The Independent Review is abstracted and indexed in whole or in part by the following periodicals.

• Academic FullText Elite
• Academic Index
• Academic Search 1000
• Allied Social Science Index and Abstracts
• Book Review Index
• Columbia International Affairs Online
• Criminal Justice Abstracts
• EconLit on CD-ROM
• Economic Literature Index
• Environmental Abstracts
• Environmental Periodicals Bibliography
• ERIC Clearinghouse on Higher Education
• Human Geography
• Humanities Source
• International Political Science Abstracts
• EBSCO MasterFile FullText
• A Matter of Fact
• PAIS International
• PAIS Select
• Peace Research Abstracts Journal
• PolicyFile
• Executive Digest (PriceWaterhouseCoopers)
• ProQuest
• Research Alert
• Risk Abstracts
• Sage Communications Abstracts
• Sage Education Abstracts
• Sage Family Studies Abstracts
• Sage Human Resources Abstracts
• Sage Public Administration Abstracts
• Sage Urban Studies Abstracts
• Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Social Science Citation Index
• Social Science Source
• Sociological Abstracts
• SSCI
• UNESCO DARE Data Bank of Social Science Periodicals
• H. W. Wilson Company
• The Wilson Quarterly