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CIAO publishes a range of scholarship that includes working papers from university research institutes, foundation-funded research, proceedings from conferences, journals, and policy briefs.
Includes six titles: CQ Almanac; CQ Researcher; CQ Magazine; Political Handbook of the World; Politics in America; and Supreme Court Yearbook.
Contains full text articles from over 500 scholarly journals and indexing and abstracts from 2,900 journal titles related to political science, global in scope.
Provides access to nearly 500 leading political science and international relations journals, with over 400 titles in full text.

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Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals over a wide array of academic disciplines.
Provides access to journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations covering United States and Canadian history and culture from prehistoric times to the present.
Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to guide researchers to the principal contributions of their field.
The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to 1975.
Internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices of the NAACP.
A comprehensive database for health-related U.S. survey questions, covering eighty years of national polling.
The experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media, 1704 to 2009.
Provides citations with abstracts to over 1,700 journals, book and media reviews, and dissertations covering world history (excluding the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) offers more than 500,000 digital files containing social science research data.
Includes over 3 million bibliographic references to journal articles and books dating back to 1951, primarily covering anthropology, economics, political science, and sociology.
Provides abstracts of articles in the field of political science; published bimonthly by the International Political Science Association.
Core scholarly journals (especially back issues), ebooks, and images from a range of disciplines, with full-text searching and DRM-free downloads.
Written in French, Le Monde provides day-to-day news coverage of French, European, and international issues and events affecting politics, society, business, and culture.
Offers current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government and full text for nearly 300 journals and magazines.
Provides access to 400 full-text scholarly journals in military-related fields.
Provides full text coverage for 730 national and international newspapers, 16 North Carolina newspapers, and TV and radio news transcripts.
Features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline, explaining the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and setting the agenda for how those debates might evolve.
Provides citations, with some abstracts, to more than 3,000 sources including articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and book chapters about public affairs.
Includes journal articles covering essential areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, and other areas of relevance.
A web-based resource for information on public policy issues with indexing and linking to the output of over 350 think tanks and similar organizations.
This collection provides insight on fringe groups from both the right and left of the political spectrum through rare, hard to access primary sources.
Comprehensive online collection of primary source congressional publications and legislative research materials covering all topics.
Archives datasets from thousands of surveys with national adult, state, foreign, and special subpopulation samples.
Full text access to more than 200 encyclopedias and over 100 handbooks in the social sciences and related subjects.
Provides access to over 1,000 scholarly journal titles, with around 700 available in full text, across a wide range of social science disciplines.
A statistics portal that integrates data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets on over 60,000 topics from 18,000 sources.
Over 230 tables and figures devoted to key subject areas such as elections and political parties, public opinion and voting, the media, and much more.
Lets you search the holdings of thousands of libraries using precision search features, view detailed results, and link to University Libraries' holdings.
Abstracts and indexing of the international literature of political science and international relations, along with complementary fields, including international law and public administration/policy.