Sent to you by Sean McBride via Google Reader: IREON – the German gateway for Search via AltSearchEngines by Guest Author on 11/15/08
The database “World Affairs Online” is a joint venture of German think tanks, for example the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik” in Berlin, and is offered since years in several licensed and free versions. But now, the German Information Network International Relations and Area Studies ( FIV), this is the title given to the cooperation of these think tanks, offers an appropriate portal for research. The nucleus of the gateway is the own product, the “World Affairs Online” (and a special part about treaties), which is completed – but only available for German scientists – with other databases of the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA), for example Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) international and World Political Scientific Abstracts (WPSA). Interesting for international users is the supplement of the European Thesaurus on International Relations and Area Studies, which is added in several European languages and can be used as starting point of research in WAO. I don’t want to say too much about IREON gateway, because the whole interface and help texts are not only in German, but also in English! You can browse through the gateway: There will be always an interpreting text and a help available on the site! The colleagues had heavy work, so please look at the instructive texts and the FAQ. But just let me tell you about the worthiness and the performance of this service: Here you can find information about international relations (theory), world regions and countries. You can filter very well (language, year, publication type, full texts), so it is possible to refine excellent to have high qualitative results. With the thesaurus you have the option to search with the help of a controlled, hierarchical organized vocabulary which give you the means to execute a qualitative search!” -Juergen Plieninger You can read the entire origional post (in German) here: Things you can do from here: - Subscribe to AltSearchEngines using Google Reader - Get started using Google Reader to easily keep up with all your favorite sites
