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Top Recommended Research Databases

To find articles about a Political Science related topic, search a subject specific database or browse the Library's database list.

The top recommended databases for Political Science research are

CQ Researcher
Noted for in-depth, unbiased coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Each issue focuses on one controversial topic and includes an overview, background, chronology, and pro-con debates. Full-text back to 1923.

CQ Weekly
Explores the day-to-day actions of the U.S. Congress, delivering nonpartisan news and analysis. Full text is available from 1983 until 2014. Includes historic reports on congressional issues of the day, including the status of bills that were being considered, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates, and results of any roll-call votes.

LexisNexis Academic - Now called Nexis Uni
Focuses on news, legal, and company information. The source includes many newspapers in full-text as well as TV and radio news broadcast transcripts. Legal cases come from the U.S. and international sources and some law reviews are included full-text. The system allows you to look at information on one company or to create a dossier and compare several. It includes SEC filings. It is also a good place to find information about people.
GovInfo.gov

MarciveWeb DOCS
Provides citations to United States government publications from 1976 to present. URL’s provided for resources available online. Updated weekly.

Social Sciences Citation Index - Web of Science
Indexes over 2,600 journals in all social sciences back to 1992. The strength of this database is that a researcher can follow who has cited a particular article since that article was published.
SocIndex
The database features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus. This product also contains extensive indexing for books/monographs, conference papers, and other non-periodical content is included. Searchable cited references are also provided.

Journals

Use the Journals List to determine the library's access to specific publications. Enter the title of the newspaper, magazine, or journal to find out whether the library has access in print or online and the dates of our coverage.

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Government Information

SDSU Department of History, Political Science and Philosophy and Religion

Elections and Voting Guide

SDSU Rural Life and Census Data Center

Alternate Research Databases

If you do not find what you need in one of the top recommended databases, there are several other databases that are relevant to SUBJECT research that you might also try searching.

Current Contents
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Tables of contents with complete bibliographic information to XXX journals from 1998 to the present.
EBSCOhost
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Platform that hosts more than 30 databases covering all fields. Users can choose to search one or more databases.
JSTOR
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Includes more than 1,500 leading academic journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.
ProQuest
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Provides access to the Sioux Falls Argus Leader, Dissertations & Thesis at SDSU, EconLit, Proquest Discovery, Proquest Dissertations and Thesis and Proquest Research Library. Coverage includes diverse subjects from popular and scholarly literature. The databases can be search all together or individually.

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