Selected Subject Databases
- America: History and LifeIdentifies articles, essays, books chapters and monographs on the history of the United States and Canada ;
From prehistory to the present. Very strong coverage in US government, policy, and foreign relations topics. - 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. - PAIS InternationalTip: For best results, use the Advanced Search.
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Provides citations to articles, essays, book chapters, and reports on politics and public policy, economics, government, law, international business, political science, public administration, and other social sciences. - 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.
- Sociology SourceA key sociology database.
- Web of ScienceIndexes core journal articles, conference proceedings, data sets, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. It is also a citation database that allows cited- reference searching to find articles that have cited a particular article or particular a author.
- Worldwide Political Science AbstractsProvides citations and summaries for articles in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.
more subject databases
- 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.
- BAS - Bibliography of Asian StudiesIdentifies articles, essays, chapters and monographs on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide from 1971 to the present.
- EconLitCovering economic theory and history, fiscal theory, econometrics, agricultural economics, public finance, demography, monetary theory, international economics and others.
- 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.
- HAPI OnlineCovers Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region and Hispanics in the United States.
- Index to Legal Periodicals & BooksCovers 1992 to date.
- Philosopher's IndexTopics 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.