Electronic Databases for International Relations

Journal and newspaper articles

• Academic Search Premier - Full-text access to thousands of journals across a broad range of topics, including titles such as Journal of International Relations and Development, International Journal of Conflict Management, Foreign Affairs, Journal of International Affairs and many more highly relevant to International Relations. Access via the university catalogue. Use your library borrower number and PIN to access. If you haven't yet registered with your site library, you will need to do so.
  
  
• Business Source Premier - Full-text access to thousands of journals, mainly in Business and Management but also including titles such as European Foreign Affairs Review, Foreign Affairs, Global Governance, Journal of Common Market Studies, Journal of International Affairs and Palestine - Israel Journal of Politics, Economics & Culture.
  Access via the university catalogue. Use your library borrower number and PIN to access. If you haven't yet registered with your site library, you will need to do so.
  
  
• Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) - covers mainly Development and International Relations. Full text journal articles, working papers, etc. plus links to a wide variety of sources. Access via the university catalogue. Use your library borrower number and PIN to access. If you haven't yet registered with your site library, you will need to do so.
  
  
• Cornell Modern Indonesia Collection - The Cornell Modern Indonesia Collection provides free access to the full text of 75 texts published by faculty members in Cornell University's Southeast Asia Program. They include monographs, bibliographies and research studies covering the political and social evolution of Indonesian society during the 20th Century. Copyright information is displayed on the website.
  
  
• Directory of Open Access Journals - full text access to journals such as European Integration Online; Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, New Balkan Politics, Peace Economics, Peace, Conflict and Development. Access via the university catalogue. Use your library borrower number and PIN to access. If you haven't yet registered with your site library, you will need to do so.
  
  
• EBSCO Electronic Journals Service — Provides access to many of the University's electronic journals; enables searching in the title, abstract and full text, and downloading of articles from journals in all subject areas.Access via the university catalogue. Use your library borrower number and PIN to access. If you haven't yet registered with your site library, you will need to do so.
  
  
• Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports - includes the publication series titles Middle East & Africa, Middle East & North Africa, Near East & South Asia Africa (Sub-Sahara), South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa Eastern Europe, East Europe.
  
  
• Ingenta - full text access to many journals including Central European History, International Affairs, Review of International Political Economy. Access via the university catalogue. Use your library borrower number and PIN to access. If you haven't yet registered with your site library, you will need to do so.
  
  
• JSTOR - archive of core scholarly journals starting with the very first issues. Subject covered include Economics, Finance, History, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, and Sociology. Back runs only. For the most recent three to five years you will need to use other services. Allows you to search by subject, or browse individual issues. Access via the university catalogue. Use your library borrower number and PIN to access. If you haven't yet registered with your site library, you will need to do so.
  
  
• Mahatma Gandhi University theses online - Mahatma Gandhi University is an interdisciplinary university providing free access to a growing collection of its online doctoral theses in Sanskrit, Malayalam, Hindi and English. A wide range of subject areas is covered with good coverage of Indian history, society, politics and culture; Gandhi studies; international relations, foreign policy and regional issues in South Asia. Copyright information is displayed on the website.
  
  
• Nexis UK
  Contains full-text articles from British and international newspapers and news magazines.
  When connecting to this service, please use the Athens Sign-In option. For best results, use Power Search.
  
  
• OECD Main Economic Indicators - allows access to the most recent monthly release of the OECD Main Economic Indicators. The Main Economics Indicators contains data on national accounts, industrial production, employment, prices, business trends, finance and trade for the major world economies, and runs from January 1960 to the current month.
  Access via the university catalogue. Use your library borrower number and PIN to access. If you haven't yet registered with your site library, you will need to do so.
  
  
• SwetsWise — Access to the full text version of over 192 journals taken by the University.Journals include African Affairs, Asian Survey, British Journal of Politics and International Relations, International Affairs and International Organization.
  Access via the university catalogue. Use your library borrower number and PIN to access. If you haven't yet registered with your site library, you will need to do so.
  NB: After logging in you will need to select the button marked 'IP login' on the right-hand side of the screen.

• Eurolaw - the legal database of the European Union comprising the official CELEX databases together with substantial additional material. Athens username and password required for access outside the university.
  
  
• Lexis-Nexis Professional - includes legislation, cases and articles from legal periodicals. The UK Journals section includes New Law Journal back to January 1986. The company information section has some sources and search features additional to those in Lexis-Nexis Executive. Access via the university catalogue. Use your library borrower number and PIN to access. If you haven't yet registered with your site library, you will need to do so.
  
  
• Westlaw - includes full text of some UK and EU case law and legislation, the Legal Journals Index to UK journals, and the full text of some law journals. Access via the university catalogue. Use your library borrower number and PIN to access. If you haven't yet registered with your site library, you will need to do so.

• AuthorMapper - AuthorMapper is a free online tool designed to discern trends and patterns, as well as subject experts, within scientific research.
  
  
• Historical Abstracts - indexes and abstracts all aspects of world history, except for USA and Canada, from 1450 to the present day. References are from over 2,100 journals worldwide. Subjects covered include world history, culture, diplomacy, economics, international relations and politics. Access via the university catalogue. Use your library borrower number and PIN to access. If you haven't yet registered with your site library, you will need to do so.
  
  
• IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences) - covers the social sciences and related subjects and contains bibliographic references to articles and books. Access via the university catalogue. Use your library borrower number and PIN to access. If you haven't yet registered with your site library, you will need to do so.
  
  
• Index to Theses - index to theses accepted for higher degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland.
  Access via the university catalogue. Use your library borrower number and PIN to access. If you haven't yet registered with your site library, you will need to do so.
  
  
• Social Sciences Citation Index - multidisciplinary database, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. Access via the university catalogue. Use your library borrower number and PIN to access. If you haven't yet registered with your site library, you will need to do so.
  
  
• ZETOC— provides access to the British Library's Electronic Table of Contents.The database contains details of approximately 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published per year, from 1993 onwards. Access via the university catalogue. Use your library borrower number and PIN to access. If you haven't yet registered with your site library, you will need to do so.