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Political Science

Subject Indexes | E-Text | Websites

General Indexes

Academic Search Complete (Ebsco) is a multidisciplinary index giving access to articles in over 8000 journals with many available in full text.

Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale Cengage Learning) is a general database with indexing for journal, magazine and newspaper articles, with many of the articles available full text.

Wilson Select Plus (FirstSearch) is a general database that contains full text articles from popular and scholarly journals and magazines.

 

Subject Indexes

CQ Researcher includes original, comprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news.

CQ Weekly covers virtually every act of Congress, delivering nonpartisan news and analysis.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and complementary fields.

Political Science Abstracts (1967-present) provides access to research from over 1,000 journals within the political science discipline and its complementary fields.

Westlaw Campus Research is a legal research tool that includes case law; laws from all 50 states; federal statutes; and federal regulations. Also, includes secondary sources such as the American Jurisprudence 2d (Am Jur), American Law Reports (ALR) and hundreds of journals and law reviews from leading law schools.

America: History and Life (Ebsco) gives citations and abstracts for articles dealing with history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

NGA GEOnet Names Server (GNS) Provides access to the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's (NGA) and the U.S. Board on Geographic Names' (US BGN) database of foreign geographic feature names, database is the official repository of foreign place-names approved by the US BGN, Approximately 20,000 database features updated monthly, Geographic Area of Coverage: Worldwide excluding the United States and Antarctica.

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E-Text

»Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts, Virginia G. Piper Theater... »'Daily Show' lines up presidential candidates...
»Richardon's ready to rise to the top... »Democrats to elect new chairman as campaign activity picks up...
Headlines about political science

NetLibrary is a collection of electronic books (eBooks) especially selected to meet the needs of the university curriculum.

Gale Virtual Reference Library - Access the content of reference books electronically, anytime, anywhere.
Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy

Military Government Collection (Ebsco) provides full-text from over 320 military and general interest publications and also offers indexing and abstracting for over 360 magazines.

Online Books: Political Science

Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
Alexis de Tocquevilles seminal book about American society and politics remains as relevant and insightful as when it was published in two volumes in 1835 and 1840. Being an outsider from France de Tocquevilles unique observations often strike at the very core of what it means to be American or at least what we wish it meant.

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Websites

FIRSTGOV.gov
This is the U. S. Governments official web portal. It porvides access to online government service, publication news and many more resources.

U.S. Commission on National Security/21st Century
The purpose of the Commission is to provide the most comprehensive government-sponsored review of U.S. National Security in more than 50 years.

OpenSecrets.Org
Opensecrets.org is a guide to money in American politics maintained by The Center for Responsive Politics.

Statistical Abstract
published since 1878, is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Use the Abstract as a convenient volume for statistical reference, and as a guide to sources of more information both in print and on the Web

THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
A service of the U.S. Congress' library. Includes information on activities in Congress, status and text of bills, committee reports, and much more.

U.S. Government Information. GPO Access
Contains full text of the Congressional Record, Congressional Bills, Public laws, Federal Register, U.S. CODE, and more.

STATE of TEXAS Government Information
A variety of resource links including state agencies; counties and cities; travel information; business information and more.

University of Michigan
Michigan Journal of Political Science, Political Science Links.

YAHOO
Sites related to political theory.

Election Resources Webliography
From LSU consists of historical information, political parties and world elections.

Fedstats: One-stop shopping for Federal Statistics
This site provides easy access to a full range of statistics and information produced by federal agencies for public use.

 

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