Politics - Books, Journals and Other Resources

Books

The majority of general Politics books are located on Floor 6 of The Sir Duncan Rice Library at the shelfmarks 320. More specific shelfmarks are as follows:

Journals

Politics journals still available in paper format only are shelved on Floor 2 of The Sir Duncan Rice Library, at shelfmark Per 320 and Per 350 (Public Administration) and Per 355 (Defence studies).

Many Politics journals are now available electronically. All are listed by title in our Library Catalogue or you can use our online A-Z list - please note though, not every journal available electronically is on this A-Z list (for technical reasons dictated by the publishers!) but they are all in our Library Catalogue.

Official Publications

The Taylor Library and EDC has good holdings of UK Parliamentary Publications from Westminster, the Scottish Parliament, and the European Union and many are now online:

• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (1688 to the 2003/04 session)
• Public Information Online (Parliamentary Papers 2007-)
• Scottish Parliament
• UK Parliament
• European Union

International treaties and agreements
In the Law Collection in the Taylor Library there are a number of books which collect together international documents such as the UN Charter and the European Convention on Human Rights (eg. Brownlie: Basic Documents in International Law). There is a comprehensive index to treaties in the Reference Section. In the Law Periodicals section, International Legal Materials is a bi-monthly publication which reproduces the full text of new international documents in full.

On the Web you will find the full text of many treaties: here are some starting points.

• UN Treaty Collection
• Public International Law
• European Union treaties

Newspapers
Full-text access to UK national and regional newspapers is available from Lexis-Nexis Butterworths

Other Resources
Materials for the library are purchased through the Library Representative for Politics and International Relations.

Tutorials and workshops detailing how to make best use of the information resources available to PIR staff and students can be arranged by contacting the Information Consultant for Politics and IR Claire Molloy.

Don't forget if you have a query please pop in to the Floor 6 Office or email us at
socsciteam@abdn.ac.uk