Research Guides: International Relations: Databases ( for articles, audios, videos, data, reports)

Databases and print journals

The following electronic databases index articles in newspapers, magazines and journals, many of which are full-text. They are available from the Library Homepage (/) by selecting Databases and Periodical Indexes. These databases are accessible from library Network Stations and from campus computer labs. For connecting to library databases from off-campus, please read instructions here>

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
This multi-disciplinary database provides access to full-text articles from popular magazines and scholarly journals (including peer-reviewed) journals. Includes topics in social sciences, humanities, science, education, and most areas of academic study.
Business Source Complete (EBSCO)
Includes scholarly business articles in virtually every business discipline e.g. accounting, finance, management, marketing, MIS, and beyond. Also trade news and industry research reports, country reports, and company SWOT analyses are available.
CQ Researcher (CQ Press)
CQ Researcher, providing balanced research about current controversial issues of public interest, with full text articles from November 1991 to the present
Films On Demand (Films Media Group)
Films on Demand provides full video access to thousands of video titles in Humanities & Social Sciences, Business & Economics, Health & Medicine, Science & Mathematics, and Archival Films & Newsreels, Guidance & Counseling and many TV programs such as NBC News, PBS, BBC and more.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports
Created by the U.S. intelligence community to benefit policy makers and analysts, FBIS Daily Reports offers translated foreign views and perspectives on historical events from thousands of monitored broadcasts and publications.
Includes FBIS Digital Collection All Regions 1941-1974 and FBIS Annexes 1974-1996
Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)
Published since 1954, Historical Abstracts indexes and provides abstracts of over 2,100 journals, including key historical journals from virtually every major country. CLIO Notes feature provides regional chronologies and discussion questions for each country. Advance searching allows limit by decade or century and CLIO Alert sends notice of new articles fitting a saved search.
JSTOR (All Subjects)
JSTOR is an independent not-for-profit organization which provides an electronic archive to specific scholarly journals. There is typically a gap from 1 to 5 years between the issues being published and the content becoming available in JSTOR. Artstor images also included.
New York Times (ProQuest)
Provides full-text articles from the New York Times newspaper as well as online and video content from nytimes.com. This is a text-only database; images, graphs, and advertisements are excluded.
Coverage: 1980 - today
New York Times: Historical (ProQuest)
This database includes PDF images of full-text articles as well as full-page views of each issue of the New York Times providing researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Coverage: 1851 - 2018

To access cover to cover images of the daily New York Times newspaper via ProQuest Digitized Newspapers click here
Coverage: 2008 - three weeks ago
Polling the Nations
Polling the Nations is a collection of public opinion with information from the U.S. and over 100 countries worldwide. The database began in 1981 and comprises over 500,000 questions from various sources including Gallup, Harris, Roper and others. There are over 5600 topics in the database on a broad array of issues. Updated monthly.
Project Muse
Project Muse offers some 600 journal titles from 260 scholarly publishers including from the Johns Hopkins University Presss which began this project in 1995. The journals included in this database are in the areas of the humanities, social sciences and the arts.
ProQuest Global Newsstream (ProQuest)
Formerly ProQuest Newsstand, this database enables users to search the most recent global news content, as well as archives back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites in full-text format. This product provides one of the largest collections of news from the US, Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia.
Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science)
The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences.
Social Sciences Full Text (EBSCO)
Social Sciences Full Text™ provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language social science journals.
Statista
A statistics portal that integrates thousands of diverse topics - consumer goods, finance, politics, and many more areas of interest - and provides exportable data and facts from a wide range of sources.
WestlawNext Campus Research
Legal research database that contains case law, state and federal statutes, administrative codes, public records, law journals, law reviews, treatises, and legal forms. Also includes newspaper and magazine articles as well as businesses search.

Print Sources

Periodicals are located in Floor 3 South, shelved alphabetically by title. Volumes published prior to 1980 are shelved on Lower Level. Current newspapers are in 3 South Newsprint until replaced by microfilm in Floor 2 North. The following are the major printed indexes to periodical articles.

CSA political science & government (ABC Pol Sci.). Index Area JA 71 .A214
PAIS international in print. Index Area HZ 7163 .P94
Social Sciences Index. Index Area AI 3 .R494
Social Sciences Citation Index. Index Area HZ7161.S62
Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals. ref UGZ 5063 .A2 A4
Peace Research Abstracts Journal. ref JX 1901 .P38

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