Research Guides: Political Science: Articles and Reports

Journal Article Databases

The databases below all have content that may be useful in researching topics in Political Science. Some are broad and cover other topics, some are more specifically focused. What you need will vary depending on your topic. Don't be afraid to explore more than one!

If you are just starting your research and don't know where to go, Academic Search Premier is a good place to begin. JSTOR can be a little overwhelming if you don't have your keywords down yet.

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Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
Contains Vital Speeches of the Day
Includes full-text coverage in biology, chemistry, economics, engineering, physics, political science, psychology, religion & theology, as well as other subject areas.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
JSTOR offers a high-quality, multidisciplinary archive to support scholarship and teaching. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire corpus is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images, and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.

Multisubject Databases

America: History & Life (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Small Wars and Insurgencies in this database.
Index to scholarly literature on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. It provides access to articles, books, and dissertations published since 1964.
Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
Source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. Offers extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints This link opens in a new window
Formerly Opposing Viewpoints.
Provides coverage of today’s hottest social issues, from Offshore Drilling to Climate Change, Health Care to Immigration. Includes more than 14,000 pro/con viewpoint essays, 5,000+ topic overviews, more than 300 primary source documents, 300 biographies of social activists and reformers, more than 775 court-case overviews, and nearly 6,000 statistical tables, charts and graphs.
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
Law Reviews are easy to find, and our only source for Legislative Histories. U.S. Presidential Library.
Collection consists of complete Code of Federal Regulations, English Reports, European Center for Minority Issues, Federal Register Library, Foreign & International Law Resources Database, International Law Association Reports, Law Journal Library, Legal Classics, New York Court of Appeals Records and Briefs, the Philip C. Jessup Library, the Treaties and Agreements Library, a collection of political journals and session laws, U.S. Attorney General Opinions, U.S. Federal Legislative History Library, U.S. Presidential Library, U.S. Statutes at Large, the U.S. Supreme Court Library, and the World Trials Library.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Provides access to full-text news, business, and legal publications. It includes deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. Use the included Company Dossier module to retrieve detailed company information and financial performance measures or identify and compare companies matching specific criteria. This product also provides access to the renowned Shepard's Citations service for all federal and states court cases back to 1789.
Project MUSE This link opens in a new window
An interdisciplinary collection of e-journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences. These titles cover a variety of subjects with a focus on literature, political science, history and culture.

Subject Specific Databases

Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new window
Over 65,000 documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management from a wide range variety of sources including federal, state and local governments; international governments and institutions; nonprofit organizations and private entities. Members of the US Military may also register for access to a Restricted Collection of current CUI or U//FOUO intel releases, reports and summaries from federal, state and local sources.
Military and Intelligence Database This link opens in a new window
Provides access to scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. The database offers content in key subject areas including governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more.
PsycINFO 1887-Current This link opens in a new window
Political/voting behavior, motivation, etc.
Abstracts of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations, for peer-reviewed literature in behavioral science and mental health. Includes information about the psychological aspects of related fields such as medicine, psychiatry, nursing, sociology, education, pharmacology, technology, linguistics, anthropology, business, law and others.

Political Handbook of the World
For 206 countries: Government structure, brief historical overview, and contemporary events and political actors/parties.

Reports

CRS (Congressional Research Service) Reports
CRS is nonpartisan staff to congressional committees and Members of Congress, operating solely at the behest of and under the direction of Congress.
Congressional Budget Office
Find (baseline and long-term) projections of budgetary and economic outcomes based on the assumption that current laws regarding federal spending and revenues will generally remain in place, including the effects of demographic trends, economic developments, and rising health care costs on federal spending, revenues, and deficits. CBO provides formal, written estimates of the cost of virtually every bill approved by Congressional committees to show how the bill would affect spending or revenues.

CQ Press Library This link opens in a new window
CQ Magazine/CQ Weekly and CQ Researcher, some coverage back to 1983. Find unbiased and succinct information covering public policy, politics, congressional legislation, and elections.
Allows for searching content from CQ's Politics in America, CQ Supreme Court Collection, CQ Researcher, CQ Global Researcher, and CQ Weekly.

Government Accountability Office
Unbiased, fact-filled reports on contemporary issues.