Political Science

Article Databases - Most Useful

CQ Press Political Reference Suite

This database combines many of CQ's most well- known government and political titles into a single searchable database. It includes such titles as the Political Handbook of the world, Elections A to Z, the Federal Regulatory Directory and the Washington Information Directory and covers such topics as International Affairs, Congress, Law and the Courts, Elections and Political Behavior, the Presidency and Politics and History.

iPOLL Databank (Roper Center)

IPOLL, from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, is a full text database of 500,000 questions from national public opinion surveys since 1935 and updated daily. iPOLL includes survey results data from academic, commercial and media survey organizations such as Gallup, Harris Interactive, Pew Research Associates, ABC, CBS, Wall Street Journal and many more. Many data sets are available for download in ASCII or SPSS format.

PAIS International

Materials on public affairs from 1972 to date. Includes articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)

Theory and research in international affairs; encompasses scholarship from 1991 to the present that includes working papers from university research institutes, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.

Infoweb

InfoWeb is a Web-based collection of primary source information from regional, national and international newspapers, newswires, government and international documents, regional business journals and, periodicals.

Lexis Nexis Congressional

Lexis Nexis Congressional provides a comprehensive view of congressional action and the behind-the-scenes activity involved in crafting U.S. legislation. It includes the Congressional Research Digital Collection (CRDC)Committee Prints and CRS Reports (1824-Present), Statutes at Large (1789-present), and the Serial Set Index (1789-1969).

Article Databases - Also Useful

Access UN

Index to United Nations Documents and Publications from 1966 on.

CQ Researcher

Provides in-depth reports on current events and topics of current interest. Each report provides historical background on the topic, outside commentary, pro/con arguments, chronological information, and a substantial bibliography. CQ Researcher addresses a wide range of topics including legal, political, and social issues, communication and mass media, health, education, science, and technology. Coverage is from 1923 to the present.

CQ Weekly

CQ Weekly provides nonpartisan information on Capitol Hill, legislative news and analysis of events. This also includes votes by the House of Representatives and Senate of the United States.

Declassified Documents Reference System (DDRS)

Classified Government Documents as they are declassified.

Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL)

The HSDL collection provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies.

InfoTrac OneFile

Search humanities, education, business, science, current events, art, politics, economics, social science, law, health care, computers, technology, environmental issues, and general interest topics from 1980 to present.

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)

Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction since 1962.

JSTOR

A database of the back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. The gap between the most recently published issue of any journal and the date of the most recent issue available in JSTOR is from 2 to 5 years.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe

Full-text coverage of general news, business, legal, governmental and other topics. Also called Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe. Also called Academic Universe.

National Security Archive

An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. The Archive also serves as a repository of government records on a wide range of topics pertaining to the national security, foreign, intelligence, and economic policies of the United States.

Social Sciences Citation Index

A multidisciplinary index, with searchable author abstracts, covering the journal literature of the social sciences. It indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines, as well as covering individually selected, relevant items from over 3,300 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals

UN Treaty Collection

Includes online versions of the print publications: Multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General, which incorporates the detailed status of over 485 multilateral treaties, and: (United Nations) Treaty series, which contains the texts of over 30,000 bilateral and multilateral treaties in their authentic language(s), along with a translation into English and French, as appropriate, for those treaties registered with the Secretariat.

United Nations Bibliographic Information System (UNBISnet)

Catalogue of UN publications and documentation indexed by the United Natiions Dag Hammarskjold Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva. Also included are non-UN publications held in the collection of the Dag Hammarskjold Library.

eJournals

Newspapers available through FSU

This research guide points to historical, current and geographic lists of newspapers available through FSU.

Berkeley Electronic Press

Provides full-text access to journals in the following categories: Economics, Business, and Marketing; Law; Political Science and Current Affairs; Biological Sciences; and Engineering. Coverage is from 1996 to the present.

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

The directory contains 350 quality controlled scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web. The service will continue to grow as new journals are identified. The directory resides at Lund University and is supported by the Information Program of the Open Society Institute and SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition).

Ingenta Connect

Full-text journals in a wide variety of subject areas including business, economics, education, engineering, medicine, political science, psychology, and sociology.

Political Science Journals at FSU

Project MUSE

Provides access to the full-text of more than 200 scholarly journals published by the Johns Hopkins University Press. Subjects include art, anthropology, classics, culture and society, demographics, economics, folklore, history, language, literature, mathematics, medicine and health, philosophy, politics, religion, science, sociology, etc. Coverage varies according to title (1993-) Also called Project Muse.  (http://muse.uq.edu.au/journals Mirror server if link above is not working.)

eBooks

Sage Political Science

Includes the full-text of 25 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 24 years, encompassing over 10,000 articles. It covers such subjects as General Political Science, American Government & Politics, Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Policy Studies, Political Communication, Peace / Conflict Studies, Presidential Studies, Political Theory / Philosophy, International Relations, and Area Studies.\r\n\r\nThe searchable database consists of bibliographic records (indexed summaries or abstracts) as well as the complete text of each journal article. Every bibliographic record in the Collection links to the appropriate full-text in PDF format.

netLibrary

netLibrary is a collection of over 30,000 recently published electronic books consisting of a broad range of reference, scholarly, popular and professional books. Language may be limited to Spanish. netLibrary is a collection of over 30,000 recently published electronic books consisting of a broad range of reference, scholarly, popular and professional books.

Websites

FSU's Political Science Department

American Civil Liberties Union. ACLU

American Political Science Association. APSA.

The Democratic Party (U.S.)

Foreign Government Resources on the Web

compiled by the University of Michigan Documents Center

Gallup Poll

The world's premier source for public opinion data since 1935. This site provides the most recent Gallup polls, special reports and news releases as well as information about the Gallup organization.

National Political Index (United States)

The Republican Party (U.S.)

The Roper Center for Public Opinion