Resources for: Political Science Research
Journal Articles | Electronic Journals (from Tripod) | Full Text Sources | Data & Statistics Sources
International | Citing and Evaluating Electronic Resources
Journal Articles - indexes and full-text resources
PAIS
(Public Affairs Information Service)
Excellent source for Political Science and public policy articles - Description
ABC pol sci (advance bibliography of contents: political science and government) - Canaday Index Z7161 .A214
A printed listing of tables of contents of poli sci journals. Valuable but limited in that it provides little information about the articles and indexing is complex.
International Political Science Abstracts - Canaday Index JA36 .I5
A print index, with abstracts, to international journals, many in foreign languages.
Worldwide
Political Science Abstracts
This database combines Political Science Abstracts, published by IFI /Plenum
(1975-2000), and ABC POL SCI, published by ABC-CLIO (1984-2000). It "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." (online fact sheet)
Full Text Sources
Provides online access to an extensive collection of full-text articles from journals across a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology. Covers 1971-present.
Columbia
Earthscape
Provides full-text information resources related to education and research
in the earth sciences and public policy with material contributed and
selected by scholars and research institutions. Contains daily news service
and the online journal, Earth Affairs magazine.
Contemporary
Women's Issues
Provides full text access from over 600 periodicals, newsletters,
research reports, and government and international agencies to global
information on women in over 150 countries, compiled in a single collection
brining together such disciplines as sociology, psychology, health, education,
and human rights.
Ethnic
Newswatch
Ethnic NewsWatch is a full-text collection of the newspapers,
magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
GenderWatch
A full text database that contains an international mix of non-mainstream
publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject
areas. With its archival material, dating back to 1970 in some cases,
GenderWatch provides a historical perspective on the evolution of the
women's movement and changes in gender roles.
JSTOR
Search more than 70 journals in the social sciences, humanities, and mathematics.
Complete text of all articles is online. Journals are
covered back to the first issue (as far as the 1930s in some cases), but
the most recent 4-5 years are excluded.
Databases of information on a wide range of topics, including news, business, politics and government, law, state and country information, biography, references works and dictionaries, health and medicine, and taxes and accounting.
PolicyFile
Provides abstracts and links to full-text research reports and studies
from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations
and policy publishers. 1990 to the present. Updated weekly.
Project
Muse
Search more than 40 journals in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Mathematics;
most only back to 1995; complete text of all articles is online.
ScienceDirect
Science Direct provides online access to over 1800 Elsevier journals in
the life, physical, medical, technical, and social sciences. Full text
is available only for those journals to which the TriColleges have subscriptions.
Full-text access for most of these journals goes back to 1993. For non-subscribed
journals, only abstracts are available.
A successor to the Daily reports from the Foreign Broadcasting Information Service and the JPRS reports from the Joint Publications Research Service provided through the National Technical Information Service. The material is obtained from non-U.S. open-source political speeches, television programs, radio broadcasts, newspaper articles, periodicals, and books. The content focuses primarily on military, political, environmental, scientific, technical, and socioeconomic issues and events.
Data Sources
U.S.
Census Bureau - Subjects
A to Z
Search more than 70 journals in the social sciences, humanities, and mathematics.
Complete text of all articles is online. Journals are
covered back to the first issue (as far as the 1930s in some cases), but
the most recent 4-5 years are excluded.
Fedstats
A to Z
Provides links to key statistics available from more than 70 U.S. government
agencies; keyword searchable database of statistical documents also available.
GOVBOT
Searches more than 800,000 U.S. Government webpages
ICPSR
Data Archive
Enormous data sets on a very wide range of topics, strengths include economic
behavior & attitudes, international systems, health, government and
policy, communities and urban planning
International Relations
Access
UN
Indexes United Nations publications; provides full text of Resolutions
from the General Assembly, Security Council and Economic and Social Council
- More
details
UN
Economic and Social Development Web Site
Subsections include Environment , Human
Rights , Narcotic Drugs , Prevention
of Crime , Statistics
, Sustainable Development
, Women , etc.
United Nations Web Site Locator
World Development Report
(significant excerpts from the printed book)
Current Report | Previous
Years
World
News Connection
Full text and summaries of news material, translated into English when
originally published in another language, obtained from non-U.S. newspaper
articles, political speeches, television programs, radio broadcasts, periodicals,
and books. Successor to the Daily Reports from the Foreign Broadcasting
Information Service and the Joint Publications Research Service provided
through the U.S. National Technical Information Service. 1994-date. Updated
daily.
Citing and Evaluating Electronic Resources
Citing
Electronic Resources
General overview to citation style with links to standard style guides.
Evaluating
Information Found on the Internet (Johns Hopkins)
A thorough discussion of important criteria; provides a good grounding
on the issues.
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