Your subject guide
Purpose of this guide
This guide is designed to help provide you with subject support identifying the most useful resources for Politics and International Relations.
The Library has a range of different information types to help you from learning about a new topic to detailed research. Watch the short video below for more guidance thinking about what information you need.
Find the best resource for each stage of your research journey from getting started using the library, to researching for assignments and doing a dissertation.
- Access a range of POL/IR databases
- Look at related e-book collections for POL/IR
- Either browse or search a wide-range of POL/IR journals
- Access POL/IR-related Grey Literature
- Not sure what’s meant by Grey Literature? Check out this video via the University of Guelph
- Browse a range of national & international news resources
- Access a range of multimedia resources
- Access a range of national and international data & Statistics
- Explore our collection of Official Publications relating to POL/IR
- Check out our POL/IR-related Reference Materials
- Browse a listing of POL/IR-related organisations
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As a Politics student at Kent you also have access to over 250 up to date textbooks from Bloomsbury available on Vitalsource that you can download to your own devices, These are your own personal subscription copies.
Click on the image to access the Special Collections and Archives site, that houses the British Cartoon Archive (BCA). The BCA holds artwork for over 200,000 British editorial, socio-political, and pocket cartoons, supported by large collections of comic strips, newspaper cuttings, books and magazines.
This site contains a wealth of information in various formats, that allows you to view your subject from a different angle.
The British Cartoon Archive, provides the opportunity to find striking visuals that act as a social commentry on ground-breaking domestic and international political events.
Suggest a Resource
We are keen to encourage you to suggest additional resources that may bring additional value to the resources contained in this resource subject guide. If you feel that there is something missing (e.g. resource, voices or perspective), then fill out this form and we will try our best to include your suggestions.