LibGuides: Politics: Journals & Databases

Highly Recommended Databases

IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences This link opens in a new window
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.
Social Science Database (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
A definitive resource for those who need access to a variety of scientific journals. Subject coverage includes: Anthropology, Communication science, Demography, Economics, Human services, Political science, Policy studies, Psychology, and Sociology.
Religion & Philosophy Collection This link opens in a new window
An indexing and abstracting database with some full-text coverage of journals in a range of subjects, including political philosophy.

Multidisciplinary Databases

Google Scholar (off-campus access only) This link opens in a new window
Academic OneFile (Gale Cengage) This link opens in a new window
Peer-reviewed, full-text articles from journals and reference sources. Covers a range of subjects, including Politics.
Academic Search Complete (via EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Provides indexing and abstracting for more than 10,000 journals, with full-text coverage for more than 6.000 titles. Covers a wide range of areas of academic study from the sciences to the arts.
Historical Abstracts (via EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Historical coverage of the world from 1450+ (excluding US & Canada). Leading bibliography for historical study in the world with 2,000+ international journals.
Historical coverage of the world from 1450+ (excluding US & Canada). HA is the leading bibliography for historical study in the world with 2,000+ international journals. Researchers in history, multicultural studies, sociology, psychology, gender studies, religion, interdisciplinary studies, anthropology, political science, economics, business, education, music, art and law will find HA indispensable.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to back issues (delay in coverage generally 3-5 years) of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences. The Library's access includes all Arts & Sciences Collections, the Life Sciences Collection, Business IV, and the Ireland Collection.
Periodicals Index Online: PIO This link opens in a new window
PIO is an international index to millions of articles published in over 6,000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences as far back as 1665. Every article in each journal is indexed, from volume 1 issue 1 to recent times. Includes periodicals in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish, and other Western languages.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to over 400 high quality, peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals from over 100 scholarly publishers.
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window
A leading electronic database providing indexing/abstracting and full-text access to scholarly and general interest publications. It combines information from a number of leading online databases with subjects covering: business, law, education, computing, science, technology, engineering, arts, medicine, and religion.

Aotearoa New Zealand Databases

Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre This link opens in a new window
Combines Australia and New Zealand specific magazines, newspapers & newswires, reference books, and company information to create a collection of regional full text content available to schools,...
findNZarticles This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
New Zealand database for general interest material, social research, current affairs, and the arts and humanities. Updated daily, INNZ provides citation access to articles published in New Zealand and South Pacific newspapers and journals from 1987 to the present.
Informit Complete This link opens in a new window
Includes access to the followings databases: Humanities & Social Sciences Collection, Health Collection, Engineering Collection, Business Collection, Australian Public Affairs - Full Text, AGIS Plus Text, A+ Education, as well as Informit Indexes (over 70). Provides access to core and unique research from Australia, New Zealand and the wider Asia Pacific region.
New Zealand Index This link opens in a new window
An index of key New Zealand databases including: Index Auckland, New Zealand Card Index, Bibliography of Published NZ Family Histories, NZ Herald Classified Personals, Index New Zealand, INZART Index, Manukau's Journey, Newzindex, Newspaper Index, NZ Science, and NZ Woman's Weekly Index.
Newztext This link opens in a new window
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 Databases

China Academic Journals - Politics/Military Affairs/Law (Series G) - English This link opens in a new window
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).
China Academic Journals - Literature/History/Philosophy (Series F) - English This link opens in a new window

Database help

Electronic Access Help
If you have any queries about our electronic resources (databases, e-journals or e-books), please contact the library using the form on this web page.
Interloan Service
The Interloan service enables library users request items not held within the University of Otago Libraries. Articles, books, or book chapters are sent to us from other libraries across Australia and New Zealand.
Scan Request
This video shows how to request a PDF scan of a book section or print journal from any Otago library.

Search Advice for Politics
A PDF with searching techniques that can be used in different databases, and a list of relevant Otago Library services.

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