Databases/Article Indexes for Politics


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The Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals is a subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals.
 
Indexes nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.
 
American Memory
1450-current

Open Access
Library of Congress historical collections online, comprised of written and audio-visual materials, with roughly 120 collections in all subject areas.
 
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (ISI)
1980-current

41 concurrent users maximum
Arts & Humanities Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature of the arts and humanities.
 
Full text access to Health Sciences and Social Sciences titles from Cambridge University press.
 
CIA World Factbook
Current

Open Access
Prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency, the World Factbook provides national-level information on countries, territories, and dependencies.
Recommended resource
Resource for theory and research in international affairs. It includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.
 
Offers access to English language translations of the current constitutions of 187 countries, with scholarly commentary and citations to secondary works. Historical documents (usually earlier constitutions) in English translation are available for many countries. Also includes up-to-date constitutions for the United States (with commentary) and all 50 U.S. states, plus 15 U.S. territories. Historical documents include proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution and earlier constitutions of many U.S. states.
 
Indexes books, journals, reports, etc. about women's health and human rights issues.
 
Political, economic, corporate, and environmental trends in 191 countries.
Recommended resource
CQ Press Political Reference Suite of Online Editions integrates many of CQ Press's reference titles on government and politics into an electronic format that offers easy navigation between titles. Includes Congress and the Nation, Historic Documents Series, Political Handbook of the World, Politics in America, Supreme Court Yearbook, Vital Statistics on American Politics, and the Washington Information Directory.
 
Features reporting on vital issues, statistical and historical analyses, historic documents and primary source materials, as well as a directory of key government, nonprofit, and private organizations.
 
Weekly publication providing original in-depth analysis of the most current major and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, pros and cons, two bibliographies and more.
Recommended resource
CQ Weekly
Current
CQ Weekly Online offers full coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering. Produced by the largest news team on Capitol Hill.
 
Contains full text of The Economist magazine from 1843 to five years before the present. It includes full color images and exportable financial tables, and allows searching of photographs, advertising, tables, maps, supplements, or commentary.
 
Covers political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe
 
FirstGov.gov
Dates vary

Open Access
Search engine for government information, with more than 186 million web pages from federal and state governments, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories.
 
Global Market Information Database (GMID)
Current

Users must accept the license agreement terms upon entering this resource. GMID is not available to Alumni
An online business information system providing business intelligence on countries, consumers and industries. GMID offers integrated access to statistics, market reports, company profiles and information sources. 205 countries are researched, with extended coverage of 52.
 
Global Road Warrior is a comprehensive business travel, telecommunications and business culture reference.. The Global Road Warrior covers 175 countries. Each country listing includes: Key facts, Communications, Service support and Technical support contacts, Business culture insights, Language tips, top 150 travel web sites, regional maps, international dialing guide, mobile connectivity problems and solutions, currencies of the world and more.
 
The 4th edition of HSUS, published by the U.S. Census bureau. Contains data on social, behavioral, humanistic, and natural sciences including history, economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion, international migration, and trade - quantitative facts of American History.
 
HLAS Online
1936-current

Open Access
The Handbook of Latin American Studies is a selective annotated bibliography of scholarly works on Latin America.
 
Provides full text plus abstracts and bibliographic indexing of major scholarly sources in the humanities and social sciences, as well as numerous lesser-known specialized magazines.
 
In The First Person
Dates vary

Open Access
In the First Person is an index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories.
 
JSTOR
Dates vary
Interdisciplinary collection of journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.
 
Left Index
1982-current

2 concurrent users maximum
Guide to literature of leftist and radical media, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia.
 
Large database covering federal and state court opinions, statutes, and regulations. Also has extensive coverage of news publications, news transcripts, and company information.
 
Includes Serial Set, CRDC Historical, Statutes at Large, and Congressional Indexes from LexisNexis.
 
Includes tables, abstracts, and links to statistical information from State, US, and International sources through LexisNexis. The American Statistics Index, Statistical Reference Index, Index to International Statistics.
 
Contains full text of more than 10,000 accounts of civil and criminal trials published between 1600 and 1926, including trial transcripts, briefs, transcripts of oral arguments, records of legislative and administrative proceedings, arbitration records, and popular accounts of trials.
 
Collection of more than 61,000 full-text books and 466 periodicals on business and economics, published from 1450-1850.
 
all Nation articles from July 1865 through the present
 
Full text of the New York Times from 1980 to present (no images). Full text of New York Times Magazine and New York Time Book Review from 1997 to present.
 
Full Text coverage of the New York Times from 1851 - 2003, including original images.
 
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Current

2 concurrent users maximum
An online library of current event topics: the facts as well as the arguments of each topic's proponents and detractors. Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center's unique features include Viewpoint articles and access to statistics and government data placed in context.
Recommended resource
PAIS International
1972-current
Covers articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, hearings and statistical directories about public affairs, including public policy and social issues.
 
Project Muse
Dates vary
Project MUSE is a collaboration between libraries and publishers providing full-text access to over 300 humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.
 
SimplyMap

5 concurrent users maximum. Free personal registration is required for access.
a web-based mapping application that lets users create professional-quality thematic maps and reports using United States demographic, business, and marketing data. Data sources include the U.S. Census and Census projections.
 
A searchable database of thousands of papers sent by the authors for submission, covering all areas of social science. Abstracts and some full text available.
 
Social Sciences Full Text : Wilson Omnifile
1982-current

Choose Social Sciences subject area
Full Text access to artcles indexed in the Social Sciences Index. Indexing begins at 1982, Abstracting begins at 1984, and fulltext coverage begins in 1994.
 
CSA Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development.
 
Provided through HeinOnline, the library includes full text of U.S. Statutes at Large (1789-2004) Congressional Record (Permanent Edition 1873-1889, 1992-2003) (with more volumes to be added each month) Congressional Record (Daily Edition 2003-present) Annals of Congress (1789-1824) Register of Debates (1824-1837) Congressional Globe (1833-1873) American State Papers (1789-1838) and Journals of the Continental Congress (1774-1789).
 
This official collection includes The United Nations Treaty Series (1946-2005), The League of Nations Treaty Series (1920-1944), as well as the current Status of Multilateral Treaties, and newer unpublished treaties.
 
Includes the full text of 12 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back 37 years, and encompasses over 2,500 articles.
 
ISI Web of Knowledge is a Web portal the ISI Citation databases through Web of Science: Science Citation Index and Social Science Citation Index, as well as Current Contents and Journal Citation Reports.
 
WorldCat
1200-current
Records for materials cataloged by OCLC member libraries. WorldCat offers holdings information vital for collection development, cataloging, authority control, and retrospective conversion services.
Recommended resource
Supplies up-to-date bibliographic information and research drawn from 1000 journals drawn from the international serials literature.

 

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