Find Articles in Databases
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window A multidisciplinary database providing full-text access to scholarly and popular journals in broad areas of academic study, as well as indexing and abstracts of additional titles unavailable in full text. Coverage: 1990-present.
- Anthropology Plus This link opens in a new window A compilation of the American Anthropological Literature and the British Anthropological Index Online, providing indexing of journals in anthropology, ethnology, archaeology, folklore, material culture, and interdisciplinary studies from the late 19th century to the present.
- AnthroSource This link opens in a new window Full-text online editions of numerous journals in anthropology and related fields, presented by the American Anthropological Association.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window Bibliographical coverage of the history of the world (excluding the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present, with article abstracts from over 2,000 journals -- covering 1954 to the present -- plus citations to books and dissertations
- Humanities International Index This link opens in a new window A bibliographic index of over 1,700 U.S. and international journals in the humanities, covering articles, essays, reviews, and creative work in poetry, fiction, and visual arts.
- ATLA Religion Database This link opens in a new window An index of scholarly articles, reviews, and essays on religion and theology, primarily covering 1949 to the present.
- PAIS Index This link opens in a new window The PAIS International database is concerned with current public policy issues and emphasizes factual and statistical information. Print and electronic academic journals in the social sciences are indexed with particular attention to articles that bear on public policy, administration, and legislation.
- EconLit This link opens in a new window The American Economic Association's online bibliography of over 120 years of economics literature, including journal articles, books, book reviews, working papers, and dissertations. Subtopics include economic and monetary theory, labor economics, and international, regional, and urban economics.
- Scopus This link opens in a new window The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and Arts & Humanities.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Google Scholar indexes many scholarly journals, theses, books, and white papers from academic and society publishers. It also indexes patents and some case law.
Articles in scholarly/academic journals, especially PEER-REVIEWED journals are particularly important to college research.
Look for check boxes in databases to limit your search results to articles in scholarly, peer-reviewed journals.
Have an article citation from a bibliography? Search for the title in OneSearch to see if full text is available in Colby databases.
Articles not available in full-text? Request through ILLiad interlibrary loan. It's free and often very fast.
Look for Request from ILLiad or Request from another library links in databases, OneSearch and Worldcat.
Country Profiles
- BBC News Country Profiles Full profiles provide an instant guide to history, politics and economic background of countries and territories, and background on key institutions. They also include audio and video clips from BBC archives.
- Statesman’s Yearbook Online Includes information on every country in the world, covering key historical events, population, city profiles, social statistics, climate, recent elections, current leaders, defense, international relations, economy, energy and natural resources, industry, international trade, religion, culture, and diplomatic representatives, as well as fact sheets and much more.
- Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Viewpoint This link opens in a new window The Economist's periodic reports providing in-depth analysis of political and economic trends in over 200 countries.
- World Data Analyst Online Offers detailed statistical comparisons of countries around the world, using both the most recent statistics and historical figures. Ability to create tables, charts, export the information to a spreadsheet and link to country articles in Encyclopedia Britannica.
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Citation Managers
Citation managers help you organize your research, collect citations & create bibliographies.
Zotero collects all your research in a single, searchable interface.
Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network.
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Grey Literature
Grey Literature is material that has NOT been published by commercial publishers. This includes working papers, reports, policy briefs, blogs and dissertations.
Grey literature can have the advantages of immediacy and/or divergent points of view, however, all grey literature should be very carefully scrutinized and evaluated.
- Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS) RSCAS is part of Cadmus, the EUI's Research Repository, containing the academic publications of its members.
- Labordoc The online catalog of the library of the International Labour Organization. The main aims of the ILO are to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment opportunities, enhance social protection and strengthen dialogue on work-related issues.
- RAND Corporation A policy research institute.
- CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online This link opens in a new window Full text of the publications of CIAO, with research in international affairs from a variety of sources such as conference papers, foundation-funded research projects, policy briefs, working papers, books, and journals.
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports This link opens in a new window Daily reports from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service, a department of the Central Intelligence Agency that monitored publicly viewable news from around the world. Coverage from 1941-1996.
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global This link opens in a new window ProQuest's collection of dissertations and theses, many available in full text, with international coverage from 1861 to the present.
Newspapers and Current Events
- BBC World News Breaking international news from the British Broadcasting Corporation.
For even more newspapers:
See our Newspaper Guide with tabs for International and Specialty News sources.
DID YOU KNOW...? 
Many websites and subscription databases allow you to create a newsfeed tailored to your specific country and/or interest area. If you need help with this, just let me know.
- Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window Full-text database of periodicals of the American ethnic and minority press, with works offering African-American, Arab-American, Asian-American, European-American, Latino, Jewish, and Native American perspectives.
- New York Times 1980 to Current This link opens in a new window "This is considered the official U.S. newspaper because it publishes the complete text of important documents, speeches and presidential press conferences. The paper's reporters have won scores of Pulitzer Prizes throughout the publication's 150-year history."
- Alternative Press Index This link opens in a new window The Alternative Press Index offers online access to articles from a large collection of alternative periodicals, particularly those concerned with radical social change. Common topics include socialism, environmentalism, feminism, and LGBT rights.
Citation Trails
Always check an item's bibliography, notes, references or works cited page.
This is not only to check an author's evidence, but to find additional sources for your research.
Google Scholar and some databases also allow you to look forward in time at more recent articles and books that cite the item you're looking at. Just enter the title of the work in Google Scholar and look for the Cited By link.
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Books & Media in our Library Catalog
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International Organizations
Historical Dictionary of International Organizations by
Overview of major international organizations of the 20th and 21st centuries. Includes a chronology, an introductory essay, and over 700 cross-referenced dictionary entries on organizations, significant leaders, pioneers, founders and members.
Publication Date: 2010
International agencies can be government or inter-governmental organizations.
Search the subject heading International Agencies in CBBcat or Worldcat to find books about these organizations.
NGOs, non-governmental organizations, are often created to address specific issues or give a voice to particular groups of people.
In CBBcat and Worldcat, try a subject search using the heading: Non-govermental organizations
- Global Policy Forum NGOs Global Policy Forum is an independent policy watchdog that monitors the work of the United Nations and scrutinizes global policymaking.
- NGO Cafe Databases & Directories Hosted by the Global Development Research Center, a non-profit think tank
- Worldwide NGO Directory - WANGO The World Association of Non-Governmental Organizations' directory
