International Development

Useful links

For quick access to high quality information for your assignments, try the links on these pages.

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Reading Lists

Key Starters for Essays and Dissertations

Research Methods

Finding Articles

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For most assignments, our Discovery Service will give you enough articles to work with.

Sometimes you may want to try specific databases or journals - perhaps your lecturer has recommended particular names as a good way of finding articles. This section lists key sources for International Development:

• Why Use Journal Articles?

• Journals Across a Range of Development Topics

Look here for top titles. You will find a wider range via Discovery.

• Journals Covering Africa

• Journals covering Asia

• Journals Covering Latin America

• Databases

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• ELDIS

An online information service providing free access to relevant, up-to-date and diverse research and policy documents on international development issues.

• JSTOR

fully searchable in EBSCO Discovery

JSTOR is best known as an academic journal archive containing thousands of articles on a wide range of subjects. To find the most recent years, you will need to search other databases like Discovery or go to the journal sites themselves. JSTOR also contains ebooks, research reports and 1000+ collections of images and primary sources from libraries, museums and archives around the world.

For some tips on searching JSTOR, watch this short video. You can also use JSTOR's Text Analyzer to find other documents or keywords relevant to your research. If you use JSTOR a lot, it's worth setting up a free, personal account so that you can use JSTOR's Workspace to store articles and notes.