Political Science: Databases to Start

Scholarly, popular, and news articles on a of issues

Annual Reviews articles: Capture current understanding of a topic, including what is well supported and what is controversial; Set the work in historical context; Highlight the major questions that remain to be addressed and the likely course of research in upcoming years; and Outline the practical applications and general significance of research to society."

"Business Source Complete is the world's definitive scholarly business database, providing the leading collection of bibliographic and full text content. "

"Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text™ contains more than 400,000 records selected from the most important sources within the discipline. "

"The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature."

Google Scholar's algorithm searches across academic disciplines - An accessible database for scholarly literature search

JSTOR (Journal Storage) is an archive of scholarly journals in humanities, social science, and science. JSTOR journal coverage begins with the very earliest journal volumes.

Nexis Uni * is a news, business, and legal information database platform

ProQuest Congressional * provides full text search and access to virtually all meaningful U.S. Congressional publications from 1789-Present

Indexing dissertations in arts, humanities, social sciences and science (UC dissertations are accessible full text)

"Sociological Abstracts indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. "

One of the earliest, most important indexes to scholarly literature. Web of Science indexes scholarly content from the Arts and humanities to the social sciences and STEM sciences.

WestlawNext * provides full text access to a comprehensive collection of law-related resources

"Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. "