Melvyl® Catalog
provides access to the book, film, sound recording, map, archive file
and microform library collections at all nine UC
campuses. However, the Melvyl® Catalog does not list
the contents of journals. SeeIndexes
to locate article citations.
Cruzcat is a catalog of
books, video
and audio materials, documents, serials, and other items in McHenry and
S&E Libraries. CRUZCAT shows circulation status and receipt
of items. CRUZCAT list journal titles and holdings
information
but does NOT index journal articles.
RLIN
Bibliographic database contains citations for books, serials,
archives,
manuscripts, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, photographs,
posters, computer files, etc., held by Research Library Group members.
WorldCat
database includes citations for books, journals, manuscripts, maps,
music
scores, sound recordings, films, computer files, newspapers, slides,
videotapes,
etc., in a variety of languages.
Indexing and Abstracting Databases
Expanded
Academic ASAP - database contains records for articles from popular
magazines, general interest journals, and scholarly journals in the
humanities,
social sciences, and general sciences since 1988. Some full-text
is included.
International political science abstracts - from
the International Political Science Association provides abstracts
of political science articles published in scholarly journals and
yearbooks worldwide. McH Ref
Table 4 JA36.I5
Worldwide
Political Science Abstracts -
provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international
serials literature in political science and its complementary fields,
including international relations, law, and public administration /
policy.
PAIS
International Database - contains references to journal
articles, books,
government documents, statistical directories, grey literature,
research reports, conference reports, publications of international
agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more.
LexisNexis
Academic - this searchable full-text database is divided into
five major content areas: News, Business, Legal Research, Medical
Research, and Reference. The news section contains the text of many
regional, national, and international newspapers and other news
sources.
LexisNexis Congressional
- contains bill tracking services, congressional
publications, congressional committee reports and testimony, Code of
Federal Regulations, Federal Register, Congressional Record, National
Journal. Also contains a "hot topics" section with the full-text of
articles from national newspapers on current bills and issues in
Congress.
Social Science
Citation Index via Web of Science
- database indexes over 1,725
journals. Search by
subject, author, journal title. Cited Reference Search finds articles
that cite an author or article specified by the searcher.
Periodicals Index Online (PIO)
-
database of citations for articles published in
4,079 periodicals in popular literature, as well as the humanities and
social sciences from1770 to
1995.
Historical
Abstracts -
Contains citations and abstracts for works covering the history of the
world from 1450 to the present. See also, America:
History and Life (AHL) for coverage of
the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present.
Indexes and Abstracting services for related subject disciplines will
also be relevent, e.g. EconLit
for political economy. Consult the library's
Researchpage for more links.
Economist Intelligence Unit
(EIU) Profiles and Reports - country
profiles provide
analysis and forecasts of the political, economic, social, and business
environment in a total of 126 reports about more than 180 countries.
Europa
World Plus - online version of the
Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Regional Surveys of the
World series.
JSTOR Political
Science - searchable database
containing the full-text of back issues of more than 56 academic
journals in political science from their
first issue to ~1998.
NewsBank
Access World News - searchable full
text of newspapers from California, the United States, and around the world.
Project MUSE -
contains online access to the full-text of over
100
scholarly journals in the arts, humanities, social sciences, and
mathematics.
Proquest
Newspapers - searchable full text of the Los
Angeles Times, New
York Times (including the book review and magazine sections), and the
Wall Street Journal.
World News
Connection -
Searchable, full-text database of non-U.S. newspapers and other media
sources. Includes translated and English-language news and information.
Encyclopedias, handbooks, bibliographies and area study guides are a
good
place to start when you know little about a topic, when you need an
overview
of a subject, or when you want a quick summary of basic ideas. Political Science
Reference Sources - UCSC Library
