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Political Science and International Relations
The following are core indexes to the political science journal literature.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Online archive of 100+ full-text Political Science journals. **Best for browsing or locating a specific article versus searching on a topic.** Also keep in mind the "moving wall"--most publishers do not provide access to the most recent 3-5 years. - Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
A massive index of literature from the sciences, social sciences, and humanities. Also offers cited reference searching to see who has cited a particular document. 1898 - current.
Note: To do cited reference searching, click on "cited reference search," fill in an author's last name and publication date, figure out which of the resulting list of citations match the work you're looking for, and then "finish search" to see who has cited that work. - Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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This is the core disciplinary index to political science journal articles, so you should include WPSA in your search. Broad coverage of political science along with complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. - Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
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Articles in this collection offer comprehensive summaries of the state of research on topics from many disciplines in the sciences and social sciences, including Anthropology, Sociology and Political Science. Covers 1997 - current.
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High quality treatments of major topics, written by major scholars in the field and pointing toward key literature. Choose "Political Science" under Browse by Subject. On the following page, be sure to select "Free" and "Unlocked" under By Availability to search articles you have access to. - PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service This link opens in a new window
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Articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs. Selectively rather than comprehensively indexes some journals. - CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online This link opens in a new window
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Covers theory and research in international affairs. Strength in grey literature such as working papers, conference papers and proceedings and government reports. - ProQuest Politics Collection This link opens in a new window
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Search across several individual databases at once: PAIS Index, Policy File Index, ProQuest Political Science Database, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. - Policy File Index This link opens in a new window
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Find reports on public policy topics from major think tanks, research organizations, and advocacy groups including the Hoover Institution, International Monetary Fund, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, RAND Corporation, and the World Bank. Covers 1990-current.
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These are some of the core Political Science journals you might find relevant to your search. Keep in mind, however, that this list is simply to get you started and the important journals will vary depending on your topic.
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- Foreign Affairs
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Interdisciplinary
Search broad, interdisciplinary databases in order to find articles from areas in which you might not have thought to look.
- Google Scholar This link opens in a new window
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Use Google's special academic search to locate scholarly articles from across disciplines. On campus, the preferences are set to indicate the Library's full-text access to what you find (links on the right). Use the "cited by" hyperlink to observe trends and uncover more scholarship relevant to your topic. - Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
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Contains scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines from across the disciplines and from popular culture. Much of the content is available in full text. An ELM Database. - ProQuest Research Library This link opens in a new window
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A broad, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary search tool. Covers 1973 - current. - Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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Use SSCI to do *cited reference searching* -- to track the number of times an article or author has been cited or referenced in other works. SSCI indexes 2,700 journals across 50 social science disciplines. - Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
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Search across 4,000 journals from a wide range of subject areas, including business, education, literature, political science, and psychology.
Social Sciences
Political Science journals are also indexed here; you will also find your research topic covered in other disciplines.
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Key index to economics journal articles, books, dissertations and working papers. Content includes both economic theory and application. Covers 1969 - current. - Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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International. Indexes many political science and international relations journals. - Sociological Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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Main index to research in sociology, anthropology, and related fields in the social and behavioral sciences. Covers 1963 - current.
Newspapers
These indexes provide excellent coverage of topical media, such as newspapers and magazines, often from around the world.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
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Access to the full text of newspapers (foreign and domestic), as well as business, legal, medical, and reference publications. - Access World News This link opens in a new window
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A comprehensive current news database, contains hundreds of local, regional, national, and international news sources (including the St. Paul Pioneer Press and Minneapolis Star Tribune). - ProQuest Newsstream This link opens in a new window
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A broad collection of newspaper articles published across the U.S.. Covers 1995 - current for most newspapers. An ELM Database. - World News Connection This link opens in a new window
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Translated and English-language news and local information such as transcribed speeches. Particularly effective in its coverage of local media sources from around the world. Continues FBIS reports from 1996 forward. - Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive full-text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. - FBIS: Foreign Broadcast Information Service This link opens in a new window
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Translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals and government statements from around the world. - JPRS: Joint Publications Research Service Reports This link opens in a new window
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Includes translated books, reports, serials, journal and newspaper articles, radio and television broadcasts from nations around the globe with an emphasis on communist and third-world countries. Covers 1957 - 1994.
Working Papers and Dissertations
Turn to these databases and websites to locate pre-published papers.
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to thousands of dissertations and thesis (U.S. only). Dissertations published 1997 to the present are available in full text. Several dissertations prior to 1997 are also available in full text, but not all of them. - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Papers This link opens in a new window
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Carleton subscribes as an institution to the NBER (National Bureau of Economic) working papers and publications. NBER is the nation's leading nonprofit research
- SSRN: Social Science Research Network
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Abstracts of working and forthcoming papers plus hundreds of thousands of downloadable papers.
Looking for Articles
Tip: Usually, it's helpful to start a search trying out lots of synonyms for your topic. Then, narrow your search using the precise subject terms (e.g. tags) each database uses to sort its articles into categories.
