Course resource help for Development Studies

Academic Search Complete

A full-text database providing full articles, with their accompanying indexing and abstracts, across a wide range of subjects.

Business Source Complete

A huge database of academic journal articles, magazine articles, trade journals, reports, country profiles, industry profiles, and company profiles on all aspects of business including management.

Factiva

International news database providing an archive of 32,000 sources from nearly every country worldwide, in 28 languages. Leading national newspapers, local newspapers, trade and professional journals, the BBC Monitoring Service (transcripts of world radio broadcasts) and company's financial details are all included. Contains information on real estate and international real estate. It also contains a large collection of full text journals relevant to architecture, construction and real estate management.

IBSS - International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

An index to books and journals in the social sciences, including sociology, politics, economics and anthropology.

PsycInfo

A broad based Psychology database, coverage includes abstracts of books, journal articles and dissertations. Covers material published since 1887 Contains more than 1.5 million references.

Sociological Abstracts

Covers a broad range of subjects including sociology, political theory, social anthropology. Covers material published since 1952. Also includes cited references for all journal articles indexed on the database since 2002.

Web of Science

This host service provides a single route to many of the key scientific databases subscribed to by Brookes. These are: the Web of Science Core Collection (including the Science Citation Index); MEDLINE; Biosis Citation Index; Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science; and Journal Citation Reports. Databases can be searched individually or together and bibliographic records will link to any full-text content available via Full Text Finder.

There is much information available on the Internet. Searching can be interesting but it is time-consuming, and the integrity of information retrieved cannot be always guaranteed. It is important, therefore, to use a reliable source - please refer to our Guide to evaluating web sources for more information.

Useful web sites, including many full text documents, include:

• Accord

• Communication Initiative Network

• DFID: UK Department for International Development

• Eldis (Institute of Development Studies, Sussex). Includes resources, news & jobs in development policy, practice and research)

• Globethics.net

• HPN: Humanitarian Practice Network

• Human Rights Watch

• Institute of Development Studies

• Millennium Development Goals Indicators

• Overseas Development Institute

• Oxfam Policy and Practice

• Oxford Department of International Development

• Shelter Case Studies

• Swiss Resource Centre and Consultancies for Development

• (UCL) Bartlett Development Planning Unit (working papers etc)

• United Nations

• United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN Habitat)

• World Bank

• World Bank data

• Development Studies: a guide to finding information (PDF): this guide helps you to find relevant books, reports and journals.
• Recording of a library session - literature searching for a dissertation

All our journals are listed on LibrarySearch on the Library home page so you can search for a specific journal there (choose the Journal titles tab and then enter your journal title.) 

To look for journal articles on a topic, rather than from a specific journal, you should use a database: see the section above for more information about searching databases.

Find all our books and electronic books using LibrarySearch (the search box on the Library homepage). Search and then select Book from the Search tools menu on the left. You can further limit your search to eBook if you only want electronic books. 

Video guide to using LibrarySearch to find books

Finding a book when you know the author/title - PDF

Finding a book on a topic - PDF