Research Guides: International and Area Studies Research Guide: Start Here

Recommended Databases

Political Science Complete
- This link opens in a new window
Covers political topics with a worldwide focus, including international relations, political theory, and comparative politics. Includes journals and conference papers.
Political Science Database
Leading journals in political science, public policy, and international relations. Also includes working papers, conference proceedings, country reports, and policy papers, as well as recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics.
ProQuest Central
Multi-disciplinary database with scholarly journals, news sources, magazines, and more!
JSTOR
Scholarly, academic journal articles, books, and book chapters.

NewsBank
International and major US Newspapers, newswires, broadcast transcripts, videos, blogs, and Acceda Noticias (in Spanish).

EconLit
Covers international scholarly economic literature, including journals, books, chapters, essays, proceedings, working papers, and more. Sources discuss economic theory and application, as well as other economics topics.
ABI/Inform Global
Scholarly international business research and publications
Business Source Complete
Covers scholarly journals and business trade periodicals, as well as case studies, market research reports, industry reports, financial data, books, conference proceedings, investment research reports, country reports, company profiles, SWOT analyses, and more.

Sociology Database
Covers the international literature of sociology and social work, including culture and social structure, history and theory, social psychology, and more.
Social Sciences Full Text
English-language social science journals covering applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.
PsycInfo
Produced by the American Psychological Association, PsycInfo is the most comprehensive database covering psychology. Provides abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in psychology, behavioral sciences, and mental health.
Psychology Database
Provides abstracts and indexing of key psychology journals.

America: History & Life
Covers history of the United States and Canada from pre-history to present. Most articles are peer-reviewed. Many articles are available in full text, but not all.
Historical Abstracts
Scholarly journals, magazines, and books covering the history of the world from 1400 to the present (excluding the history of the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life).
Humanities Full Text
Covers fields of the humanities, including art, classical studies, dance, film, journalism, philosophy, religion, literature, and more. Content includes academic and popular publications, feature articles, interviews, obituaries, works of fiction, drama, poetry, and reviews of plays, operas, ballets, dance, musicals, films, television and radio.
MLA International Bibliography with Full Text
Scholarly sources on all aspects of modern literature, languages and linguistics, theatre and drama.

PubMED
Millions of citations from the MEDLINE database, covering biomedical and life science journals and books. Some citations may include links to full-text content.
Health Source: Nursing/Academic Edition
- This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journals on nursing and allied health, pediatric nursing, critical care, mental health, nursing management, medical law and more.

Health & Medicine Research Guide
by Kelly Frost Last Updated Jun 8, 2024 78 views this year

Environment Complete
- This link opens in a new window
Scholarly, academic journals and books on environmental studies, including agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, public policy, and sustainability.
GreenFILE
Covers human impact on the environment. Includes scholarly, government, and general-interest titles covering global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
Environmental Issues Online
Multimedia materials - texts, video, audio, archival primary sources - covering environmental challenges, including climate change, water/air pollution, biodiversity, conservation, agriculture, deforestation, and more.
Explores the relationship between people and the environment through social, cultural, economic, political, historical and ecological perspectives.

Education Source
Covers major journals in the field of education, with some in full text.
ERIC: Education Resources Information Center
Journal articles, books, conference papers, technical reports, policy papers, and unpublished materials on thousands of Education topics.

NewsBank
International and major US Newspapers, newswires, broadcast transcripts, videos, blogs, and Acceda Noticias (in Spanish).
New York Times (1851 to 3 years ago)
Historical New York Times with articles in PDF format, including ads, cartoons, photos, maps, graphics, and more.