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Databases
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ProQuest Central
Full-text database for scientific library users. It covers thousands of journal titles, books, reports. -
ProQuest Dissertations & Theses: A&I
Access one of the world’s most extensive multidisciplinary collections of online resources, covering life, health and physical sciences, social science, and the humanities.
Keesing’s Records of World Events
Keesing's was founded in 1931 with the intention of creating a lasting archive of original, accurate, and objective articles on the world's political, social, and economic events. Keesing's is published 11 times a year, providing a comprehensive overview of developments over each month. Every country in the world receives dedicated coverage each year, with most countries covered monthly. As well as nations there are articles on international organisations and topics of international concern, including the environment, disarmament, and scientific research. Each article is devoted to a single country or international topic, with coverage in each issue organised by region.
Access to full-text databases:
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Political Science Complete
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Academic Search Complete
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and many more...
HeinOnline describes itself as the world’s largest image-based legal research collection and contains more than nine centuries of legal history. All content is image-based in PDF format just as they appear in the original print copy thus preserving the authenticity of the hard copy in a digital environment.
There you can find:
Federal Register Library includes Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents.
New! FIRST - Facts on International Relations and Security Trends
The FIRST system offers researchers, politicians and the media an authoritative and structured factual reference system on international relations and security trends. It contains high-quality, up-to-date and clearly documented information in areas such as:
- conflicts, arms transfers and military expenditure
- hard facts on states and international organizations
- economic and social statistics
- chronologies
The EU Neighbourhood Library is a user-friendly online database bringing together the key documents that guide EU relations with the ENP and ENPI partner countries.This database allows you to search and download a wide range of materials drawn from official EU sources and EU-funded projects in the neighbourhood. These range from Association Agreements and Country reports to essential policy documents and research generated by the projects. The search can be made by country, by theme, by source, by policy, by date of publication and by keyword.Documents can be downloaded in their original language (mainly English or French) as well as any other language versions in which they are available.
Science Direct Elsevier
Science Direct includes electronic Elsevier journals.
They are available from:
Science Direct on Site (SDOS) – local database on sever located in ICM
Science Direct on Line (SDOL) – database on publisher’s server
Springer
Electronic Springer journals are available from ScienceServer located in ICM and from SpringerLink – publisher’s server.
Web of Science / Web of Knowledge
Thomson Reuters (formerly ISI) Web of Knowledge describes itself as a today's premier research platform for information in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Web of Knowledge delivers critical information and decision support tools for information professionals, students, researchers and scientists around the world.
World Economic Outlook Databases
The World Economic Outlook (WEO) database is created during the biannual WEO exercise, which begins in January and June of each year and results in the April and September WEO publication. Selected series from the publication are available in a database format.
Alliance Treaty Obligations and Provisions (ATOP)
The Alliance Treaty Obligations and Provisions (ATOP) project provides data regarding the content of military alliance agreements signed by all countries of the world between 1815 and 2003.
Internet Treaty Base (Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
Once fully complete, the World Treaty Index will feature every known international agreement in the 20th Century. This includes tens of thousands agreements entered into by hundreds of countries and international organizations. Currently, this website only contains treaties signed between 1945 and 1999. Remaining treaties are being added according to the following timeline:
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Agreements signed before 1945 - October
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Treaties signed in 1998 and 1999 - November
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Multilateral party identifiers - December
Those interested in obtaining the full dataset can download it in Excel and transfer it to their preferred software package (SPSS, Stata, R,).
The International Relations and Security Network (ISN) describes itself as the world’s leading open access information service for international relations and security professionals.
The gateway offers bibliographic references, full-text documents on
- foreign and security policy
- international cooperation and development policy
- European politics and transatlantic relations
- regional and country studies worldwide
- foreign cultural policy
- climate, environment, energy
In the nine language European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies you will find relevant search terms for your search in IREON.
IREON - The International Relations and Area Studies Gateway includes:
- World Affairs Online
- Library of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation
- WAO-Treaties
UN Official Document System - ODS
United Nations Treaty Collection - UNTC
All UN databases in alphabetical order
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