LibGuides: Politics, International Relations, Peace, Conflict, Diplomacy, Human Rights, Climate Security & International Security: Databases and Journals

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Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to thousands of journals across a broad range of topics. Contains also summaries to articles which are available fulltext via other databases.
Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
Mostly full-text. Covers many titles of relevance to politics and related subjects. Particularly useful for Development Studies, International Relations and policy issues.
Communication And Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
Links to full text for many journal articles. This database also contains indexes and summaries for articles from over 400 journals in the field of communications and mass media, including radio, television and journalism.
Emerald Insight This link opens in a new window
This database provides full-text articles covering management disciplines including strategy, leadership, information management, and marketing and human resource management – and over 3,000 e-books covering the social sciences subjects, including education, economics, politics and research in the social sciences. Particularly good for case studies.
Humanities International Complete (HIC) This link opens in a new window
HIC provides fulltext of hundreds of journals, books and other published sources from around the world including all data from Humanities International Index. Humanities International Complete is an invaluable resource for students, researchers, and educators interested in all aspects of the humanities. Summaries of journal articles not subscribed to are also listed.
Sociology Source Ultimate This link opens in a new window
Offering more peer-reviewed, full-text journals than any other sociology research database, Sociology Source Ultimate provides the must-have materials for students studying social behaviour and interaction. Useful for Public Policy case studies and Public Administration.

Cambridge University Press Journals This link opens in a new window
Access to all academic journals published by Cambridge University Press (approximately 430 journals) covering subjects across the humanities, social sciences and science, technology and medicine. Full text articles from journals we subscribe to.
JSTOR Journals and E-books (including Artstor Images) This link opens in a new window
Large collection of academic e-journals and e-books. Covers economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences; Language, performing, and visual arts, including all titles in the Music collection. JSTOR also includes the Artstor image database, accessible by using the ‘Images’ search option on the JSTOR site, or by using the separate Artstor link on the A-Z of E-Resources.
JSTOR is an archive service for journals and therefore does not include the most recent three years for each journal on the platform.
Oxford Journals Archive This link opens in a new window
Full text access to journals we subscribe to. This archive represents over 165 years of historical research, containing articles from over 140 titles, compiled into subject-based archives, which includes The Humanities Archive (1829 – 1995), The Medicine Archive (1878 – 1995), The Science Archive (1848 – 1995), The Law Archive (1952 – 1995) and The Social Science Archive (1902 – 1995).
Project MUSE Humanities Collection This link opens in a new window
The Project Muse Humanities Collection provides full-text access to over 240 humanities, arts and social sciences e-journals – as well as access to nearly 5,000 Open Access e-books. Contains the latest issues of the journals Human Rights Quarterly and Journal of Democracy.
SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Contains full-text articles of the most popular peer-reviewed journals in Communication Studies, Management & Organization Studies, Materials Science, Politics, Psychology, Sociology, and Urban Studies & Planning. Access is to London Met subscribed journals and Open Access articles only. Can also read summaries to journal articles we don’t subscribe to or which might be available via other databases.
ScienceDirect Journals Collection This link opens in a new window
Full text of over 2,000 academic journals published by Elsevier. Advanced search enables searching using search limiters such as date and types of publication.
Social Sciences Citation Index - now part of Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Part of the Web of Science Core Collection. Indexes books and journal articles in the social sciences. Coverage from 1981 onwards. Select holdings to link to our catalogue records
Taylor And Francis Online Journals This link opens in a new window
Academic journals covering a wide range of subject areas – from the social sciences and humanities to science and technology. Access to London Met subscribed journals plus Open Access journals only.

Key journals

The titles listed here are current individual subscriptions key to the subject area. We have access to many other journals through various database packages.

Journals listed below are not available via the main databases. Use the Library Catalogue to find a specific journal title.

Particularly useful for Public Administration:

For Public Administration case studies see also the 'Management' subject guide.