Library: Political Science: Political Science

Welcome to the Political Science LibGuide!

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This guide provides resources that may be helpful to Political Science classes.

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To see special resources for Political Science students, check out the resources on the left.
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Recommended Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A scholarly, multi-disciplinary database providing indexing and abstracts for thousands of journals and other publications. Academic Search Complete includes full-text access to peer-reviewed journals, as well as indexing and abstracts for magazines, monographs, reports, and conference proceedings. Academic Search Complete contains all resources from Academic Search Premier, and much more.
Popular search terms: social media, anxiety, educational leadership, developmental psychology, forensic psychology, health psychology, sex crimes, forensic psychology, childhood obesity, health psychology
International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center This link opens in a new window Contains hundreds of full-text journals related to terrorism and security.
Social Science Full Text This link opens in a new window
Covering the latest concepts, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences, this full-text database includes some of the most important English-language social science journals.
Popular search terms: social media, anxiety, developmental psychology, forensic psychology, health psychology
SAGE Premier This link opens in a new window Search and browse more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals across a range of disciplines, with materials dating back to 1999.
Sage Research Methods This link opens in a new window
Includes more than 1000 books, reference works, journal articles, and instructional videos from across the social sciences, including the largest collection of qualitative methods books available online from any scholarly publisher.
Popular search terms: educational leadership
Sage Knowledge This link opens in a new window
Sage Knowledge includes CQ Press which provides definitive reference resources for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. A wealth of CQ Press resources and years of journalistic and editorial expertise are combined in this indispensable reference collection.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window Features continuously updated viewpoints, topic overviews, full-text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, videos, audio files and links to vetted websites related to relevant contemporary issues.
Popular search terms: social media, anxiety
ABI/Inform This link opens in a new window Includes strong content on public, private, and non-profit administration.
Popular search terms: marketing, business strategies, human resources, strategic management, change management, leadership, global leadership
eBook Collections (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Provides full-text access to over 280,000 ebooks across a variety of subject disciplines.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Provides access to more than 12 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
LexisNexis Academic This link opens in a new window This database is now called Nexis Uni. Click here to be redirected to the new platform.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window Features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.
Popular search terms: sex crimes, forensic psychology