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Academic Search Premier 
Coverage: 1975-present (with selected older titles). A multi-disciplinary database with significant full-text. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.
PAIS International
Coverage: 1972-present. Covers all aspects of public affairs including political science, sociology, health, etc. with an international view. Coverage includes foreign language materials and some U.S. congressional documents. Older materials are contained in the PAIS Archive.
PAIS Archive
Coverage: 1915-1976. Covers all aspects of public affairs including political science, sociology, health, etc with an international view. Coverage includes foreign language materials and some U.S. congressional documents. Current materials are in PAIS International.
Columbia International Affairs Online - CIAO
Coverage: 1991-present. A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.
International Political Science Abstracts Call Number: Case Reference JA36 .I5 
Coverage: 1952-61, 1963-- citation for the article containing your search terms. Indexes and abstracts journals in political science, international relations, public administration.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Coverage: 1975-present. Covers the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Coverage: 1951-present. An online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. For book reviews, search title of book and REVIEW in Publication Type.
Web of Science
Coverage: 1989-present. Access to Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and/or Arts & Humantities Citation Index. Multidisciplinary coverage.
Note: WOS searches Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index simultaneously by default.
Political Science Journals (Basic)
From Hein Online, searchable full text of 50 influential legal periodicals.
Peace Research Abstracts Journal
Coverage: 1999-2007. Indexes materials covering peace studies and international relations, foreign & military policy, war, population, economics, labor issues, technology & industry, politics, law, and social issues.
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Project Muse
Coverage: 1995-present. Provides access to humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from a number of scholarly publishers.
JSTOR
Coverage: varies. Over 800 core scholarly journals. Current issues are unavailable for a varying number of years (frequently 2 to 5 years).
Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy
2002 ed. Essays by subject experts treat concepts and doctrines, policymaking, commerce and science, human rights and arms control, with specific articles on topics ranging from anti-imperialism to environmental diplomacy, from refugee policies to terrorism and countermeasures.
LexisNexis Academic
Coverage: varies, generally 1980s-- . A multi-disciplinary database, with especially strong news, business and legal material.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports
Coverage: 1976-1996. Translations of foreign radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from foreign countries. Series 1 through 6 have been released. They cover Africa, Asia, East Europe, Latin American, and the Middle East.
FBIS Publications Call Number: LASR CD-ROM
Coverage: 1997-2004 . Translations of foreign radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from foreign countries. Continues microfiche FBIS Daily Reports
Access World News - International Edition
Coverage: varies by title. Access World News provides full-text information and perspectives from over 700 international sources, each with its own distinctive focus offering diverse viewpoints on local, regional and world issues. This title does not include U.S. news.
Times Digital Archive
Coverage: 1785-1985. Search the full-text of the Times (London) Digital Archive. The entire newspaper is captured, with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos.
Digital National Security Archive 
1940`s to present. A collection of declassified government documents, arranged into collections. Each collection, compiled by top scholars and experts, covers the most critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post World War II through the 21st century.
American Foreign Relations since 1600: a guide to the literature
2008 ed. An update of the standard bibliography of American foreign relations literature from colonial times to the present day.
International relations, international security, and comparative politics: a guide to refence and information sources Call Number: Case Ref JZ1305.K35 2008
Bibliography of reference sources for international relations
FIRST: Facts on International Relations and Security Trends
A joint project of International Relations and Security Network and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Data includes armed conflicts and peace keeping, arms production and trade, military expenditure, armed forces and conventional weapons holding, nuclear weapons, chronology, statistics and other reference data.
ICPSR
The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR), located within the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan , is a membership-based, not-for-profit organization serving member colleges and universities in the United States and abroad. Colgate is a member and data not available on the Internet can be requested from the University representative. Inquire in the Economics Department. Although the majority of the data deal with the U.S., significant data sets are available for other countries. It is recommended that new users review the Data Use Tutorial provided by ICPSR.
Columbia International Affairs Online - CIAO
Coverage: 1991-present. A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.
Cold War International History Project
Established at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. in 1991, and seeks to disseminate new information and perspectives on Cold War history emerging from historical materials newly released by governments on all sides of the Cold War. Site contains a mixture of working papers and archival sources.
Columbia International Affairs Online - CIAO
Coverage: 1991-present. A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.
FIRST: Facts on International Relations and Security Trends
A joint project of International Relations and Security Network and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. Data includes armed conflicts and peace keeping, arms production and trade, military expenditure, armed forces and conventional weapons holding, nuclear weapons, chronology, statistics and other reference data.
Global Policy Forum
GPF has consultative status at the UN and monitors their global policy making. Their visually simple, information-rich Website is divided into the following subsections: UN Financial Crisis, Security Council, Social/ Economic Policy, NGOs, Nations and States, and UN Reform. The content includes essays from the GPF staff, issue summaries, excerpts from conference presentations, news articles, and reports from the UN and other government agencies. Other special in-depth sections on timely topics.
WTO and GATT Research
Maintained by Jeanne Rehberg at the NYU Law Library, this guide lists the essential sources for researching the current WTO system and the predecessor system under the 1947 General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT 1947). Call numbers are provided for the NYU Law Library, NOT Colgate.
WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs
List of websites dealing with International Affairs
Vanderbilt Television News Archive 
The Vanderbilt Television News Archive is the world`s most extensive and complete archive of television news. They have been recording, preserving and providing access to television news broadcasts of the national networks since August 5, 1968. The core of the collection consists of regularly scheduled newscasts from ABC, CBS, NBC, CNN and Fox News. Content from CNN (1995- )and NBC News (Aug. 5th 1968- ) are available as streaming video. No current material will be made available until at least 72 hours after it was originally broadcast. Compilations of other media are expensive to obtain, but may be requested by faculty and Colgate students completing a senior thesis.
Book Review Index Online
Coverage: 1965-present. Indexes reviews in journals, general interest magazines, and scholarly journals.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
Coverage: 1951-present. An online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. For book reviews, search title of book and REVIEW in Publication Type.
Book Review Digest Call Number: Case Ref Z1219.C95
Coverage: 1905-- . Indexes and excerpts reviews of books written in English and published in the U.S. and Canada. More selective than Book Review Index. Arranged alphabetically by author; subject and title indexes. Search year of publication and the year following publication.
Academic Search Premier
Coverage: 1975-present (with selected older titles). A multi-disciplinary database with significant full-text. This scholarly collection offers information in nearly every area of academic study.
Web of Science
Coverage: 1989-present. Access to Science Citation Index, Social Science Citation Index, and/or Arts & Humantities Citation Index. Multidisciplinary coverage.
Note: WOS searches Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index simultaneously by default.
American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES)
Coverage: 1990-present. Resources about East-Central Europe and the former Soviet Union published in the United States and Canada.
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