Political Science Databases
Academic Search Premier
This multi-disciplinary database contains indexing for over 8,000 publications covering virtually every area of academic study. More than 3,600 of these are peer-reviewed, full text journals.
· Coverage: 1975 - (for more than 100 of the journals)
· Type: citations, abstracts and full-text
ArticleFirst - OCLC
Contains bibliographic citations that describe items listed on the table of contents pages of journals in science, technology, medicine, social sciences, business, the humanities, and popular culture. Allows you to limit your search results to a specific library's holdings (e.g. Redeemer's or McMaster's).
· Coverage and update frequency: Jan. 1990-; daily
· Citations
WorldCat Database (the OCLC Union Catalog)
The world's most comprehensive bibliography, with more than 48 million bibliographic records representing books and other materials (but not journal articles) in 400 languages. Covers information back to 2100 B.C. Includes holdings information from libraries across the world as well as records describing selected internet resources. Includes the
Library of Congress Subject Headings as its thesaurus. Allows you to limit your search results to a specific library's holdings (e.g. Redeemer's or McMaster's).
· Coverage and update frequency: back to approx. 2100 B.C.; daily
CPIQ: Canadian Periodical Index
The electronic version of the
Canadian Periodical Index, with indexing of nearly 700 Canadian and international periodicals including
The Globe and Mail;
Maclean's weekly magazine;
Canadian News Facts; and reference materials, such as the
Canadian Parliamentary Guide and
Canadian Newsmakers. With full-text articles from 240 periodicals.
· Coverage: 1988-
· Type: Citations and some full text (from 1995 to present)
PARLIT [Parliaments & Literature]
Citations of books and articles regarding the role, structure, and working methods of national parliaments around the world, electoral systems, constitutional law, history and political science.
· Coverage: 1965- (with online access from 1992-)
· Type: citations
Population Index
Population Index, published since 1935, is the primary reference tool to the world's population literature. It presents an annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics.
· Coverage: citation index and abstracts
·000 Type: 1986-
American Memory
Information regarding the history and culture of the U.S. from over one million source materials. Compiled by the Library of Congress National Digital Library program; involves the participation of other libraries and archives as well.
·111 Coverage: 1700-
·222 Type: full text
Television News Archive - Vanderbilt University
"The world's most available, extensive and complete archive of television news. Since 1968, the Archive has consistently recorded, indexed, and preserved network television news for research, review, and study. The Archive offers: loans of duplicated tapes, loans of compiled tapes and in-archive viewing."
·333 Coverage: 1968-
·444 Type: citations and abstracts
Early Canadiana Online
Canada's printed heritage published from the time of the first European settlers up to the early twentieth century. Concentration on the subjects of women's history, exploration, government documents, English Canadian literature, history of French Canada, Hudson's Bay,
Jesuit Relations and Native studies.
·555 Type: full text
First Nations Periodical Index
Accesses a listing of journals containing mainly Canadian Native content.
·666 Coverage: 1992-
·777 Type: citation index
HLAS Online [Handbook of Latin American Studies]
A bibliography on Latin America, providing comprehensive access to future, current, and retrospective volumes of the
Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS).
·888 Coverage: 1936-
·999 Type: bibliographic
IDRC (International Development Research Centre): Biblio
The library of the International Development Research Centre (IDRC). The IDRC is a public corporation created by the Canadian government to help communities in the developing world find solutions to social, economic, and environmental problems through research; "science for humanity."
·000 Coverage: 1965-
·111 Type: citations with some full text
National Criminal Justice Reference Service (U.S.)
This database includes summaries of U.S. Govt. documents, books, articles and other resources related to: corrections, courts, drugs and crime, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, domestic preparedness, and victims of crime.
·222 Coverage: 1970-
·333 Type: citation index / full text
Project Gutenberg
A collection of public domain books in electronic format. Mainly comprised of classic literature.
·444 Coverage: 1400-
·555 Type: full text