Finding journal articles
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Indexes and abstracts international relations, political science, and foreign affairs literature. May include references to dissertations, books, or scholarly articles. Some full text included; links provided to BU content.
- PAIS Index This link opens in a new window
The PAIS International database covers current public policy issues and areas of potential legislation. Cited articles, books and documents can date back to 1910 and are listed in the original language. While some full text is included, the index primarily links to full text articles available through existing BU subscriptions.
- Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
Social Sciences Full Text provides access to hundreds of English language journals in the social sciences. About two-thirds of the journals are peer-reviewed.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new window
This database is a core general science resource, covering all aspects of scientific literature. It also has a number of tools that make it a unique resource for finding scholarly literature. Item records come with links both to the works cited by the paper in question and the future works that cite that paper. Web of Science also allows the user to set up email alerts for specific authors or topics, provides researcher profiles, and to use associated journal metrics provided by the vendor.
Databases with related content:
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new windowGoogle Scholar provides access to academic literature from many disciplines. The sources include articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions and come from diverse places including academic publishers, online repositories and other websites.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
This database provides full text access to the back issues of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Book reviews are included as well as journal articles. Abstracts are available for some of the articles.
Military Databases
- Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Articles and book reviews on military, geopolitical and aeronautical topics, including journals published outside the United States.
- SCAMPI Staff College Automated Periodicals Index (U.S.)A guide to articles on military and naval art and science, operational warfare, joint planning, national and international politics, and other areas. . The SCAMPI database covers the period from 1985 thru the present.
- Military and Intelligence Database Collection.Covers 859 publications, including 302 peer-reviewed titles. 611 title include full-text.
Available courtesy of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners (MBLC). - War and Terrorism Collection100 subject-appropriate, full-text periodicals
that are updated daily.
Finding newspaper articles
- Nexis Uni (formerly Lexis/Nexis Academic)1980+
Text-only multidisciplinary database that includes current newspapers and magazines, trade journals, wire services and transcripts. Date coverage and completeness varies by publication, but generally 1980+. see Search Tips for Uni - Access World News (Newsbank)Text-only Selected full-text of current and archived articles from small-circulation newspapers; broadcast transcripts, and news magazines. Easy-to-use interface that can be filtered by geographic location and/or media type. (Available through Aug 2020 due to grant funding.)
Text-only multidisciplinary database that includes current newspapers and magazines, trade journals, wire services and transcripts. Date coverage and completeness varies by publication, but generally 1980+. see - PressReader This link opens in a new window Full-page images and article images with searchable full text of international newspapers and magazines from the last 90 days, in the original language. Includes computer-generated translations to English and other languages for some publications.
- Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window Full text articles from newspapers and periodicals published by ethnic, minority and native presses in the U.S. Includes both historic publications, starting in 1959, as well as current ones.
- International Newsstream This link opens in a new window International, searchable, full text of selected newspapers. (Text only; does not include images, charts.)
- Access World News This link opens in a new window Find full-text current and archived articles on issues, events, people, government and more. Includes local newspapers, editorials, announcements and other sections from more than 10,000 sources.
- New York Times 1985+ Text-based with some video, audio content (Gale database). Provided courtesy of the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners
- Boston Globe (1980 - Present) This link opens in a new window Searchable, current article text from the Boston Globe (no images, illustrations or charts included). PLEASE NOTE: For articles published before 1980, please see Boston Globe (1872-1993) via ProQuest Historical Newspapers.
- Factiva This link opens in a new window Provides worldwide full text access to local and regional newspapers, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, business-rich websites, investment analyst reports, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, historical market data.
Other types of content
- CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online This link opens in a new window
A full text database covering working papers, policy briefs, interviews, journal articles, and e-books in the field of international relations.
- CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Covers the most current and controversial issues of the day with summaries, pros and cons, bibliographies and more. Provides reporting and analysis on issues in the news, including issues relating to health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.
- Global Terrorism Database (GTD)Provided through the National Consortium for the Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START), University of Maryland. An open-source database including information on terrorist events around the world from 1970 through 2016. For each GTD incident, information is available on the date and location of the incident, the weapons used and nature of the target, the number of casualties, and--when identifiable--the group or individual responsible.
- ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window Covers abstracts and indexing for hearings, reports, documents and committee prints.
