Suggested Resources for Political Science

Indexes & Databases to Articles
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Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Academic OneFile		Interdisciplinary index of major academic periodicals. Partially paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Academic Search Premier		Interdisciplinary index to academic journals; provides full-content for over 3400 titles. Paid for by Electronic Library of Minnesota.
	Political Science Abstracts (Worldwide)		Index to articles in political science, international relations, law, and public administration/ policy.

Indexes & Databases to Articles
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Info	Database Name	Access	Database Description
	Access UN		International Government. Indexes documents produced by the various governing organs, agencies, and programs of the United Nations
	Alternative Press Index		Alternative Press Index (API) is a bibliographic database of journal, newspaper, and magazine articles from over 300 international alternative, radical, and left periodicals. Covering theories and practices of socialism and revolution alongside ecology, democracy and anarchism, feminism and organized labor, indigenous peoples and gays/lesbians, API coverage is both international and interdisciplinary. Coverage begins in 1991.
	America: History and Life (EBSCO)		Index to articles on United States and Canadian history.
	Census		Information on how to find data from Census 2000 and earlier censuses
	CQ Researcher		CQ Research report offers in-depth non-biased coverage of political and social issues.
	CQ Weekly Archive (1983-2009)		CQ weekly reports nonpartisan news and analysis from Congress for the years 1983-2009.
	EconLit		EconLit, the American Economic Association’s electronic database, is the world’s foremost source of references to economic literature. The database contains more than 1,010,900 records from 1969-present. EconLit covers virtually every area related to economics.
	FDsys (formerly GPO Access)		Federal Law and Government Administration. Collection of government-produced databases related to government, economics, business, law, and public life
	FEDSTATS		Statistics on a wide variety of subjects including demographics, business, ethnicity, taxation, environment, sociology, politics, griculture, crime, employment, military, safety, climate, health
	Government Information Resources		Links to federal, state and local government web sites and databases
	GPO Catalog of U.S. Government Publications		United States Government Publications
	Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)		Index to articles on world history from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada).
	JSTOR		Full text and index of over 1200 scholarly journals from various disciplines.
	Legal Information Institute		Federal and legal resources including court opinions and the U.S. Code
	LexisNexis Academic		Wide range of news, business, and legal information sources - useful for general reference, general business research, legal research, and tax accounting research
	LexisNexis Law Reviews & Journals		Law
	LexisNexis Legal Research		Full-text federal and state case law and legislative codes and federal regulatory law
	NCJRS Abstracts (National Criminal Justice Reference Service)		Indexes articles and book chapters on criminal justice
	OECD		Agriculture and food, education and skills, employment, emerging economies, energy, enterprise and trade, environment and sustainable development, finance and investment, general economi
	PAIS International		Indexes articles on public affairs.
	Passport GMID		Euromonitor GMID (Global Market Information Database) featuring business intelligence, company profiles, and strategic and statistical market analysis
	Project Muse		Covers the arts, humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
	Proquest Congressional Publications		Guide to locating congressional publications, bills, testimony, etc.
	Sage Knowledge (eBooks)		Electronic reference books published by Sage.
	SAGE Premier		Provides access to 485+ SAGE journal titles in the social sciences, humanities, medicine, engineering, and physical and life sciences, with backfile to 1999.
	Science Direct (Elsevier)		Full text of selected journals and selected reference books published by Elsevier. Full text indexing available for all Elsevier journals from v. 1, issue 1.
	Social Sciences Citation Index		Citator for articles in the social sciences
	Web of Science		Online versions of ISI's citation indexes--Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. This database will not work in Internet Explorer 9. Please us another browser (e.g. Safari, Firefox, Chrome).
	WorldCat -- UMD Students, Staff & Faculty		Catalog of approximately 50 million records, entered by OCLC member libraries worldwide.

 

 

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Jodi Carlson Grebinoski, Reference Librarian

Email:jlcarlso@d.umn.edu

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