Political Science

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. As well as journals, WPSA also indexes books, book chapters, reviews of books and other media, and dissertations.

Citations and abstracts to articles in business and the social sciences. Emphasis on international coverage of public policy, government, international relations and current economic, political and social thought. The PAIS International database contains references to more than 460,000 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed.

Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources: peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations.

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An excellent starting point for any topic, Academic Search Ultimate contains nearly 13,000 academic journals, magazines, and newspapers. Content covers all subject areas with material from 1887 to the present.

JSTOR is a full-text collection of scholarly journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Content from last 3-5 years is generally not available in JSTOR.

Contains primary source material including audio, surveys, and photographs on the Civil Rights Movement, segregation, discrimination and racial theory in America during 1943-1970. Materials were sourced from the the Race Relations Department, based at Fisk University, and now held at the Amistad Research Center in New Orleans.

Contains manuscripts, artwork, and rare printed books dating from the earliest contact between American Indians and Europeans. This resource provides access to material from the Newberry Library’s extensive Edward E. Ayer Collection; one of the strongest archival collections on American Indian history in the world.

This collection is produced in partnership with The National Security Archive at The George Washington University offering a comprehensive collection of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945 available outside the U.S. government. Collections cover the most critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post-World War II through the 21st century, providing unparalleled access to the defining international strategies of our time with more than 150,000 indexed, declassified government documents. Many are published now for the first time gathered through extensive use of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act by The Archive.

Offers a view into the many actors and agencies whose efforts shaped modern policy and legislation in conservation and environmental protection in the United States. Researchers will find the work of individual movers and shakers, such as early environmentalists George Bird Grinnell and “father of forestry” Joseph Trimble Rothrock, as well as later activists like Rosalie Edge and Velma “Wild Horse Annie” Johnston. They can sift through the records of agencies such as the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, along with the many departments focused on conservation and land-use matters, from water conservation to wildlife management, at both the state and municipal levels.

Search across all of Gale Primary Sources. Offers a range of content for the region, providing opportunities for research into issues and events in contemporary Latin American and Caribbean history, as well as historical perspective back to the colonial period. Coverage extends from the 15th to 20th century, providing information about the indigenous peoples of the region, the Conquest (la Conquista), colonial rule, religion, struggles for independence, and political, economic, and social progress and issues in newly independent nations. The archive is made up of more than 1.3 million pages of historical material across 33 archival collections from the United States and Europe. The historical collections provide original manuscripts, signed letters, expedition records, reports, maps, diaries, descriptions of voyages, ephemera, and more.