Political Science Databases

* database contains partial or complete full-image and/or full-text coverage of journal articles

PAIS International CSA Illumina 1972-
Public Affairs Information Service International (PAIS International) contains references to more than 540,100 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies and more. In addition to English, some of the indexed materials are published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.

PAIS Archive CSA Illumina 1937-1976
Contains references to material that provides a historical perspective on many of the 20th century's public and social policies including the Depression, Prohibition, World Wars I and II, the Atomic Age, McCarthyism, the Civil Rights Movement, the Cold War, the Vietnamese conflict, Watergate, and more.

Public Administration Abstracts EBSCOhost 1974-
Covers areas related to public administration, including public administration research, public administration theory and more. Searches top public administration journals such as Public Administration Review, Public Administration Quarterly, and International Journal of Public Administration.

Annual Reviews 1996-
Click on the Political Science link to search only the Annual Review of Political Science.

Sage Online Journals* Sage years vary-
A full-text, multidisciplinary database covering more than 520 journals in business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine.

ICPSR Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
ICPSR maintains a digitl, data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, demographics and other social related fields.

Government Documents, Publications & Laws

FDsys
FDsys provides free online access to official Federal Government publications, such as the United States Code, congressional bills and documents, economic indicators, public laws, and more. Provided by the Government Printing Office, FDsys replaces GPO Access.

THOMAS Library of Congress
A free database that search bills and resolutions, public laws, congressional records and other activities in congress. Coverage varies.

LegalTrac* InfoTrac1980 -
Use this database to find articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals, and legal newspapers on Federal and State Cases, Laws and Government Regulations, Legal Practice, and legal subjects such as Taxation and International Law. British Commonwealth and European Union cases and law are also included.

LexisNexis Academic* LexisNexis years vary
Click on the Legal link near the top of the page to search for laws and court cases. Also contains news sources, such as the New York Times, a great resource for general searching.

National Security

Homeland Security Digital Library U.S. Dept of Homeland Security
Provides quick access to literature on homeland security including important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies.

ISN: International Relations & Security Network
A free, international perspective database containing grey literature of all types, daily briefings, a monthly summary, primary source material, books, and many journals.

Area Studies

Asia Studies*
This databases bring together full-text reports on modern Asia and the Pacific covering a multitude of business, government, economic, and social issues.

Macmillan Cabinet Papers 1957-1963 Adam Matthew
This database provides historians and political scientists with direct access to documents from the highest level of the British government during Harold Macmillan's term as prime minister. Included are 30,000 images of original documents.

Selected General Databases

Academic OneFile*
Contains peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995.

Academic Search Premier* EBSCOhost years vary-
Provides full text for more than 3,430 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies. This database is updated on a daily basis.

CQ Global Researcher CQ Press 2007-
Explores controversial issues in the news with objectivity and balance at the international level. Topics range from social issues such as environment, health, education and science and technology. Just like the original CQ Researcher, each report contains charts, graphs and sidebar articles -- plus a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts.

CQ Researcher CQ Press 1923-
Explores controversial issues in the news with objectivity and balance. Topics range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology. Each report contains charts, graphs and sidebar articles -- plus a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a list of contacts.

Expanded Academic ASAP* 1980-
Use this database to find information on Astronomy, Religion, Law, History, Psychology, Humanities, Current Events, Sociology, Communications and the General Sciences.

JSTOR*
Full-text of 117 core journals in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Coverage includes the entirety of each journal with the exception of the current five years.

OmniFile Full Text Mega (H.W. Wilson)* EBSCOhost 1982-
This general database includes articles that cover a wide range of topics in education, general science, humanities, and the social sciences. Formerly known as WilsonWeb, OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition contains the full text of articles from over 2,500 publications and abstracts from nearly 3,600 publications.

Project MUSE* John Hopkins University
Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

Social Sciences Citation Index ISI Web of Knowledge 1900-
Includes current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines.