LibGuides: Political Science: Articles

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Find Scholarly articles in Library Databases

Use the Library databases to search for articles. Databases collect and index a big number of journals running through long time periods. Databases offer searching features that help you find what you need using and combining keywords, and limiting your search by type and date of publication. see Search Techniques.

Start your search using subject databases, then use Multidisciplinary databases for a broader coverage.

In most databases you can access the articles in full text, or link to the full text from a different source.

Subject Specific Databases

Historical Abstracts with Full Text This link opens in a new window A comprehensive database covering the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present. It indexes articles, books, conference papers, dissertations and theses about history and related disciplines such as archeology, anthropology and sociology. Also provides access to the full text of more than 330 journals and 119 books back to 1955. Availability: Full-text and bibliographic citations Date Coverage: 1954- present Print Equivalent: Historical Abstracts: Part A, Modern History Abstracts (1450-1914) Historical Abstracts Part B, Twentieth-Century Abstracts (1914 to the present) Features: Direct link to RefWorks (Citation Management Software) Link to Full-Text options via OpenURL

ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)
Repository of scholarly publications from 700 academic institutions.
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An international consortium of about 700 academic institutions and research organizations. It provides leadership and training in data access, curation, and methods of analysis for the social science research community.
ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 500,000 files of research in the social sciences. It hosts 16 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
Political Science Network (PSN)
part of SSRN

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Multidisicplinary Databases

Search multidisciplinary databases to find journal articles not covered in subject specific databases:

Academic Search Ultimate This link opens in a new window 7,300 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage: 1865-
JSTOR This link opens in a new window Scholarly journals archives, 1800s- Full text archiving (in PDF format) of selected scholarly journals starting with issue one. It usually does not include the most recent three to five years. JSTOR. 1800s-
Project Muse Journals This link opens in a new window An online collection of journals from scholarly and academic presses including John Hopkins University Press. The collection provides access to arts, humanities, and social sciences in scholarly journals that are peer-reviewed. Subject covered include literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, economics, and many others. Availability: Full-text Date Coverage: All from v.1
Web of Science This link opens in a new window Web of Science, an authoritative and multidisciplinary citation database, allows searching of core journal articles, conference proceedings, data sets, and other resources in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes current and retrospective coverage dating to 1900. Also features "cited reference" search capabilities. Availability: Bibliographic citations Date Coverage: 1900 to present
ProQuest Central This link opens in a new window 11,500 titles with over 8,500 titles in full text.
Sage Journals This link opens in a new window An online collection of peer review journals out of which 295 titles are accessible from volume one, issue one. The database is browsable by titles and covers four primary topics: social science and humanities, health science, life and biomedical sciences, materials science and engineering. Availability: Full-text Date Coverage: All from v.1
Taylor & Francis Journals This link opens in a new window Online access to over 900 peer-reviewed journals covering disciplines in science, technology, engineering, medicine, humanities and social sciences published by Taylor & Francis, Routledge, and Psychology Press imprints. Availability: Full-text Date Coverage: All from v.1

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