Political Science

Key Databases

The best first place to go if you're looking for research materials in this discipline.

US Policy and Politics

• ProQuest Congressional - Indexes information produced by or pertaining to the United States Congress from 1789 to the present...
• Congress.gov - Presented by the Library of Congress, Congress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislat...
• Politics in America - Profiles the members and delegates of the current and past Congresses. Users may conduct searches th...
• U.S. political stats - U.S. Political Stats contains over 225,000 data series--or data measures over time about people, pla...
• NCJRS abstracts database - The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database contains summaries of more than 1...
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• CQ electronic library - CQ electronic library is a reference resource for research in American government, politics, history...
• National Journal Group's policy central - A collection of resources on U.S. politics and policy, including the National Journal, The Hotline, ...
• America, history and life - Indexing and abstracts covering United States and Canadian history from prehistory to the present. I...

International Policy and Politics

• UNBISnet - UN publications and documentation indexed by the United Nations Dag Hammarskjèold Library and the Li...
• World constitutions illustrated - Contains the current constitution for every country, constitutional histories, texts on constitution...
• Library of Congress Country Studies - This website contains the on-line versions of books previously published in hard copy by the Federal...

Datasets

• Sage Data (formerly Data planet) - Explore a vast collection of U.S. and international statistics in Data Planet. With this dynamic too...
• ICPSR: Inter-university consortium for political and social research - Established in 1962, the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is a ...
• SAGE research methods. Datasets - "Search and browse for datasets specially developed to help you teach and learn research methods" --...

More Databases

• Declassified documents reference system
• Digital National Security Archive
• Ethnic newswatch
• JSTOR
• Left index
• North Carolina state publications collection
• Biography and genealogy master index
• Project Muse
• Public administration abstracts
• Roper Center public opinion archives
• Social sciences citation index
• Sociological abstracts
• Web of Science

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