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Politics and International Relations
Politics and International Relations databases
ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts)
Worldwide English language coverage of journal articles, conference papers and book reviews in the fields of applied social sciences and health.
Provides article citations and abstracts, not full text.
British Humanities Index
An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities and arts.
This indexing database provides article citations and abstracts, not full text.
British Labour Party Papers, 1906-1969
Records compiled by the Parliamentary Labour Party 1906-1969.
Covers the early years of the party, the Ramsay MacDonald government, the wartime coalition, the Clement Atlee administration and the first premiership of Harold Wilson.
NOT included in the main library search.
Cambridge Journals Online
Cambridge Journals Digital Archive contains the full text from 170 journals, from volume 1, issue 1 to 1996.
Included in the main library search.
Digital National Security Archive
The Digital National Security Archive is a database of primary declassified documents covering US foreign and military policy since 1945.
Included in the main library search.
DOAJ (Directory of Open Access Journals)
The Directory of Open Access Journals is a list of freely-available, full-text, quality-controlled, scientific and scholarly journals.
Included in the main library search.
Encyclopedia of Human Rights
Covers a wide range of topics, including key organisations, events, and leading figures.
NOT included in the main library search.
EThOS
British Library database of full-text UK Higher education research theses.
NOT included in the main library search.
European Sources Online
Information on the institutions and activities of the European Union, the countries, regions, and other international organisations of Europe.
Guardian and Observer (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Online access to The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003) newspapers.
Easily searchable first coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.
Included in the main library search.
IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences)
Focuses mainly on politics, sociology, economics and anthropology and is one of the world's largest social-science databases.
JSTOR
UWE Bristol subscribes to the JSTOR multidisciplinary Arts and Sciences Collections I,II,III,V,VII, VIII and XIV.
A scholarly archive of over 1,000 full-text electronic journals.
Nexis
Full text database including UK national and regional newspapers, and worldwide newspapers and magazines.
Includes access to the Financial Times.
Also includes full-text information covering companies, industries, market surveys, countries, and people.
NOT included in the main library search.
Oxford Handbooks Online - Political Science
This is a collection of 114 eBooks representing all of Political Science's principal subfields.
Included in the main library search.
PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)
Chronicles the world's public affairs, public and social policies, international relations, and world politics.
NOT included in the main library search.
Politics Trove
Provides full text access to over 30 Oxford University Press (OUP) Politics and International Relations textbooks.
Included in the main library search
SAGE Research Methods
A web-based research methods tool created to help researchers, staff and students with their research projects.
SRM focuses on methodology rather than disciplines, so can be used by researchers from the social sciences, health sciences and more.
Included in the main library search.
Scopus
The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature: scientific journals, books and conference proceedings.
Fields of research include science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities.
Included in the main library search.
UK Parliamentary Papers
Includes over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to 2005, with supplementary material back to 1688.
UKPP delivers page images and searchable full text for each paper, along with detailed indexing.
NOT included in the main library search.
World Wide 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.
This indexing database provides article citations and abstracts, not full text.
Zetoc
Details of approximately 20,000 current journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published per year
An index that contains references only, not full text.
NOT included in the main library search.
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