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Indexes & Databases by Subject: Political Science

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Use JAKE to determine where a specific journal is indexed and if it is available full-text.

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Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. 
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Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
Communication Abstracts
Indexes and provides abstracts for articles in about 50 core journals in the field of Communications (dates of coverage vary)
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CQ Congress
CQ Congress Collection presents a powerful research and reference tool that provides an analytical survey of the history and development; powers; personalities; current developments; and legislation considered and passed by the United States Congress.
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CQ Electronic Library
Created and hosted by CQ Press, the CQ Electronic Library (CQEL) is the definitive reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. A wealth of CQ Press resources and years of journalistic and editorial expertise are combined in CQEL (pronounced SEE´quell). It also offers researchers—whether students, scholars, professionals, or interested citizens—a range of tools for discovering, understanding, and making use of its authoritative content.
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CQ Historic Documents Online
Published annually since 1972, the Historic Documents Series now contains 32 volumes of primary sources. Each volume includes approximately one hundred documents covering the most significant events of the year. These documents range from presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions to U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.
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CQ Researcher Original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news.
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CQ Voting and Elections Collection
CQ Voting and Elections Collection integrates a wealth of data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical material to provide a powerful research and reference tool on the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships.
Dissertation Abstracts
An index to theses and dissertations (1861- )
ICPSR
The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction.
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Ingenta
This database allows searching of tables of contents of over 25,000 titles, with full-text provided for selected publications. Emphasis is on sciences and social sciences. The library has online access to the journal titles that it subscribes in print.
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JSTOR
JSTOR is an electronic archive of selected journals in various disciplines. It attempts to maintain complete journal holdings from the first volume, but current volumes (from the past three to six years) are not included.
International Political Science Abstracts
International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA),produced by the International Political Science Association, includes current indexing and abstracts of the world's leading journals in political science. This database contains over 110,000 records from nearly 900 journals published from 1989 to the present. Approximately 8,000 new records are added to the database each year.
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Legal Collection
Centered on the discipline of law and legal topics, Legal Collection is a collection of respected, scholarly peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents, and case studies. This database is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world. Legal Collection offers full text for nearly 250 of the world's best law journals. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1965.
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LexisNexis Academic
Provides information from news,business, legal, medical and general reference sources
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LexisNexis Academic: Legal Research
Includes articles from law reviews and legal news sources, state and federal case law, state and federal codes and regulations, selected international legal materials, patent database, and legal directories
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LexisNexis Congressional
Offers comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information, including bill tracking, member voting records, committee reports, and congressional publications
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LexisNexis Statistical
This database allows you to search summaries of statistical publications produced by governmental agencies and private organizations and link to the full-text of selected publications.
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Military & Government Collection
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.
PAIS (Public Affairs Info Service)
Provides global coverage of public affairs and world issues, with an emphasis on issues in the public debate. It includes references to more than 530,000 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, gray literature, research reports, policy papers, Internet documents, conference reports and other sources from more than 120 countries.
PAIS Archive
PAIS Archive, a retrospective database chronicling global public policy and social issues from the early twentieth century through the mid-1970's, is now available on the OCLC FirstSearch service. The PAIS Archive currently contains more than 350,000 records, originally published in the PAIS Bulletin, 1957 - 1976.
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Project Muse
This collection of electronic journals covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and more. Coverage for individual titles varies but is generally from the late 1990's to the present.
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SocINDEX with Full Text
SocINDEX with Full Text features more than 1,600,000 records with subject headings from a 15,600 term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 253 "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 72 "priority" coverage journals. This database also includes full text for 547 books and monographs, and full text for 6,711 conference papers.
WorldCat
This combined catalog of library holdings includes books, web resources, and other material. A search for a title will show which participating libraries own it.
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Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature.

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