Research Guides: POL 246: South Asian Politics: Scholarly, Academic, News Resources

Video Resources

Filmakers Library Online This link opens in a new window
Streaming video collection of award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum--race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. Coverage: Details not available
Films on Demand - Master Academic Collection This link opens in a new window
17,000+ videos in business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.
Kanopy Video This link opens in a new window
Kanopy is a distributor of educational videos for online viewing. Content is available across multiple subject areas.
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window
Swank Digital Campus provides a customizable academic streaming library of feature films, documentaries and foreign films from the largest movie studios, including Walt Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, NBCUniversal, Columbia Pictures, Lions Gate, MGM, Miramax and many more.

Useful Journals

South Asia News Sources

Individual Country Information

Europa World Plus This link opens in a new window
Europa has recent historical and economic histories of every country in the world. Also contains data on each country, and allows for comparison across countries.
World Constitutions Illustrated This link opens in a new window
This collection includes the current constitution for every country in its original language format and an English translation, as well as substantial constitutional histories and scholarly work on constitutions and constitutional law for each country.
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online This link opens in a new window
Britannica has entries for each country that provide historical, economic, demographic, and comparative information. Search by country name.

Political Handbook of the World 2020-2021
The Political Handbook of the World provides facts and analysis on each country’s governmental and political makeup. Covers all major and minor political parties and groups in each political system.
Freedom House's List of Countries (Political Rights & Civil Liberties)
Freedom House rates people’s access to political rights and civil liberties in 210 countries and territories through its annual Freedom in the World report.
More comparative cross-national data sets

Background Information Sourcs

If you need somewhere to begin your research, here are some of the best bets for finding context for your research topic!

Global Issues (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
Updated daily with more than 660 geographically diverse full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals for a truly global view. Also includes multimedia.
Routledge Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
Overviews of research and trends in the Social Sciences and Humanities. WFU access includes the following subject collections: Asian Studies; Communication, Journalism, Media & Culture; Environment & Sustainability; Law; Philosophy; Politics; Religion; Security Studies; and Sociology.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Political Science This link opens in a new window
Online access to the Oxford Handbooks series in Political Science. Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline, explains the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and describes how those debates might evolve.

Scholarly Journal Databases in Political Science (and related disciplines)

The databases below are the ones most frequently used by students doing political science research. The list starts with the politics-specific databases but also lists the many databases we have in related disciplines that often contain relevant sources. Politics is a very interdisciplinary thing, so looking at other databases is often very useful!

Databases for General International Politics and Government

ProQuest Political Science Database This link opens in a new window
This link cross searches ProQuest Political Science Database, PAIS Index, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. Users can access hundreds of leading political science and international relations journals with full-text of many core titles. In addition, over a thousand recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics are included, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country profiles, political news and other sources. Coverage: 1985-
HeinOnline Law Journal Library This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 2,000 law and law-related periodicals including international law and policy.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Historical Abstracts provides indexing and abstracts for journal articles, books, and dissertations covering the history of the world from 1450-- except the U.S. and Canada. For similar coverage of the U.S. and Canada, use America History and Life. Coverage: 1954-

Databases for International Military and Security Issues

ProQuest Military Database This link opens in a new window
The Military Collection provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
Military and Government Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides full text from military and general interest publications. Designed to bring current news to all branches of the military. Includes full text country reports from CountryWatch Coverage: 1985-
Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new window
A compendium of materials available for scholarly research in the area of Homeland Security. The digital library collection is focused on strategy and policy in the various subject areas of Homeland Security Research. Sources of information include governmental departments and agencies, academic institutions, think tanks, conference sites, non-governmental organizations, institutes and organizations, and other entities. Coverage: Details not available

Databases for International Policy and Issues

Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
For political communication, Internet and/or Social Media, news, rhetoric and more.
Contemporary Women's Issues (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Covers women s issues from 190 countries, with information available in full-text. Disciplines include sociology, psychology, health, education, business administration and political science. Coverage: 1992-
Criminal Justice Database This link opens in a new window
For criminal justice, incarceration, international criminal justice, etc.
EconLit This link opens in a new window
For international economic research, political economy, foreign aid and development, etc.
Environment Complete This link opens in a new window
Environmental policy, climate change, climate refugees, climate treaties, climate and trade, etc.
ERIC (via EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Education policy, educational systems, etc.
ProQuest Sociology Database This link opens in a new window

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