Subject: Political Science
Key Databases
MarciveWeb DOCS
Index to U.S. government publications published since July 1976
PAIS International
The Public Affairs Information Service provides access to thousands of articles, books, documents, reports, and grey literature relating to social science and politics.
Political science : a SAGE full-text collection
Centralized access to the full-text of 29 journals relating to political science and published by Sage Publications or selected participating societies.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Indexes more than 1600 journals in political science and related fields.
Related Databases
Academic Search Premier
This large multidisciplinary database includes full-text for approximately 4,500 journals, including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed publications. Searchable cited references are also included for 1,000 titles.
AccessUN
Indexes current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications. Includes access to some online full-text. In addition, some materials may be located in a microfiche collection found in the USF Tampa Library.
CIAO
Columbia International Affairs Online contains working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series, foundation-funded research projects, policy briefs, and proceedings from conferences relating to international affairs.
CQ Researcher
Published weekly, this publication offers summaries of current, controversial topics. Each report includes a summary, background information, an analysis of the current situation, the outlook, pros and cons, a chronology, and an annotated bibliography.
CQ Weekly
Renowned for quality reporting and a bipartisan outlook, Congressional Quarterly provides weekly updates on congressional bills, committees, and activities. Coverage back to 1983.
Expanded Academic ASAP
Indexes approximately 3,500 journals including 2,100 peer-reviewed titles. Many citations lead directly to full-text links. Coverage goes back to 1980.
Facts on File World News Digest
With coverage back to 1940, this resource provides basic facts for news-worthy events from the United States and around the world.
Global Legal Information Network
Sponsored by the Law Library of Congress, this resource contains laws, regulations, and other legal sources contributed by the governments of the member nations.
Humanities and Social Sciences Index Retrospective
Provides indexing to journals in the social sciences and humanities dating back to 1907.
Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text
Provides indexing to law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, and government publications.
Lexis Nexis Academic
To locate legal information start at the initial search page and select “Legal” from the red toolbar at the top of the screen. From the Legal Research screen, follow the links and search guides to access federal or state laws and cases. You may also search for legal news and articles.
Lexis Nexis Congressional
Includes indexing for the CIS/Index to Publications of the U.S. Congress from 1970, Also provides searching for the Congressional Record and the Federal Register. Look here to track legislation and to locate the full text of most Congressional Committee Reports from 1990 forward and Congressional testimony from 1988 forward.
Social Sciences Full-Text
Indexes more than 600 journals relating to the social sciences. Searches are easily limited to peer-reviewed journals. Coverage goes back to 1983.
Westlaw Campus
This user-friendly database allows searching of federal and state legislation and court cases. A wide variety of full-text law journals may also be accessed through Westlaw Campus. After conducting a search, be sure to examine the “links for” tab on the left side of the screen for additional information relating to the document.
Wilson Omnifile Full Text Mega Edition
A large multi-disciplinary resource indexing research on a wide variety of subjects. Many citations link to the full-text of the article. Searches are easily limited to peer-reviewed journals. Coverage goes back to 1982.
World News Connection
This global news service provides access to translated or English-language news. Information is provided by analysts at the Open Source Center (OSC). Most articles include the entire text or translation.
E-journals
Annual Reviews
Searchable full-text access to the entire content of 33 Annual Review titles including the Annual Review of Political Science.
Cambridge Journals Online
Searchable access to the journals from Cambridge University Press.
CQ Weekly
Renowned for quality reporting and a bipartisan outlook, Congressional Quarterly provides weekly updates on congressional bills, committees, and activities. Coverage back to 1983.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Provides full-text access to free scientific and scholarly journals. More than 2500 journal titles are included in this resource with approximately 750 of them searchable at the article level.
HighWire Press
A partnership between Stanford University Libraries and influential scholarly societies, university presses, and publishers, HighWire provides searchable, full-text access to a large number of the 200 most frequently cited journals.
JSTOR
This unique resource was created to provide searchable, full-text access to the older editions of a vast number of scholarly journals. Coverage goes back to volume one of the journal but does not include the most recent few years of the title. A wide selection of disciplines are included.
OCLC ECO: Electronic Collections Online
A large, searchable database with full-text articles from a wide variety of journals and publishers.
Oxford Journals
Searchable access to the journals from Oxford University Press.
Political science : a SAGE full-text collection
Centralized access to the full-text of 29 journals relating to political science and published by Sage Publications or selected participating societies.
Project Muse
Provides the full-text of more than 300 scholarly journals. The majority of the titles are in the arts and humanities, however, some political science titles are also included such as: World Politics, The Washington Quarterly, Social Politics, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, History of Political Economy, Latin American Politics & Society, and Global Environmental Politics
ScienceDirect
A searchable collection of more than 1,000 Elsevier science journals. Also provides access to articles that are in press but not yet published in the print version.
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