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International Maritime Piracy: Secondary Sources

How to Research the Law of Piracy on the High Seas

Google Scholar

Google Scholar also produces good articles.  The search terms are entered for you; please ciick "search" to generate results.

Google Scholar Search

NY Times: Times Topics: Piracy at Sea

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Databases

The best starting points for secondary research are from BLS's very own online catalogs!

Make sure to enable proxy instructions, then head over to:

1. Full Text E-Journals List: Browse by subject; Law, Politics & Government; scroll down to International Law, where you will find:

    Clicking on any one of these, scroll down to United Nations and/or Yearbooks, where you will be taken to Heinonline's various libraries:

You will then be led to various journals. The problem is that many of these journals are not up to date and current.  But search "Piracy" or International Piracy and you will return hits which direct you to some U.N. Security Council resolution documents as well as some other helpful indexes. 

2. 360 Search: This is one of the best mechanisms to start your search for journals and other articles. One of the reasons is that it allows you to view the various other databases which are compiled here.  By being able to compare those databases, one is able to get a better idea of which ones they can turn to for more in depth research.  See Journals and Articles for this strategy in play.

Using Subject Search, enter either International AND Piracy or Maritime AND Piracy (better because the other one generates piracy related to intellectual property as well, resulting in more to rummage through). Both searches generate good articles, and this site allows one to further sift through the results by date, particular journal databases, topics even further subdivided, and journals.