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Global Security Research Guide: Getting Started

The guide offers resources and tips on researching global security issues. This page includes general resources for research on any global security topic. See the navigation menu for pages with resources on specific aspects of global security.

Interdisciplinary Databases

Library Search
Rowan University Libraries' main search tool. Includes all of the Libraries' physical collections and most of its digital resources. Library Search Guide: https://libguides.rowan.edu/librarysearch

Academic OneFile (Gale)
Access scholarly journal articles and other authoritative sources, including an extensive collection of podcasts and transcripts from NPR and CNN and videos from BBC Worldwide Learning.
Academic Search Complete
Full-text journal, magazine, and news articles in all academic disciplines.
ProQuest Central
Journal, magazine and news articles in all academic fields.
Research Library
Collection of journal, magazine and news articles in diverse subject areas.
Access to a wide range of popular academic subjects in the form of scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines, and newspapers.
Social Science Database
Scholarly articles in a variety of social science journals.
Covers core disciplines across the social sciences including sociology, social work, anthropology, politics and other areas, featuring journals from several countries, facilitating multidisciplinary research and providing researchers with a variety of perspectives.
Social Science Premium Collection (1914 - current)
ProQuest’s specialist index and full-text social sciences databases, covering subject areas including politics, sociology, education, linguistics, and criminal justice.

Subject-Focused Library Databases (Rowan login required)

Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts (ASSIA)
Journal and news articles in applied social sciences.
Covers health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
Collection of documents on international affairs from wide variety of sources.
Resources on international affairs covering more than 180 research institutes, publishers, government agencies, e-books and journals worldwide. Also includes working papers, policy briefs, and case studies. Includes maps, data and stats compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit, the world’s foremost provider of country, industry and management analysis for about 201 countries.
Criminal Justice Database (1981 - current)
Journal, magazine and news articles in criminal justice.
Comprehensive database of U.S. and international criminal justice journals. The database provides research support for students interested in careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security.
PAIS Index
Articles, papers and reports on international public affairs topics.
Contains continually updated records for over half a million journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. In addition to English, some of the indexed materials are published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, and other languages.
Political Science Database (1985 - current)
Resources on political science.
Access to leading political science and international relations journals, providing full-text of many core titles indexed in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. 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.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (1975-current)
Abstracts of current research in political science.
Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. Coverage from 1975 – current. Click the Get-It button to link to full text, when available.
Policy File Index
Covers U.S. domestic and foreign public policy research topics.
Timely information from public policy think tanks, nongovernmental organizations, research institutes, university centers, advocacy groups, and other entities.

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Global Security Research Guide: Getting Started

Interdisciplinary Databases

Subject-Focused Library Databases (Rowan login required)