Politics Subject Guide

Top Article Databases
  • The Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) contains citations and short abstracts for journal articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and statistical directories. Subjects include government, international relations, legislation, political science, statistics, and related areas.
    Covers: 1972 - present, abstracts start at 1985.
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  • WPSA provides citations and abstracts for journal articles in political science, international relations, law, and public administration / policy.
    Covers: 1000 A.D. - present
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  • Citations to working papers, conference proceedings, books, and journal articles in the area of international affairs. Many resources are full-text.
    Covers: 1991-present.
  • Database with references to monographs, journal articles, government documents, reports, and pamphlets from 1937-1976.  Historical perspective on public policy, political, economic, and social issues worldwide.
    Covers: 1937-1976.
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  • Social Sciences Citation Index®, accessed via Web of Science®, provides access to the bibliographic and citation information data from 2,474 of the world's leading social sciences journals across 50 disciplines.  Use Cited Reference Search to find articles that cite or are cited by an author. With the addition of Century of Social Sciences,  SSCI® delivers comprehensive backfile and cited reference data from 1900.
    Covers: 1900-present
  • News coverage in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. Company information. Federal and states court cases back to 1789.
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  • Contains bill tracking services, congressional publications, congressional committee reports and testimony, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, Congressional Record, National Journal.
    Covers: 1789 - present
  • International Political Science Abstracts is published bimonthly by the International Political Science Association. It provides non-evaluative abstracts of articles in the field of political science published in journals and yearbooks all over the world.
  • ARPS covers significant developments in the field of Political Science including political theory and philosophy, international relations, political economy, political behavior, American and comparative politics, public administration and policy, and methodology.
    1998 - present
  • OBO: International Relations offers an introduction to the field and peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies.  The bibliographies are browseable/keyword searchable and include books, journals, primary documents, multimedia and web resources.
  • Full-text of 29 journals covering General Political Science, American Government & Politics, Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Policy Studies, Political Communication, Peace / Conflict Studies, Presidential Studies, Political Theory / Philosophy, International Relations, and Area Studies.
    Coverage varies, some titles back to 1912.
  • An online resource that offers authoritative content on the development of emerging green technologies and discusses issues on the environment, sustainability and more. GREENR is a Gale / Cengage Learning product.  

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