Below, you will find a list of resources for area studies scholarship on particular regions of the world. In addition to these geographically specific databases, you should also check general databases, particularly:
- PAIS International (Harvard Login)Comprehensive database of international policy-oriented social science literature (ranging from political science and international relations to education and public health to economics and finance), with content in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
- CIAO Columbia International Affairs Online (Harvard Login)Continuously updated, comprehensive site that curates articles, working papers, policy briefs, conference proceedings, etc. on international relations and related fields, including security studies, international law, and human rights.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (Harvard Login)Provides citations and abstracts of political science, international relations, and public policy scholarship published in international journals, thus providing perspectives of non-U.S. scholars.
- International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) (Harvard Login)Extensive bibliography of international social science literature dating back to 1951, including books, book reviews, book chapters, and journal articles.
- IREON: The International Relations and Area Studies GatewayContains citations (and some full text) on foreign and security policy, international development,
European politics, transatlantic relations, regional and country studies, and global energy and environmental policies through access to the WAO – World Affairs Online database, which is curated by several German international affairs research institutes.
Africa
- Africa-Wide Information (Harvard Login)Comprehensive database of historical and social science scholarship on Africa, covering all of the modern era from the sixteenth century to the present.
- Africa Yearbook Online (Harvard Login)Summarizes major political and socioeconomic developments in all countries of sub-Saharan Africa in a given calendar year; also offers transnational, regional overviews.
- African Studies Abstracts OnlineCompiles abstracts of social science and humanities journal articles and book chapters on Africa; curated by staff at the African Studies Centre of the University of Leiden, Netherlands. 2003-2017
- Oxford Bibliographies: African Studies (Harvard Login)Continuously updated, concise bibliographies on a variety of topics in African Studies.
- Oxford Research Encyclopedia of African History (Harvard Login)Provides detailed synopses of major research problems and themes in African history and historiography, often with extensive bibliographies.
- Africa PortalContains policy-focused articles, working papers, and reports authored by a variety of think tanks and NGOs (until 2022)
Middle East
- Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies (Harvard Login)Indexes scholarly and policy research on North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia.
- Index Islamicus (Harvard Login)Bibliography of books, articles, conference proceedings, and reviews on Islam and the Muslim world in European languages.
- Oxford Bibliographies: Islamic Studies (Harvard Login)Concise, continuously updated bibliographies on all aspects of Islamic Studies, with a strong historical/cultural perspective.
Asia
- Bibliography of Asian Studies (Harvard Login)Indexes journal articles, book chapters, conference proceedings, etc. on East, Southeast, and South Asia, from the 1970s to the present.
- Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Asian History (Harvard Login)Provides detailed synopses of major research problems and themes in Asian history, with extensive bibliographies. The geographic focus of entries is on Central, East, and South and Southeast Asia, with relatively few articles about Western Asia.
Central Asia
- Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies (Harvard Login)Indexes scholarly and policy research on North Africa, the Middle East, and Central Asia.
East & Southeast Asia
- Oxford Bibliographies: Chinese Studies (Harvard Login)Continuously updated, concise bibliographies on a variety of topics in Chinese history, politics, society, economics, and culture.
- National Social Sciences DatabaseOpen access database of social science scholarship originating in the People's Republic of China. In Chinese.
- CiNiiIndexes Japanese publications, with an emphasis on social sciences and humanities scholarship.
South Asia
- South Asia Research Documentation Services (SARDS3)Contains citations of research articles on South Asia, mainly in social science and humanities fields; curated by several German universities.
Europe
- Archive of European IntegrationComprehensive site, curated at the University of Pittsburgh, providing both primary source documents and policy research on European integration and the European Union.
- American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES) (Harvard Login)Indexes English-languages humanities and social science scholarship on Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, starting in 1989.
- EastView Universal Databases (Harvard Login)Comprises multiple databases with citations for or fulltext of periodicals from Russia and the former Soviet republics; both news publications and scholarly journals are represented, including the Russian National Bibliography.
Americas
- Handbook of Latin American StudiesProvides annotated bibliographies of books, articles, conference proceedings, etc. on Latin America in the areas of humanities and social sciences.
- HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index (Harvard Login)Indexes scholarly articles on Latin America and the Caribbean since the late 1960s.
- Oxford Bibliographies: Latin American Studies (Harvard Login)Concise, continuously updated bibliographies on historical, political, socioeconomic, and cultural topics in Latin America.
- Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History (Harvard Login)Provides detailed synopses of major research problems and themes in Latin American history, often with extensive bibliographies.