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Peace Studies Databases

ATLA Religion Database
Supports religious and theological scholarship in graduate study and faculty research.
Includes index citations to journal articles, essays in multi-author works and book reviews.
Includes some full text journal articles.
Spans over 50 years.
 
Academic Search Premier 
Abstracts and indexing for over 8,000 scholarly journals in a wide range of academic areas including social sciences, humanities, education and multi-cultural studies.
Full text for over 1,200 journals with many dating back to the 1980's.
Indexing only (not full text): Journal of Conflict Resolution, Journal of Peace Research.
Indexing and full text: Peace and Change, Peace Review, Peacekeeping and International Relations, Journal of Human Rights and International Journal of Human Rights.

Newspaper Source (Fourth choice on the EBSCOhost list.)
Provides full text for more than 25 U.S. and international newspapers and 200 regional US newspapers.  Updated daily.
The Christian Science Monitor, The Chicago Tribune, The News (Mexico), The Hong Kong Standard.
Full text of television and radio news transcripts.
 
WorldCat 
Books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
Links to authoritative web sites and netLibrary ebooks.
Offers millions of bibliographic records prepared by OCLC member libraries. 
Items not held in the AMBS Library may be requested by interlibrary loan.
 
Contemporary Women's Issues   Select "CWI" on the FirstSearch drop-down list.
Provides full-text access to global information on women in over 150 countries with special emphasis on health and human rights.
Indexes books, journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, and fact sheets.
Includes links to many full-text articles.

 
A print index:
Peace Research Abstracts Journal (1964-   )
This peace studies index to periodical literature is available in print volumes at the Goshen College Library.  It may be searched online at the Hesburgh Library, University of Notre Dame.
 

A free web-based database:
Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence Database
The Center at the University of Colorado maintains databases of literature, programs and resources on the causes and prevention of violence with specific reference to youth.  Staff at the Information House perform searches and provide bibliographies. 
 

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