Selected Political Science Resources

*360Search
Use 360 Search to search the Rhodes library catalog, selected databases and online journals simultaneously.

Databases
(* Licensed by Rhodes College)

• *America: History and Life
  Covers over 2,000 journals published worldwide. In addition to covering all key English-language historical journals, America: History and Life coverage includes selected historical journals from major countries, state and local history journals, and a targeted selection of hundreds of journals in the social sciences and humanities. Over 90% of the articles included are published in English-language journals.  
• *American National Biography
  Offers portraits of more than 17,400 men and women -- from all eras and walks of life -- whose lives have shaped the nation.
• *CIAO-Columbia International Affairs Online (1991-  )
  The most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
• *Congressional Universe
  CIS Congressional Universe is the world′s most comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information from Congressional Information Service, Inc. The service offers access to a variety of information by and about the United States Congress.
• *EconLit with Full Text
  Produced by the American Economic Association, this is the world′s foremost source of references to economic literature. Also includes full text for more than 430 journals including titles from the American Economic Association, such as: American Economic Review, Journal of Economic Literature, and Journal of Economic Perspectives. The database contains more than 735,000 records from 1969-present. EconLit covers virtually every area related to economics.
• *Facts.com
  Brings together content from seven core reference databases to answer questions about events, issues, statistics and people of the last 20 years. The seven databases are Facts On File World News Digest; Issues and Controversies On File; Today′s Science On File; Editorials On File; Funk & Wagnalls New Encyclopedia; Reuters On-Line News Service; The World Almanac and Book of Facts. FACTS.com also delivers additional special features including maps, photographs, historic documents, and overviews of key issues, newsmakers and events since 1980.
• FIRST: Facts on International Relations and Security Trends (Sipri)
  Facts on International Relations and Security Trends (FIRST) is a free-of-charge service for politicians, journalists, researchers and the interested public. FIRST is a joint project of the International Relations and Security Network (ISN) and the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI).
• GPO Access Search
  GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information products produced by the Federal Government. The information provided on this site is the official, published version and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without restriction, unless specifically noted.
• *GPO Monthly Catalog
  Consists of records published by the U.S. Government Printing Office since July 1976. Includes references to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more
• *Historical Abstracts
  Your complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada, which are covered in America: History and Life). This database is packed with annotated references to information on topics from the Renaissance to Tiananmen Square -- over half a million entries in all.  
• In the First Person 
  A free, high quality, professionally published, in-depth index of more than 3,350 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world.
• *Military and Intelligence Database
   The Military and Intelligence Database periodical list has been hand-selected by Gale editors to meet those content needs. Additionally, the product includes some basic reference materials that are updated annually: The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia and the World Almanac and Book of Facts. With more than 500 titles and more than 7 million articles (80% full-text), searchers are sure to find answers to their reference questions.
• PAIS [print Ref Z7164.E2 P34]
• Political Database of the Americas (Georgetown U)
  The Political Database of the Americas offers information about the following countries: Antigua and Barbuda; Argentina; Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Bolivia; Brazil; Canada; Chile; Colombia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Dominica; Ecuador; El Salvador; Grenada; Guatemala; Guyana; Haiti; Honduras; Jamaica; Mexico; Nicaragua; Panama; Paraguay; Peru; Dominican Republic; St. Kitts and Nevis; St. Lucia; St. Vincent and the Grenadines; Suriname; Trinidad and Tobago; Uruguay; United States of America; and Venezuela.
• *World News Connection
  An extremely valuable research tool for anyone who needs to monitor non-U.S. media sources, the material in WNC is provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) by the Open Source Center (OSC). Analysts from OSC domestic and overseas bureaus monitor timely and pertinent open-source materials.
• *Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega
  Electronic access to full text articles, page images, article abstracts, and citations from over 4,000 journals. Coverage back as early as 1982 ensures that every search is as deep as it is broad.

Online Journals & Newspapers
(* Licensed by Rhodes College)

• Capital Spotlight
  Online newsletter from CSPAN and CQ.
• CSPAN
• *Law, Politics and Government Journals - SerialsSolutions List
• *Political Science Journals - JSTOR
• *Public Policy and Administration Journals - JSTOR
• Federal News Service
• *National Newspaper Index
  Article abstracts or references from five major newspapers: The New York Times (late and national editions); The Wall Street Journal (eastern and western editions); The Christian Science Monitor (national edition); The Washington Post (final edition); and The Los Angeles Times (home edition).
• *Lexis-Nexis (includes Congressional Universe, Statistical Universe)
  Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. It couples the convenience of the Internet with the power of Lexis-Nexis services so you can quickly and easily retrieve documents that meet your specific research needs.
• *Newsbank
  "A comprehensive, full-text news resource consisting of more than 500 regional, national, and international newspaper and newswire services." This link also access the NewsBank Academic Library Collection, Global Newsbank, Newbank Retrospective, and several individual newspaper titles including digital image editions of Die Welt, El Pais, International Herald Tribune, Le Monde, and the New York Times.
• Directory of Open Access Journals - 3,200 free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals, many of them searchable at the article level.
• *Wall Street Journal (1984-  )
  The financial newspaper of record offering in-depth coverage of national and international finance as well as first rate coverage of hard news.

Reference Resources
(* Licensed by Rhodes College)

• *Routledge Dictionary of Politics
• *Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Political Thought
• *Dictionary of Political Biography
• *Illustrated Dictionary of Constitutional Concepts
• *Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science
• *Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics
• *Biographical Dictionary of British Prime Ministers
• *Dictionary of Diplomacy
• *Dictionary of Politics and Government
• *Macquarie Dictionary of Australian Politics
• *Dictionary of Conflict Resolution
• *Encyclopedia Dictionary of Conflict and Conflict Resolution, 1945-1996
• *Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World
• *Oxford Guide to the United States Government
• *Guide to the Countries of the World
• *Merriam-Webster′s Dictionary of Law
• *Dictionary of Law
• *Oran′s Dictionary of the Law
• *Dictionary of Legal Terms
• *Collins Dictionary of Law
• *Dictionary of Law Enforcement
• *Oxford Companion to Politics of the World
• *Oxford Guide to the United States Goverment
• *Oxford Companion to American Law
• *Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
• *Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions
• *Encyclopedia of the European Union
• *World of Criminal Justice
• *Great American Court Cases
• *Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law
• *Nolo′s Encyclopedia of Everyday Law
• U.S. Government Manual

Websites

• American Political Science Association
• FedWorld.gov
  In 1992, FedWorld was established to serve as the online locator service for a comprehensive inventory of information disseminated by the Federal Government.
• Government Websources - Library of Congress
• GovBrowserl.com
• Political Resources on the Net
  Listings of political sites available on the Internet sorted by country, with links to Parties, Organizations, Governments, Media and more from all around the world
• Political Science Resources (Richard Kimber)
• Political Science Resources (Vanderbilt)
• DMOZ Open Directory - Political Science Sources  
• PARLINE Database on National Parliaments
  The PARLINE database contains information on the structure and working methods of 265 parliamentary chambers in all of the 189 countries where a national legislature exists.
• Record of American Democracy (Harvard)
  A massive new aggregate data set on American politics is now available. Our Record Of American Democracy (ROAD) data include election returns, socioeconomic summaries, and demographic measures of the American public at unusually low levels of geographic aggregation. The NSF-supported ROAD project covers every state in the country from 1984 through 1990 (including some off-year elections).
• State Government Offices, Local US Government, City Government and Federal Government
  The State and Local Government Internet directory provides convenient one-stop access to the websites of thousands of state agencies and city and county governments.
• ThisNation.com
  ThisNation.com is dedicated to providing factual, unbiased information about government and politics in the United States of America.
• Thomas (Library of Congress)
  THOMAS was launched in January of 1995, at the inception of the 104th Congress. The leadership of the 104th Congress directed the Library of Congress to make federal legislative information freely available to the public.
• U.S. Congressional Bibliographies (NCSU)
  The U.S. Congressional Bibliographies enumerate and describe meetings held by Congressional committees since 1985, those for which printed transcripts are issued, and those that remain unprinted.  Its sources are the Congressional Record′s "Daily Digest" and bibliographic information supplied by the U.S. Senate Library.  Its primary goal is to be an authoritative, exhaustive reference source of meetings held and documents released by House and Senate committees.
  

Texts and Documents

• American Memory (Library of Congress)
  American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.
• 100 Milestone Documents (U.S. National Archives)
• Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
  The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text.
• Budget of the United States Government
  Issued by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), the Budget of the United States Government is a collection of documents that contains the budget message of the President, information about the President′s budget proposals for a given fiscal year, and other budgetary publications that have been issued throughout the fiscal year.
• Online Primary Document Collections (California State University, San Marcos)
• Primary Sources in U.S. History
  There are 2 subsets to this Lexis-Nexis database: Primary Sources in African American History and Primary Sources in American Women′s History
• University of Michigan Documents Center
  The Documents Center is a central reference and referral point for government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or international. Its web pages are a reference and instructional tool for government, political science, statistical data, and news.