Rutgers-restricted Resources for Global Studies

1. Indexes

These will lead you to article citations and abstracts. In many cases, you may also be able to retrieve the full-text of the article:

• Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost). (1984- ) Summaries of articles from over 4,000 publications, with approximately three quarters of those in full-text or full-image format. It contains a wide range of popular magazines and scholarly journals covering general reference, business, health, social sciences, humanities, education, and general science.
• AccessUN. (1998- ) This database includes citations as well as selected links to full-text documents from the United Nations, covering information on international problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian nature.
• ABI/Inform. (1985- ) Searchable abstracts of articles in business and economics selected from about 1000 periodicals. Between 40 percent to 50 percent of the items selected also include full text.
• Government Documents Catalog Service. (1976- ) This database indexes publications from the U.S. Federal Government, the world's largest publisher. Some citations include links to the full-text of the documents.
• PAIS International. (1972- ) Citations to articles, books, and reports on public policy and international affairs.
• Political Science and Government Abstracts. (1975- ) Citations with abstracts of articles from more than 1,000 journals in political science and related fields.
• World News Connection. Information obtained from full text and summaries of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, and especially television and radio broadcasts from around the world.

2. Digital Libraries

Here are collections of publications: journals, conference proceedings, newspapers, reports, statistics, and more.

• CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online. Full-text of working papers, research reports, and conference proceedings covering theory and research in international affairs.
• Dow Jones Interactive. Full-text articles from hundreds of newspapers from around the world, searchable by keyword, name, and date.
• Handbook of Latin American Studies. The Handbook contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, conference papers published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Coverage includes relevant books as well as over 800 social science and 550 humanities journals and volumes of conference proceedings.
• LexisNexis Academic. Includes access to Country Profiles, European Law, world news, corporate information, and the World Alamanac.
• LexisNexis Statistical. The database unifies the indexing in the American Statistics Index for U.S. government statistical publications (1973+), the Statistical Reference Index for statistical resources from state agencies and private sources (1980+), and the Index to International Statistics for documents from international governmental organizations (1983+). Full-text or web links are provided for some citations.
• SourceOECD. Provides access to the full-text of 19 periodicals and several reference titles, as well as many statistical datasets from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
• UNSTATS: the UN Common Database. A multi-disciplinary source containing more than eight million data elements from more than 300 statistical series.

3. E-Journals

These are often the full-image versions of print journals, but sometimes all you get are the articles in full-text (with no charts, maps, graphs, or illustrations).

• IDEAL (International Digital Electronic Access Library)
• JSTOR
• ScienceDirect
• Political Science Research Guide: Electronic Journals