E-Resources for International & Area Studies

This collection provides access to over 900 newspapers from over 340 Ukrainian cities. While most newspapers in the collection are in Ukrainian and Russian, there are also papers written in German, Armenian, Crimean Tatar, Hebrew, Polish, Hungarian, and more. Together, these newspapers document the regional consequences of the collapse of the Soviet Union, the early period of Ukraine's independence, and events leading up to the Orange Revolution (2004-2005). 

Digital archive spanning 19 countries and four decades covering cultural, economic, and political developments within the regions. Built from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports (FBIS) and the Joint Publications Research Service Reports (JPRS).

This collection provides insight into the history of individual countries, as well as broad viewpoints on key historic events. Key topics include the decline of colonialism, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, the Suez Crisis, the Cold War, the rise of the petroleum industry, the establishment of the state of Israel, the Iran-Iraq War, and the recent Arab Spring. Content is predominantly in Arabic, but includes key titles in English and French. Includes access to over 80 publications, including Jumhuriyah (الجمهورية, Egypt), Filastin (فلسطين‏, Palestine), Al Akhbar (الاخبار‏, Lebanon), Al Riadh (الرياض‏, Saudi Arabia), and Ad Dustour (‏الدستور, Jordan).

Established in East Berlin in 1946 as the official organ of the former German Democratic Republic, Neues Deutschland provides firsthand accounts of the 20th century's most momentous events from the Cold War's epicenter - the establishment of the German Democratic Republic, the Berlin Airlift, the Soviet space program, speeches by Presidents Kennedy and Reagan, the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the reunification of Germany, and much more. The Neues Deutschland Digital Archive contains all obtainable published issues from 1946 onward, with an additional year's worth of content added on an annual basis. 

Features 15,000+ news, business, and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions back to 1790. Some full text is available.

OU Libraries will cease subscribing to Nexis Uni, effective July 1, 2024. More information about this decision, as well as a list of databases covering the content in Nexis Uni, is available. 

NYTimes.com provides full access to New York Times and International New York Times content, including breaking news, multimedia, blogs, videos and more.

NOTE: You must set up an individual account to access the New York Times. To set up your free NYTimes.com account, click here. Once you create an account, you may access NYTimes.com either on or off campus using your account credentials.

Faculty and instructors also have access to the New York Times in Education, a resource of teaching strategies, articles, discussion questions, case studies and more. To set up access, click here and register with your @ou.edu email address.

Index to public and social policy issues, foreign and domestic. Materials indexed include journal articles, government documents, books, pamphlets, yearbooks, and directories.

The Post-Perestroika Newspapers collection traces the evolution of post-Soviet Russia, with coverage beginning in the mid-1980s and extending well into the twenty-first century. These newspapers, some of which had a relatively short lifespan, provide important and critical insight into the events and personalities that defined post-Soviet Russian politics and history.

Articles published by Pravda during the Cold War and the years immediately following, collected and translated into English by the CIA.

Pravda was the official voice of the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1918 and 1991 and the most important newspaper of the Soviet era.

Selective bibliography of academic articles and books covering all fields of Jewish studies.

Includes the published recordings owned by the non-profit Smithsonian Folkways Recordings label and the archival audio collections of Folkways Records, Cook, Dyer-Bennet, Fast Folk, Monitor, Paredon and other labels. This resource also includes music recorded around the African continent by Dr. Hugh Tracey for the International Library of African Music (ILAM) at Rhodes University, as well as material collected by recordists on the South Asian subcontinent from the Archive Research Centre for Ethnomusicology (ARCE).

The Soviet-Era Ukrainian Newspapers collection includes five Ukrainian and Russian language newspapers from three different Ukrainian cities, Kyiv, Kharkiv, and Lviv. This collection covers the early 20th century, a tumultuous time for Ukraine, and documents the Ukrainian War for Independence, the Holodomor, and the establishment of the Second Polish Republic and the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic.

Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa focuses on the complex and varied liberation struggles in Southern Africa, with an emphasis on Botswana, Mozambique, Namibia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Over 20,000 primary source materials include periodicals, nationalist publications, records of colonial government commissions, oral histories, local newspaper reports, personal papers, correspondence, UN documents, out-of-print and other particularly relevant books, photographs, pamphlets, speeches, and interviews with those who participated in the struggles.

SUR is one of the most important and influential literary magazines published in Latin America in the twentieth century. SUR featured the writings of the leading figures in literature, philosophy, history, and the arts from Latin America, North America, and Western Europe. Contributors included LeCorbusier, Lacan, Sarte, Borges, Cort√°zar, Silvinia Ocampo, and Bioy Casares. This collection includes images of the complete magazine, including covers, photographs, advertisements, a comprehensive electronic index of 6,300 entries as well as an unpublished set of letters by Victoria Ocampo.

Provides access to all U.S. treaties, whether currently in force, expired, or not yet officially published. Full text is available.

Contains current constitutions in their original language for over 190 countries. Also features historical constitutions and secondary resources, including more than 800 books about constitutional law, links to scholarly articles about constitutional development, and links to online sources. Full text is available.

Covers international literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. This database combines Political Science Abstracts and ABC POL SCI and includes over 800 journals.