Suggested Resources for International Studies

Indexes & Databases to Articles
Good places to start your research ...

Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Academic OneFile		Interdisciplinary index of major academic periodicals. Partially paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Academic Search Premier		Interdisciplinary index to academic journals; provides full-content for over 3400 titles. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Political Science Abstracts (Worldwide)		Index to articles in political science, international relations, law, and public administration/ policy.

Indexes & Databases to Articles
For further research ...

 

Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Access UN		Indexes documents produced by the United Nations
	Alternative Press Index		Alternative Press Index (API) is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Covering theories and practices of socialism and revolution alongside ecology, democracy and anarchism, feminism and organized labor, indigenous peoples and gays/lesbians, API coverage is both international and interdisciplinary. Coverage begins in 1991.
	CQ Researcher		CQ Research report offers in-depth non-biased coverage of political and social issues.
	CQ Weekly Archive (1983-2009)		CQ weekly reports nonpartisan news and analysis from Congress for the years 1983-2009.
	EconLit		EconLit, the American Economic Association’s electronic database, is the world’s foremost source of references to economic literature. The database contains more than 1,010,900 records from 1969-present. EconLit covers virtually every area related to economics.
	Government Information Resources		Links to federal, state and local government web sites and databases
	Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)		Index to articles on world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada).
	JSTOR		Full text and index of over 1200 scholarly journals from various disciplines.
	LexisNexis Academic		Business, law, medical, news
	LexisNexis Law Reviews & Journals		Searches more than 200 law reviews and law journals concentrating on national and state issues of legal significance. Law Reviews is part of Legal Research database
	OECD		Index to citations and abstracts of OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) publications
	PAIS International		Indexes articles on public affairs.
	Passport GMID		Euromonitor GMID (Global Market Information Database) featuring business intelligence, company profiles, and strategic and statistical market analysis
	Project Muse		Arts, humanities. social sciences and mathematics
	Sage Knowledge (eBooks)		Electronic reference books published by Sage.
	SAGE Premier		Provides access to 485+ SAGE journal titles in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, engineering, and physical and life sciences, with backfile to 1999.
	SourceOECD (now called OECD iLibrary)		Online full-text of all publications and serials from the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development from 1998 to present; also contains a large collection of data sets
	Web of Science		Online versions of ISI's citation indexes--Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. This database will not work in Internet Explorer 9. Please us another browser (e.g. Safari, Firefox, Chrome).
	Women's Studies International		Provides access to Women's Studies core disciplines and to the latest studies in feminist research.
	World Almanac & Book of Facts		Almanac and book of facts.
	World FactBook (CIA)		Foreign countries - demographics, economies, climate, geography, government, military, etc.
	WorldCat -- UMD Students, Staff & Faculty		U.S. and International library holdings

 

 

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For searching assistance or help using any of the above databases, contact:

Jodi Carlson Grebinoski, Reference Librarian

Email:jlcarlso@d.umn.edu

Phone:218-726-7880

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