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Essential Political Science Sources

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

International Relations: an Oxford Bibliography
Over 300 hundred peer-reviewed articles on international relations.
America: History and Life with Full Text
Scholarly, secondary literature covering the history and culture of the US and Canada, from prehistory to the present.

Roper iPoll
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
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
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.

Oxford Reference
Two million digitized entries spanning 25 different subject areas.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
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
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
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.