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Kreitzberg Library for CGCS Students

Get Started with International Relations Resources

This guide will help you learn how to search the databases most relevant to your work in the International Relations program.

About Academic Search Premier

Academic Search Premier has the most comprehensive collection of full-text journal articles of any databases available through the library.

Conducting a Search

he screenshot examples below search for peer-reviewed articles about international policy and security.

  • I used quotes to search for words together as a phrase (i.e. "international policy"), and used another field to break up my keywords into concepts.
  • I clicked the blue search button to find articles.

Academic Search Premier keyword search. The search button is highlighted

Reviewing Search Results

This search found 313 articles.

  • Select Peer Reviewed from the options below the search bar to show just scholarly journal articles in your results.
  • Results are sorted by relevance with the most relevant articles appearing at the top of the list. You can change this using the sort drop-down.
  • Options to access the full text will appear as "Access now" or as "Access Options". If the full text is not available in the database, the access option available will appear as "Check for full text", which you can use to find the item in another database or request it through interlibrary loan. 

Search results for "international policy" AND security. The peer reviewed button, number of results, sort options, and access options button are highlighted.

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