Library: Political Science at Webster University Library: Find Articles

Databases for Political Science Research

Academic Search Premier
A scholarly multidisciplinary database of periodical articles, most with full-text.

GPO (Government Publishing Office)
A finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive information for historical and current publications as well as direct links to the full document, when available.

America: History & Life
Focuses on the history of the United States and Canada from early times to present day. Includes related disciplines such as sociology, popular culture, gender issues, anthropology, literature, folklore, history of various disciplines, etc. (5 simultaneous users)
Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)
Focuses on the history of the world (excluding U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present. Includes related disciplines, such as multicultural studies, psychology, religion, political science, etc. Provides worldwide coverage of the journal literature in history, selected book reviews, and references to dissertations. Covers literature published from 1955 to present
JSTOR (contains Artstor images)
JSTOR is a digital archive of scholarly journals. Note that our subscription is for the following collections: Arts & Sciences II and Arts & Sciences III.
Click the Images tab to search Artstor for thousands of images from the arts, architecture, photography, and other disciplines.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale in Context)
An online resource covering today's social issues, from capital punishment to immigration to marijuana. This cross-curricular research database supports science, social studies, current events, and language arts classes.
ProQuest One Academic
A one-stop gateway to search four core multi-disciplinary products – ProQuest Central, Academic Complete, Academic Video Online and ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global – on the same user-friendly ProQuest platform.
Scopus
A major index for scientific, medical, technical, and social science journals - over 16,000 of which are peer reviewed. It also offers author profiles which cover affiliations, number of publications and their bibliographic data, references, and details on the number of citations each published document has received. It provides citation data for all 22,500 active titles such as journals, conference proceedings and books in Scopus and provides an alternative to the impact factor.

Supplementary Political Science Databases

DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals
The Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) is an online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals. It contains more than 10,000 quality, peer-reviewed open access journals covering all areas of science, technology, medicine, social science and humanities.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. Using this link to access Google Scholar will ensure that "Resources at Webster" links are included in results, giving easy access to library collections.
PAIS Index – Public Affairs Information Service (ProQuest)
Focuses on literature concerned with public policy. It contains more than 400,000 records representing articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories.
Project Muse
High-quality books and journals in the humanities and social sciences from over 200 university presses and scholarly societies.
ScienceDirect Social & Behavioral Sciences, College Edition
Provides basic search and full text to more than 350 Elsevier journals in areas such as business, economics, sociology, and psychology.
SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO)
Replaces Sociological Abstracts as the premier database in the area of sociology. It covers the content from Sociological Abstracts and provides additional full-text of books, conference papers, and articles, as well as back files which in some cases extend back to 1895.
Statista
Specializing in consumer and market data, Statista provides access to statistics from a wide range of topics. Access data sets, charts, infographics, survey results, studies, forecasts and more through Statista.
Westlaw (Thomson Reuters)
Combines a depth of law-related information with a breadth of news and business information to provide a complete view of any issue. Includes the full text of U.S. federal and state legislation, regulations, court decisions, and law reviews and journals. Also features current and archival articles from U.S. and international newspapers, transcripts of news broadcasts, company profiles and EDGAR financial filings.