Subject Librarian for the Social Sciences
Library Resources
Tertiary Sources
Use these sources to look at broad overviews of a subtopic within the study of international relations. They will even help you identify the top journals and articles within your topic of interest.
- Oxford Bibliographies Online for International Relations
- Oxford Research Encyclopedia in International Studies
Secondary Sources
These databases will likely be most useful to you as you start to search for articles written by experts in international relations.
- International Political Science Abstracts
- This database covers articles written by experts in the fields of international relations, human rights, and international law.
- Political Science Complete
- This database contains articles written by experts in a wide variety of political topics, including international relations, with a worldwide focus.
- JSTOR
- This is more of an interdisciplinary database but is still really good for finding articles written by experts about international relations.