Subject Guides: International Studies: Magazines and Technical Reports

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Current Individual Magazines

Economist.com
Authoritative weekly newspaper focusing on international politics and business news and opinion.
Includes mobile app and subscriber-only podcasts and events.
You can also log in in the app or at https://www.economist.com/. Select the option to Log In, choose SSO, and select American University Library (not American University) from the list of institutions.

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Economist Historical Archive 1843-2020
Digitized version of the complete British weekly news magazine from inception in 1843 to 2020. The Economic Financial indicator tables from May 1983 to December 2020 are available for exporting into a spreadsheet format.
Foreign Affairs
Magazine covering international relations and U.S. foreign policy.
Use the link above or you can visit foreignaffairs.com on the open web, click on the link to Log In, then select Login via OpenAthens.

Foreign Policy
Reporting and analysis on global affairs, foreign policy, and international relations.
To sign up for alerts, click on the 'Sign in' link at the top right of the Foreign Policy homepage, then click on 'I don't have an account' at the bottom of the box and complete the form.
Vogue Archive
Complete run of Vogue from 1892 to the present, with high resolution page images.

Historical Magazines

The following databases of individual U.S. magazines do not have the current issue.

Technical Reports

Air Force e-Publishing
Army Publishing Directorate
Hub for unclassified U.S. Army publications and forms.
Defense Technical Information Center
Citations or full text of over 2 million technical reports resulting from government-funded scientific, technical, engineering, and business research covering over 250 subjects related to defense. From the U.S. Department of Defense.
DOE Green Energy
Thousands of U.S. Department of Energy technical and project reports, as well as energy patent and other information on various forms of green energy, including solar, wind and bioenergy.
Energy Citations Database
Publications and reports mostly from 1943 to present.
Citations to over 2.4 million and full text of over 267,000 reports, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, and computer science. From the U.S. Department of Energy.
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) Database
Coverage: 2004 to present.
Provides information about Environments Impact Statements prepared by federal agencies, as well as the Environment Protection Agency's comments concerning the EISs. From the U.S. Environment Protection Agency.
HUD Reports
Reports from 1970 to present.
Reports, executive summaries, case studies, and guidebooks produced by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Information Bridge: DOE Scientific and Technical Information
Reports from mostly 1991 to present.
Over 266,000 full-text documents of U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) research report literature. Documents were produced by DOE, the DOE contractor community, and/or DOE grantees and are in the fields of physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics of interest related to DOE's mission.
National Service Center for Environmental Publications (NSCEP)
Reports mostly from 1976 to present.
Thousands of free technical and project reports produced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
TRAIL: Technical Report Archive & Image Library
U.S. government technical reports issued prior to 1975, also known as "legacy documents." These reports also appear in HathiTrust.

Trade Magazines

Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals (AULIMP)
Publications from 1988 to present.
Citations to articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals.