Politics - Reference Works

Reference sources in Politics and International Relations are used for definitions of the topic and basic facts about people, countries and political systems.

The Library has encyclopaedias such as Encyclopaedia Britannica and standard reference works such as Statesman's Yearbook and Europa World Yearbook. These provide background facts about countries, listing statistical, political, economic and social data.

The CIA World Factbook gives basic country information and the Encyclopaedia Britannica (US edition) has a large number of articles on countries, prominent people and political systems.

International Political Sciences Abstracts
This is the main bibliographical resource which gives abstracts of journal articles world-wide.