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is one of the
largest social science databases in Europe, containing
more than 900,000 references, mainly journal articles, book chapters
and grey literature. |
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offers a comprehensive range of references on international relations and area studies, with a focus on foreign and security policy and European politics. |
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has a unique cooperative structure, coordinated by the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik – German Institute for
International and Security Affairs (SWP), with input from ten German institutes. |
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WAO’s speciality is its use of a highly
differentiated subject
and regional classification and the multilingual European
Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies, a joint
product of European research institutes working in this field. |
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evolved from the German federal government’s
information programmes, which have existed since 1974, and is
government financed. |
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New: Cooperation with the German Library networks
WAO is now part of the catalogues of the German Library networks. You can now find all journal articles, chapters of books, online papers and monographs from WAO
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IREON relaunch, now with ECONIS data
IREON – the International Relations and Area Studies Gateway has a new technical platform and now includes additional collections on economic policy.
New databases are:
- ECONIS – the ZBW (German National Library of Economic) database
- SCIENCES PO – a selection from the Sciences Po, Paris journal articles database (closed catalogue)
The new IREON continues to provide bibliographic references (including full-text documents were possible) from:
- WAO – World Affairs Online
- WAO – Treaties, including selected treaties on international security policy and UN Security Resolutions
- LITDOK – the database of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ), with a focus on development policy
- FES – the library catalogue of the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, specializing in political and social topics
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