Subject and Research Guides: Politics & International Relations: Databases & Journals

Key databases for Australia, US, & Global Politics

Analysis and Policy Observatory (APO) This link opens in a new window
Open access knowledge hub and information service providing easy access to policy and practice research and resources.
APAFT (Australian Public Affairs Full Text) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to sources on Australia's political, economic and social affairs.
AURIN This link opens in a new window
An initiative of the Australian Government under the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS), to drive research into Australia’s urban settlements as complex systems in which human behaviour, production and consumption unfold within definable demographic, social, economic and environmental parameters.
CINCH : Australian criminology database This link opens in a new window
Produced by the Australian Institute of Criminology, this database indexes and abstracts articles from published and unpublished material on all aspects of crime and criminal justice.
Factiva This link opens in a new window
Provides full text access to news items from a wide range of international sources and key websites.
GreenFILE This link opens in a new window
Focuses on the relationship between human beings and the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles include content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done on each level to minimise negative impact.
MAIS : multicultural Australia and immigration studies This link opens in a new window
Provides access to indexes and abstracts from a wide range of media from published and unpublished material on Australian immigration and multicultural issues.
Passport This link opens in a new window
Access to Euromonitor's reference and source data covering countries and consumer markets and includes historical statistics (from 1977) and forecasts, information sources, brand and company information, and full-text market analysis.
Reason in revolt : source documents of Australian radicalism This link opens in a new window
Brings together primary source documents of Australian radicalism in the 20th century.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Multisubject full text database for over 4,450 scholarly publications including more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Almost all academic areas of study are covered with some coverage extending back to 1975.
Cambridge Histories Online - Global History This link opens in a new window
Covers World History (prehistory to present day), WWI and WW2, the Cold War, Capitalism, Communism, Food, Judaism, Human Disease, Medical Ethics, Science and Slavery.
Digital National Security Archive This link opens in a new window
Contains many of the declassified United States government documents that led to policy decisions.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.
The Diplomat: read the Diplomat, know the Asia-Pacific This link opens in a new window
Dedicated to quality analysis and commentary on events occurring in Asia and around the world.
Janes Group This link opens in a new window
Specialises in country risk analysis, defence, intelligence, military capabilities, security and terrorism.
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public international Law This link opens in a new window
Searchable online edition of the Encyclopedia of public international law.
Middle East and Africa: a Reference Corporation world studies database This link opens in a new window
Provides area coverage (especially for political development, social development, foreign policy, economic development, investment, oil and petrochemicals, trade and technological industries) for the Middle East, North Africa, the Sahel and the Horn of Africa, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Arabs, Iranians, Turks and Africans worldwide, including in Europe and North and South America.
Military Balance + This link opens in a new window
Provides information about the military capabilities and defence economics of over 170 countries worldwide, including analysis and data sets.
Political Extremism and Radicalism in the Twentieth Century This link opens in a new window
Covers a wide range of fringe political movements.
Secret Files from World Wars to Cold Wars 1873 to 1953 This link opens in a new window
Sourced from The National Archives, U.K., covers the period of Appeasement right through to the early Cold War, from signals intelligence reports to government-directed policy and strategy.
Socialism on Film: the Cold War and International Propaganda This link opens in a new window
Collection of films from the communist world reveals war, history, current affairs, culture and society as seen through the socialist lens. Spans most of the twentieth century and covers countries such as the USSR, Vietnam, China, Korea, much of Eastern Europe, the GDR, Britain and Cuba.
US Intelligence on Asia 1945-1991 This link opens in a new window
Declassified documentary records about the successes and failures of the U.S. intelligence community in the Far East during the Cold War (1945-1991).
World development indicators This link opens in a new window
Provides a comprehensive selection of economic, social and environmental indicators, drawing on data from the World Bank and more than 30 partner agencies.

Analysis and Policy Observatory (APO) This link opens in a new window
Open access knowledge hub and information service providing easy access to policy and practice research and resources.
GlobaLex This link opens in a new window
Contains information and articles representing both research and teaching resources used by legal academics, practitioners and other specialists around the world in foreign, international, and comparative law research.
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Provides access to full text legal journals, reviews, books, cases, statutes, etc. predominantly published in North America.

Juriglobe
A research group on the world’s legal systems within the University of Ottawa’s Faculty of Law.

Lexis This link opens in a new window
Covers primary and secondary legal materials in all areas of law, focussing on United States law, but with substantial international (including Australian) coverage.
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public international Law This link opens in a new window
Searchable online edition of the Encyclopedia of public international law.
Thomson Reuters Westlaw This link opens in a new window
Provides access to case law, statutes, administrative materials, annotated reports, law reviews, current affairs, etc from Hong Kong, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, European Union.

World Bank documents & reports
World Bank documents made available to the public to better share the institution's knowledge base and to implement the access to information policy.

WorldLII : World Legal Information Institute This link opens in a new window
Provides access to a wealth of legal resources.

Key databases for Social Sciences

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Multisubject full text database for over 4,450 scholarly publications including more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Almost all academic areas of study are covered with some coverage extending back to 1975.
Analysis and Policy Observatory (APO) This link opens in a new window
Open access knowledge hub and information service providing easy access to policy and practice research and resources.
Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
Covers more than 45 scientific disciplines. Editorial committees comprised of the most distinguished scholars in the discipline select all topics for review, and the articles are written by authors who are recognized experts in the field.
APAFT (Australian Public Affairs Full Text) This link opens in a new window
Provides access to sources on Australia's political, economic and social affairs.
Humanities & Social Sciences Collection This link opens in a new window
Content from a range of peer reviewed journals, monographs and books, conference proceedings, research papers and reference materials sourced and indexed by RMIT Publishing.
Indigenous Australia This link opens in a new window
Source documents from the ATSIC Library include Commonwealth gazettes, media/press releases, speeches and conference papers, pamphlets, booklets and ephemera, book chapters, journal and newspaper articles, Hansard, cases and judgments, books, reports, conference proceedings, theses and videos.
Indigenous Collection This link opens in a new window
International Indigenous research resources with content on both historical and topical issues within indigenous studies.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) This link opens in a new window
Indexes research from over 105 countries in 95 different languages. Coverage is provided in the core social sciences disciplines of economics, sociology, politics and anthropology.
OECD iLibrary This link opens in a new window
Country reports and tables, outlooks and annuals, journals and newsletters, book series, legal and reference materials, and statistical databases issued by OECD.
Trove This link opens in a new window
Material digitised by the National Library of Australia, including historical newspapers and unpublished historical records.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.

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