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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Covers Political Science and related fields including International Relations and Public Administration. There is a strong focus on journals published outside of the United States. |
CQ Weekly
Full-text access to legislative news and analysis from the CQ Weekly Report. |
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
Provides citations and abstracts to materials in health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations, and education |
ECO
Access to a growing collection of journals in a variety of subject areas, some with full-image articles online. Full-image articles from Electronic Collections Online journals are linked to corresponding citations in databases throughout the FirstSearch service. |
GPO Access 
GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to over 1,500 databases of important information produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted. |
JSTOR
Provides access to digital, full text archives of core journals in discipline areas including Arts & Sciences I, II, and III, Business, and Language & Literature. Users can search or browse in more than one discipline and multiple journals or in just a single issue.
JSTOR strives to provide an entire run of each title starting with volume one, issue one back to the early 1800s. JSTOR delays inclusion of digital articles anywhere from three to five years previous to the most recently published volumes. |
| ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)
Provides access to the world's largest archive of digital social science data sets. Users must set up an account while on campus, then register in order to download data sets. |
Marquis Who's Who on the Web Single user access.
A 'high-speed', searchable online database, features comprehensive profiles on over 1 million of the most accomplished individuals from all fields of endeavor including: government, business, science & technology, the arts, entertainment and sports. Recognized globally since 1899 as the premier biographical data provider, Marquis Who's Who now gives you the ability to conduct powerful searches of its entire database of achievers from around the globe. Search by name, gender, occupation, geography, hobbies and interests, religion and much more. |
LexisNexis Academic
The service covers newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, and SEC filings such as 10-K’s, 10-Q’s, and their exhibits. News information is updated daily and wire services several times daily. Research areas in LexisNexis Academic cover top news, general news topics, and news transcripts; foreign language news sources; company, industry, and market news; legal news; company financial information; general medical and health topics and medical abstracts; accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; federal case law; U.S. Code; and state legal research. |
National Journal Group's Policy Central
Includes unlimited access to all of the following databases and features:
- National Journal online... track the development of public policy with archives dating back to 1977.
- CongressDaily... get forward-looking, twice-daily insight on the key players, behind-the-scenes deals, and political strategies and alliances that drive the legislative process.
- The Hotline... plug into American politics and campaigns with coverage of the media's coverage of important developments from hundreds of print, online and broadcast sources.
- Technology Daily... understand IT politics and policy with twice-daily coverage of significant national and international news and events.
- Almanac of American Politics online... get analysis and data on every member of Congress and their states and districts.
- Poll Track... research public opinion with the largest database of over 5,000 public opinion surveys on political races, important issues and national figures.
- Markup Reports... follow the status of specific legislation with chronological, narrative summaries of all congressional markup sessions.
- Ad Spotlight... track political and issue campaigns with streaming video of 3,500 television advertisements.
- Earlybird... get quick-read summaries of the morning's top news stories and editorials drawn from leading media outlets. Also includes links to the source articles.
- Daybook... select from 24 issue areas, such as Defense and Trade, and receive a customized e-mail of the day's events by 6 a.m.
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Academic Search Elite
This multi-disciplinary database offers full text for more than 2,050 scholarly journals, including more than 1,500 peer-reviewed titles. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985. |
Project MUSE
An online collection of scholarly journal titles in the arts, humanities and social sciences from university and society presses. Snowden Library subscribes to the Basic Undergraduate Collection, a 112 title subset of the full Project MUSE collection. |
SIRS Researcher See librarian for full-text option.
Perfect for school and public library researchers, SIRS is a general database containing thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, historic, economic, political, and global issues. Articles are carefully selected from domestic and international newspapers, magazines, journals, and government publications. Brief summaries accompany all articles added to the database since 1994. Images are available for some articles. |
Sociological Abstracts
CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,700 serials publications, and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers. |
Wiley InterScience
Includes citations and much full text for over 300 leading scientific, technical, medical, and professional journals. Also includes major reference works, the acclaimed Current Protocols laboratory manuals, and the full text of select Wiley print books online. |
Biography Resource Center
Combines over 400,000 biographies on nearly 315,000 people from more than 760 volumes of over 100 respected Gale Group sources. |
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