Government and Political Sciences Databases/Indexes
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| Government and Political Science POWERSEARCH | Searches the following databases simultaneously: Academic Search Complete , Business Source Complete, Social Sciences Abstracts, America: History & Life, Historical Abstracts. How to Search This Database |
| Social Issues POWERSEARCH | Searches the following databases simultaneously: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, Sociological Abstracts, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, Social Services Abstracts, and PAIS Online. How to Search This Database |
| SCOPUS | SCOPUS is one of the largest article databases and covers the scientific, technical, medical, and social science literature - indexes over 19,500 peer-reviewed journal titles from over 5,000 publishers. Provides information to over 46 million articles and conference proceedings. The database covers the literature from 1966 to the present and is updated daily. Specifically, SCOPUS covers topics in biological and agricultural sciences, chemistry physics, mathematics, engineering, earth and environmental sciences, social science, psychology, economics, business/management, and history. SCOPUS covers 100% of the information indexed by the Medline database. How to Search This Database |
| CQ Electronic Library | Created by CQ Press, the CQ Electronic Library is an excellent resource for research in American government, politics, public policy, and current affairs and searches the online versions of CQ's periodicals and reference publications. Coverage spans 1983 to the present. How to Search This Database |
| LexisNexis Congressional (now ProQuest Congressional) |
Provides access to the publications of the United States Congress from 1970 to the present including Congressional committee hearings and reports, the Congressional Record, the United States Code, the Code of Federal Regulations and the Federal Register, bill texts, and legislative histories for Public Laws. Online full-text availability for these documents covers 1989 to the present. For publications running from 1970 to 1988, ProQuest Congressional provides indexing with abstracts. This indexing provides access to McDermott Library’s U.S. Serial Set collection on microfilm. For access to publications produced by the U.S. Congress before 1970, consult the printed CIS Index on reference index aisle 1A on the 2nd floor of McDermott Library. How to Search This Database |
| Constitutions of the Countries of the World | Constitutions of the Countries of the World contains the full text of current and historical versions of the Constitutions of 192 countries. All Constitutions are in English. It also includes introductory material and bibliographies to supplement and provide historical context for many Constitutions. Proposed and failed amendments are also included. How to Search This Database |
| Political Handbook of the World provides information on the major aspects of each country's government and political party system. Each country profiles include: key facts; government and political history; current Issues: political parties and organizations; legislatures and cabinets; communications. How to Search This Database | |
| Lexis-Nexis is an index to a wide variety of local, state, national, and international newspapers. Lexis-Nexis also contains business and industry newspapers, company information, SEC filings and reports, and accounting literature. The legal research section of Lexis-Nexis contains federal and state court decisions, federal and state codes, and articles from law reviews. How to Search This Database |
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| Social Sciences Citation Index | ISI Web of Knowledge (formerly- ISI Web of Science) provides seamless access to three citation indexes: the Science Citation Index, the Social Sciences Citation Index, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index. These can be searched together or separately. Approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious research journals are indexed with abstracts within the Web of Science. Complete bibliographies are included for each citation allowing for cited reference searching. Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index with searchable author abstracts, covering journals in the social sciences (anthropology, economics, geography, law, political science, psychology and sociology) from 1956 to the present. The Cited Reference Search option in Social Sciences Citation Index allows users to find other works which reference a specific work or author. How to Search This Database |
| An exhaustive database of catalog records of United States Government Documents from July 1976 through the present. Although no full-text is available in the database, links to online versions of the actual documents are provided in many of the records. Items can be searched by browsing topics, or by keyword or identifying number (SuDOC#, OCLC#, etc.). | |
| Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) | The HSDL collection provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies. The resources are reviewed and selected by a team of homeland security researchers. How to Search This Database |
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GreenFILE offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. How to Search This Database |
| FRANCIS | Francis is created by the Institut de l'Information Scientifique et Technique of the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique in Vandoeuvre-les-Nancy, France. This multilingual, multidisciplinary database is especially useful for the humanities and social sciences. Francis covers thousands of journals, books, and conference papers in many languages. How to Search This Database |
| Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) | HAPI is a source of information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. From analyses of current political, economic, and social issues to unique coverage of Latin American arts and letters, HAPI contains citations to journal articles, book reviews, documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in hundreds of social science and humanities journals published throughout the world. |
| A to Z Maps Online | This database features 146,000 maps on multidisciplinary subjects such as politics, geology, the environment, biology, and history. It includes climate change maps, hurricane maps, earthquake maps, volcano maps, fire maps, animal and plant species distribution maps, current event maps, political outline maps, and topographic maps. All these maps can be printed or downloaded for educational use. |
| SAGE Research Methods Online | Sage Research Methods Online (SRMO) - a comprehensive source for gathering information and assistance on research methodology, from basic terminology to complex interactive maps depicting the relationships among different types of research methods. Access hundreds of online handbooks, dictionaries and encyclopedias; the entire "Little Green Book" and "Little Blue Book" series; journal articles; and instructional videos. Includes links to free statistical software, directories of research organizations, information on research ethics, and social networking sites for academics. |
| Government Finance Statistics (GFS) | The Government Finance Statistics (GFS) database is an online service of the International Monetary Fund. GFS Online contains detailed annual statistical data – from 1990 forward – on revenues, expenses, transactions in assets and liabilities, and stocks of assets and liabilities of general government and its subsectors as reported by member countries. The Web interface allows users to browse the database, select series of interest, display the selected series in a spreadsheet format, and save the selected series for transfer to other software systems such as Microsoft Excel®. How to Search This Database |
| iPOLL Public Opinion Databank | The iPOLL Databank is a comprehensive, up-to-date resource for US public opinion data. iPOLL datasets include over 500,000 Q & As dating from 1935 to the present. Data is drawn from academic, commercial, and media polls conducted by over 150 US survey firms, on topics ranging from economic issues, politics, and elected officials to health, lifestyles, and social issues. iPOLL is updated daily. |
| Historical Statistics of the United States | Historical Statistics of the United States is the principle source for quantitative indicators of American history. Previously published as a two volume set, this expanded online edition contains considerably more information than its printed hardback predecessor, including twice as many pages of data and documentation and a tripling of the number of data series - 37,339 in the new online edition. Previously including data on population, work and welfare, economics, and other government collected data, more than a dozen new topics have been added such as American Indians, slavery, poverty, nonprofit organizations, and data on the Confederate States of America. Also, the chapters in the new online edition are preceded by essays that introduce the quantitative history of their subject, provide a guide to the sources, and offer expert advice on the reliability of the data and the limits that might be placed on their interpretation. More than eighty scholars contributed their efforts and expertise to assemble and document the data and to write the introductory essays. The data are readily available for charting, or statistical analysis, or regrouping across tables. |
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| Collection of primary-source full-text philosophy databases. Past Masters titles are usually comprised of the complete works of an individual author, and can include diaries, letters and correspondence. A list of available collections is available in the "Select a Title" box. UTD does not currently have a subscription to the POEISIS journal collection. | |
| Digital National Security Archive | Contains a large collection of primary documents on U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. It includes more than 63,000 important, declassified documents that led to U.S. policy decisions in the 25 different areas listed below. This is a good source for U.S. historical primary documents. . Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-1990 . Berlin Crisis, 1958-1962 . China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960-1998 . Cuban Missile Crisis: From the Bay of Pigs to the Brink of Nuclear War . Death Squads, Guerrilla War, Covert Operations, and Genocide: Guatemala and the United States, 1954-1999 . El Salvador: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977-1984 . El Salvador: War, Peace, and Human Rights, 1980-1994 . Iran: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977-1980 . Iran-Contra Affair: The Making of a Scandal, 1983-1988 . Iraq gate: Saddam Hussein, U.S. Policy and the Prelude to the Persian Gulf War, 1980-1994 . Japan and the United States: Diplomatic, Security, and Economic Relations, 1960-1992. How to Search This Database |
| Eighteenth Century Collections Online | Provide access to digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 26 million pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. How to Search This Database |
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Features the full text of 61,000 books on economics and business and 466 pre-1906 serials from the Goldsmiths' Library at the University of London and the Kress Library at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. Published between 1460 and 1850, the books comprise the most comprehensive collection in existence for the study of early economic, political, business, and social history, and for researching the literature of economics of this period. This unrivalled online library offers comprehensive witness to the theories, practices, and consequences of economic and business activity in the West. How to Search This Database |
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