Find Scholarly Articles
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.
Databases for Global Studies
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Academic Search Complete 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.
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Anthropology Plus 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.
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AnthroSource Full-text online editions of numerous journals in anthropology and related fields, presented by the American Anthropological Association.
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.
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Historical Abstracts 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
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Humanities International Index 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.
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ATLA Religion Database An index of scholarly articles, reviews, and essays on religion and theology, primarily covering 1949 to the present.
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PAIS Index 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.
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EconLit 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.
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Scopus The largest abstract and citation database of peer-reviewed research literature in the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences and Arts & Humanities.
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Google Scholar Google Scholar indexes many scholarly journals, theses, books, and white papers from academic and society publishers. It also indexes patents and some case law.
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
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Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU): Country Reports The Economist's periodic reports providing in-depth analysis of political and economic trends in over 200 countries.
Citation Help
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Citation Managers
Citation managers help you organize your research, collect citations & create bibliographies.
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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. This is looking into the past at books and articles written before the item.
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.
Newspapers and Current Events
For even more newspapers:
See our Newspaper Guide with tabs for International and Specialty News sources.
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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.
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.
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CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online 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.
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 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.
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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global ProQuest's collection of dissertations and theses, many available in full text, with international coverage from 1861 to the present.
Find Books
SEARCH our library catalog.
To identify scholarly books, look at the publisher, author, extent and quality of references, writing style and arguments presented. Who is the intended audience? How current is the material?
Not finding what you want in CBBcat?
Look for the MaineCat icon in CBBcat results to expand your search across the state. 
Not there either? Go to WorldCat and order through ILLiad, our interlibrary loan service. 
International Organizations
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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
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