Databases for Political Science
Best Bets
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| Political Science Complete |
This database contains full text articles from over 500 scholarly journals and and indexing and abstracts from 2,900 journal titles. |
1989-present |
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| Columbia International Affairs Online |
CIAO publishes a wide range of scholarship that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings fro |
1991-present |
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| CQ Press Political Reference Suite |
Includes seven titles: Congress and the Nation; Historic Documents Series; Political Handbook of the World; Politics in America; Supreme Court Yearbook; |
1945-present |
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| PAIS International |
Provides citations, with some abstracts, to more than 3,000 sources including articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and book chapters about public affairs. |
1972-present |
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| Academic OneFile |
Contains more than 11,000 academic jounals, the majority in full text and peer-reviewed, and podcasts and transcripts from major news sources. |
1980-present |
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| Academic Search Complete |
Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals, and indexing for 4,100 more titles. |
1980-present |
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| America: History and Life with Full Text |
Provides access to journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations. Covers U.S. and Canadian history. |
1955-present |
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| Historical Abstracts with Full Text |
Provides citations with abstracts to over 1,700 journals,book and media reviews, and dissertations. |
1955-present |
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| International Political Science Abstracts |
"International Political Science Abstracts is published bimonthly by the International Political Science Association. |
2007-present |
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| Peace Research Abstracts |
Includes journal articles covering essential areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, and other areas of key relevance to the discipl |
1964-present |
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| ProQuest Congressional |
Daily Congressional news from the National Journal and Congress Daily, Congressional working papers and legislation, information about Congress members, and more |
1970-present |
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| U.S. Congressional Serial Set |
The United States Congressional Serial Set contains House and Senate Documents and House and Senate Reports. |
1817-1980 |
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| WorldCat |
Contains over 50 million records cataloged by OCLC member libraries throughout the world: Appalachian State University Library is a member (OCLC member code=NJB). |
1000 BC-present |
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Even More
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| Gallup Brain |
Searchable database of more than 70 years of public opinion, including questionnaires, which are the surveys Gallup uses to collect data from respondents, and documents, which include Gallup Poll, |
1935-present |
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| ICPSR |
ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) offers more than 500,000 digital files containing social science research data. |
1940-present |
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| Oxford Handbooks Online |
Each handbook from Oxford University Press takes an aspect of its discipline and unpacks it, explaining the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and setting the agenda |
2000-present |
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| Roper Center for Public Opinion Research |
The Roper Center archives datasets from thousands of surveys with national adult, state, foreign, and special subpopulation samples. |
1935-present |
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| Sage Knowledge |
Sage Knowledge provides full text access to more than 150 social science encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks. |
1994-present |
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