Political Science — Human Rights

AccessUN Indexes and some full-text access to current and retrospective U.N. documents, publications, treaties, and resolutions. See also UNBISnet and United Nations Treaty Collection .
Amnesty International Library Online Documentation Archive Publications including reports, news releases and urgent actions, 1996 to the present. Search by country, region, theme, etc. Documents are available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.
Carter Center Publications Subjects include election assessments, human rights, conflict resolution, democratization, and global development.
Child Abuse, Child Welfare & Adoption Bibliographic citations and abstracts to literature on the maltreatment of children.
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online Citations, abstracts and selected full-text articles covering topics in international affairs, collected largely from university- and foundation-funded research institutes, non-governmental organizations and academic conferences.
Contemporary Women's Issues Citations and full-text access to global information about women in over 150 countries from journals, newsletters and research reports. Subjects include development, education, family life, gender equity, human rights, and others.
Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Gender Studies Database The Gender Studies Database (GSD) combines Women's Studies International, Men's Studies and Sexual Diversity Studies databases with relevant contributions from the Child Development & Adolescent Studies as well as Family & Society Studies Worldwide databases. GSD covers the spectrum of gender engaged scholarship inside and outside academia.
Harvard Library Gateway to Human Rights Web Sites
Human and Civil Rights "...primary source documents... on the issues of human and civil rights in the last three centuries. International in scope, this volume contains approximately 200 documents, such as speeches, magazine and newspaper articles, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, essays..."
Human Rights Organizations Databank "... currently holds over 10,000 records. Its tables can be searched by name, type, issues addressed, countries the organization works in and other such criteria."
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences Citations from an international selection of publications, including over 2600 journals, in all areas of the social sciences with emphasis on economics, political science, sociology and anthropology.
International Crisis Group Full text reports assess and analyze local conditions in countries at risk.
JSTOR Provides electronic access to back issues of core scholarly journals including almost 30 in Political Science. To browse the list of archives, click here. Articles have been digitized, providing full-image access.
NGO Cafe "... a think tank for NGOs to discuss, debate and disseminate information on their work, strategies and results" as well as to provide an understanding of NGOs in general.
PAIS International Bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. Journal articles, books, government documents, statistical compilations, committee reports, directories, serials, reports of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations, and most other forms of printed literature from all over the world are indexed. This database covers 1972 to the present. Go to PAIS International Archive for coverage from 1937-1976. (The archive will eventually cover 1915 through 1976.)
Peace Research Abstracts Includes many links to full-text as well as abstracts and citations, from top journals, to articles on subjects within peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, security and other areas.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Citations with abstracts from more than 1100 journals in political science and related disciplines. Coverage is international in scope.
WSSLinks: Women's International Web Sites

For further information, contact:

Lucy E. Lyons
Collection Analysis, Journalism, and Political Science
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
(847) 491-2229, fax 467-7899
l-lyons@northwestern.edu
Office Location: Room 2623, 2nd Floor, East Tower, Main Library

Research Guides A-Z -> Directory of Subject Specialists

Last updated: 07/28/08