Recommended
Databases: Political Science
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CQ
Researcher
The Congressional Quarterly (CQ) Researcher explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics
range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education
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Social Sciences Citation Index
Published by the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI); Delivered via the Web of Science platform.
The Social Sciences Citation Index® (SSCI®) and Social SciSearch® provide access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines. They also cover individually selected, relevant items from approximately 3,300 of the world's leading science and technology journals. MORE DETAILS... |
1991+ |
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Social
Sciences Full Text part of WilsonWeb's OmniFile
Covers the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law
and criminology, political science, social work, sociology,
etc. MORE
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Abstracts: 1994+
Full text: 1995+ |
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Academic
Search Elite via Ebsco
Broad coverage —including biological sciences, economics, communications,
computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts
and literature, medical sciences and women's studies. MORE
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Abstracts: 1984+
Full text: 1990+ |
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Almanac
of American Politics
Features key votes of Congress, important committee changes,
election forecasts, primary results and more. MORE
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America:
History and Life
A complete bibliographic reference to the history of the U.S.
and Canada. Covers Popular Culture, Multicultural Studies,
Gender Studies, Anthropology, Literature, Sociology, etc.
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1964+ |
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American
FactFinder (U.S. Census Data)
From the U.S. Census Bureau is the source for population, housing,
economic and geographic data. |
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CountryWatch
Up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world:
political, economic, and business information. MORE
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Current Contents Connect
A multidisciplinary current awareness Web resource providing access to complete bibliographic information from over 8,000 of the world's leading scholarly journals and more than 2,000 books. MORE DETAILS... |
1998+ |
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Dissertations & Theses via Proquest
The database includes citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester; those published from 1980 forward also include 350- word abstracts, written by the author. Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts. Of the millions of titles listed, UMI offers over 1.8 million in full text.
The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 North American graduate schools and European universities. MORE DETAILS... |
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ebrary
A collection of 13,000+ electronic books (ebooks) online. Strong
in key academic subject areas including Business & Economics,
Computers, Technology & Engineering, Humanities, Life &
Physical Sciences, and Social and Behavioral Sciences. MORE
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FirstGov
A centralized place to find information from 20,000+ local,
state, and US Government Agency websites. |
US
Government
Website
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Historical Abstracts
Covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding North America). MORE DETAILS... |
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1994+ |
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ISI
Emerging Markets
Covers Latin America, Eastern Europe, and Eastern
and Southeastern Asia. For each country, info about current
events, companies and industries, financial markets, macroeconomic
issues, and legal and political affairs. MORE
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LexisNexis
Academic
Access to full-text legal, medical, business, biographical
and news and information from over 5000 sources. MORE
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MasterFile
Select via Ebsco
Full text from over 750 general reference, business, consumer
health, general science, humanities, and multicultural periodicals.
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Abstracts: 1984+
Full text: 1990+ |
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Military
and Government Collection via Ebsco
Search military titles, trade publications and newsweeklies.
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New
York Red Book Online
Widely recognized as the most accurate, up-to-date text on
the decision makers in all segments of New York State Government.
Contains pertinent technical, biographical and reference
material and more.
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PAIS International with PAIS Archive
Offers access to the international literature in public affairs, public and social policies, and international relations. The database contains references to more than 460,000 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed. MORE DETAILS... |
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PapersFirst
via FirstSearch
Provides access to individual papers presented at worldwide
meetings, conferences, expositions, workshops, congresses,
and symposia. MORE
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1993+ |
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PsycINFO
via Ebsco
PsycINFO extensively covers psychological literature and includes
relevant materials from related disciplines such as medicine,
psychiatry, education, social work, law, criminology, social
science, and organizational behavior. MORE
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1967+ |
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1994+ |
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Research
Library via ProQuest Direct
Provides access to full-text journals across a wide range of
subject areas, including business, education, literature, political
science, and psychology.MORE
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1971+ |
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SIRs
Government Reporter
Documents from the US government. Information on health,
science, economics, environment, politics, foreign affairs,
workplace issues, business and industry is included. MORE
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Abstracts: 1971+
Full text: 1991+ |
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Westlaw
Campus
An online legal research tool designed specifically for undergraduate
and graduate students who need to research law-related issues.
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