Political Science: Databases
Core Social Science Databases
- Project Muse This link opens in a new windowFull-text access to a selection of prestigious humanities and social sciences journals.
- ProQuest Social Sciences Premium Collection This link opens in a new windowThis collection provides access to databases covering the international literature in the social sciences, including politics, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology and education.
- Social Sciences Abstracts This link opens in a new windowProvides references to English-language articles, interviews, obituaries, biographies, and book reviews in anthropology, economics, geography, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and other social sciences back to 1983, with summaries of documents back to 1994.
- Web of Science This link opens in a new windowWeb of Science is a multidisciplinary resource that allows you to search multiple databases at once, including: Web of Science (Core Collection), Current Contents Connect, BIOSIS Previews, MEDLINE, and Journal Citation Reports. Find journal articles, books, conference proceedings, reports, and tables of contents.
Top Political Science Databases
- Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) This link opens in a new windowInternational affairs database with working papers, journal articles, books, policy papers and more from a wide variety of sources. Most of the resources in this database are available full text.
- HeinOnline Government, Politics, and Law This link opens in a new windowHeinOnline’s Government, Politics, and Law provides comprehensive coverage of more than 2,000 periodicals. In addition the journals, the database also contains the Congressional Record, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, constitutions for every country in the world, classic books from the 18th & 19th centuries, all United States Treaties, the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations and more.
- International Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new windowThe library's main political science database. An excellent source for finding scholarly political science and international relations articles.
- PAIS International This link opens in a new windowOne of the library's top international relations and foreign affairs databases. This database covers scholarly and trade journals, books and publications from governments and NGOs.
- Political Science Complete This link opens in a new windowA full-text database which covers political topics with a worldwide focus, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse. Includes full text journals, reference books, and conference papers.
General Databases
- Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new windowAcademic Search Ultimate is a giant database that covers more than 10,021 journals, and full text for nearly 9,017 peer-reviewed titles. It is a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary resource of scholarly research.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowJSTOR provides the searchable full text of the backfiles of many of the core research and academic society published journals in almost all subject areas, but its emphasis is in the humanities and social sciences. The majority of JSTOR's content is academic and peer-reviewed.
Artstor content will be migrated to JSTOR prior to the site's retirement on August 1st, 2023.
- OCLC FirstSearchSearches multiple databases including WorldCat a catalog shared by libraries around the world.
Additional Databases
- America: History and Life This link opens in a new windowThe premier database for research on the history of the United States and Canada.
- Business Source Ultimate This link opens in a new windowComprehensive information on all aspects of business related topics and 55 videos from the Harvard Business School Faculty Seminar Series. The database features company SWOT analyses and market research reports. Country reports are included in this database. This version of the resource is hosted on a specially designed interface for this content.
- GenderWatch This link opens in a new windowProvides authoritative historical and current perspectives on the evolution of gender roles as they affect both men and women.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowThe premier database for researching the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
- Independent Voices This link opens in a new windowIndependent Voices comprises selections from alternative press collections of respected academic institutions across the country.
- Index Islamicus This link opens in a new windowIndex Islamicus is an international bibliography of publications in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world. It covers their history, beliefs, societies, cultures, languages and literature. It includes material published by Western Orientalists, social scientists and Muslims writing in European languages.
- iPOLL This link opens in a new windowiPOLL is One-stop shopping for academic, commercial, and media polls in the U.S. with search tools designed specifically for survey questions. Users can View various questions to better understand Americans' views.
- Twentieth-Century Global Perspectives: World Protest and Reform Movement This link opens in a new windowFrom politics to human rights to environmental issues, protests and reform movements have shaped modern global society. A protest that marked a turning point in one country, however, may have had entirely different consequences for another. This collection brings diverse global reactions to major 20th-century social movements together into a single fully searchable resource and offers researchers in a variety of disciplines valuable insight into the protests and reforms that changed the course of world history.
- Women's Studies Archives This link opens in a new windowAs a comprehensive academic-level archival resource, the Women’s Studies Archive will focus on the social, political, and professional achievements of women throughout the nineteenth and twentieth century. Along with providing a closer look at some of the pioneers of women’s movements, this collection offers scholars a deep dive into the issues that have affected women and the many contributions they have made to society.
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