Library Political Science 208

• Discover: Start here for books, articles & more
  Simultaneously search research databases plus the Five Colleges Libraries Catalog to find full-text articles, books and more.
• China Academic Journals (1994 to present)
  Full-text articles from 7,200 journals in mainland China, including core journals and specialty journals. Amherst has a full-text subscription to the Humanities portion. (Chinese interface)
• ChinaMaxx (1939 to present)
  Chinese e-book collection that works with Internet Explorer and Google Chrome. First 17 pages display for free. Users can click on the recommend button to ask the library to buy the full text. Click on the box to the right of the search box to browse and/or search the full collection.
• EconLit with Full Text (1969 to present)
  From the American Economic Association -- the foremost source of references to economic literature.
• Education Database (ProQuest) (1988 to present)
  Coverage spans the literature on primary, secondary and higher education as well as special education, home schooling and adult education.
• Environment Complete
  A full-text database covering environmental studies, ecology, energy, urban planning, and affiliated areas of study.
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) (1951 to present)
  Indexes about 3,000 journals and 7,000 books per year.
• PAIS Index (1972 to present)
  Coverage of articles, selected books, government documents, research reports, etc., from a wide range of social sciences.
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (1975 to present)
  Covers international journals in political science and its complementary fields.
• Political Science Database (ProQuest) (1985 to present)
  Full-text articles from leading political science and international relations journals.

Useful Databases at UMass Amherst Library

OECD I-Library

OECD iLibrary contains all the publications and datasets released by OECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development), International Energy Agency (IEA), Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA), OECD Development Centre, PISA (Programme for International Student Assessment), and International Transport Forum (ITF) since 1998. 

EIU Country Reports Online
Reports on current economic, political and market conditions in 200 countries. Includes 12-18 month macroeconomic forecasts.

Example policy briefs:

Brookings Policy Brief Series

Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy

• Opposing Viewpoints in Context (Gale)
  Integrates scholarly, academic, and statistical content from a variety of sources to provide differing points of view on current social issues.

• Access World News (Newsbank) (date coverage varies)
  Electronic editions of over 2,600 local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as 1,500 international sources. Fully searchable and browsable by map.
• Global Newsstream (ProQuest)
  Search the most recent global news, including major US dailies, with archives that stretch back into the 1980s from over 2,700 news sources that include newspapers, newswires, television and radio transcripts, blogs, and more in full-text format.
• Historical Newspapers (ProQuest)
  Combined search of the historic Boston Globe, Chicago Defender, Chinese Newspapers Collection, Hartford Courant, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, New York Times, South China Morning Post, Times of India, and Washington Post.
• Historical Chinese Newspapers (ProQuest)
  English-language newspapers published in China. It spans 1832-1953, with most content from 1910-1940.

• China Statistical Yearbooks (1949 to present)
  Digital repository of statistical and census data published officially by the mainland Chinese government.
• China Data Online
  Includes monthly and yearly reports on national, regional, and local macro-economics, as well as statistical yearbooks and census data.

Governments on the WWW: China (People's Republic)

Governments on the WWW: China (Republic)

United Nations and Civil Society Database

United Nations Bibliographic Information System (UNBISNET)

Catalogue of United Nations(UN) documents and publications indexed by the UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva. Also included are commercial publications and other non-UN sources held in the collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. The coverage of UNBISnet is from 1979 onward, however, older documents are being added to the catalogue on a regular basis as a result of retrospective conversion. 

United Nations documents research guides

About UN Document Symbols