Resources - PLTC 222 - International Political Economy

Article Indexes

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (WPSA)
Political science and international relations journal articles, 1975 to present
Historical Abstracts
World history (except U.S. and Canada) journal articles. Historical coverage: 1450 to present. Journal coverage: 1954 to present.

Wikimedia Commons
Creative Commons licensed images that can be incorporated into academic projects. Check to make sure that the CC license to use the material matches your needs. Also be careful that the license is actually valid in the United States. Some content may be in the Public Domain in other countries, but not in the US.

For specific information about reuse of Wikimedia images, see: Reusing content outside Wikimedia.

The following are sources similar to those used in I-PEEL.

CQ Researcher
Comprehensive background and analysis on controversial issues in the news. Includes statistics, bibliographies, and pro & con opinions. Coverage: 2006 to present
New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Overviews of the origin and cultural interpretations of subjects such as beauty, love, feminism, diversity, and social capital, and others in Western thought and culture.

See Primary vs. Secondary Sources for some guidance on which is which.

Nexis Uni
Full-text news (1980s to the present; varies by title), law, and business-related research.
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Access to thousands of news, business, legal, and medical publications and information sources, including: newspapers, newsletters, magazines, trade journals, wire services, and broadcast transcripts. It offers some international resources in French, Italian, German, Portuguese, and Spanish. The legal component of the database includes comprehensive, current legal information which consists of federal and state case law, statues, secondary sources such as law reviews, and state legal materials. Includes Shepard's Citations for all federal and states court cases back to 1789.
Global Newsstream
Newspapers, broadcast transcripts, and wire service reports. 1977 to current

Full text of 300+ U.S. and international news sources. Includes coverage of 150+ major U.S. and international newspapers such as The New York Times and the Times of London, plus hundreds of other news sources and news wires.
Academic Search Complete
May be useful to limit to magazines.

Data Planet
Data series from thousands of sources. Includes data from China Data Center.

HathiTrust Digital Library
Books, journals, newspapers, and other print materials scanned by member libraries (including many of the largest research libraries in the US). Coverage: Ca. 1500 to present

Collection is full text searchable. Materials in the public domain are available for reading online. Copyrighted materials are not available in full text, but often indicate page numbers where words occur. Includes many US government documents. hathi trust
Gale Primary Sources
Historical British newspaper collections, including 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection, British Library Newspapers, The Illustrated London News Historical Archive, Nineteenth Century Collections Online, The Times Digital Archive, and Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive. Coverage: 17th century-present.

Contact:

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