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Article Databases on Political Science

Academic Search Complete - Academic multi-disciplinary database provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) - Full-text database for research in international affairs.

LexisNexis - Full text database that covers a wide variety of subjects including law, government, international affairs, politics, current events, business and medicine.

ProQuest Direct - An interdisciplinary index of magazines, newspapers and scholarly journals.

Social Services Abstracts - Abstracts & indexes journals in social work, human services, social welfare, social policy, and community development

SocINDEX with Full Text 

News Databases

Alt-Press Watch - Alternative & independent press magazines, newspapers, and journals.

CQ Weekly - Background information on current issues facing Congress.

Ethnic NewsWatch - Ethnic, minority, and native press newspapers, magazines & journals.

Military & Government Collection - Full text for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles pertaining to all branches fo the military and government.

NationalNewspaper - Full text New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor and regional newspapers.

Newspaper Source - Selected full text for 25 national and international newspapers, television and radio transcripts and 200 regional newspapers.

Washington State Newsstand - Full-text coverage of Washington newspapers including the daily newspapers from Seattle, Tacoma, Spokane and Vancouver.

More Databases

Catalog of U.S.Government Publications(CGP) - Index to print and electronic publications created by agencies of the U.S. Government.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) - Full-text database for research in international affairs

Communication & Mass Media Complete - Indexes publications covering all aspects of communication and mass media.

CultureGrams - Background cultural and sociological information on the countries and cultures of the world.

Encyclopedia Britannica Online

GPO Government Publication Index (First Search)

Ingenta - Tables of contents for over 25,000 journals

JSTOR - Fulltext core scholarly journals beginning with v. 1 of each title.

LexisNexis Statistical DataSets - Provides statistical data from licensed and public domain datasets, including national and international data for agriculture, education, criminal justice, energy, natural resources, labor, economic indicators, transportation,  vital statistics, etc.  Options to scan over 500 datasets, select subjects and variables of interest, and view the data in side-by-side tables and charts.

Reader's Guide to Periodical Literature Retrospective(Wilson) - Indexing from 1890-1982 of over 300 popular magazines. (You must select Reader's Guide Retrospective from the "Database" page within Omnifile).

STAT-USA/Internet - provides business, trade and economic information and the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB).

Web of Knowledge -  is a multidisciplinary citation index to the journal literature of the sciences and social sciences. It fully indexes over 6,650 major journals across 150 scientific disciplines and 1,950 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines. In addition to indexing it includes all cited references captured from indexed articles.

WorldCat - OCLC catalog of books and resources held at libraries around the world.

Periodicals 

Law, Politics, & Government Periodicals@ Foley