Political Science

With coverage from 1991 to the present, CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) is a very useful resource for theory and research in international affairs. In addition to journals and policy briefs, CIAO provides access to conference proceedings, working papers and, Non-Governmental Organization papers.

International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA), produced since 1951 by the International Political Science Association, is a bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts articles from periodicals published throughout the world. The abstracts summarize the source articles.

PAIS covers public policy,social policy and the social sciences. The database cites scholarly and popular journal articles, books, government documents, committee reports and directories.

ABSEES provides access to journal articles, books, dissertations, some government publications and online resources that are published in Canada and the United States on Russia, the former Soviet Union, East and Central Europe.

EBSEES lists books, journal articles, reviews and theses on Eastern Europe (formerly Communist countries) published in the eight countries of Western Europe: France, England, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland, and Switzerland. It includes documents from all these countries, whether published in that country’s language or in the languages of the countries studied.