Subject Guides: Political Science: Articles and Databases

Useful databases

Below is a list of selected databases. For a complete list of databases for political science, click here.

Academic Search Complete
Academic Search Complete is a large multidisciplinary resource that includes the full text for most of the publications in its index.
Social Sciences Full Text
Social sciences full text covers concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences. More than 350 key international, English-language periodicals. Indexing of periodicals provided from 1983-current; full text coverage starting 1995.
JSTOR
JSTOR provides image and full-text online access to selected scholarly journals in history economics political science demography mathematics and other fields of the humanities and social sciences.
Science Direct
ScienceDirect provides full text access to over 2,500 journals and 26,000 ebooks in the sciences: life, health, physical and social sciences. Subgenres include engineering, environmental science, medicine, nursing, and economics, among others.
Google Scholar
Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles theses books abstracts and court opinions from academic publishers professional societies online repositories universities and other web sites.
Canadian Research Index
The Canadian Research Index (CRI) indexes government publications of research value issued by federal, provincial, and territorial governments. Over 50% of the federal documents listed in Canadian Research Index are non-depository publications.
Quicklaw
Quicklaw includes Canadian law-related content such as case law federal and provincial regulations and legislation newspaper articles and press releases. Access to this resource is made available through the generous support of http://www.unbc.ca/human-resources>UNBC Human Resources.
Web of Science
Web of Science provides access to the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. It offers current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references and allows users to conduct broad-based, comprehensive searches.
CanLII
CanLII is a Federation of Law Societies of Canada database providing access to Canadian federal provincial and territorial legislation and court decisions.
UN iLibrary
UN iLibrary provides a single, searchable platform for digital content created by the United Nations.

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