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  | Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) A multidisciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals. This database also offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. |
| Factiva Access to a wide range of global and NZ news and business information content from more than 35,000 sources, from 200 countries in 26 languages. |
| IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences The IBSS database includes over two million bibliographic references to journal articles and books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. It focuses on anthropology, economics, politics and sociology with broad coverage of international material from 100 countries and in 60 languages. |
| Index New Zealand New Zealand database for general interest material, social research, current affairs, and the arts and humanities. Updated daily, INNZ provides citation access to articles published in New Zealand and South Pacific newspapers and journals from 1987 to the present. |
| Newztext Plus (Knowledge Basket) An archive of the full text of many of New Zealand's key news and business publications. |
| ProQuest Central A leading electronic database providing indexing/abstracting and full-text access to scholarly and general interest publications. It combines information from a number of leading online databases with subjects covering: business, law, education, computing, science, technology, engineering, arts, medicine, and religion. |
Politics - additional resources
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| Academic OneFile Provides indexing/abstracting for over 12,500 journals and reference sources; over 5,000 in full-text and more than 7,300 peer-reviewed. Coverage includes the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. |
| Academic Video Online: VAST (Alexander Street Press) Academic Video Online cross-searches a package of video collections in 21 disciplines. The VAST content is growing steadily and will include access to 20,000 videos. |
| Annual Reviews & Annual Reviews Backfile Provides searchable abstracts and full-text access to analytic reviews in disciplines within the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social sciences. |
| Area Studies Video Online (Alexander Street Press) The collection covers Middle Eastern studies, Latin American, African, Eastern European, Asian, and other global communities. It includes films focused on cultural, political, and socioeconomic issues and provides an interdisciplinary resource for every region of the world. |
| Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange (NCCO) From Nineteenth Century Collections Online, Asia and the West features a range of primary source collections related to international relations between Asian countries and the West during the 19th century. Topics covered include British and U.S. foreign policy and diplomacy; Asian political, economic, and social affairs; the Philippine Insurrection, the Opium Wars, the Boxer Rebellion, and missionary activities in Asia. Documents were sourced from The National Archives, Kew, The National Archives, United States, and other international collections. |
| British Politics and Society (NCCO) From Nineteenth Century Collections Online, British Politics and Society includes tens of thousands of primary sources related to the political climate in Great Britain during the 19th century. Topics covered include British domestic and foreign policy, the working class, trade unions, Chartism, utopian socialism, public protest, radical movements, the cartographic record, political reform, education, family relationships, religion, and leisure. Consisting of more than 1.7 million pages, collections are from a variety of institutions, including the British Library, Oxford University and The National Archives, Kew. |
| Cambridge Histories Online Full text online access to the complete volumes of Cambridge Histories reference series. Provides political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature of selected countries and subjects. |
| China Academic Journals Full-text Database - Politics/Military Affairs/Law (Series G) A searchable full-text and full-image interdisciplinary Chinese journals database. Series G covers the subject areas of politics, military affairs, and law, and includes academic journal titles. Requires Adobe Acrobat reader (for assistance installing Chinese fonts contact its.servicedesk@otago.ac.nz). |
| Country Statistics Database Part of the Ovum Knowledge Center, this resource contains both historical and forecast macro-economic, socio-economic, and demographic data for 215 countries and 47 geo-political groupings world wide. First-time users must register using their "otago.ac.nz" email address. Log-in to the Ovum Knowledge Centre, click on My Information, Search by region under Geographies, locate Countries in the left menu bar, OR search for a topic then click Countries; then search the In-Depth Country Statistics database. |
| Current Affairs in Video (Alexander Street Press) A collection of issue-based documentaries from around the world. Covering Immigration and Border Studies, Middle East Studies, Urban Studies, Political Science, Globalization, and Human Rights, the films focus on the key issues and events of recent global history. |
| Current Contents Connect (Web of Knowledge) Multidisciplinary, current awareness database of articles as they are published. Provides access to the table of contents and bibliographic data from 8000+ leading scholarly research journals and book. |
 | DagDok : Guide to UN Documentation Presents an overview of the various types of documents and publications issued by the United Nations and provides guidance on how to work with them, linking you to the official webpages of the United Nations and to the online catalogue of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Uppsala - a specialised library in the fields of United Nations studies, international relations, peace and conflict research, and political science. |
| Digital National Security Archive Declassified government documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. 38 collections, each focused on a single topic, consisting of over 94,000 indexed documents, with more than 650,000 total pages. Each collection covers the most critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post World War II through the 21st century. |
| Encyclopedia of Political Science Traces the evolution of political theories, concepts, research frameworks, and political practices from across the world. It examines the interplay of political ideas and processes to convey the vitality and excitement of politics in practice. |
| Encyclopedia of Violence, Peace, and Conflict Provides information about antagonism and reconciliation in all contexts of public and personal life and is a reference resource for peace and conflict resolution studies. The Encyclopedia covers topics such as: arms control, peace movements, child abuse, folklore, terrorism and political assassinations. |
| eTV Provides real-time resources through recorded TV programmes, live streams and on demand videos. First-time users must register: select University of Otago, use University staff or student email address (otago.ac.nz) only, username/password will be sent to your email. Thereafter, login requires that username/password. Note: It is recommended that eTV is accessed using Firefox. |
| Europa World Plus Economic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of 250+ countries and global regions. Europa World Plus brings the renowned The Europa World Year Book and the nine Europa Regional Surveys of the World to the Web as a dynamic online database. |
| GreenFILE (EBSCOhost) A database covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records. |
| Hansard (Knowledge Basket) Searchable access to three collections: Hansard (Speeches), Oral Questions, and Written Questions. Hansard and the Written Questions from 1987 onwards are included, and Oral Questions from 1995 onwards. |
| Historical Abstracts (EBSCOhost) Historical coverage of the world from 1450+ (excluding US & Canada). Leading bibliography for historical study in the world with 2,000+ international journals. |
| Informit Humanities & Social Sciences Collection Covers agriculture, arts, Asian studies, business, cultural studies, education, history, indigenous studies, law, media, political science, reference, social sciences, science and technology. Content sources include peer reviewed journals, monographs and books, conference proceedings, research papers and reference materials sourced and indexed by RMIT Publishing. |
| International Encyclopedia of Political Science A comprehensive picture of all aspects of political life, recognising the theoretical and cultural pluralism of the approaches and including findings from all parts of the world. It cover every field of politics, from political theory and methodology to political sociology, comparative politics, public policies, and international relations. |
| ISN (International Relations and Security Network) Run by the Center for Security Studies (CSS) at ETH Zurich, the ISN is an independent source of comprehensive and relevant news and analyses on security issues, providing free access to online publications, interactive learning content, and annotated links to specialized websites relevant to international relations and security. |
| JSTOR Provides full-text access to back issues (delay in coverage generally 3-5 years) of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields of the humanities, social sciences, and life sciences. The Library's access includes all Arts & Sciences Collections, the Life Sciences Collection, and the Ireland Collection. |
| National Archives The UK government's official archive, containing over 1,000 years of history. They provide detailed guidance to government departments and the public sector on information management and advise others about the care of historical archives. |
| National Business Review 24/7 The NBR 24/7 website has been designed to provide a specialist business and finance news service updated on an hourly basis. Users may need to click on “Member Login” at the top right of the screen for access to subscriber only content. If a Login screen appears, click the "Log in" button and do not enter a username/password. The content can also be accessed via the link “to continue reading you must login…” |
| Oxford Scholarship Online Cross-searchable library containing full text of over 1,900 Oxford books in the areas of Economics and Finance, History, Law, Linguistics, Literature, Philosophy, Political Science, Psychology, and Religion. Specially-commissioned abstracts and keywords are available at book and chapter level. |
| Parliamentary Papers Contains Parliamentary papers presented to the House & ordered to be published during this Parliament. |
| Past Masters (InteLex) Definitive editions of the writings of key philosophers, including published and unpublished works, articles and essays, and correspondence. Our access includes: Aristotle's Complete Works, British Philosophy 1600-1900 (Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, George Berkeley, David Hume, Francis Bacon, Jeremy Bentham, Edmund Burke, Anne Conway, John Stuart Mill, David Ricardo, Henry Sidgwick, Adam Smith), the Continental Rationalists (Rene Descartes, Benedict de Spinoza, Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz), Søren Kierkegaard's Samlede Værkerand, Locke's Philosophical Works and Select Correspondence, and Yeat's Collected Letters. |
| Periodicals Archive Online Foundation Collection (ProQuest) The PAO Foundation Collection is an archive of 215 digitised academic journals published in the arts, humanities and social sciences. Coverage is from first issue to the end of 2000, or final issue (whichever is first). |
| Philosopher's Index (OvidSP) The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language. |
| Project MUSE Full-text access to over 400 high quality, peer-reviewed humanities and social sciences journals from over 100 scholarly publishers. |
| ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I A collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, from 1743 to the present day. Where available, the database includes a 24-page preview. Dissertations published since July 1980 include a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. |
| ProQuest Research Library Provides access to full-text periodicals from a broad general reference database. Search from a diversified mix of scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines covering over 150 academic disciplines. |
| ProQuest Social Science Journals A definitive resource for those who need access to a variety of scientific journals. Subject coverage includes: Anthropology, Communication science, Demography, Economics, Human services, Political science, Policy studies, Psychology, and Sociology. |
| Sage Encyclopedia of Terrorism (Second edition) A comprehensive and complete presentation of the terrorist environment in the post-9/11 era. |
| Social Science Research Network (SSRN) SSRN is composed of a number of specialised research networks in each of the social sciences. It includes an Abstract Database containing abstracts for over 273,200 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 224,300 full-text documents. |
| Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Knowledge) A multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences. It fully indexes over 1,950 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines. It also indexes individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. |
| Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy Includes entries on such topics as democracy, civil rights, quantum mechanics, consciousness, voluntary euthanasia, and on many other topics important to the human condition, all freely available. Each refereed entry is maintained and kept up to date by an expert or group of experts in the field. |
| Taylor & Francis Online Collection of full text journals (1400+) in humanities, social sciences, science and technology from Taylor & Francis, Routledge and Psychology Press, including access to back issues from 1997 where available. |
| Te Puna Search the National Bibliographic Database for items held in libraries throughout New Zealand. |
| UPCC Book Collections (Project MUSE) Project MUSE ebooks cover a variety of subjects from noted university presses and scholarly publishers on an annual basis. 2012 collections available are Archaeology and Anthropology; Film, Theater and Performing Arts; Global Cultural Studies; Higher Education; History; Literature; Philosophy and Religion; Poetry, Fiction and Creative Non-Fiction; Political Science and Policy Studies. |
| VAST: Academic Video Online (Alexander Street Press) A package of video collections in 21 disciplines accessible through the Academic Video Online cross-search. VAST is growing steadily and will include access to 20,000 videos. |
| Wiley-Blackwell journals Full text of 1500 leading scientific, technical, medical, social science and business journals published by Wiley. |
| World Development Indicators (WDI) & Global Development Finance (GDF) World Development Indicators (WDI) is the primary World Bank database for development data from officially-recognized international sources. Global Development Finance (GDF) provides external debt and financial flows statistics for countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt under the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System (DRS). |
