Library Guides: Peace Studies: Books, Articles, & Gray Literature

Recent Bibliographies and Overviews

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Oxford Research Encyclopedias: International Studies. This link opens in a new window
Provides overviews of the literature on key topics.
Oxford handbooks online This link opens in a new window
A collection of the Oxford handbooks across many different subject areas. The Handbooks series is a valuable reference resource that contains articles by scholars at the top of their field.

Books

Hesburgh Libraries Online Catalog (ND Catalog)
ND Catalog lets you search the holdings of the Hesburgh Libraries, Kresge Law, and Holy Cross libraries' catalogs separately or together. It includes content from the University Archives, the Center for Research Libraries, and working papers from the Institute for Latino Studies.
Hesburgh Libraries Catalog (Aleph)
This is the Hesburgh Libraries online catalog, which also allows access to other MALC catalogs, and includes the full holdings of the Hesburgh Libraries of Notre Dame.

WorldCat This link opens in a new window
A worldwide union catalog created and maintained collectively by more than 9,000 OCLC member institutions. With millions of online records built from the bibliographic and ownership information of contributing libraries, it is the largest and most comprehensive database of its kind.

Journal Articles

Peace research abstracts This link opens in a new window
The only specifically peace studies index. In addition to peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding this database also addresses interpersonal, intergroup, intragroup, intra-national and international conflict.
Social Science Database This link opens in a new window
Searches literature from a wide range of subjects in the social sciences.

Politics Collection (ProQuest)
Searches a collection of politics-related databases.

International political science abstracts This link opens in a new window
Search articles from political science journals and yearbooks. Licensed for 4 simultaneous ND users.
Left index This link opens in a new window
Provides abstracts to publications from leftist and radical media worldwide since 1982. Licensed for 1 simultaneous ND user.

JSTOR Security Studies
Journal articles, books, and reports related to security studies.

Hispanic American periodicals index This link opens in a new window
Search journal articles related to Central and South America and the Caribbean.

Gray Literature / Unpublished Scholarship: Politics & International Relations

Harvard Kennedy School Think Tank Search
Provides a custom Google search of over 690 think tank websites; links users to research by various think tanks on the search topic; also see Related Links provided on page

Policy File Index This link opens in a new window
Find reports on public policy issues from the top think tanks.

Center for Security Studies: Resources
Working papers, policy briefs, etc. on inter and intra state conflict. (Swiss)

Ciao : Columbia International Affairs Online This link opens in a new window
Contains searchable full text of international affairs working papers from university research institutes, conference proceedings, policy briefs, economic indicators, foundation-funded research projects and links to international affairs centers, institutes, and further resources.

Additional Article Databases

Below are some additional databases for searching the literature in fields with which Peace Studies has joint doctoral programs. Additional database suggestions are available here.

Scholarly Databases: Theology, Religion, and History

ATLA religion database with ATLASerials PLUS This link opens in a new window
Find research articles from theology and religious studies.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Contains a mix of major journals in most academic disciplines includng complete coverage of any journal in the database from inception. Note: there is a rolling, three year embargo on current content
Project Muse : scholarly journals online This link opens in a new window
Search journal articles in history and the humanities, cultural studies, and other fields.
Humanities International Index This link opens in a new window
Search journal and magazine articles from a variety of humanities fields.

Scholarly Databases: Political Science, Anthropology, Psychology, and Sociology

Social Science Database This link opens in a new window
Provides searching across a range of ProQuest’s specialist index and full-text social sciences databases, covering subject areas including Politics, Sociology, Education, Linguistics, and Criminal Justice
International bibliography of the social sciences This link opens in a new window
IBSS database covers international social science literature in disciplines of anthropology, economics, political science and sociology, as well as a wide range of interdisciplinary fields. Abstracts and indexes journal articles and books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951.
Anthropological literature This link opens in a new window
A bibliographic index to articles in journals and edited works received by Harvard's Tozzer Library. Coverage includes core anthropology and archaeology journals as well as interdisciplinary resources. Subject areas include anthropological perspectives on economics, ethnology, folklore, human evolution, linguistics, material culture, medicine, museum studies, primatology, psychology, religion, visual studies, and zooarchaeology. Usage info: Licensed for 5 simultaneous users.

Other Scholarly Multidisciplinary Databases

Web of Science This link opens in a new window
A similar product to Scopus, Web of Science keeps track of the articles published in the top ~20,000 journals. Its greatest strength is showing who has cited whom, which lets you unearth all the research on a given topic.
Periodicals index online This link opens in a new window
This a database of millions of citations for articles published in the arts, humanities and social sciences, across more than 300 years.