Politics & International Relations

For a general search across multiple databases, search Summon.

Individual databases offer a more detailed comprehensive search.  Those most relevant to your subject area have been selected below. For guidance on more specific types of information, such as Market Research, Raw Data, Standards and Patents, please see the links on our Research page.

Access to these e-resources is restricted to the students and staff of Brunel University for licensing and technical reasons. Some licence agreements may exclude access to databases and their contents from certain countries. It is your responsibility to comply with the terms and conditions of the relevant licence agreements - for more information see the copyright web page on databases - contact copyright@brunel.ac.uk if you have any questions.

Academic Search Complete

Contains full text articles from over 5,000 journals, covering many subjects, including anthropology, politics, political science, psychology, psychiatry, sociology and social work.

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British Newspapers 1600-1900

British Newspapers 1600-1900 is the most significant digital collection of British historic newspapers. New conservation and imaging techniques and a new cross-searchable platform adopted by the British Library offers unparalleled access and discoverability to this valuable historical and cultural archive. In addition one will find specially commissioned essays and contextual materials written by expert scholars intended to help non-specialist users with perspective and analysis. (Gale NewsVault is the new interface, see alternative link).

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Burney Collection

The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media. The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India.

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Cambridge Journals Online

Cambridge Journals Online provides full text access for over two hundred journals published by Cambridge University Press in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Also available: access to Cambridge Journals Digital Archive (bought by JISC Collections) comprising 171 journals.

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Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports, JISC Collections Selection

The JISC selection of the FBIS Daily Report includes a wealth of transcripts of broadcasts and news from around the world translated into English. The collection covers the period 1974–1996 in the Middle East and North Africa, South Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and Eastern Europe.

FT.com

FT.com is an essential source of breaking news, comment, data analysis and research tools. The Financial Times, one of the world’s leading business news and information organisations, provides access to news and analysis covering global business, finance, politics and much more. FT content supports a range of disciplines from accounting and international relations to economics and management. First time users: on campus use the Access Manager pop-up to register for access using your Brunel University email address to create a unique username and password (off campus users should follow this special FT registration link).

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

JISC Collections has licensed the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) in perpetuity and this is now freely available to all UK universities. The collection contains bibliographic records and searchable full text for papers printed between 1701-2003.

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IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, from 1951 to date on the new ProQuest integrated platform (this has the option to search other databases, too). Coverage includes Anthropology, Sociology, Economics and Politics. Some linked full text is available. Updated weekly.

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JSTOR

Archive collections of full text electronic journals from 1880 onwards, always from volume 1, issue 1, and including previous and related titles. The most recently published issues (past 3-5 years) are not available in these collections (unless we hold a current subscription too). The Library subscribes only to the Arts & Sciences I to IX, inclusive, and the Health & General Sciences collections, as well as 19th Century British Pamphlets, a collection, created by RLUK (Research Libraries UK) and the Ireland collection (research materials relating to Ireland, spanning the 18th century to present, provided under the JISC Digitisation Programme). If you have any problem connecting to JSTOR off campus, please use the alternative link below in combination with the AnyConnect VPN Universal service package from the Connect portal.

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Nexis

Full text access to regional, national and international newspapers, business trade journals, company reports and country reports, including Company Dossier. (This database was previously called LexisNexis Business & News).

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Nineteenth Century Newspapers

The 19th Century Newspapers contains full runs of 48 influential national and regional newspapers representing different political and cultural segments of the 19th century British society. It also includes British Newspapers 1600-1900, and the Burney Collection of 17th and 18th century newspapers.

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Oxford English Dictionary

The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is an etymological dictionary which is widely acknowledged as the most comprehensive record of the English language, tracing the evolution and use of more than 600,000 words through 3 million quotations. OED Online gives access to latest text of the full Oxford English Dictionary, the Historical Thesaurus of the OED and enable users new ways to explore the English language:

Search for new words by year, decade, or any date range.
Set language in context: search by place, language type, and date to discover the impact of world events.
OED Online is revised and updated at regular intervals and covers British, American, and other varieties of English, and all types of use, from formal to slang.

Project MUSE

Project MUSE Humanities Collection provides full-text online access to 164 humanities, arts, and social science journals from 60 scholarly publishers as well as links to Project MUSE content from databases such as America: History and life, Historical abstracts and JSTOR.

Regional Business News

Provides full text coverage to regional business news press, predominately covering the United States (New York Times, Washington Post, etc.), but also including some sources from the rest of the world such as the Daily Mail, Evening Standard, Le Monde, and Mail on Sunday.

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Sage

Access to over 220 e-journals published in collections by Sage, with up to 59 years of backfiles where available. Access to another 189 e-journals from 1999 onwards for the titles not included in the collections. A multidisciplinary database, with particular emphasis on the social sciences.

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Scopus

Scopus is the largest ever bibliographic database and indexes over 20,000 titles from science, technology, medicine and the social sciences. This abstract only database is updated daily. Use Article Linker (AL - link to full text) to check for full text online sources.

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Taylor & Francis Journals

Access to the full text articles of over 1200 journals published by Taylor & Francis.

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Web of Knowledge

Indexes journals and conference proceedings in the arts and humanities, social science and science and technology, providing abstracts to the majority, from 1970 to date. This abstract only database is updated weekly. Use Article Linker (AL) to check for full text online sources.

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Wiley Online Library

Full text of most journals published by Wiley. Incorporates Wiley InterScience and Blackwell Synergy.

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When conducting specialist research, Brunel Library may not always stock everything you need. If this happens, you have a number of options:

• Join SCONUL. This scheme will give you access to print resources in other university libraries in the UK and Ireland. More information…
• Find out which university has the book you need. More information…
• Apply for an InterLibrary Loan. More information…

Before you visit another library

If you do plan to visit another library, please check first of all that we do not have the item you need. Advice on using the library can be found on our Finding Resources page. Alternatively, please ask a member of staff at the Helpdesk or contact the Subject Liaison Librarian for your School.

Remember, if the item you need is on a reading list, we will make every effort to purchase this for the Library, so please let us know the details.

Where there are specific libraries of interest for your subject, these will be listed below.

London School of Economics and Political Science

Access: Member of SCONUL Access Scheme. Please note that LSE does not allow full time PG students to borrow.
Address: 10 Portugal Street, London, WC2A 2HD
Tel: +44 (0)20 7955 7229

School of Oriental and African Studies

Good for international economics, collections focus on individual countries of Africa, Asia and the Middle East.

Access: Member of the SCONUL Access Scheme.
Address: University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Tel: +44 (0)20 7637 2388

As well as the resources listed under the Databases and Web Resources tabs of this subject page, we have a number of other resources that could be of relevance to your research, such as:

Newspapers

Market Research

Raw Data

Statistics

Standards

Patents

Additionally, you may wish to refer our general Research page which comprehensively lists all of our Research Resources.

If you need help with using any of these resources, please contact the Subject Liaison Librarian for your School, details of which can be found from the Overview tab.