Research Guides: .Political Science (General): Databases

Policy Map

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

CQ Researcher

Thorough overviews and analysis of American social and political issues

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

NYT.com

New York Times - "Academic Pass"

Oxford Handbooks - Political Science

Hope PRIMO

Hope Primo - library mega search

Political Science Research Databases

Political Science Complete
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
Searches across 15 databases spanning the social sciences disciplines.
Social Sciences Full Text (H.W. Wilson)
Contains abstracting and indexing of over 625 periodicals as far back as 1983, nearly 400 of which are peer-reviewed. Covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.
Coverage: Indexing (1983 - current); Full Text (1995 - Current)
Communication & Mass Media Complete
article citations and some full-text articles (politics and media, campaign advertising, political news programming/viewing, etc.)
ABI/INFORM Collection
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
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
Provides indexing and full-text coverage of scholarly law journals. Contains 1,100 full-text journals and law reviews. Also provides detailed indexing for additional legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, bar association publication, and university publications. This database encompasses the Index to Legal Periodicals and Books for 1908 forward.
JSTOR
full image, full-text scholarly journal archive (not most recent)
PolicyMap
PolicyMap is a cloud-based geographic information system used to analyze and visualize large data sets through maps, tables, charts, and reports.

PolicyMap contains an extensive data collection, with 30,000+ indicators used to understand communities, organized into general categories including demographics, income and spending, housing, lending activity, quality of life, economy, education, health, and federal guidelines. The data are available across a wide range of geographies (address, block groups, census tract, zip code, county, city, state, MSA) in addition to school districts, HUD neighborhoods, and political boundaries. In addition, users can upload and incorporate their data and leverage it against the thousands of indicators already available in PolicyMap.
Using PolicyMap in the Classroom
Social Science Research Network
Abstracts on over 576,700 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing over 477,900 downloadable full text documents.
DemographicsNow: Business & People
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

The Poli Sci-brarian

Todd J. Wiebe

Contact:

Todd J. Wiebe
Head of Research and Instruction,
Associate Professor
Van Wylen Library
Hope College
616.395.7286 (on-campus just dial SCUM)
wiebe@hope.edu

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