Guides: POLI 345: International Organizations: Articles

Main Databases for Articles and Secondary Literature

Subject-specific databases such as the ones listed below are instrumental in helping you find secondary literature for your assignments. They contain scholarly articles that focus on political science.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
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Provides abstracts and indexing of the international literature of political science and international relations, along with complementary fields, including international law and public administration/policy. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 750 core serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and working papers. Coverage: 1975 - current. Library can facilitate negotiating text-mining rights for this database for McGill faculty and students wishing to acquire the rights with their own research funds. Please contact Digital Scholarship Hub
PAIS Index
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This resource covers issues in the public debate through selective coverage of a wide variety of international sources including journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more. PAIS International is the current file covering 1972 to present, and PAIS Archive includes the content from printed volumes published 1915-1976.
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CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
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Full text documents and citations from international relations journals, policy briefs by international think tanks.

Multidisciplinary Databases

Multidisciplinary databases contain secondary literature on different areas and topics in the social sciences. If your research topic encompasses different perspectives, these may be helpful to search.

JSTOR
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Access to more than 10 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
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International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (ProQuest)
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Includes over 3 million bibliographic references to journal articles and to books, reviews and selected chapters. It is unique in its broad coverage of international material and incorporates over 100 languages and countries. It provides cross-disciplinary coverage across the social sciences, focused on four primary subject areas: anthropology, economics, political science and sociology. Coverage: 1951 - current
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Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)
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EconLit (ProQuest)
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