LibGuides: POL 264 Virtual Handout: Political Science Databases

Political Science Databases

Subject specific databases are especially good for in-depth research about your topic.

For help with databases, see the Database Access Troubleshooting Guide.

America: History and Life
Complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a fully-searchable database containing the back issues of several hundred scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, mathematics, music, ecology and botany, business, and other fields. JSTOR made additional content available to us due to COVID-19 through June 30, 2022.
Military & Government Collection
Military and Government Collection provides full text for nearly 400 publications. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets and offers indexing and abstracts for 500 titles.
National Newspaper Index (now called Gale OneFile: News)
Quick search access to The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times and The Washington Post.
New York State Newspapers
Contains ten major newspapers published in the state of New York, including the New York Times and the New York Post
Newsstand (now called Gale OneFile: News)
(Infotrac) Newsstand provides access to more than 1,100 major U.S. regional, national and local newspapers as well as leading titles from around the world.
Project MUSE - Standard Collection
Project MUSE (standard collection) offers full-text current and archival articles from scholarly journals from major university presses covering literature and criticism, history, performing arts, cultural studies, education, philosophy, political science, gender studies, and more. Updated continually.
Social Sciences Full Text
International, English-language periodicals in sociology, anthropology, geography, economics, political science, and law.
SocINDEX with Full Text
Coverage from all subdisciplines of sociology, including abortion, anthropology, criminology, criminal justice, cultural sociology, demography, economic development, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, politics, religion, rural sociology, social psychology, social structure, social work, sociological theory, sociology of education, substance abuse, urban studies, violence, welfare, and many others.

Westlaw Campus Research - Legal, Business and News This link opens in a new window
Statutes and caselaw at federal and state levels, company profiles, and national and international news articles.