WEB RESEARCH GUIDES

Political Science: Online Databases

POLITICAL SCIENCE
 

ONLINE DATABASES

Schaffer Library
Union College

COMPUTER SEARCHES
Online Databases: Political Science
[Via the Electronic Resources option -- Schaffer Library Home Page]

 

Citation Searching:

  • Web of Science

    Includes ISI Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)--1997-present and Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)--1997-present. Search for specific articles by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. Search the databases for articles that cite a known author or work.

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    Keyword/Table of Contents Databases:

  • ingenta

    Article contents database covering 20,000+ journals and 10 million articles. [Note: Formerly UnCover.]

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    Full-Text and Selected Full-Text Databases:

  • CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online — full text of journal articles, working papers, policy briefs, and other international affairs resources
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  • Contemporary Women's Issues -- international coverage of women's issues from the fields of sociology, psychology, health, education and human rights including full text of articles online via OCLC FirstSearch
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  • EBSCOhost

    • Research database with selected Full-Text online.

  • JSTOR
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    An electronic database of 117 back issues of academic publications. Includes Afro-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Political Science, Population, and Sociology titles.
  • Lexis-Nexis
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    Online access to local, regional, national, and international newspaper articles (and other sources).

  • ProQuest Direct
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    The Periodical Abstracts Research II database indexes 1904 titles with 1097 of them online in full-text. Full-text access to national newspapers as well.

  • Wilson Select Full-Text -- full text of articles online via OCLC FirstSearch
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    Research Databases -- Bibliographic:

  • ABC POL SCI — via Library CD-ROM network
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    Primary online political science database.
  • OCLC FirstSearch Databases
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    FirstSearch provides access to over 50 citation databases including H.W.Wilson Select Full Text which contains indexed and abstracted articles from over 430 periodicals, all with ASCII full text online.

    FirstSearch Databases -- General:

    FirstSearch Databases -- Social Sciences:

  • PCI - Periodicals Contents Index

    PCI Web is an electronic index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from 1770 to 1992/1993. Every article is indexed. PCI Web currently indexes over eight million articles in 2,006 journals.Title and Subject Lists included for browsing.

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    Schaffer Library Resources in Political Science[Web Edition] represents the work of Bruce Connolly, Reference Librarian, Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308; 518/388-6281; Fax 518/388-6641; and Gail M. Golderman, Electronic Media Librarian, Union College, Schenectady, NY 12308; 518/388-6624.

    Last revised on September 13, 2001