Politics: Journals & Databases

From Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Asia and the West features a range of primary source collections related to international relations between Asian countries and the West during the 19th century. Topics covered include British and U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy; Asian political, economic, and social affairs; the Philippine Insurrection, the Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, and missionary activities in Asia. Documents were sourced from The National Archives, Kew, The National Archives, United States, and other international collections.

From Nineteenth Century Collections Online, British Politics and Society includes tens of thousands of primary sources related to the political climate in Great Britain during the 19th century. Topics covered include British domestic and foreign policy, the working class, trade unions, Chartism, utopian socialism, public protest, radical movements, the cartographic record, political reform, education, family relationships, religion, and leisure. Consisting of more than 1.7 million pages, collections are from a variety of institutions, including the British Library, Oxford University and The National Archives, Kew.

This database offers international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics and current events. Issue and country portals are continuously updated and bring together a variety of relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental, health and cultural issues. Multimedia is included in each portal.

Access to information from Hansard, the Official Report of debates in Parliament. More recent parliamentary publications are available from the Parliament Website.

This database gives users access to leading political science and international relations journals, providing full-text of many core titles indexed in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. In addition, recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics are included, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country profiles, political news and other sources.

Hansard (Speeches), Oral Questions, and Written Questions. Hansard and the Written Questions from 1987 onwards are included, and Oral Questions from 1995 onwards.

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.

Search the New Zealand National Union Catalogue for items held in libraries throughout New Zealand.

A complete searchable copy of every issue of the Economist from 1843 to 2011. The Economist delivers reports of international political, business, scientific, technological and cultural developments, with dispatches from all over the world. The archive includes full-colour images, multiple search indexes, exportable financial tables, a gallery of front covers, supplements, special reports and surveys.

Access to a wide range of global and NZ news and business information content from more than 28,000 sources, from 157 countries in 23 languages.

A full-text archive of many of New Zealand's key news, business and industry publications.

Provides real-time resources through recorded TV programmes, live streams and on demand videos. First-time users must register: select University of Otago, use University staff or student email address only, password will be sent to email. Thereafter login requires registered email address/password.

A streaming service that provides access to video content sourced from leading suppliers. The Library subscribes to a selection of titles from this collection.

The videos in this collection include films, documentaries and investigative journalism series that delve into critical issues of the day, linking together politics and current affairs and examining them within a larger social, economic and cultural backdrop.