Subject Guides: Political Science: Databases and Indexes

Databases

Listed below are the names of databases associated with field of political science. Databases are the best place to search for primary research published in academic and peer-reviewed journals. For a complete list of databases for political science, click here.

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Large, multidisciplinary EBSCO database, covering a wide range of disciplines.

ILL: allowed for non-commercial libraries only
JSTOR
Archive of scholarly journals and ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, sciences and mathematics. Journal coverage is volume 1 of each title until 3-5 years ago (access period varies by title).
Web of science
Index of scholarly literature covering a wide range of topics. Includes current and retrospective bibliographic information, cited reference searching and bibliometric searching.
Science Direct
Information platform of scientific, technical, and medical research content from journals, books, series, and reference works published by Elsevier.
Google Scholar
Index to scholarly literature across all disciplines. Can also be used for citation searching and to view author profiles.
Canadian research index
Indexes government publications of research value issued by federal, provincial and territorial governments.
CanLII
Database providing access to Canadian federal, provincial, and territorial legislation and court decisions.
UN iLibrary
Catalog of United Nations publications and documents from 1979 forward, including UN sales publications, selected periodical articles, Official Records, and documents from UN bodies and committees.

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