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- A Selection of Databases Useful for International Relations Research -
Access UN [Newsbank]
The Readex United Nations Index provides access to current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications. Covers 1961-present.Access World News [Newsbank]
Full-text content of local and regional newspapers. Each newspaper has its own distinctive focus offering a variety of viewpoints on local and world issues. Paid advertisements are excluded.
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online [Columbia University]
A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs, CIAO includes working papers, conference proceedings, books, journal tables of contents, and WWW links. Covers 1991 to the present. Updated on a regular schedule.
CQ Global Researcher [CQ]Offers reports on current international crises and events (e.g., climate change, world peacekeeping). Each report focuses on a single topic and features concise background discussion and chronologies, overviews of the current situation, pro and con commentary, as well as online links to relevant organizations, and a lengthy bibliography of related books and articles. Covers 2007-
Dictionary of Diplomacy [Credo]Defines the specialized terminology of diplomacy and also includes entries on legal terms, political events, international organizations and major figures who have occupied the diplomatic scene or have written influentially about it over the last half millennium
Digital National Security Archive [Chadwyck-Healey]
Contains more than 35,000 of the most important, declassified documents that led to US policy decisions.EIU - Economist Intelligence Unit
Objective and timely analysis and forecasts of the political, economic and business environment in more than 180 countries. Includes reports on certain strategic industries and on the latest management thinking.Europa World [Taylor & Francis]
Full text online version of Europa World Year Book, reference book for political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories. Also covers numerous international organizations and features a search engine for generating comparative multinational statistics.Ethnic NewsWatch [Proquest]
Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by the ethnic and minority press in America.
GenderWatch [Proquest]
Provides full-text, international coverage of women's and gender issues, including family, childbirth, childcare, sexual harassment, aging, body image, eating disorders, and social roles. It also includes content on the impact of gender and gender roles on areas such as the arts, popular culture and media, business and work, crime, education, research and scholarship, family, health care, politics, religion, and sports. Covers 1974 to the present; updated quarterly.Greenwire [E & E Publishing]
An environmental news service covering national and international environmental politics and policy.International Index to Black Periodicals [Chadwyck-Healey]
IIBP Full Text includes content from over 150 international scholarly and popular periodicals in Black studies. It covers a wide array of humanities and social science disciplines including art, cultural criticism, economics, education, health, history, language and literature, law, philosophy, politics, religion, and sociology among others.Keesing's World News Archive [Keesing's]
Digest of worldwide political, diplomatic and economic affairs. Keesing's Online is the web-based version of Keesing's Record of World Events / Keesing's Contemporary Archives. Updated monthly.
Lexis/Nexis {package of news, legal and statistical databases}
Academic [Lexis-Nexis]
Hundreds of full text files focusing on legal news (federal, state, international), journalism (newspapers, newswires, transcripts), business and industry journals.
Congressional [Lexis-Nexis]
Comprehensive access to US legislative information.
Statistical [Lexis-Nexis]
Comprehensive access to statistical information.Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World [Oxford Press]
Provides articles on the people, concepts, and events that have shaped the world. Includes essays on critical isssues written by influential figures.
PAIS International [Cambridge Scientific Abstracts]
Index with abstracts to articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs. Covers from 1972 to the present with abstracts from 1985; updated monthly.
Political Risk Yearbook [PRSGroup]Country Reports on 106 countries including political and economic risk analysis. Each Country Report focuses specifically on vital political and business information: finding developing markets, determining currency movements, preparing for capital investments, or making judgments about corporate security.
Polling the Nations [ORS Publishing]
A database of polls taken on a variety of subjects all over the world. Each record in the database consists of one poll question and the participants' responses. Records are indexed by subject matter, publication year, general and specific location, and survey method. Other information provided includes: source name and contact information, sample size, and notes on the sample population. The data are gathered from professional polling organizations, television networks, universities, newspapers, businesses and associations.POPLINE [Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health/Center for Communication Programs]
POPLINE provides citations with abstracts of the worldwide literature on population, family planning, and related health issues. POPLINE is maintained by the Population Information Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health. Contains over 290,000 records representing published and unpublished literature in the field; updated the 1st and 3rd Monday of each month.Social Sciences Full Text [WilsonWeb]
Index with abstracts to more than 400 international, English-language periodicals.to more than 400 international, English-language periodicals. Indexing from February 1983 to the present. Abstracts from January 1994. Updated monthly.
Transitions Online [Transitions - Czech Republic]
A gateway to media outlets not readily accessible in the west (e.g., examples of publications: Novoe Vremea (Moldova); Kapital (Macedonia). Transitions Online compiles these into coherent web-accessible collections (e.g., by country name). In addition to daily journalism-the site allows users to locate, by country, a variety of links to that nation's political parties, government agencies, and think tanks. It also offers job listings, opinion pieces, essays, article packages focusing on common themes and year-in review annual surveys for each country. It does not limit its coverage to economic or political subject matter-but also links to news of the arts, culture and the humanities. It includes a searchable archive with content reaching back to the mid 1990s.United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database [United Nations]
Produced by the statistics division of the UN, UNCOMTRADE is a repository of merchandise trade statistics reported by over 130 countries. Data is arranged according to five central variables: country, commodity category (referenced using both the “Harmonized System” and the “Standard International Trade Classification”), trading partner country, year and trade flow (import, export or re-export). All values are converted into U.S. Dollars. SU Library's subscription allows SU affiliated students, faculty and staff unlimited downloads of data for time periods ranging from the late 1960s through to the present.
United Nations Treaty Collection [United Nations]Contains full-text of the United Nations Treaty Series, the United Nations Treaty Series Cumulative Index, and the League of Nations Treaty Series, the current status of the Multilateral Treaties deposited with the Secretary-General, and texts of recently deposited multilateral treaties.
World Development Indicators Online [World Bank]Contains statistical data for over 590 development indicators and time series data from 1960 for over 200 countries and 18 country groups. Data includes social, economic, financial, natural resources, and environmental indicators. Data selection screens are intuitive and easy to use. Results can be scaled, indexed against a particular year, viewed by percentage change, and charted. Data can also be exported in standard formats like Excel.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts [Cambridge Scientific Abstracts]
Citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. The serials list of the new database is actively under construction, with a focus on expanding international coverage. As of February 2003 approximately 1,304 titles are being monitored for coverage.
