International Studies (Polytechnic campus)
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Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)Coverage: 1991+
Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
Comprehensive full text source for theory and research in international affairs. Includes working papers, journal articles; policy briefs and economic indicators; links and resources; maps and country data from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. This is an essential resource for serious research into International Affairs.Alternate titles: Columbia International Affairs Online -
EconLit with Full Text
Indexes the world's economic literature. Topics include economic development, forecasting, and history; fiscal and monetary theory; business and public finance; international, health care, regional and urban economics, and more.
Coverage: 1886+
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Military & Government Collection
Comprehensive coverage of military and government news, offering full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals, as well as indexing and abstracts for over 400 titles.
This database is also a useful resource for Security Studies.
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PAIS Index
Indexes global research on public policy and social issues, covering scholarly articles, books, government documents, grey literature, reports, and more. Content in multiple languages.
PAIS International (1976 to present) contains records for over half a million journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more.
PAIS Archive (1915 to 1976) is a retrospective conversion of the PAIS Annual Cumulated Bulletin, volumes 1-62, published 1915-1976 and contains over 1.23 million records covering monographs, periodical articles, notes and announcements, and analytics.
Interdisciplinary
When your topic covers multiple subject areas, it is sometimes best to do more global searching in the platforms that cover many databases. Once you have a list of articles, in the left hand column, scroll down to the databases and see which databases have the most articles on your topic.
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EBSCOhost - all EBSCO databases
This quick link enables a search across all EBSCO databases, with options to select or deselect specific groups for cross-disciplinary topics.
Searching all databases may lead to slower response times.
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ProQuestCoverage: Varies
Maximum Concurrent Users: Unlimited
ProQuest provides access to a collection of databases for the arts, business, dissertations & theses, health & medicine, history, literature & language, news & newspapers, science & technology, and social sciences. Searches can be run on a single database, on a grouping of databases, or every available database. The ability to search across multiple databases is particularly useful for researching multi-disciplinary topics. Note that direct links to the individual databases in this collection have also been provided under the library’s Research Databases selections.Alternate titles: CSA Illumina
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America: History and Life with Full Text
Access to journals and resources on U.S. and Canadian history and culture, including advanced time-period search and open access journal indexing.
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Chatham House Online ArchiveContains the publications and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), the independent international affairs policy institute founded in 1920 following the Paris Peace Conference. Publications include the Institute's analysis and research, as well as reports, papers, books, debates and speeches hosted at Chatham House. This online archive is subject-indexed and fully searchable.
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HeinOnline
Offers PDF full text of law reviews and journals, historical federal documents, classic legal texts from the 17th to early 20th centuries, U.S. treaties, Supreme Court cases in U.S. Reports, and Attorney General opinions.
Includes pre-1980 legal scholarship not found on Nexis Uni or Westlaw.
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Historical Abstracts with Full Text
Database covers the history of the world, excluding the United States and Canada, from 1450 to present with indexing to historical articles from more than 1800 journals in over 40 languages published since 1955. Citations to books, dissertations and theses are included plus the full text of more than 349 journals and more than 120 books. The related disciplines of archeology, anthropology and sociology are also covered.
Coverage: 1954+
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JSTOR
Access millions of articles, books, and primary sources, focusing on back issues of scholarly journals; an essential resource for research in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes AI assistant: JSTOR's interactive research tool.
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Project MUSE Journals and Books
A collection of high-quality, peer-reviewed journals and e-books from leading university presses, not-for-profit publishers, and scholarly societies, offering full-text content in literature, history, arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and economics.