Political Science - Databases

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Research Guide: Political Science -- Databases

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Databases with a Political Science focus:
	CQ databases....
	Search all at once --- CQ Electronic Library -- a series of databases focusing on American government. The collection includes original content, current information, statistics, analysis, and comprehensive coverage in a range of government-related topics
	Or individually:
	CQ Congress Collection -- Coverage of floor votes, biographies of members of Congress and legislation
	CQ Voting & Elections Collection -- National and state election coverage, voter demographics and campaign finance
	CQ Press Political Reference Suite -- Political reference information
	CQ Researcher -- Non-biased coverage of political and social issues in the US and international issues
	CQ Weekly -- Covers virtually every act of Congress, provides nonpartisan news and analysis
Academic Search Premier -- scholarly collection provides journal coverage for most academic areas of study, including biological sciences, economics, communications, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts and literature, medical sciences and women's studies.
CIA World Factbook -- US government profiles of countries and territories around the world. Information on geography, people, government, transportation, economy, etc.
The Contemporary Middle East: A Documentary History -- an online reference book which contains primary source documents from 1917 to the present day. From CQ Press
^new Country Watch -- Provides country-specific data including demographic, political, economic, business, and cultural information.
GPO Access -- provides free online use of over 1,000 databases of Federal information in over 70 applications
International Security & Counter-Terrorism Reference Center -- offers information on virtually every dimension of security & counter-terrorism and is designed to inform the analysis process, as well as enhance the general understanding of security and terrorism-related issues
JSTOR -- Access to scholarly journals in a variety of disciplines
LexisNexis Academic -- Access to news, business, legal, medical, and reference information
LexisNexis Congressional -- Access to information by and about the US Congress
^new19th Century U.S. Newspaper Digital Archive -- "provides access to primary source newspaper content from the entire 19th century, from a range of urban and rural regions throughout the U.S."
Oxford Islamic Studies Online -- Offers information on the religion and culture of Islam
Project Muse -- Access to scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences
SocINDEX -- Full text of journal articles, and indexing and informative abstracts for "core" coverage journals dating back to 1895.
Social Science Citation Index -- Access to cited references and author abstracts
THOMAS (Library of Congress) -- Databases providing access to the full texts of bills and laws from the United States Congress, the daily Congressional Record, relevant proceedings and proposed legislation, committee reports, and roll call votes, variously available from the present back to the 93rd Congress (1973). The site includes links to major U.S. legislative Web sites
World at War: Conflict and Society (replaced United States at War: Understanding Conflict Society)
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 -- Documents and research relating to the role of women throughout American history

Cross-disciplinary databases, including reference databases:
^New Euromonitor -- Contains market research reports and company profiles. Most reports cover consumer goods and services
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online -- Full text of the complete encyclopedia
new Encyclopedia of Research Design -- a collection of entries covering how to plan and conduct empirical research, including the use of both quantitative and qualitative methods.
Library of Congress -- Access to the Library of Congress catalog and other online collections
Oxford Reference Online Database -- Online reference library from Oxford University Press
STAT-USA -- Business, trade and economic information. Includes National Trade Data Bank
Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated -- Access to biographies, obituaries and photographs of notable subjects
World History: The Modern Era -- e-book from ABC-CLIO covers world history from 1500 to the present day

Paper Indexes: located in the Reference Room
New York Times Index Sept 1851 - 1998
Palmer's Index to the Times Newspapers (London) 1790 - 1905
Poole's Index to Periodical Literature 1802 - 1906
The Times Index (London) 1785-1786, 1906 - date

**Subscription databases are restricted by licensing agreements to currently enrolled students, faculty and staff of Grove City College. These databases (including the A to Z List of Journals) are only available from the GCC campus network. more information