Library Research Guides: Political Science 101: Library databases

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Political Science Databases - Selected List

See A to Z Databases for a complete list or use OneSearch to search all of the databases.

Issues and Controversies
Why search here?
This resource helps students and researchers understand today's crucial issues by exploring hundreds of hot topics in politics, government, business, society, education and popular culture.

What is included?
Presented in a balanced, pro/con format, each article presents key facts arguments, history, and current context - an ideal resource for research papers, debate preparation, and persuasive writing assignments.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Why search here?
Easy to access reference resources from encyclopedias, dictionaries, biographies, quotations and more.

What is included?
3,514,883 full text articles in 1,131 titles from 120 publishers.
Westlaw - Campus Research
Why search here?
Campus Research is an easy-to-use online research service that provides college and university students with access to a comprehensive collection of news and business information and law-related resources.

What is included?
Court cases, statues & court rules, regulations, administrative decisions & guidance, secondary sources, briefs, proposed & enacted legislation, proposed & adopted regulations. Plus, civil rights legal materials & news, COVID-19 legal materials & news, and legislative history.
Gale eBooks
Why search here? A database of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Gale In Context: Global Issues
Why search here?
International viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics and current events.

What is included?
Featured are hundreds of continuously updated issue and country portals that bring together a variety of specially selected, highly relevant sources for analysis of social, political, military, economic, environmental health and cultural issues.
Social Science Database
Why search here?
Social Science Database offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines.

What is included?
Subjects including anthropology, communication, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology.

Selected Newspapers

Selected newspapers are shown below. You may also search the newspaper databases individually or use OneSearch and refine your results to Newspapers using the limiter in the left-hand column of your results.

New York Times - current
1996 - date

ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times with Index
Why search here?
This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

What is included?
The Historical New York Times with Index (1851-1993) provides search capability using subject terms and topics for focused and targeted results in combination with searchable full text, full page, and article-level images from the Historical New York Times.
Times Herald
Why search here?
Access to Port Huron's Time Herald Newspaper.

What is included?
The indexing covers not only complete bibliographic information but also companies, people, products, etc.
U.S. Newsstream
Why search here?
U.S. Newsstream enables users to search the most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites in active full-text format.

What is included?
U.S. Newsstream offers exclusive access to the Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, and co-exclusive access (with Factiva) to The Wall Street Journal. U.S. Newsstream also offers one of the largest collections of local and regional newspapers, and is cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform.

Websites

OECD Data
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

Provides statistics such as: what percentage of population has Internet access; trade in goods and services; education spending; etc.
The World Factbook - Central Intelligence Agency
The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Our Reference tab includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and a Standard Time Zones of the World map.
Library of Congress Country Studies
The Country Studies Series presents a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world.
Doing Business: Measuring Business Regulations
Produced by the World Bank Group. Explore economic data by selecting a country in the drop down box in the right-hand column.
U.S. Dept. of State, Background Notes Country Fact Sheets

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