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GEOG 177 students, interdisciplinary topics like geopolitics and the news require sources from a variety of information resources, which can be very engaging. But, it can also be time consuming and you may hit roadblocks when searching for information you need. Therefore, this guide contains starting points for finding information related to your geopolitical news research questions. Please, contact me if you need help finding sources.
NEWS STARTING POINTS
- AllSidesThis is a curated collection of news sources that tries to balance bias in the media by providing information from the left, middle, and right. Check out the About Us and Media Bias pages to learn more.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowProvides access to more than 15,000 full-text news, legal and business sources. Includes journal articles, television and radio broadcasts, newswires, and blogs; local, regional, national and international newspapers; legal sources for federal and state cases and statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1790; business information on 80 million U.S. and international companies and 75 million executives.
- Associated Press collections online This link opens in a new windowNews Features & Internal Communication: The news features, dating from 1940, include news analysis, human interest stories, and entertainment and sports reporting.
Bureau Collection: This collection offers access to records from the AP's Atlanta, Austin, Birmingham, Chicago, Dallas, Miami, New Orleans, Philadelphia, and Pittsburgh bureaus, dating from 1931 to 2004.
European Bureaus Collection provides records from 1952 to 2000 (date spans vary by country)
Washington, D.C. Bureaus Collection: Washington D.C Bureau provides access to records covering the years 1915-1930, 1952-2009.
SCHOLARLY LITERATURE STARTING POINTS
- Academic search complete This link opens in a new windowA comprehensive database available that indexes and abstracts general interest magazines and scholarly journals, trade publications, magazines and newspapers in the social sciences, humanities and sciences. The database includes more than 3820 titles -- over 2550 in full text -- from 1971 forward.
- Political science complete This link opens in a new windowIncludes both a national and international perspective of political science topics, drawing from scholarly, professional and peer-reviewed sources, and offering considerable full-text content.
- Communication & mass media complete This link opens in a new windowIndexing and abstracting for nearly 600 titles, nearly 300 of which full text. Also provides a Communication Thesaurus and biographical information.
