusScopus is the largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings. Delivers a comprehensive overview of the world's research output in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
- Google ScholarGoogle Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar helps you identify the most relevant research across the world of scholarly research.--About Google scholar.