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Politics and International Studies: Journals

Politics: Journals

Finding online articles

Google Scholar

Google iconGoogle Scholar is an academic search engine which indexes books, journal articles, and other scholarly materials. It is multidisciplinary, with a good coverage of economics, although with some US bias. It includes links to full-text documents including open access materials. To improve access, set Library Links to University of Warwick in the Settings. Google Scholar also includes citation information and allows you to find related literature.

Web Bridge

Library databases will often show a link to the PDF or full text of the article which you can download or print. However, there may be occasions where the full text is not available from within the particular database you are searching

In this case you will need to click on the WebBridge link or icon webbridge icon

 

Journal Databases

Journals and journal articles can be found using Library Search, however it does not discover content on all politics databases, so journal  or bibliographic databases are preferred for literature searching. Journal databases index and abstract articles in specific journals. Some databases are general and index journals across a range of disciplines, and others are subject specific.

Journal databases are not always full-text: some will include the full-text article, but others will provide an abstract  (summary) only. If journal articles are not available, the library has a document supply service via Get it For Me.  Some  journal databases provide citation information, which allows researcher to measure the usage and impact of articles in their research field, and to find related academic literature.

 

Key Journal Databases

  Worldwide Political Science Abstracts  for political science, international relations, law, sociology, economics and public policy. 

 

 

 International Political Science Abstracts for political science, political sociology, political psychology and international relations. 

  

 

Scopus is a multidisciplinary database which indexes journals with high impact across sciences and social sciences.

 


Use our full database list to explore databases by subject or material type.

Overton

Overton logoOverton is a grey literature database including public policy documents, guidelines, think tank reports and working papers. Use it to find public policy documents on a topic and to find research impact, including the citation of academic publications, researchers and institutions. [Login with your @warwick.ac.uk email address]

Get It For Me

Documents on a shelf

For journal articles not available in the library, use our document supply service to request digitisation of articles from our print journals, and to copies of journal articles using inter-library loan.

Get It For Me