Peace, Justice, and Conflict Studies
Databases
Places to Start
- Peace Research Abstracts (PRA)
- Online Bibliography Theology and Peace
Contains 159,000 titles of books, book chapters, and articles from 580 periodicals relevant to peace ethics. Searchable by descriptors. From the Institute for Theology and Peace, a research institution of the Catholic Church.
- Plowshares Digital Archive for Peace Studies
Includes over 30,000 pages of minutes, diaries, correspondence, pamphlets, newspapers and periodicals - ranging in date from the 1700s to the present - from the archives at Earlham, Goshen, and Manchester colleges.
- SocINDEX with Full Text
- Academic
Search Premier
- Alternative
Press Index (1991- )
- Alternative
Press Index Archive (1969-1990)
- LexisNexis
Other Places to Look
- Military
& Government Collection
Some full-text; designed to offer current news pertaining to all
branches of the military and government, it offers perspectives on security
issues, conflicts, and other countries.
- JSTOR
Full-text back issues of journals; discipline searches of Ecology,
Economics, or Political Science could be relevant for peace studies
topics.
- TOPICSearch
Includes full-text articles, covers international and regional newspapers,
newsletters, magazines--few scholarly journals. Good for introductory
articles. Can search by topics: crime, energy, ethics, family, health,
human rights, multiculturalism, religion, women world affairs.
-
MUSE
Current full-text journals; check PJCS's Selected
Journals page for specific titles or search by subject or keyword.
- Humanities
International Index
Very broad coverage, some full text. Best to use subject index, e.g.,
"Pacifism, ""Pacifists," "Mediation, International".
- New
York Times
Index to some recent full-text articles is in ASP. LexisNexis
has some full-text articles since 1980. New
York Times, Historical includes full text, from 1851 to 3 years
ago.
- NewsBank
Full text access to articles in more than 600 U.S. newpapers.
- Newspaper
Source
Provides selected full text for 25 national (U.S.) and international
newspapers, for television & radio news transcripts, and for more
than 200 regional (U.S.) newspapers.
- PsycARTICLES
Includes full-text, peer-reviewed articles from 56 journals.
- PsycINFO
(1872- )
Includes international material selected from nearly 2,000 periodicals
in over 35 languages.
Updated
22-Dec-2008
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