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 This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Complete is a large multidisciplinary resource that includes the full text for most of the publications in its index.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
Science Direct 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 This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
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.
Web of science This link opens in a new window
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 This link opens in a new window
CanLII is a Federation of Law Societies of Canada database providing access to Canadian federal, provincial, and territorial legislation and court decisions.
UN iLibrary This link opens in a new window
UN iLibrary provides a single, searchable platform for digital content created by the United Nations.
Please note that we have access to any publicly available content.

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