Selected European International Studies Resources

*360Search
Use 360 Search to search the Rhodes library catalog, selected databases and online journals simultaneously.

Databases
(*Licensed by Rhodes College)

• *America: History and Life
  Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, America: History and Life coverage includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. Over 90% of the articles included are published in English-language journals.  
• *CIAO-Columbia International Affairs Online (1991-  )
  The most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
• *EconLit with Full Text
  Produced by the American Economic Association, this is the world′s foremost source of references to economic literature. Also includes full text for more than 430 journals including titles from the American Economic Association, such as: American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Economic Perspectives. The database contains more than 735,000 records from 1969-present. EconLit covers virtually every area related to economics.
• *Facts.com
  Brings together content from seven core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 20 years. The seven databases are Facts On File World News Digest; Issues and Controversies On File; Today′s Science On File; Editorials On File; Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia; Reuters On-Line News Service; The World Almanac and Book of Facts. FACTS.com also delivers additional special features including maps, photographs, historic documents, and overviews of key issues, newsmakers and events since 1980.
• *FIRST: Facts on International Relations and Security Trends (Sipri)
  Facts on International Relations and Security Trends (FIRST) is a free-of-charge service for politicians, journalists, researchers and the interested public. FIRST is a joint project of the International Relations and Security Network (ISN) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
• *Historical Abstracts
  Your complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). This database is packed with annotated references to information on topics from the Renaissance to Tiananmen Square -- over half a million entries in all.
• *Lexis-Nexis (includes Congressional Universe, Statistical Universe)
  Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. It couples the convenience of the Internet with the power of Lexis-Nexis services so you can quickly and easily retrieve documents that meet your specific research needs.
• *Military and Intelligence Database
   The Military and Intelligence Database periodical list has been hand-selected by Gale editors to meet those content needs. Additionally, the product includes some basic reference materials that are updated annually: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia and the World Almanac and Book of Facts. With more than 500 titles and more than 7 million articles (80% full-text), searchers are sure to find answers to their reference questions.
• PAIS [print Ref Z7164.E2 P34]
• *World News Connection
  An extremely valuable research tool for anyone who needs to monitor non-U.S. media sources, the material in WNC is provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) by the Open Source Center (OSC). Analysts from OSC domestic and overseas bureaus monitor timely and pertinent open-source materials.
• *Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega
  Electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from over 4,000 journals. Coverage back as early as 1982 ensures that every search is as deep as it is broad.

Online Journals
(*Licensed by Rhodes College)

• *SerialsSolutions Index of Online Journals in Law, Politics and Government
• *JSTOR Political Science Journals
• *Blackwell Online Political Science Journals
• EuroNews
• *Nation Digital Archive
  Established July 6, 1865, The Nation offers a 135-year archive of reporting opinion and criticism. It is an immensely important clearinghouse of primary source material covering the history of politics, culture, books and the arts - in America and around the world. The Nation Digital Archive is a fully searchable electronic version of the magazine′s complete backfile.
• *New York Times Digital Image Edition
• *Newsbank
  "A comprehensive, full-text news resource consisting of more than 500 regional, national, and international newspaper and newswire services." This link also access the NewsBank Academic Library Collection, Global Newsbank, Newbank Retrospective, and several individual newspaper titles including digital image editions of Die Welt, El Pais, International Herald Tribune, Le Monde, and the New York Times.
• Online Newspapers.com
• World Newspapers.com
• *Oxford Online Journals
• *Wall Street Journal, 1984-
  The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news.
• *Washington Post (1977-  )
• Directory of Open Access Journals - 3,200 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, many of them searchable at the article level

Online Reference Sources
(*Licensed by Rhodes College)

• *Andromeda Encyclopedic Dictionary of World History
• *Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science
• *Chambers World History
• CIA World Factbook and *Here
• *Companion to British History (Routledge)
• *Concise Atlas of World History (Andromeda)
• *Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics
• *Dictionary of British History
• *Dictionary of Contemporary World History
• *Dictionary of Diplomacy
• *Dictionary of Political Biography
• *Dictionary of Contemporary History - 1945 to the Present
• *Dictionary of British History
• *Dictionary of World History
• *Dynasties of the World 
• *Encyclopedia of World History
• Europa World Yearbook [Print Ref: JN1 .E85}
• *Hutchinson Chronology of World History
• *Online Maps (Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection)
• *Oxford Companion to British History
• *Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World
• *Oxford Companion to World War II
• *Oxford Guide to Countries of the World
• *Oxford Companion to Irish History
• *Oxford Companion to Scottish History
• *Oxford Companion to Military History
• Statesman′s Yearbook [Print Ref: JA51 .S7]
• *Who′s Who in the Twentieth Century

Websites

• BBC
• Central Banks of the World
• CNN: Europe
• Congressional Research Service [CRS] Reports; Open CRS; University of North Texas CRS Reports
• Council of Europe
• Country Indicators for Foreign Policy
  The cross-national data generated through CIFP was intended to have a variety of applications in government departments, NGOs, and by users in the private sector. The data set provides at-a-glance global overviews, issue-based perspectives and country performance measures. Currently, the data set includes measures of domestic armed conflict, governance and political instability, militarization, religious and ethnic diversity, demographic stress, economic performance, human development, environmental stress, and international linkages.
• Country Links-Europe (DMOZ)
  The Open Directory Project is the largest, most comprehensive human-edited directory of the Web. It is constructed and maintained by a vast, global community of volunteer editors.
• Country Profiles (UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office)
• Country Studies (Library of Congress)
  This Web site contains the online versions of books previously published (1988-98) in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored by the U.S. Department of the Army.
• Diplomaticnet.com
  Diplomaticnet.com is a specialized gateway in international politics. An information, communication and consulting centre on Internet designed to cover the needs of practitioners  in international relations.
• Embassy World
  Links to embassies around the world.
• Erik Herron′s Guide to Politics in East Central Europe and Eurasia (U Kansas)
  The site is designed to facilitate research on the politics and economics of transition states in the post-communist world.
• EUbusiness
  The EUbusiness web site is Europe′s leading independent online business information service about the European Union.
• Euro
  Quarterly journal published by Ecu-Activities, Belgium. Provides coverage of the European Monetary Union, with recent documentation and statistics.
• European Court of Human Rights
• European Libraries Portal
  The European Library is a free service that offers access to the resources of the 47 national libraries of Europe in 20 languages. Resources can be both digital or bibliographical (books, posters, maps, sound recordings, videos, etc.).
• European Parliament
• European Union Gateway
• Foreign Government Resources on the Web (U of Michigan Documents Center)
• Human Rights Library (UMinn)
  The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library houses one of the largest collections of more than twenty-five thousand core human rights documents, including several hundred human rights treaties and other primary international human rights instruments. The site also provides access to more than four thousands links and a unique search device for multiple human rights sites.
• International Affairs Resources (WWW VL)
• International Relations Resources (Library of Congress)
• International Relations Sources (Fletcher School, Tufts)
• International Relations and Security Network
  The ISN is a free public service that provides a wide range of high-quality and comprehensive products and resources to encourage the exchange of information among international relations and security professionals worldwide.
• MSNBC Europe
• NATO
• Russian and East European Network Information Center (REENIC)
• World Political Leaders 1945- see also Rulers.
• United Nations Website
• U. S. Department of State Website
  Includes country Background Notes.
• University of Michigan Documents Center
  The Documents Center is a central reference and referral point for government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or international. Its web pages are a reference and instructional tool for government, political science, statistical data, and news.
• Western European Union
  WEU was created by the Treaty on Economic, Social and Cultural Collaboration and Collective Self-Defence signed at Brussels on 17 March 1948 (the Brussels Treaty), as amended by the Protocol signed at Paris on 23 October 1954, which modified and completed it.
• World Bank
• World Factbook (CIA)
• World Security Network
  A new kind of global foreign affairs action network in the age of globalization using the internet and local Task Force meetings.