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American Politics Subject Guide
American Politics Databases
| For a brief online tutorial click this link How to...Using Databases |
| America : history and life |
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A major index to Americana, including politics and cultural traditions. (1982+) |
| Political Science (SAGE) full text |
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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. |
| Index to Black periodicals |
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Available only in print at SREF301.4519605/3 (1984+)
Index to periodicals which focus on African American issues. |
Multidisciplinary Databases
| ASSIAnet Applied Social Sciences Abstracts |
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Strong on practical and theoretical issues in the social sciences, including political science. |
| Academic Research Library full text |
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One of the Proquest databases. Good coverage of American Politics. |
| Expanded Academic full text |
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This database provides coverage of a wide range of academic journals, including a number in the area of politics. (1980+) |
| International Bibliography of the Social Sciences full text |
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One of the premier social sciences databases. (1951+) |
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Coverage of numerous topic areas, including political science. |
| Project Muse full text |
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Provides access to over 40 Johns Hopkins University Press academic journals. Coverage includes political science. |
| Wilson Omnifile full text |
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Includes coverage of the Social Sciences Index, The Humanities Index and Reader's Guide. |
| JSTOR full text 1800+ |
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Provides retrospective full text access to a range of journals. Click on browse to see the range of journals included, or search across a range of journals. |
| Periodicals Archive Online |
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Similar to JSTOR in providing full text access to older issues of journals. Click on browse to see the range of journals included, or search across a range of journals. |
| New York Times 1851-2001 |
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Full text of this major US newspaper. PDF format. New York Times index 1851+ |
| Scopus |
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Scopus is an abstract and citation database of research literature including peer-reviewed titles, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, patent records, scientific web pages, and seamless links to full text articles and other library resources. It is updated daily.
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| Oxford Scholarship Online |
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Full text of books published by Oxford University Press. Contains a significant number of books on politics. |
Subject specific databases
| Alternative Press Index |
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Indexes resources outside mainstream academic literature. Strong emphasis on minoritiy cultures, environmental politics and race relations within the United States. (1991+) |
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Although focusing on Hispanic and Latin American countries, this database is useful for United States relations in this region. (1970+) |
| International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA) |
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Good coverage of American political history and international relations. (1989+) |
| Keesing's Current Events |
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Provides objective accounts of the world's key events, and is one of the most comprehensive and reliable digests of current international affairs. Only in print, beginning in 1931, at SREF909.8205/1 |
| Left Index |
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Broad coverage of a range of literature from the Left. (1982+) |
| Philosopher's Index |
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Provides citation indexing, which is searching to find out who has cited a particular book or journal article. |
| Poole's index to periodical literature |
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Indexes newspapers and journals from the 19th century.
Only in print at SREF050/8/(1-6) |
| Women's Resources International |
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Strong coverage of a broad range women's issues (1972+) |
Libraries Australia
| Libraries Australia |
| Formerly called Kinetica. Useful database for finding the location of items in other libraries in Australia. Includes holdings for 850 Australian libraries. |
| Web of Science |
| Provides citation indexing, which is searching to find out who has cited a particular book or journal article. |
Theses Databases
| Sirius Theses page |
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This is a link to the Sirius Thesis page which lists all the main resources for theses including Writing and presenting your thesis or dissertation. This can be independently navigated by clicking Sirius, clicking Find Resources, click Locate and using the Type dropdown menu, select Theses. |
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Replaces Digital Dissertations. Covers North American theses from 1861 onwards, with abstracts included from 1980. Includes UNSW doctoral theses (from 1974) and theses from most universities in Great Britain (from 1988). Of the more than 2 million listed, more than 600,000 of the more recent theses are now available for immediate free download.
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| Index to theses |
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Contains records of theses accepted for higher degrees by the Universities of Great Britain and Ireland. |
| Australian Digital Theses Program full text |
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Australian theses. The ADT database provides access to PhD and Masters by Research theses only. Theses available to download in PDF format. |
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