International Studies

Source OECD: SourceOECD is the online library of the OECD. Everything published by the OECD (books, journals, series, working papers, databases) is available online on SourceOECD.

Country Studies: Extensive reports produced by the Library of Congress on individual country's histories and current political, social, and economic characteristics and statistics. [Also available in print: STROZIER Documents D101.22:550-]

PAIS International: Materials on public affairs from 1972 to date. Includes articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs.

United Nations Bibliographic Information System (UNBISnet): Catalogue of UN publications and documentation indexed by the United Natiions Dag Hammarskjold Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva. Also included are non-UN publications held in the collection of the Dag Hammarskjold Library.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO): Theory and research in international affairs; encompasses scholarship from 1991 to the present that includes working papers from university research institutes, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.

Countries and Their Cultures: Focuses on cultures and countries around the world, specifically what is and is not shared culturally by the people who live in a particular country.

Digital National Security Archive: The most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945.

Dissertation Abstracts / Digital Dissertations: Covers every doctoral dissertation completed in the U.S. at accredited institutions for the last 150 years. Includes some master's theses and foreign language dissertations. Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital form full-text.

Lexis-Nexis Congressional Universe: Lexis Nexis Congressional provides a comprehensive view of congressional action and the behind-the-scenes activity involved in crafting U.S. legislation. It includes the Congressional Research Digital Collection (CRDC)Committee Prints and CRS Reports (1824-Present), Statutes at Large (1789-present), and the Serial Set Index (1789-1969).

JSTOR: A database of the back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. The gap between the most recently published issue of any journal and the date of the most recent issue available in JSTOR is from 2 to 5 years.

Labordoc: Labordoc contains references to a wide range of print and electronic publications, including journal articles, from countries around the world, on all aspects of work and sustainable livelihoods, and the work-related aspects of economic and social development and human rights. Labordoc provides an ever increasing number of links to online publications available on the Internet.

OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition: Provides indexed and abstracted records with accompanying full text from over 1300 periodicals from H.W. Wilson General Science Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, Readers' Guide Abstracts, and Wilson Business Abstracts, and many other Wilson databases. Coverage is from 1994- present.Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994. Each database has its own start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full text; start dates for full-text rights to individual journals vary within a database.

Project MUSE: Provides access to the full-text of more than 200 scholarly journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Subjects include art, anthropology, classics, culture and society, demographics, economics, folklore, history, language, literature, mathematics, medicine and health, philosophy, politics, religion, science, sociology, etc. Coverage varies according to title (1993-) Also called Project Muse. (http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals Mirror server if link above is not working.)

UN Treaty Collection: Includes online versions of the print publications: Multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General, which incorporates the detailed status of over 485 multilateral treaties, and: (United Nations) Treaty series, which contains the texts of over 30,000 bilateral and multilateral treaties in their authentic language(s), along with a translation into English and French, as appropriate, for those treaties registered with the Secretariat.

USAID: Through its economic assistance programs, USAID plays an active and critical role in the promotion of U.S. foreign policy interests. The investment this agency makes in developing countries has long-term benefits for America and the American people. Development now takes its place alongside defense and diplomacy as the three essential components of American foreign policy.

BBC News: Country Profiles: Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries. They also include audio and video clips from the BBC archives.

Country Indicators for Foreign Policy: Paterson School of International Affairs, Carleton University, Ottawa
An on-going effort to identify and assemble statistical information conveying the key features of the political, economic, social and cultural environments of countries around the world.

International Affairs Contact Network: The IACNet is a comprehensive database of organizations and experts in international affairs. Its contents can be searched by organizational name, location, subject, type, and resource offerings. IACNet is an initiative of the University Center for International Studies at the University of Pittsburgh.

InternationalAffairs.com: A general portal, with section on News, Players, Analysis, and Numbers.

MSU Global Access: Michigan State University
Provides information about the world - its regions and peoples and important international issues. You can search simultaneously by world region or country and by thematic area.

National Security Archive: An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The Archive also serves as a repository of government records on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies of the United States.

Portals to the World: Links to electronic resources selected by Library of Congress subject experts.

United Nations Statistics Division: Provides statistics from more than 190 countries.

The WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources: This section of the WWW Virtual Library system presents over 2400 annotated links in a wide range of international affairs and international relations topics, including Getting Started, Media Sources, Organizations, Regions and Countries, and Topics.

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