Political Science Databases

Connect to LexisNexis Academic on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases. A mini-guide on searching LexisNexis Academic is available
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Fulltext database of thousands of magazine and newspaper articles, news wires, legal and government sources. Dates of coverage and updates vary from title to title.
Connect to Access World News on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases. Includes full-text articles from 600 U.S. newspapers and over 700 international newspapers. Coverage varies, some newspapers going back as far as 1977.
Connect to AccessUN on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases. Index to United Nations documents, including official records, draft resolutions and the United Nations Treaty Series citations. Includes fulltext of selected documents. 1991 to present.
Connect to CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online) on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases. Comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. Provides full-text access to think tank working papers and reports, policy briefings, conference proceedings and books. 1991-present. Continuously updated.
Connect to CountryWatch on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases. Detailed economic, political information and news for 191 countries. Country reviews include historical and political information, five years of hard data for key economic sectors, economic overviews, detailed maps, environmental situations, stock markets, investment climates, and taxation information. Continuously updated.
Connect to CQ Researcher on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
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Online version of this weekly publication, covering the most current and controversial issues of the day complete with summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more. Full text of all articles published since 1991.
Connect to CQ Weekly on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases. Nonpartisan information on what is happening on Capitol Hill, including legislative news and analysis. This is the online version of the weekly magazine, including full text of all articles published since 1983. Users may search for past articles by words, dates, subjects, etc.
Connect to Digital National Security Archive on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases. Comprehensive collection of over 35,000 significant primary documents concerning events in United States' foreign policy. Documents date from 1945 forward and relate to major foreign policy events of the Cold War period.
Connect to EIS: Digests of Environmental Impact Statements on the Web EIS extracts the key issues from complex government-released environmental impact statements, converting massive documents into concise, readable abstracts. 1985-present. Updated bi-monthly.
Connect to Environmental Sciences and Pollution Management on the Web This multidisciplinary database provides abstracts and references to the literature covering all areas of air, land, water, and noise pollution, as well as bacteriology, ecology, toxicology, risk assessment, environmental engineering, environmental biotechnology, waste management, and water resources. 1981-present. Updated monthly.
Connect to Human Population and Natural Resource Management on the Web This database provides access to human population and demography topics, as well as societal issues involving natural resource management. Coverage includes relevant papers, reports, books and reviews from peer-reviewed scientific journals, as well as conference proceedings and hard-to-find gray literature. 1995-present. Updated monthly.
Connect to Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective on the Web Indexes nearly 1200 scholarly journals covering the entire range of the humanities and social sciences from 1907-1984. Also covers many important scientific journals through the 1950s. For indexing of articles appearing 1985-present., use Social Sciences Full Text and/or Humanities Full Text.
Connect to ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) on the Web
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Covers a wide range of disciplines and areas of study, including political science, sociology, economics, population studies, criminal justice, public health, aging, education, psychology, history, and substance abuse.
Connect to LexisNexis Academic on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases. A mini-guide on searching LexisNexis Academic is available
Formerly Academic Universe / Lexis-Nexis
Fulltext database of thousands of magazine and newspaper articles, news wires, legal and government sources. Dates of coverage and updates vary from title to title.
Connect to LexisNexis Congressional on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases. Congressional Publications; bills, laws and regulations; locate information about current members of congress and congressional committees.
Connect to Military and Government Collection on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases. Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 periodicals and 245 pamphlets, and offers indexing and abstracts for over 400 periodical titles.
Connect to PAIS Archive on the Web Indexes monographs, periodical articles, notes and announcements, and analytics relating to public and social policies. The original historical subject headings have been retained in the file. Coverage is from 1915 through 1976.
Connect to PAIS International on the Web Indexes and abstracts journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more related to public and social policies. The database includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world. 1972-present. Updated monthly.
Connect to PolicyFile on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases. Indexes public policy research and analysis from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers. Provides links to fulltext where available.
Connect to RAND California Online Library on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases. Keyword access to abstracts of RAND publications as well as full-text access to selected publications.
Connect to Social Sciences Citation Index on the Web A mini-guide on searching Social Sciences Citation Index is available Index to the journal literature of the social sciences. It fully covers over 1,400 journals spanning 50 disciplines. Coverage also includes items relevant to the social sciences selected from 7,000 other journals. 1994- present. Updated weekly.
Connect to Social Sciences Full Text on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases. A mini-guide on searching Social Sciences Full Text is available Indexes and abstracts articles at least one column in length from over 544 different English language periodicals in the social sciences, which includes anthropology, psychology, sociology, ethnic studies, political science, economics, geography, urban studies, and more. Fulltext of articles are available from about 175 of these periodicals. Indexing goes back to 1983. Abstracts began with January 1994. Fulltext availability varies title to title, but may go back to 1995. Updated daily. For indexing of articles appearing prior to 1983, use Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective.
Connect to World News Connection on the Web Contains full-text articles. Click to see all full-text databases.
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This is the Web version of the U.S. government's Foreign Broadcast Information Service, consisting of transcripts and translations of foreign news media, print and broadcast. The full database, going back to 1996, is available in the library only, and a librarian at the Reference Desk must log you in.
Connect to Worldwide Political Science Abstracts on the Web Indexes over 1,000 journals and books in the field of political science, as well as international relations, law and public administration/policy. 1975-present. Updated monthly.
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