LibGuides: Development Studies: Home

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This guide gives an overview of recommended sources available at the Erasmus University Library in Rotterdam and the Library of the International Instititute of Social Studies (ISS) in The Hague: databases, journals and reference works relevant for Development studies.

Please use the tabs on the left to find information for your research and interest. The links in this guide will automatically take you to ERNA-login if this is required for off-campus access. Non-EUR students or employees can use the free, publicly available sources with the symbol or symbol behind them. Contact your faculty liaison if you have any comments or questions about this guide, or need further help with your research.

Running trials and free offers for Development Studies

Cambridge Core – e-books This link opens in a new window
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Full-text access to e-books published by Cambridge University Press, covering 30 subjects across the Humanities, Social Sciences and Medicine. Access is provided until April 30, 2024. After this date a selection of books will be purchased.
Cambridge Companions and Higher Education Textbooks of CUP are not included in this collection.

In May 2024, a selection of these books will be purchased for permanent access. The usage statistics are used to make this selection. If you have found a book from Cambridge University Press that needs to be a part of the permanent collection, for example because it’s required reading in a course, please contact your faculty liaison to ensure access after April 2024.
Taylor & Francis/Routledge eBooks in Humanities and Social Sciences 2021-2024 This link opens in a new window
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Full-text access to more than 16.000 e-books published by Taylor & Francis and Routledge from 2021 until today, covering 30 subjects across the Humanities and Social Sciences. Access is provided until December 19, 2024.
In January 2025, based on the usage statistics a selection of these books will be purchased and therefore remain accessible. If there is a specific book that you would like to remain available after December 2024, for example because it is required reading in a course, please contact your Faculty Liaison.

Please contact your faculty liaison if you think any temporary content should be part of our permanent collection.

Information Skills

Learn how to search, find and manage scholarly information and data in an efficient way. Visit the library's Information Skills guides for more online modules!

Build your search profile After finding the search terms for your research topic, you have to combine these search terms in a search profile, establishing specific relationships between the search terms. In library databases and catalogs, this is done using Boolean or logical operators such as AND, OR and NOT.
Search techniques Successful searching is largely about being precise. Search techniques can help you search with precision and find what you need.