Indexes and Databases

The Royal Military College of Canada Library

International Relations

Academic Search Premier (through CFVL)
Academic Search Premier indexes over 8,000 scholarly publications, and provides full text for more than 4,450 of these titles, including 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Features such as citation indexes are provided. Coverage spans every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975. This database is updated on a daily basis.
AfricaBib.org, Africana Periodical Literature Bibliographic Database
AfricaBib has several databases and online resources that cover Africa. Most notable are: the Bibliography of Africana Periodical Literature Database which indexes Africana periodical literature, and the African Women's Database which indexes African Women's literature. There is also a bibliography on women travelers and explorers to Africa
Canadian Foreign Relations Index, 1945-
Canadian Foreign Relations Index is an online index to Canadian and foreign materials that cover various aspects of Canadian international relations, such as defence, economic relations, foreign aid, international law, etc. The database includes over 47000 citations in both English and French that refer to a variety of materials published from 1945 to the present. Types of publications covered include journal articles, books, theses, conference proceedings, government publications, etc.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
Columbia International Affairs Online is a fully indexed and searchable library of full-text electronic documents. Documents include working papers from 80 international institutions focusing on security, politics, economic, international history and international relations. Conference proceedings from 35 professional associations, 37 contemporary journals, books from 17 different publishers, economic indicators, and links to maps, events, and other resources are also included in the library. A link explains how to cite electronic references from CIAO.
EIU (Economist Intelligence Unit) (through CFVL)
The EIU data service includes Viewswire, political and economic analysis of world markets; Risk Briefing, a geopolitical analysis of risk factors' and Country Profiles.
Europa: Gateway to the European Union
Europa is the official website of the European Union. It is a good starting point if you are looking for information and services provided by the EU but you do not know your way around EU sites.
InsideDefense.Com (through CFVL)
InsideDefense.com provides access to a daily news services featuring links to thousands of articles and documents relating to US Department of Defense programs, policies, procurement and funding. Includes full-text access to Inside the Pentagon, Inside the Navy, Inside the Army, Inside the Air Force and Inside Missile Defense as well as DefensePlus.
International Political Science Abstracts, 1964- (available in print in the Periodicals section of Massey Library PER JA 36.I5)
Published bimonthly by the International Political Science Association, the International Political Science Abstracts provides non evaluative abstracts of articles in the field of political science published in yearbooks and over 900 journals from all over the world.
NARCIS (National Academic Research and Collaborations Information System)
The NARCIS project, initiated by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW), gives access to scientific information consisting of (open access) publications from the repositories of all the Dutch universities, of the KNAW, of  the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO), and of a number of research institutes, as well as the datasets of the DANS Institute and descriptions of research projects, institutes and researchers.
The Nation Archive (through CFVL)
The Nation Archive contains indexing, abstracting, and full text for all the issues of The Nation, beginning with its first issue in 1865. The Nation is America’s oldest weekly magazine and one if its premier journals of opinion on politics, culture, books, and the arts.
The National Review Archive (through CFVL)
The National Review has provided insightful and unique coverage of political, economic, social, and cultural issues and trends since 1955. This archive offers complete indexing, abstracting and full text coverage for all issues of the journal.
The New Republic Archive (through CFVL)
For ninety years The New Republic has provided in-depth examination of American politics, foreign policy and culture. This database offers complete indexing, abstracting and full text for all issues since the inception of this journal in 1914.
OxResearch (through CFVL)
Oxford Research draws on the work of the Oxford Analytica team to provide strategic analysis of geopolitical, economic and social developments. With a 3-day embargo, each day 7 to 8 three to four page briefs are posted.
PAIS International, 1972- Access CSA
PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) is a bibliographic index to the literature of all aspects of public affairs, including politics, economics and social issues. This index covers over 950 journals, plus books, government documents, statistical compilations, committee reports, directories, reports of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations; and most other forms of printed literature from all over the world.
Peace Research Abstracts, 1964-
Peace Research Abstracts is an index to the literature concerned with every aspect of peace studies, factors making for war and peace, and related studies in international relations. Each issue has over 600 abstracts which cover books, journals, government publications, scholarly papers, significant speeches, international research studies as well as 'fugitive material'. This index is compiled by the Peace Research Institute in Dundas, Ontario.
Periodicals Archives Online (through CFVL)
Archive to 1995 of 150+ social science journals with emphasis on international affairs, history, politics and economics.
Sage Journals Online: Management, Political Science, Sociology (through CFVL)
Sage Journals Online: Management, Political Science, Sociology offers the full text of journals published by SAGE and participating societies in the areas of Management and Organization Studies, Political Science, and Sociology. Topics covered include: Human Resource Management, Marketing, Comparative Politics, International Relations, Consumer Culture, and Social Theory.
Web of Knowledge, 2004-
The Web of Knowledge provides access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 of the world's leading scholarly research journals. It also provides *cited reference searching*. The following databases are included:
  • Arts and Humanities Citation Index
  • Science Citation Index
  • Social Science Index
  • Conference Proceedings Citation Index

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