Politics
Some useful resources for Politics are listed below.
ASSIA (Applied Social Sciences Index And Abstracts)
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Provides abstracts from around 650 UK, US and international journals. Coverage includes all branches of the applied social sciences, with over 375,000 records. |
| Coverage: | 1987-present. |
Additional Information
NHS Staff and other authorised users:
Documents on British Policy Overseas
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Documents on British Policy Overseas offers researchers the opportunity to see beneath the surface of the major events of the twentieth century. Users can access contemporary accounts and follow the detailed exchanges that shaped British foreign policy from the origins of the First World War and beyond. |
IBSS (International Bibliography of Social Science) Online
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Produced by the British Library of Political and Economic Science. One of the largest and most comprehensive social sciences databases in the world, indexing 2600 journals and 6000 books per annum, in the core disciplines of economics, sociology, politics and anthropology. |
| Coverage: | From 1951 to date. |
Additional information
Further help using IBSS is available.
JSTOR
| Access information: | Access on and off-campus. |
| Description: | Full-text journal archive service providing access to complete back runs of all the scholarly journals currently available in JSTOR. Recent volumes are excluded, usually the last 3-5 years, but each year a further year is added to the archive. |
| Each title is listed in the Library catalogue. |
| The collections currently available are: Arts & Sciences 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, 8; Biological Sciences; Health & General Sciences; Ireland. The 19th Century British Pamphlets Collections is also available via JSTOR. |
National Security Archive Index
| Access information: | Single user CD-ROM workstation, Main Library. |
| Description: | A database of the 12 collection indexes and guides included in The Making of US Policy series produced by the National Security Archive. It covers topics such as Afghanistan, the Berlin Crisis, the Cuban Missile Crisis, El Salvador, the Iran-Contra Affair and Nicaragua. |
Oxford Scholarship Online
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. |
| Description: | Oxford Scholarship Online contains the complete text of over 2000 scholarly books published by Oxford University Press in the social sciences and humanities. At least 200 new titles will be added each year. |
| The Library does not licence the complete collection, but subject modules are available in Religion and Theology, Political Science, and Economics and Finance. Business & Management. Additional collections in the following subject areas have also been acquired - Classical Studies, History, Linguistics, Literature, Music, Philosophy and Psychology. |
Social Sciences Citation Index
| Access information: | Access on and off campus. Try clearing your cookies if you have access problems or use alternative login |
| Description: | Provided by Web of Knowledge. Indexes 2,100 core journals in all areas of the social sciences, plus relevant items from 3,500 scientific and technical journals. Contains over 2.3 million reference, over half with abstracts. |
| Coverage: | From 1956 to date. |
This article was published on Apr 17, 2013
