Research Guides: .Political Science (General): Databases

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Policy Map

PolicyMap is a cloud-based geographic information system used to analyze and visualize large data sets through maps, tables, charts, and reports.

Opposing Viewpoints in Context

Explore a wide range of topics from a variety of viewpoints

Points of View Reference Center

Explore a wide range of topics from a variety of viewpoints

New York Times and Wall Street Journal

New York Times

Wall Street Journal

Oxford Handbooks - Political Science

Hope PRIMO

Hope Primo - library mega search

Political Science Research Databases

Political Science Complete (EBSCOhost)
full text for more than 530 journals, and indexing and abstracts for over 2,900 titles (including top-ranked scholarly journals), over 340 full-text reference books and monographs, and over 38,000 full-text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association
ProQuest Social Sciences
Subject: Social Sciences
Content/Description: Grants access to articles and media across 11 databases.
Communication & Mass Media Complete
article citations and some full-text articles (politics and media, campaign advertising, political news programming/viewing, etc.)
ABI/INFORM Collection (ProQuest)
Contains scholarly and popular articles from business and economics periodicals, in addition to more general periodical titles. Also includes "reports," such as country overviews, etc.
Web of Science : Social Sciences Citation Index [1956-Present]
From "Web of Science" - Provides access to citations from more than 1,700 high-impact social science journals. Cited-reference searching permits forward and backward literature reviews. Coverage 1956 - present.
Legal Source (EBSCOhost)
Subject: Law
Content/Description: Provides full-text articles, books and video from scholarly law journals, reviews, yearbooks, institutes, and university publications. This database includes the Index to Legal Periodicals and Books for 1908 forward.
JSTOR
full image, full-text scholarly journal archive (not most recent)
Social Science Research Network
Subject: Social Sciences
Content/Description: Contains abstracts on scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and holds an Electronic Paper Collection.
DemographicsNow: (Gale Business)
U.S. Demographics and Business information
GPO Monthly Catalog
Covers all types of U.S. government documents, including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; and documents issued by executive departments

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