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Highly Recommended Databases that will to help you find articles

Use keyword searches to find articles on your research topic with these great databases!

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IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
The IBSS database includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It focuses on anthropology, economics, politics and sociology with broad coverage of international material from 100 countries and in 60 languages. Database Guide.
ProQuest Central
Full-text of articles from more than 6,000 journals. Also indexes more than 10,000 publications.
Proquest Social Sciences
Combined search across several Proquest databases relevant to the Social Sciences, including dissertations and theses.
Religion & Philosophy Collection
An indexing and abstracting database with some full-text coverage of journals in a range of subjects, including political philosophy.
Contemporary Women’s Issues
Information on critical issues and events that influence women’s lives in over 190 countries.

These databases cover journals from several disciplines, including the Social Sciences.

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Academic OneFile
Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from journals and reference sources. Covers a range of subjects, including Politics.
Academic Search Complete
Full-text of articles from more than 6,000 peer reviewed journals. Also indexes more than 12,000 publications.
Emerging Sources Citation Index (Web of Science Core Collection)
Discover new insights from research emanating from emerging countries while making connections to the broader research landscape for a more complete global picture.
Historical Abstracts
Indexes and abstracting for 2,000+ international historical journals, including several key political science titles.
JSTOR
Provides full-text access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in a range of subjects, including over 100 political science journals (delay in coverage generally 3-5 years).
Periodicals Index Online: PIO
Multidisciplinary index to over 6,000 journals. An excellent resource for finding primary sources, with complete runs of titles indexed (up to 1995). Database Guide.
Project MUSE
Complete, full-text access to over 400 high quality, peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals, from over 120 publishers, including many university presses and scholarly societies.
ProQuest Central
Full-text of articles from more than 6,000 journals. Also indexes more than 10,000 publications.
Scopus
Scopus is an abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed literature, with selected coverage of social sciences journals, books and conference proceedings. Scopus also features tools to track, analyze and visualize research. Database Help Guide.

These databases specialise in listing articles published in NZ publications. The full-text is not always available, but you can use the information in the citation/reference to track down a copy. Use Library Search | Ketu to see if we hold the journal/newspaper the article was published in, then browse by year, volume, issue, page number to find a copy of the article.

Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre
A full text collection including leading regional and international newspapers, magazines, journals, reference books, and biographies. Also includes photos, maps, flags & video.
findNZarticles
Provides access to New Zealand content, including material by or about New Zealanders, from a range of New Zealand newspapers and journals.
Index New Zealand
Indexes the content of NZ and Pacific newspapers, magazines, and academic journals. Useful for finding articles on contemporary NZ and Pacific authors, that may only be available in print. Search Library Search | Ketu for the Source title to find print holdings.
Informit Complete
Search across all of the Informit databases in a single search, including: Families & Society Collection, Humanities & Social Sciences Collection, Indigenous Collection, and the Literature & Culture Collection.
Informit NZ Collection
Access to full text New Zealand content relating to arts, business, education, environment and conservation, family studies, sociology, Indigenous and Maori peoples, law and music.
New Zealand Index
An index of key New Zealand databases including: Index New Zealand, INZART, Woman's Weekly Index, Newspaper Index 1989-2003, Newzindex and the NZ Herald Classified Personals Index.
Newztext
Archive of full-text articles from many key NZ news and business publications. Newztext is both a research tool and a long-term archive and is updated daily. Produced by The Knowledge Basket, with contributions from publishers.

China Academic Journals - Politics/Military Affairs/Law (Series G) - English
A searchable full-text and full-image interdisciplinary Chinese journals database. Series G covers the subject areas of politics, military affairs, and law, and includes academic journal titles. Requires Adobe Acrobat reader (for assistance installing Chinese fonts contact its.servicedesk@otago.ac.nz).