Research Guides: Political Science: Databases

Political Science (Use to find articles)

Academic Search Complete
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals.
Hein Online
Contains more than 145 million pages and 150,000 titles of legal history and government documents in a fully searchable, image-based format.
Nexis Uni
Provides full-text access to over 15,000 news, business, and legal sources; including US Supreme Court decisions since 1970.
Political Science Database
Access to hundreds of leading political science, public policy, and international relations journals, as well as recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country reports, policy papers and other sources.
Web of Science
Provides access to the world's leading citation databases, with coverage from nearly 9,300 of the highest impact journals worldwide, including Open Access Journals. Current and retrospective coverage in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities, with coverage dating back to 1965.

Other Databases You Can Try (Use to find articles)

American Periodicals
Includes over 1500 full-text periodicals that were first published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, trade magazines, and medical journals.
Gerritsen Collection-Women's History Online
Includes primary source material published from 1543-1945, possibly the greatest single source for the study of international women's history and the feminist movement. Includes books and periodicals.
Google Scholar
Covers peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and other scholarly literature from all broad areas of research. Free to the public--it will be useful after you graduate and no longer have access to the paid databases.
Historical Abstracts
Indexing and abstracting for periodicals and dissertations on all *except* US and Canadian history. Covers 1450 to present, published since 1955. Some links to full text.
JSTOR
A full-image collection of the back issues of over 1100 scholarly journals representing most major academic disciplines including 76 of the top journals in political science. Access from first issue to within 3-5 years of present.
NewsBank
Includes Current Events Hot Topics, and Special Reports on subjects such as natural disasters, world health, etc. Also has a link to Texas Historical Newspapers.
Periodicals Archive Online
Covers almost 800 fulltext journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences published from 1770 to the present.
Project Muse
Over 100 full-text journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences, over 40 of them in history. None of the holdings are older than 1995, some only back to 2000.
Wiley Online Library
Features full-text journals in various social sciences, including political science. Also some access to reference works.


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