Subject Guides: Global and International Studies: Databases and Indexes

Databases

Listed below are the names of databases associated with field of global and international studies. Databases are the best place to search for primary research published in academic and peer-reviewed journals.

Academic search complete
Large, multidisciplinary EBSCO database, covering a wide range of disciplines.
ILL: allowed for non-commercial libraries only
EconLit
EBSCO database covering topics in the field of economics.
Google Scholar
Index to scholarly literature across all disciplines. Can also be used for citation searching and to view author profiles.
Science Direct
Information platform of scientific, technical, and medical research content from journals, books, series, and reference works published by Elsevier.
Web of science
Index of scholarly literature covering a wide range of topics. Includes current and retrospective bibliographic information, cited reference searching and bibliometric searching.
JSTOR
SpringerLINK ebooks
Books, series, protocols, reference works, and proceedings published by Springer Nature. Full text access limited to titles that UNBC subscribes to.
OECD iLibrary
Online platform for OECD's analysis and statistical data
UN iLibrary
Catalog of United Nations publications and documents from 1979 forward, including UN sales publications, selected periodical articles, Official Records, and documents from UN bodies and committees.
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