Resources for Policy & Analysis
- Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)Provides searchable access to the full-text of working papers and conference proceedings from 45 leading research centers in the field of international policy and scholarship. CIAO also provides abstracts from key foreign policy journals, etc.
- PAIS InternationalProvides access to periodical articles, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, Internet resources, and other publications. Many of the citations include abstracts and full-text links.
- PolicyFile IndexProvides access to major think tanks, research organizations, and university research programs. Contains information on a complete range of policy issues, both domestic and international.
- Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)The Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences.
- Worldwide Political Science AbstractsScholarly articles within the political science discipline and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.
Area Studies Databases
- Bibliography of Asian StudiesBibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) is the most comprehensive Western-language database for research on East, Southeast and South Asia. It covers all subjects with special focus on the humanities and social sciences. All entries are searchable by author, title, year of publication, subject, country, keyword and ISSN.
- Index Islamicus. 1665- .The Index Islamicus covers Islam, the Middle East and the Muslim world. It is produced by the Islamic Bibliography Unit of the Cambridge University Library and indexes articles back to 1906.
- Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI). 1970- .Provides access to scholarship on Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States: citations to articles, book reviews, documents, literary works, etc.
- Africa-Wide InformationOffers multidisciplinary information and provides the opportunity to search across 40 integrated databases sourced worldwide. Combining South African Studies and African Studies, NiPAD provides access to two million records with full-text links.
- Middle East and Africa DatabaseThe Middle East and Africa Database (or MIDA) is a bibliographic and full-text database that 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. This is the electronic version of Middle East, Abstracts & Index.
