Database Subject
Political Science Databases
| Database Names and Descriptions | Full Text |
Annual Reviews  Annual Reviews publishes authoritative reviews of scientific research. These articles summarize the current understanding of a topic, set it within its historical context, outline practical applications and suggest the future course of research. |  |
| Fdsys Provided by the United States Government Printing Office, the Federal Digital System (FDsys) provides online access to official publications from all three branches of the federal government, including the Congressional Record, the Code of Federal Regulations, the U. S. Code, text of congressional bills, court opinions, and much more. | |
| HeinOnline HeinOnline is a very large database for government documents and legal research. It contains comprehensive coverage from inception of both U.S. statutory materials, U.S. Congressional Documents and more than 2,400 scholarly journals, all of the world's constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, and access to the full text of state and federal case law powered by Fastcase. | |
| Military and Government Collection Offers current research and news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, including nearly 300 journals and other periodicals. | |
| Political Handbook of the World The classic guide to country-by-country political information, including more than 200 entries providing the complete facts and analysis of each country's governmental and political environment, including coverage of political parties and intergovernmental organizations. | |
| RAND State Statistics RAND State Statistics presents detailed historical and current statistical data on the state of California and the U.S. as a whole in categories like population, demographics, health, business, education, environment, economics, crime, labor, energy and more. Much of the data is available at city, county and state levels. | |
| SAGE Premier SAGE Premier is a collection of over 600 scholarly journals from one the world's largest and most respected publishers of academic information, with particular strengths in education, criminal justice and the social sciences. | |
| Social Sciences Full Text Social Sciences Full Text is a bibliographic database covering a wide range of interdisciplinary fields within the social sciences, including anthropology, criminal justice, gerontology, political science, psychology and sociology. Full-text content of many of the indexed journals is available, dating as far back as 1995. | |
| Statistical Abstract of the U.S. Published annually by the federal government since 1878, and now published by ProQuest, The Statistical Abstract of the U.S. is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. | |
| World Politics Review World Politics Review is a political science resource with a strong emphasis on current events in world affairs and foreign policy. It's one of the best library resources on current events around the world, with new content added multiple times per day. Reports are strictly non-partisan, written by a network of leading experts and on-the-ground influencers. Many brief reports are supplemented by longer, more in-depth comprehensive examinations of single subjects. With the exception of the most recent several days of content, all World Politics Review content is also available within OneSearch. | |
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| Academic Search Premier A great first stop when looking for scholarly journal articles, Academic Search Premier contains full text content across all academic disciplines from over 4,600 periodicals. Also contains some popular magazines. Most content is from the last twenty years. | |
| Academic Writer (formerly APA Style Central) Academic Writer helps you develop your writing and research skills, combining sophisticated learning and teaching tools, advanced authoring technology, and full integration of the APA manual. | |
| Christian Periodical Index Published by the Association of Christian Librarians, CPI is an interdisciplinary index of Christian periodicals. Search here if you're looking for articles or reviews written from an evangelical perspective. | |
| Credo Reference Credo Reference is a powerful source of introductory and reference information across all academic disciplines. Combining cross-searchable content from over 500 encyclopedias and other reference sources, Credo will also connect you to related materials in other library databases and collections. | |
| Dissertations and Theses The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses includes 3 million citations, over 1.5 million of which are available in full-text. | |
| Ebook Central Ebook Central is a database of over 130,000 e-books in all academic areas. This collection is also searchable via OneSearch and the OneSearch Catalog. | |
| Films on Demand This database includes over 20,000 online streaming educational videos from providers like PBS and Films for the Humanities & Sciences. Includes coverage of nearly all academic disciplines. Instructors can embed films in Blackboard for easy course integration. These videos are also discoverable through OneSearch and the library catalog (Webcat). |  |
| Gale eBooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library) A cross-searchable collection of more than 2,500 reference volumes, including encyclopedias across all academic disciplines. | |
| Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints (formerly Opposing Viewpoints in Context) Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is a great starting point for all of today's most common research topics. Featured "viewpoints" provide accessible overviews, which are supplemented by many articles from popular magazines and academic journals, as well as books, newspapers, statistics, videos and even audio recordings. A good way to get started is to click "Browse Issues". | |
| Google Scholar Google Scholar is a broad index of scholarly content across many different fields and content types. | |
| JSTOR JSTOR is an interdisciplinary database of back issues from the most important scholarly journals in many fields. Coverage of most journals begins with volume one and ends four or more years ago. The library currently provides access to twelve JSTOR collections: Arts & Sciences I-X, XII, and the Life Sciences collection. | |
| OneSearch OneSearch is a discovery service that lets you search across just about all of the library's collections at once. It includes everything in the library catalog, most databases, and much more. For finding books in our collections, use OneSearch Catalog or the "CBU Catalog Only" limiter. Databases that are not included in OneSearch include Dissertations and Theses and U.S. Major Dailies. | |
| Scopus A comprehensive general index of scholarly publications. Includes bibliographic records for academic journal articles primarily, but also for peer-reviewed books and conference proceedings. Scopus also provides advanced tools for analyzing the significance of individual journals, articles, scholars and institutions. Some journals are indexed as far back as 1823, but comprehensive coverage begins in 1996. |