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Peter Kraus, 581-8394 (library subject specialist) | U of U  Political Science department | Ron Hrebenar, Professor and Chair (Department Representative)

General Political Science Indexes and Databases:

PAIS International: Indexes public and social policy materials in journal articles, books, government documents, and most other forms of printed literature from all over the world. Citations and notes only. Access also is available to the Archive which covers 1915-1976.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Supplies up-to-date bibliographic information and research within the political science
discipline and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, public
administration, and policy. The database includes the merged backfiles of "Political
Science Abstracts" originally published by IFI / Plenum Data Corp., ABC POL SCI,
originally published by ABC-CLIO.

Cross Disciplinary Indexes and Databases:(Disciplines across the human sciences):

Academic Universe: Access to a wide range of current events, news, magazines, business, legal, medical, and reference information. Full text coverage.

Congressional Universe: Access to U.S. Legislative information from Congressional Information Service, Inc. Includes congressional publications, members and committees, full text of proposed legislation and more. Citations and abstracts only.

Ebsco Host : Access to social sciences, humanities, general science, education, multicultural journal literature; newspapers, and reference sources. Citations, abstracts; partial full text coverage.

First Search Databases: Web interfaces to a group of 20 online databases, including ArticleFirst, Book Review Digest, ContentsFirst, NetFirst, and WorldCat.

Global NewsBank: News articles covering politics, economics, culture, business, science, technology, and the environment from Africa, Asia, Europe, the former Soviet Union, the Pacific Rim, Central and South America, and the Middle East. All articles are in English and are from over 1000 translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, wire services, newspapers, magazines and government documents. Full text coverage.

JSTOR: Provides image and text access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics, and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Full text coverage.

Left Index
A complete guide to the diverse literature of the left, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged scholarship inside and outside academia.

Monthly Catalog of U.S. Government Publications: Access to United States government documents. Citations and abstracts only.

Periodicals Contents Index: Index to the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences, from their first issues to 1991. Citations only.

Project MUSE: Access to scholarly journals in politics from the John Hopkins University press. Full text coverage.

ProQuest Newspapers : coverage of over 150 U.S. and international newspapers. Ninety days of full text articles to the New York Times and Wall Street Journal are included.

ProQuest Digital Dissertations: Access to the first 24 pages of dissertations that have been published since 1997. Full text access to University of Utah Dissertations published from 1997 and forward, and citations only to dissertations before that date.

SIRS Government Reporter: Documents and graphics concerning a wide variety of topics: health, science, economics, environment, politics, foreign affairs, workplace issues, business and industry. Full text coverage.

SIRS Renaissance: Provides information on music, literature, film, performing arts, culture, architecture, philosophy, religion and visual arts. Full text coverage.

SIRS Researcher: Contains articles relating to social, political, global, scientific, health, historical, economic, and business issues. Full text coverage.

Social Science Abstracts: Citations and absracts to numerous journals in the social sciences.

Subdisciplinary Indexes and Databases(Subfields of and related disciplines to Political Science):

America: History and Life: Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Citations and abstracts only.

Chicano Database: Identifies all types of material on Mexican-Americans, Chicanos, and the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants.
Columbia International Affairs Online: Columbia University's source for theory and research in international affairs. Citations and abstracts; partial full text coverage.

EconLit: Access to literature in economics. Citations and abstracts only.

Reference Sources:

Facts on File: Content from seven core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 20 years, and also delivers in-depth features on "Historic Events" drawn from the 60-year Facts On File archive. The seven databases are: Facts On File World News Digest, Issues and Controversies On File, Today's Science On File, Editorials On File, Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia, Reuters On-Line News Service, The World Almanac and Book of Facts

Oxford English Dictionary: The Oxford English Dictionary is a historical dictionary of English, covering the language from the earliest times to the present day. It aims to show not only the current meanings of words, but also to trace their development through time. Entries contain detailed etymological analysis, and are illustrated by quotations from a wide range of English language sources from around the world, making the OED a unique historical record.

Polling the Nations: A comprehensive collection of information gathered by polls and surveys from, reporting more than 60,000 questions and the responses, on more than 2,000 topics.

Statistical Information

ICPSR: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research is a unique selection of social science and demographic data available to those affiliated with the University of Utah.

Statistical Universe: Statistical information from over 100,000 US government publications from 1973, state and private sources from 1980, and approximately 2000 documents from international organizations from 1983. Full text or web links provided for some citations; mainly citations and abstracts.

STAT-USA: Provides business, trade, and economic information provided by STAT-USA, an agency in the Economics and Statistics Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.

Electronic Journals, Newspapers, and ePrint Archives (Click Political Science)

Useful World Wide Web Links:

Scholarly Journals on the Internet
Selected Social Science Tools
Selected Academic Links
Selected Foreign Policy and International Politics Links
Selected U.S. Politics and Government Links
Professional Associations

Scholarly Journals on the Internet::

• Annual Reviews: Social Sciences
• JSTOR Political Science Journals Handout

Selected Social Science Tools:

• Argus Clearinghouse
• Boxmind: Academic Excellence, Online
• Chronicle of Higher Education Internet Resources
• Digital Librarian: A Librarian's Choice of the Best of the Web
• Galaxy Social Sciences
• Google Social Sciences
• Librarians Index to the Internet
• Open Directory: Social Sciences
• Research Resources for the Social Sciences
• Social Science Information Gateway
• Social Science Research and Instructional Council Teaching Research Page
• Social Science Research Network
• Voice of the Shuttle
• WWW Virtual Library
• Yahoo! Social Science

Selected Academic Political Science Links:

• Civnet
• Indiana University Department of Political Science
• Louisiana State University Dept of Political Science
• Marketplace of Political Ideas (University of Houston)
• Policy Library
  
• Political Philosophy (Universita' di Pisa)
• Univ of Colorado WWW Resources for Political Science
• University of Keele Political Science Resources (Richard Kimber)
• West Virginia University's Poly-Cy Internet Resources for Political Science
• Western Connecticut State University Political Science Internet Resources
  
• University of Michigan Documents Center
• Liberty Fund, Inc.

Selected Foreign Policy and International Politics Links:

• Amnesty International Online
• Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Central Intelligence Agency
• Council on Foreign Relations
• Council on Foreign Relation (The Source newsletter)
  An excellent nonpartisan resource which provides current and accurate infromation to major foreign policy issues
• Elections Around the World
• European Union
• Foreign Policy In Focus
• Global Development Network
• International Monetary Fund
• International Policy Institute for Counter-Terrorism
• International Relations and Security Network
• Library of Congress Country Studies
• North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• Political Resources on the Net
• United Nations System
• World Policy Institute

Selected U. S. Politics and Government Links:

• American Civil Liberties Union Freedom Network
• Brookings Institution
• Center for Democracy and Technology
• Congressional Quarterly
• CNN All Politics
• Electoral Reform
• Electronic Policy Networkr
• National Political Index
• Oyez Project (U. S. Supreme Court Multimedia Database)
• Rock the Vote
• Roper Center for Public Opinion Reseearch
• U.S. Government Documents & Federal Information (J.Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah)
• United Nations Documents and Other International Organizations (J.Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah)
  

Professional Associations:

• American Political Science Association
• American Society for Public Administration
• International Studies Association

Suggest a Web Link

Online: A Reference Guide to Using Internet Sources (Harnack and Kleppinger, Bedford: St. Martin's, 2000)<