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E-Journal Collections

Starting out with Journals? Read our GUIDE for SPIRE students.

Use the following database services to find an electronic journal title or paper.

Search Keele's E-Journal A-Z
Use this website to search or browse across all of our e-journal services for a title and in some cases a specific paper.

Academic Search Premier - EBSCO
Many business and management titles are included in this collection, which has over 2,000 full text journals. Click here for help on getting started with this database.
You will need your Keele login to access the EBSCO databases from off-campus.
View the Quick Guide to Using EBSCO to help you get started. 

HeinOnline e-journal Library
Predominantly a collection of law journals, but also includes many titles on foreign policy, politics and international relations including; International Journal; Foreign Affairs; American Journal of Political Science; Global Governance; Helsinki Monitor. If you are off campus look for the "institutional log-in" or "Shibboleth" links, then select the UK Federation followed by Keele University from a drop-down list to get to the log-in page. When prompted type in your Keele login to access the service.

Nexis UK
UK and international news service, includes UK quality and regional newspapers. Please see our newspapers page for more detailed information on the newspaper services available from Keele's collection.

SwetsWise
A collection of electronic journals with full-text access to over 3000 journals.
You will need your Keele login to access SwetsWise from off-campus.
View the Quick Guide to Using Swetswise.

JSTOR
Contains a few full text titles of use to politics and international relations research, many from the US.
You will need your ATHENS password for off-campus access to JSTOR

Newspapers

Newspapers

The following services provide full-text access to a large number of newspapers.

ProQuest UK News Stand
Provides the searchable full-text of articles published in around 30 UK newspapers including The Times, Telegraph, Guardian and The Independent.
You will need your Keele username and password for off-campus access.
View the Quick Guide to Using ProQuest UK News Stand.

Nexis UK
A news and business service which includes around 12,000 publications, including worldwide, national and local newspapers.
You will need to use your Keele username and password for both on-campus and off-campus access to Nexis UK.
View the Quick Guide to Using Nexis UK.

The Times Digital Archive
Search the complete digital edition of The Times from 1785-2006. The entire newspaper is captured with all articles, advertisements and illustrations/photos.
You will need your Keele username and password for off-campus access.
View the Quick Guide to Using The Times Digital Archive.

E-Book Collections

Some useful texts are available from the following e-book services; read the book in full online. Click on the services below to search and read the e-books available. E-books can also be found using the Library Catalogue.

Dawsonera
An expanding collection of ebooks purchased by the Library which includes some titles relating to Politics.
You will need your Keele login for all access.

netLibrary
Collection includes titles on British and American politics, globalisation, arms control, gender politics, political sociology and philosophy, and many more.

MyiLibrary
Includes many politics related titles.

Selected E-Books On Politics And IR

Looking for an ebook in Politics and International Relations?

The following are suggested titles in our collection. Many more are available from the Library catalogue.

(N. B. Students should of course refer to, and follow, guidance on reading provided by tutors or module handbooks in the first instance).

Political Science And Political Theory

Vincent, A. (2010) Modern political ideologies, 3rd edition. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

Hoffman, J. and Graham, P. (2009) Introduction to political theory, 2nd edition. Harlow: Pearson/Longman.

Dryzek, J. S., Honig, B. and Phillips, A. (2006) The Oxford handbook of political theory. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Heywood, A. (2004) Political theory, 3rd edition. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

International Relations

Brown, C. and Ainley, K. (2005) Understanding international relations, 3rd edition. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Steans, J., Pettiford, L. and Diez, T.  (2005) Introduction to international relations: perspectives and themes. Harlow: Pearson/Prentice-Hall.

Griffiths, M. (2002) International relations: the key concepts. London: Routledge.

Streans, J. (2010) An introduction to international relations theory: perspectives and themes, 3rd edition. Harlow: Longman.

British Politics

Childs, D. (2006) Britain since 1945: a political history. London: Routledge.

Peele, G. (2004) Governing the UK: British politics in the 21st century. Malden: Blackwell.

US Politics

Storey, W. (2007) US government and politics. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

McKeever, R. (2006) Politics USA, 2nd edition. Harlow: Pearson/Longman.

McKay, D. H. (2005) American politics and society, 6th edition. Malden, Blackwell.

European Politics

Colomer, J. M. (2008) Comparative European politics, 3rd edition. London: Routledge.

Geddes, A. (2004) The European Union and British politics. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan.

Find A Reference In Politics and IR

There are more journals available in addition to those we have electronically. Reference databases (sometimes also called "citation" or "abstract" databases) can help you find these if you want to search more widely for papers, especially if you're doing a literature review for a dissertation.

The full text will not be available from the citation database, however clicking on the logo will search our e-journals and provide a link to the whole paper if available, or direct you to where a paper copy may be found in the Library's print journal collection. Our main citation databases are;

Proquest
Access to over 20 databases covering major areas of research in most subject areas, including the the Applied Social Science Index and Abstracts (ASSIA) from 1987 to date.
You will need your Keele login to access Proquest from off-campus.

Web of Knowledge
Gateway to the Web of Science, ISI Proceedings, Journal Citation Reports and ISIHighlyCited.com.
You will need your Keele login to access Web of Knowledge from off-campus.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences - Proquest
Details of articles, letters, and reviews from more than 2,600 journals and 7,000 books in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology.
You will need your Keele login to access Proquest from off-campus.

Theses

Theses

Use the advanced keyword search on the Library Catalogue and set the material type to 'thesis' to search for Keele theses held in the Library.

ETHOS
The British Library ETHOS project provides electronic access to research theses from many UK universities.

Index to Theses
A searchable listing of theses with abstracts accepted for higher degrees by universities in Great Britain and Ireland since 1716. You can only access the Index to Theses from computers on the Keele network.

NDLTD – Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
Details of theses and dissertations from universities in the United States and worldwide.

PhDData
An index of doctoral dissertations in progress around the world.

Help For SPIRE Students

Starting out with Journals? Read our GUIDE for Politics and IR students.

Reference Management

Refworks
This is an online reference management software which can be used to import, manage and save references from your research, enabling easy creation of bibliographies. Find out more on our Refworks information pages

European Politics And Institutions

EUR-Lex - Portal to European Union Law
Source website for European Union law, in particular legislation and the case law.

Europa
The portal site of the European Union.

HUDOC
Database of case reports, judgements, decisions, resolutions and reports from the European Court of Human Rights, the European Commission of Human Rights and the EU Committee of Ministers.

UK Government, Parliamentary, British Politics Links

Directgov
The UK government's information service.

Downing Street
The office of the Prime Minister.

Hansard (Commons)
House of Commons Debates from Session 1988-89.

Hansard (Lords)
House of Lords Debates from 16th November 1994.

Legislation.gov.uk
Access to UK legislation dating back to 1987

TSO - The Stationery Office
Command Papers, House of Commons Papers, and selected departmental papers, from 2005 onwards.

UK Parliament
Homepage for the UK legislature.

UK Statistics Authority
Government website for UK official statistics.

BBC - General Election 2010 Site
The state of the parties at the last general election. Constituency information, results and comment.

US Politics

FedWorld
Gateway to US government information.

FirstGov - The US Government's Official Web Portal
The US Government's official web portal. Covers federal, state, local and tribal agencies.

US Census Bureau American FactFinder
Statistics relating to US population, housing, industry and business from the 2000 census.

Other Useful Online Sources

Politics and International Relations scholars may find some of the sites below useful or interesting. Links to other social science websites which may be of potential use can be found here.

Intute Social Sciences
Selected, high quality Internet information in the social sciences, business and law.

UNESDOC
Full text of UNESCO documents.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Eighteenth Century Collections Online is a vast digital library of some 150,000 books printed in Great Britain.

Eighteenth Century Official Parliamentary Publications Portal 1688-1834
A large collection of 18th Century British Parliamentary publications.

EINIRAS Database Network (EDN)
Aims at developing a Pan-European database for international relations and area studies.

eScholarship Editions
A collection of more than 1,400 electronic editions of academic books.

ESDS International
Access to international macro and micro time series and surveys, from MIMAS and the Social Data Service.

Genamics JournalSeek
Database of freely available journals.

GPO Access
Searchable full text of US Government publications including Congressional Record.

Infonation
Recent comparative statistical data for the member states of the United Nations.

International Data Base (IDB)
Data bank containing statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for 227 countries.

International Organization Web Sites Index Page
Index to websites of international organisations worldwide.

KIDON Media-Link
Provides links to newspapers and other news sources around the world.

Middle East Information Network
Gateway to resources on The Middle East.

MORI Polls Archive
Contains MORI polls which have been conducted from 1995/1996 up to the current month.

National Academies Press
Publishes the reports issued by several US research organisations

PARLINE
Database of information on parliaments worldwide.

PARLIT
Database of bibliographic references on the role, structure and working methods of national parliaments, and on electoral systems and constitutional law.

Penn World Tables
Statistical data for 152 countries and 29 subjects.

Perry-Castaneda Library Map Collection
An archive of more than 230,000 maps in various formats.

Samples of Anonymised Records
Samples of individual records from the 1991 and 2001 Censuses.

THOMAS - Congress and Senate Proceedings
Provides a number of databases of US legislative information.

UKBORDERS - EDINA
Digitised boundary datasets of the UK, available in many GIS formats. Click the "Login via UK Federation" link,  and then use your Keele login when asked.

Zarate's Political Collections (ZPC)
Data on political leaders worldwide since 1945.

A Map Of Our Politics And IR Resources