Politics and International Relations

Meet the Subject Team

Anne and Sharon 300

Anne Worden

Faculty Librarian

anne.worden@port.ac.uk

(023) 9284 3243

Sharon Bittner

Assistant Faculty Librarian

sharon.bittner@port.ac.uk

(023) 9284 3243

Subject Locations

Most Politics and IR books are on the First Floor in the University Library, although the Modern History sections in the 900s on the Second Floor will be needed for some units.
Useful First Floor classmarks include:

Citizenship 323.6
Elections 324.6
Forms of state e.g. democracy 321
Globalization 306, 321.04
Human rights 323.4
Ideologies e.g. Fascism 320.5
Immigration 325.1
International relations 327
Modern thinkers 190
Political history by country 320.9
Political parties 324.2
Political thought 320.01
Public policy 350.003

We've got together the resources that we think you'll find most useful for your subject.

Before you get started on the various resources, you may find the following guides useful:

Getting Started in Politics and International Relations (pdf)
Using the Library Catalogue (pdf)

We also have web pages to help make use of our special collections

Suggested Resources

Databases
Journals
Reference Works
Websites
Additional Resources (including reading lists)

You will also find resources relevant to Politics and International Relations listed with other subjects. We suggest you also look at

European Studies

Manage the references for your dissertation using EndNote Web

You can use EndNote Web to gather all the references for books, journal articles etc which you want to use for your dissertation. The references can be accessed anywhere you have Internet access and you can get EndNote Web to create an instant bibliography for you - references to books and journal articles come out perfectly formatted for Harvard APA as used in Portsmouth.

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