Research Guides: International Outlook: Articles

Scholarly & Peer-reviewed Articles

Here are the top recommended article databases for political science:

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Multi-disciplinary database providing indexing, abstracts, and selected full text for peer reviewed/scholarly articles, magazines, trade publications, and newspapers in all fields.
Politics Collection This link opens in a new window
A collection of 4 index and full-text databases covering political science and public policy: PAIS Index, Policy Index, Political Science Database, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides access to databases covering the international literature in the social sciences, including politics, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology and education.
Web of science core collection This link opens in a new window
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Web of Science Core Collection (1965-present). Search the world’s leading scholarly journals, books, and proceedings in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities and navigate the full citation network.

Specialized databases

See the full list of databases for political science here.

CIAO: Columbia International Affairs This link opens in a new window
Wide range of scholarship focusing on international affairs that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.
Gale OneFile. Environmental studies and policy This link opens in a new window
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Covers the field of environmental issues and policy, including perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.
Military & Government Collection This link opens in a new window
Covers current news & scholarly literature about the US military and government.
PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
Indexes journal articles, books and book chapters, conference proceedings, government documents, and statistical directories in the area of public affairs.
Topics covered include government, international relations, environment, political science, public administration and more.
Bibliography of Asian Studies This link opens in a new window
Primary bibliography in the field of Asian Studies, which includes citations for journal articles, books, conference proceedings and festschriften. Covers only materials written in western languages. Coverage is from 1971 to the present. For bibliography prior to 1971, consult the Cumulative Bibliography of Asian Studies, 1941-1965 (Knight Z3001.C94)

News

Access world news This link opens in a new window Access World News Research Collection is a full-text news resource consisting over 11,000+ local, regional, national and international sources (6,800+ US and almost 4,200 international sources). This database includes access to many local Oregon new sources, including The Oregonian and the Register-Guard up to current day. Updated daily, it offers researchers and students valuable primary source information on today’s issues and events from newspapers, newswires, transcripts, video clips, web only, and blogs.
Gale OneFile. News. This link opens in a new window If searches in this database retrieve incorrect results, clear cache/cookies to resolve the problem. Newspaper database.
Los Angeles Times (1881-1997) This link opens in a new window Historical analysis of the development of California and the Pacific Rim with a focus on immigration issues, coverage of the early days of the film industry, and coverage of Native American culture and society.
Los Angeles Times (2008 to present) This link opens in a new window Digitized version of the Los Angeles Times newspaper, microfilm edition.
New content is added to the database after the newspapers are microfilmed, so currency usually runs 6-12 weeks behind. This site works only in Internet Explorer or Chrome on Windows computers and Firefox or Safari on Macs.
New York times This link opens in a new window UO’s New York Times online subscription provides current UO faculty, students, and staff access to domestic and international news, educational videos, podcasts, blogs, interactive multimedia, and much more. Unlimited access provided for content newer than 1980 and older than 1923. (Access to content within the date range 1923-1980 is limited to 5 articles per day. NYT Archive page offers alternatives). Learn how to set up your access through UO Libraries’ subscription
Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window Provides full text coverage of more than 340 regional, national and international newspapers. Includes full-text television and radio news transcripts from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, NPR, etc.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
Wall Street journal (digital reproduction, 2008 - present) This link opens in a new window Digitized version of the Wall Street Journal (eastern edition) newspaper, microfilm edition.
The library's subscription provides access from 2008 to the present. New content is added to the database after the newspapers are microfilmed, so currency usually runs 6-12 weeks behind. This site works only in Internet Explorer or Chrome on Windows computers and Firefox or Safari on Macs.