Databases for Peace & Conflict Studies
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For the most up-to-date list of databases, please go to the Find Database function of Brandeis Scholar.
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Key Databases
- Social Sciences Abstracts
- Indexes and abstracts articles in over 550 international, English-language social science journals, 1983 to present
- SocINDEX with Full Text
- Indexes and abstracts journal articles in sociology and includes the full text for a select number of titles, 1895 to present
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
- Covers journals/serials in political science and its complementary fields. Includes international relations, law, and public administration policy. 1975 to present
Additional Databases
- Alternative Press Index
- Covers cultural, economic, political and social change from approximately 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. 1991 to present
- PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)
- Indexes over 1400 journals, books, and government documents on public policy aspects of business, economics, government and other social science topics, 1972 to present
- PsycINFO
- Indexes journal literature, books, dissertations and reports in psychology, 1887 to present
Multidisciplinary Databases
- InfoTrac Web
- Indexes and provides full text to thousands of journals and magazines in all fields, including academic disciplines, business, and health, 1980 to present
- JSTOR
- Indexes and provides full-text to the older issues of over 100 scholarly journal titles from most disciplines, 1800s to the recent 2-5 years
- LexisNexis Academic
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- Provides full-text news, business, industry and legal information
- Project Muse
- Full text access to over 160 journal titles, the bulk of which are produced by university presses
- Web of Science (multidisciplinary)
- Indexes over 11,000 scholarly journals in the sciences (1945 to present) and the social sciences (1956 to present) and the arts and humanities (1975 to present). Unique feature allows access to the indexed articles' cited references (i.e. the bibliographies or reference list). Enables the researcher to see the relationships between the older cited references and the current work
