Library: INTL 6000: International Relations Capstone or Thesis: Finding Articles

Databases for IR research

Academic Search Premier
A scholarly multidisciplinary database of periodical articles, most with full-text.
DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is an online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. It contains more than 10,000 quality, peer-reviewed open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.
Global Issues (Gale in Context)
Gale in Context: Global Issues offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, relevant sources for analysis of these issues. Rich multimedia - including podcasts, video, and interactive graphs - enhance each portal.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Using this link to access Google Scholar will ensure that "Resources at Webster" links are included in results, giving easy access to library collections.
IBSS – International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
An index to social science and interdisciplinary research, IBSS covers journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951.
JSTOR (contains Artstor images)
JSTOR is a digital archive of scholarly journals. Note that our subscription is for the following collections: Arts & Sciences II and Arts & Sciences III.
Click the Images tab to search Artstor for thousands of images from the arts, architecture, photography, and other disciplines.
PAIS Index – Public Affairs Information Service (ProQuest)
Focuses on literature concerned with public policy. It contains more than 400,000 records representing articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories.
Project Muse
High-quality books and journals in the humanities and social sciences from over 200 university presses and scholarly societies.
ProQuest One Academic
A one-stop gateway to search four core multi-disciplinary products – ProQuest Central, Academic Complete, Academic Video Online and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global – on the same user-friendly ProQuest platform.
Scopus
A major index for scientific, medical, technical, and social science journals - over 16,000 of which are peer reviewed. It also offers author profiles which cover affiliations, number of publications and their bibliographic data, references, and details on the number of citations each published document has received. It provides citation data for all 22,500 active titles such as journals, conference proceedings and books in Scopus and provides an alternative to the impact factor.