International Relations
Library Research SourcesE-Resources (available online with a Penn State Access ID)
Armed Conflict Database covers international and internal conflicts, as well as terrorism including data and year-by-year analyses and fact sheets.
CIAO (International Affairs) is a comprehensive source for research in international affairs including books, conference proceedings, and articles from journals, NGOs, aresearch institutes.
CQ Researcher offers a wealth of information on current issues including expert analysis, statistics, related books and articles, pro-con debate, and more.
GPO Access provides free online use of over 1,000 databases of Federal information from the Government Printing Office, including bills, laws, presidential materials the Congressional Record, and much more.
Lexis/Nexis includes Lexis/Nexus Congressional, Primary Sources in U.S. History, Lexis/Nexis State Capital, and Lexis/Nexis Statistical
PolicyFile (Public Policy Research & Analysis) draws its content from public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers.
Political Risk Yearbook gives political and economic risk factors for 06 countries.
Polling the Nations is a searchable database of questions from more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries from 1986 to the present.
Social Science Abstracts indexes journal articles on all aspects of the social sciences, including political science.
SourceOECD (economic policy) offers the full-text of books and serial publications from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. Also includes many of the data sets available from the organization.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts indexes research articles in the fields of political science, international relations, law, and public administration and policy from 1975-to date.
Internet Sites
Penn State University Libraries Social Sciences: International Relations and Comparative Politics
WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs is a huge directory of links by topic on international affairs.
For further information, contact
Judy Sandt, Reference Librarian
jsandt@psu.edu
Penn State Lehigh Valleylast update: October 2005