Politics and International Relations: Databases/eResources

Includes bibliographic references to journal articles and books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. Its broad coverage includes anthropology, economics, political science and sociology, and is international in scope.

Archive of British political speeches, created by researchers at Swansea University.

Information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

The American Economic Association's bibliographic database is a source of reference to worldwide research in a broad range of economics issues from 1886 to the present.

Published by the Office for National Statistics.

Official website of the European Union.

Independent fact checking charity.

Comprehensive website of government services and information. Includes all government departments and many other agencies and public bodies.

Election maps for Great Britain and Northern Ireland showing the electoral geography of the UK.

Overton is a citation database of policy documents, parliamentary transcripts, government guidance and think-tank research. Globally collected data is made available through the Overton web application, reports and an API. Overton can be used to see how research is impacting on policy, and can also be used in literature searching to help identify grey literature.

Full text electronic editions in philosophy. Includes complete or collected works of philosophers such as Aristotle, Nietzsche and Wittgenstein.

Develops and promotes the study of politics.

Gateway to significant online resources relevant to the study of politics and government, produced by Richard Kimber of Keele University.

Enables you to answer methodology questions during the research process. It links full-text book, journal and reference content with advanced search and discovery tools, including visual search tools called Methods Maps. We have temporary access to the Foundations collection until 31 July 2022. Foundations are bite-sized introductions to research concepts and methods written by global experts.

House of Commons Library blog, offering an impartial and authoritative take on the latest issues and statistics.

The UK data archive is curator of the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the UK.

Provides access to data from the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS), Census Programme, Secure Data Service and international sources.

Evidence-based resources for health and social care for children and families, and adults.