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Politics & International Relations: Journal Articles & Databases
What Is Peer Review?
Articles in peer reviewed journals have been assessed before publication by subject experts. This means they are the 'gold' standard in academic articles. You will be expected to use peer reviewed journal articles in your assignments.
Full Lists of Databases and eJournals
Follow these links and pick a subject to see a longer listing for your subject:
Journals, Databases, Bibliographies & Citations
The list below is a selection of relevant journal titles accessible through UCD subscriptions. Be sure to log in to the 'Online Tools' when accessing these resources off campus.
Below is a list of the key databases for Politics & International Relations research that are accessible through UCD subscriptions. Be sure to log in to the 'Online Tools' when accessing these resources off campus.
- Business Source Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new windowBusiness Source Complete is a full text business database, covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business.
- HeinOnline This link opens in a new windowA digital library of journals on US history, law, political science, business, public policy and other areas. Includes the Congressional Record Bound volumes in entirety, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, famous world trials dating back to the early 1700s, legal classics from the 16th to the 20th centuries, the United Nations and League of Nations Treaty Series, all United States Treaties, the Federal Register from inception in 1936, the CFR from inception in 1938, and much more.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowDigital library of important scholarly archived journals spanning many subject disciplines. IReL provides access all archival journals and primary source collections.
- ScienceDirect Journals (Elsevier) This link opens in a new windowScienceDirect contains over 25% of the world's science, technology and medicine full text and bibliographic information. Includes online eBooks, reference works, handbooks, book series, journal titles and backfiles.
- Web of Science (all databases) This link opens in a new windowWeb of Science is a website that provides subscription-based access to multiple databases that provide comprehensive citation data for many different academic disciplines.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (Proquest) This link opens in a new windowCSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides 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 database is building on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts, published by IFI / Plenum, 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI, published by ABC-CLIO, 1984-2000. Over 1,700+ titles are being monitored for coverage; of these, 67% are published outside the United States.
Bibliographies and Citations are excellent tools to assist your search for relevant journal articles, books, book reviews, conference proceedings and other resources that you may not find by direct searching.
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (Proquest) This link opens in a new windowThe International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) is an essential online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. IBSS includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. Over 2,800 journals are regularly indexed and some 7,000 books are included each year. Abstracts are provided for half of all current journal articles and full text availability is continually increasing.
- Oxford Bibliographies Online (OUP) This link opens in a new windowOxford Bibliographies provides faculty and students alike with a seamless pathway to the most accurate and reliable resources for a variety of academic topics. Written and reviewed by academic experts, every article in our database is an authoritative guide to the current scholarship, containing original commentary and annotations.
- Scopus (Elsevier) This link opens in a new windowScopus is a comprehensive scientific, medical, technical and social science database containing all relevant literature. The platform also provides access to SciVal (access to SciVal requires registration, and is limited to on-campus only).
- Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) This link opens in a new windowThe Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences.
JSTOR: Subject Searching for Articles
Watch a short tutorial on how to search for information on a subject in JSTOR:
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- Introduction
- Where to Start
- Books & eBooks
- Journal Articles & Databases
- Key Websites
- Development Studies
- Government & EU Information
- Newspapers
- Datasets & Statistics
- Citing Information & Avoiding Plagiarism
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