Political Science: Databases

Collections owned by Watzek Library: Arts & Sciences I - IX, Jewish Studies, and Biological Sciences. The JSTOR collections contain the full text of several hundred scholarly journals, from their earliest issues up to 3-5 years ago. A wide range of subjects are covered in the arts and sciences, including language and literature, ecology, history, political science, mathematics, anthropology, sociology and philosophy. Through a partnership with ARTstor, JSTOR also can run a concurrent search for images, separating results into "Articles," "Images from Articles," and "ARTstor Images."

CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts is building on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts, published by IFI / Plenum, 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI, published by ABC-CLIO, 1984-2000. The database 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. The serials list of the database is actively under construction, with a focus on expanding international coverage. The database covers over 1500 journal titles, of which over 60% are published outside the United States.

HeinOnline is an internet service launched in 2000 that is a source of legal information, much like Westlaw and LexisNexis. There are three major distinctions between this service and other such services in terms of the scope and type of materials offered. First, HeinOnline provides a narrower scope of materials, excluding newspaper reports, as well as most federal and all state case law and most administrative material. The service delivers only: * Case reports from the United States Supreme Court * Materials from the Federal Register * Published opinions of the United States Attorney General * Treaties and similar international agreements * Law reviews

Provides full text documents from over 6,000 news, business, legal, medical, and reference publications. Includes national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources; U.S. Federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information; Shepard's Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789; and Company Dossiers, with business journal articles, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.

The Social Sciences Citation Index allows patrons to discover articles that have cited a specific article or author in the social sciences fields (economics, political Science, sociology etc. This database is useful to find out how a certain article has influenced later research, to verify a citation, or to discover who else has done more recent research on a given topic.

The bound, sequentially numbered volumes of all the Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives constitute a rich source of primary source material on all aspects of American history. Upon completion, the digital version of the Serial Set will consist of approximately 13,800 volumes and over 12 million pages.



Now available: 15th Congress - 62nd Congress, 2nd Session, 1817 - 1912 U.S. Congressional Serial Set Vols. 1 - 6280 Last Update: April 20, 2007