Research Guides: Political Science: Home

Essential Political Science Sources

Political Science Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for more than 520 journals, over 340 reference books and monographs, and over 36,000 conference papers.
Social Sciences Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Includes access to more than 600 journals in all areas of the social sciences. Coverage from 1983 to present.

International Relations: an Oxford Bibliography This link opens in a new window
Over 300 hundred peer-reviewed articles on international relations.
Chatham House Online Archive This link opens in a new window
Dates 1920-present.
Publications and archives of the Royal Institute of International Affairs (Chatham House), independent international affairs policy institute.
America: History and Life with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Scholarly, secondary literature covering the history and culture of the US and Canada, from prehistory to the present.

Roper iPoll This link opens in a new window
Searchable archive of public opinion survey data archive from more than 100 different countries and the U.S. Coverage from 1935 to present.
CQ Magazine This link opens in a new window
Dates: 1983-2015
Weekly with information about US government and politics. For more recent CQ news sources, go to Newsbank:Access World News--The United States .
CQ Researcher plus Archive This link opens in a new window
Collections of original reports and analyses on issues of current interest such as health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy.

Think Tank Search
Custom Google search limited to the websites of 'think tanks,' which are research institutions that generate public policy research and analysis. Created and maintained by Harvard Kennedy School Library and Research Services.

Oxford Reference This link opens in a new window
Two million digitized entries spanning 25 different subject areas.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
A good place to start for most topics with a wide range of scholarly journals and articles, along with some newspaper and newsmagazine content.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides complete full-text coverage of over 1000 leading journals in the humanities, social sciences and sciences as well as over three million licensed, high-quality images previously in Artstor.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
Provides full text of articles from 440 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences.

Google Scholar
Google's search engine for locating scholarly literature. Searches scholarly articles, books, and other technical or research content. Often helpful for locating specific articles when you already know the title.