Basic Resources
Rutgers Resources
Internet Resources
Research
resources
compiled by
Ka-Neng Au
(au@rutgers.edu)
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Rutgers-restricted Resources
1. Indexes to Articles
These databases will lead you to article citations and abstracts. In many cases, you may also be able to retrieve the full-text of the article:
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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.
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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.
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Business Source Premier. Searchable abstracts of articles in business and economics selected from about 8,000 periodicals, as well as economic and political risk analyses for dozens of countries. About 75 percent of the items selected also include full text. Start with "Advanced Search."
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PAIS International and Archive. (1915- ) Citations to articles, books, and reports on public policy and international affairs. Note that you will only see abstracts; for the full-text of journal articles, click on
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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.
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Wilson OmniFile Full Text. A collection of eleven databases covering 3,500 journal titles, with more than 1,800 in full text. For citations without the full text of the articles, click on , which will lead to locations of the journals.
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. (1975- ) Citations with abstracts of articles from more than 1,000 journals in political science and related fields. Note that you will only see abstracts of the articles; for the full-text, click on , which will lead to locations of the journals.
2. Digital Libraries
Here are collections of publications: journals, conference proceedings, newspapers, reports, statistics, and more.
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Access World News. Covers over a thousand newspapers from around the world.
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CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online. Full-text of working papers, research reports, policy briefs, and conference proceedings covering theory and research in international affairs.
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Factiva. Full-text articles from thousands of newspapers from around the world, searchable by keyword, name, and date.
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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.
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LexisNexis Academic. Apart from thousands of newspapers, this database includes access to Country Profiles, European Law, world news, corporate information, and the World Alamanac.
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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.
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Official Document System of the United Nations. Full-text documents and resolutions from the United Nations General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council and their subsidiary bodies.
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SourceOECD. Provides access to the full-text of 19 periodicals and many reference titles, as well as many statistical datasets from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development.
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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).
4. Online Catalogs
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