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International relations: A guide to Library resources & research

This guide provides information on:

General Writing Tools
Reference

Includes Encyclopedias, literary companions, and literary biographies. They provide an overview of an author or a particular work

Journals

Journals are a good resource for scholarly information on your topic - below is a list of journals, still current, which publish articles on various aspects of International relations. All titles listed are available online and off campus.

Government Publications

Catalogue
The Government publications collection has publications from both International and Australian governments as well as a large collection of European Union documents.

Modify your keyword search by location "Bundoora govt. pubns" from the drop down menu eg australia foreign relations china . Some results will have links to the full text online.

NOTE the term used in the catalogue for "international relations" is "foreign relations".

Libraries Australia: the National Library database

Indexes government publications from around the world often providing links to the full documents. Select limit to Government. Good for US government documents.

Catalogue of US Government publications Provides links to full documents.

Department of Foreign affairs and trade publications

US Department of State they have very little information of substance on their public website.

Finding journal articles - searching databases

Journal titles are listed in the catalogue NOT journal articles

Journal articles are indexed in electronic databases and printed indexes

Databases for International relations

Key International relations databases

APAFT - Australian Public Affairs full text. All the major Australian journals on Politics and IR are indexed in full by this database. Some full text available

CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online. search across working papers from research institutes, conference proceedings,full text of all books published by Columbia, journals (abstracts and full text) and policy briefs. Mostly full text.

PAIS International 1972 - Public affairs information service. Covers international relations and trade, political social and public policy issues. Indexes journals and books / book chapters. No full text

PAIS archive 1915-1976

Web of Science for the Social Science Citation Index. No full text.

Databases that include Information on International relations

Current Contents covers all areas of research providing access to the tables of contents from current issues of the world's leading scholarly research journals.

Expanded Academic - a general undergraduate database of scholarly articles that includes politics. International coverage, with lots of full text.

MAIS - Multicultural Australia and immigration studies. Use for finding articles on refugees and immigration.

JSTOR full text journal archive. Select advanced search and subject political science. No articles from current issues of thejournals.

Taylor and Francis online Journals - Advanced search, tick the box "My subscriptions only", limit subject to social science subset politics & international relations

Proquest Social Sciences and Humanities - covers International relations, indexes several US newspapers in full as well as academic journals. Mostly Full text.

Other useful databases for International relations

Australian Treaties Library

United Nations Treaty collection full text access to all treaties and international agreements entered into by any Member of the United Nations. Password required, contact the Inquiries desk on 9479 2922.

ODS Official Document System of the United Nations

Google Scholar – try using the advanced search then limit to Arts and Social Sciences

NOTE Search in multiple databases – you will retrieve different material as they index different journals

Print indexes –

for older material before the online version of the index began (check the catalogue) eg APAIS online 1968 onwards, but library holdings of the print index begin in 1945.

International political science abstracts 1982-
APAIS print index 1945-

Locating the articles/books

Always check the catalogue first.

Do we hold the Journal title?

Do we have the year that your article is published?

Is there more than one entry in the catalogue? Check both as there will be different
access to the journal

No holdings check if it is available locally at another Victorian library

News & Media resources
  • Factiva for all local, national and international newpapers - full text
  • The Nation digital archive 1865 - present. The oldest continously published weekly journal in the US - full text
  • Alternative press index complete guide to alternative and radical media in the US NOTE sometimes hard to locate the full text of publications
  • Le Monde Diplomatique (English ed.) in print
  • World News Connection translated and English language news and information from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service. Password available from the Inquiries desk (9479 2922)
  • Open Democracy debate and discussion of global affairs by internationally renowned commentators
  • Note for more links to News and Media resources use Joseph Camilleri's Media links
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Help

Contact your subject librarian for advice on finding relevant electronic and print resources, or assistance on how to use the databases effectively.