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• ER: Electronic Resources

Political Science — Core and General Works

• Academic OneFile A collection of peer-reviewed, full-text articles from more than 5000 journals, plus indexing of an additional 4000+ journals, newspapers and wire services. Coverage from 1980 to the present. Extensive coverage of the social sciences and other disciplines. Use this database for a broad search to retrieve both first tier as well as second tier sources. For a less broad search of first tier sources only, use Expanded Academic ASAP (EXAC) .
• Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science
• Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics
• CQ Historic Documents Series Online Edition Issued since 1972, each annual volume of which contains approximately 100 documents covering the most significant events of the year. The documents include presidential speeches, international agreements, Supreme Court decisions, U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.
• CQ Researcher In depth coverage of current issues, with historical and current analysis, and pros and cons per topic, timelines, and extensive bibliographies.
• Dictionary of Contemporary World History
• Dictionary of Government and Politics (Collin Publishing)
• Expanded Academic ASAP (EXAC) This is an important database for social sciences (political economy, gender studies, development, etc) with more than 20 years of coverage of about 3,500 first tier, indexed, and full-text titles, of which 2,100 are peer-reviewed. For a broader search which will retrieve both first tier as well as second tier sources, see Academic OneFile .
• History and Politics Out Loud Searchable multimedia database documenting and delivering authoritative audio relevant to American history and politics. Website support includes Department of Political Science, Northwestern University Library, School of Communication, Office of the Provost, and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. (Project Director: NU Professor Jerry Goldman) 
• International Annual Bibliography of Festschriften=Internationale Jahresbibliographie der Festschriften (IJBF) Bibliography of over 20,000 Festschriften in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish languages from 1986 to the present.
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences Citations from an international selection of publications, including over 2600 journals, in all areas of the social sciences with emphasis on economics, political science, sociology and anthropology.
• International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences  "Covers scholarship and fields that have emerged and matured since the publication of the original international edition... new articles and biographies contributed by scholars from around the world on a wide array of global topics in the social sciences."
• International Political Science Abstracts Provides indexing and abstracting of articles from English and non-English language, major journals in political science, international public law, and international relations.
• Journal Citation Reports Citation data and information about scholarly and technical journals.
• JSTOR Provides electronic access to back issues of core scholarly journals including almost 30 in Political Science. To browse the list of archives, click here. Articles have been digitized, providing full-image access.
• Left Index Citations, abstracts and selected full text from over 260 publications of the political left.
• Microform Collections of the NU Library This electronic guide provides information on historical resources in area studies including Latin America, East and South Asia, Europe, and America as well as sources on topics such as gender studies.
• Microform and CD-ROM Collections of the U of C Guide to resources in political science and history in these formats at the University of Chicago (to which NU faculty and students have access via reciprocal privileges).
• New York Review of Books Searchable archive of articles and reviews from 1963 to present.
• Northwestern Journal of International Affairs (NJIA)This is a student-run journal, supported by Northwestern University's Buffet Center for International and Comparative Studies.  Issues are available online and also in print within the Main Library, Periodical/Newspaper Reading Room.
• Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World, 2nd Edition
• PAIS International Bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. Journal articles, books, government documents, statistical compilations, committee reports, directories, serials, reports of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations, and most other forms of printed literature from all over the world are indexed. This database covers 1972 to the present. Go to PAIS International Archive for coverage from 1937-1976. (The archive will eventually cover 1915 through 1976.)
• Poly-cy: Internet Resources for Political Science Metasite for Political Science containing links to useful information for faculty and students under such heading as "The Profession" (e.g., institutes, jobs, conferences), "Research" (e.g., data sources, methods, grants), "Government" (e.g., foreign governments, US counties), etc.
• Social Science Information Gateway Browse by Subjects including Politics, Research Tolls and Methods, Statistics, and Women's Studies.
• Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) Provides bibliographic information and some abstracts from articles from more than 1,700 in the social sciences. Search by topic, author, source title, or by cited reference: authors and titles from the bibliography of an article. Searches may also lead to related records: articles with citations in common. Results may be printed, saved to a text file, exported in a delimited format for import into personal bibliographic programs like EndNote or ProCite, or may be sent via email. (For more information, see citations to faculty publications.)
• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Citations with abstracts from more than 1100 journals in political science and related disciplines. Coverage is international in scope.
  

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