Political Science & Public Affairs Databases
Recommended starting places
Academic Search Premier (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
A large academic multi-disciplinary database providing indexing for over 8,000 journals and full text for nearly 4,700 (including more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals). PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for some journals.
CQ Weekly
1983-present. Congressional Quarterly's magazine on government, commerce, and politics. Includes in-depth reports on congressional issues as well as the status of bills, committee and floor activity, debates and roll-call votes.
ProQuest Congressional
(government resources)
ProQuest Congressional, formerly LexisNexis Congressional and Congressional Universe, indexes and provides selected full texts of Congressional publications, regulations, laws, legislative histories, and background information on members of Congress.
PAIS International (ProQuest)
(article index)
1972-present. Covers public and social policy issues related to a wide variety of disciplines including economics, law, education, political science, sociology, public administration, public health, science and technology. Contains references to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, and Internet material.
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GPO Access
(government resources)
A searchable collection of databases including the Federal Register, the U.S. Code, the Congressional Record, recent GAO Reports, and current legislation.
Social Sciences Full Text (EBSCOhost)
(article index)
1983-present. Contains indexing for more than 500 publications covering a wide range of interdisciplinary fields such as addiction studies, anthropology, corrections, economics, gender studies, gerontology, minority studies, political sciences, psychology, sociology. Indexing coverage dates back to 1983, and abstracts date back to 1994.
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