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International Studies

Academic Search Complete
An interdisciplinary database indexing over 9,000 publications, with full text for nearly 7,800 of those titles.

Contains indexing for over 8,200 publications, with full text for nearly 4, 650 of those titles. PDF back files to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. Academic Search Premier contains...full text coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.
PAIS International
This resource covers issues in the public debate through selective coverage of a wide variety of international sources including journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more.

PAIS Archive is included in this database and includes the content from printed volumes published 1915-1976.
JSTOR
Full text scholarly journals - social and general sciences, humanities. Often does not include the most recent 5-years for the journal.

Full text issues of scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities, and general sciences, some journals have coverage back to the 1600s.
Project Muse
Scholarly journals and ebooks in the arts and humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
International Studies Encyclopedia Online
The encyclopedia is a comprehensive reference work for the fields of international studies and international relations.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
The study of language and linguistics.

This database abstracts and indexes the international literature in linguistics and related disciplines in the language sciences. The database covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Documents indexed include journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers.
Sociological Abstracts
Provides access to the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines.

Provides access to resources in sociology and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied. The database includes abstracts of journal articles selected from over 2500 journals, abstracts of conference papers presented at various sociological association meetings, relevant dissertation listings from Dissertations Abstracts International, enhanced bibliographic citations of book reviews, and abstracts of selected sociology books.
PsycINFO (Psychology)
Comprehensive index to articles, books, reports, and dissertations in the fields of psychology, counseling, and behavioral health.

PsycINFO contains citations and summaries of scholarly journal articles, of which 97 percent are peer-reviewed. Also included are book chapters, books and dissertations in the field of psychology and related disciplines. Material also includes the psychological aspects of related disciplines such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, physiology, linguistics, anthropology, business, and law. Journal coverage includes international material selected from more than 2, 000 periodicals in over 25 languages. Current chapter and book coverage includes worldwide English-language material published from 1987-present.
MLA International Bibliography
Bibliographic records of literature, language, linguistics, and folklore.

(Indexing: 1926+) Produced by the Modern Language Association of America the database consists of bibliographic records pertaining to literature, language, linguistics, and folklore. The MLA International Bibliography provides access to scholarly research in nearly 4,000 journals and series. It also covers relevant books, working papers, proceedings, bibliographies, and other formats.
ERIC Database (via EBSCOhost)
The primary education database via the EBSCOHost interface.

Coverage: ERIC is the premier database index for education. It consists of professional education journals, ERIC Digests, reports, curriculum units, lesson plans, policy and procedure manuals, conference papers, reviews of books and software and much more. The EBSCOHost interface only provides access to full text articles for which EBSCO own distribution rights. Includes the ERIC Thesaurus. (Indexing: 1966+; Full Text: Selective) Contains some full-text articles and documents. A user guide is available.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Politics, international relations, government, public policy.

(Indexing: 1975+) Citations, abstracts and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and related fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.
International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center
Journal articles, news feeds, etc on security and terrorism-related issues.

Journal articles, news feeds, books, etc. on security and terrorism-related issues, plus information on recent political, military, economic, social, and technical developments. Both scholarly journal articles and popular magazine articles are included along with data from sources such as the U.S. State Department Background Notes, the Political Risk Yearbook, the CIA World Fact Book, the Congressional Research Service, and World News Connection.

World News Connection is an online news service particularly effective in its coverage of local non-U.S. media sources including full text and summaries of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports. This material is provided to World News Connection by the National Technical Information Service (NTIS), a U.S. Government agency.
CIAO, Columbia International Affairs Online
Scholarly research in international affairs.

Indexing: Full Text: 1991+ The most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs, CIAO, publishes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.

Google Scholar

Google Scholar can be a good search engine for interdisciplinary research but there is no way of limiting your search results to "peer-reviewed" sources. You can search in UlrichsWeb by periodical title to ensure that the sources you plan to use for your research are scholarly, peer-reviewed.

Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.
UlrichsWeb
Ulrichsweb is an easy to search source of detailed information on more than 300,000 periodicals (also called serials) of all types: academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more.