LibGuides: Human Rights Research Guide: Databases & Journals

Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides broad coverage of most academic areas including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, and in the scholarly and general periodical literature. Contains indexing and abstracts for more than 13,000 journals, with full text for more than 9,000 of those titles.
Access World News This link opens in a new window
Search over 6,000 news sources across the United States and over 2,500 from around the world. Time coverage extends back 35 years for some sources, and the database is updated every day. Archival files Include the Omaha World Herald back to 1885.
ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) This link opens in a new window
Archive of digital analysis-ready social science data in multiple software formats including SPSS, SAS, and Stata. Summary statistics for online analysis datasets. Instructional materials for classroom-ready datasets. Searchable bibliographies of data-related literature.
ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window
PDF copies publications issued by Congress spanning 1790-1979, including hearings, committee reports, committee documents, committee prints, and treaty documents. Also includes PDF copies of Executive department and agency documents, 1789-1932.
ProQuest Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
Includes full text articles from over 2,400 research journals across social science disciplines. Also includes working papers and doctoral dissertations.

Journals

Free Online Resources

Anti-Slavery Society (London)
Includes initiatives related to slavery, trafficking of women, migrant workers, forced labor, child labor, and debt bondage.
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
More than 500,000 government records generated since July 1976 are contained in the CGP.
Columbia University Human Rights Web Archive Index
An initiative by Columbia University Libraries and Information Services (CUL) and its Center for Human Rights Documentation & Research (CHRDR) to preserve and provide access to Internet resources in the area of human rights.
Council of Europe Human Rights Web
Includes Council of Europe's human rights declarations.
Country of Origin Research
Extensive research collected by the Canadian government on human rights abuses in many countries.
European Country of Origin Information Network
Provides access to recent country information specifically geared to asylum claims.
FDsys
A project of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) to provide digital access to government information.
MetaLib
A federated search engine that searches multiple U.S. Federal government databases.
Refworld
In-depth reports in refugee status, countries of origin, and policy documents.
Search.USA.gov
A comprehensive, searchable index of about 50 million pages from federal, state, local, territorial, and tribal websites.
The EU and Human Rights
News and full-text documents on issues related to human rights in the European Union.
UN Human Rights Research Guide
Links to databases for searching specialized human rights documentation.
United Nations Treaty Collection
An open access comprehensive depository of treaties entered into by any member of the United Nations.
UN Official Document System (ODS): Official Documents of the United Nations
ODS has full text documents and covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Includes resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards.