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Full-Text Availability: Note that databases with "Index" or "Abstracts" in the title often have links to the full-text articles.
- 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) . - Almanac
of American Politics Citations with abstracts from more than 1,100
journals; international in scope. Overviews of U.S. states, congressional
districts and biographical sketches and political profiles of the current
members of Congress and state governors.
- Blackwell
Dictionary of Political Science
- Concise
Oxford Dictionary of Politics
- Country Profiles (BBC) "Instant guide" to statistics, history, news, politics, chronology of key events, leaders, media, and economics of countries of the world.
- CQ Voting and Elections
Collection Research and documents organized into
six categories: Presidential Elections; Congressional Elections; Gubenatorial
Elections; Campaigns and Elections; Political Parties; and Voters
and Demographics.
- Demography and Population Studies Internet Guide
- Dictionary
of Contemporary World History
- Dictionary
of Government and Politics (Collin Publishing)
- Dictionary
of Statistics
- Dissertations
-- Foreign Hundreds of thousands of foreign doctoral dissertations
available through the Center for Research Libraries. If author is not
found, read introductory note to take further action.
- EconLit EconLit
is a comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of
the world's economic literature.
- Economist
Intelligence Unit on the Internet Economic data on 150 countries,
from about 1980 to present.
- Economics. A listing of resources compiled by the NU Economics Bibliographer.
- Elections Around the World
- Embassy World Directory & search engine of the world's embassies & consulates.
- 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 .
- Gallup Brain A searchable
database containing the results from over 125,000 Gallup opinion questions
dating back to 1935.
- 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
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.
- 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.
- 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 Electronic Titles (NET) from GPO Access Lists new additions to the Federal Depository Library Program Electronic Collection. Can also access NET archives from this site.
- OECD Index Bibliographic
database containing descriptions of documents and publications issued
by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation
and Development (OECD) and related agencies such as the International
Energy Agency (IEA) and the European Conference of Ministers of Transport.
Search the Library catalog NUcat for
the titles you want. For assistance with this resource, please visit
the Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department or
contact staff at 847-491-3130 or govpubs@northwestern.edu.
See also SourceOECD .
- Opensecrets.org Research on campaign finance issues and reports on political contributions.
- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) resources at NU: A thorough guide to OECD materials available to the NU community; compiled by the Main Library's Government and Geographic Information and Data Services.
- Oxford
Companion to the Politics of the World, 2nd Edition
- Oxresearch
- Oxford Analytica A repository of research papers and source intelligence
on global political and economic topics. Bridges newspaper reporting
of
current events and the appearance of scholarly articles and books.
- 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.)
- PollingReport.com An independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion. For additional data, see Polling Report Subscriber Pages.
- Polling Report Subscriber Pages user name: northwestern; password: 1904. See, too, PollingReport.com.
- Polling the Nations Searchable and browseable database of over 350,000 questions from more than 14,000 public opinion surveys conducted by more than 700 different organizations in the U.S. and abroad.
- 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.
- Popline More
than 300,000 citations with abstracts to articles, books and reports
on population, family planning, demography, and related health
issues.
- Program on International Policy Attitudes Project of the Center on Policy Attitudes (COPA) and the Center for International Security Studies (CISSM). Conducts polls, domestic and across nations, to study American options toward international issues.
- 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.
- SourceOECD Organisation
for Economic Co-operation and Development. Full-text of
periodicals and statistics. See also OECD
Index .
- World Bank and IMF Network Libraries Catalog—JOLIS (Library catalogs) Includes references to books, journal titles, journal articles, working papers, conference proceedings, technical reports, videos, software, electronic resources, and published IMF and World Bank materials. Please check the Library's catalog NUcat for availability, and speak with staff Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department .
- 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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E-DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS
Language
Dictionaries & Quotations
- Bilingual
Dictionaries--Oxford English to French, German, Italian,
Latin, Spanish and vis versa.
- Bartlett's
Familiar Quotations. 10th Edition, 1919
- Cambridge
Dictionary of American English
- Cambridge
Klett Compact, French-English
- Cambridge
Klett Compact, Spanish-English
- Foreign Languages for Travelers Includes basic phrases with pronunciations in Real Audio in over sixty languages and links to language services and translating dictionaries.
- German
Reference Database: Xipolis
- Getty
Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Merriam-Webster
Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
- Online Dictionary Net Links to many online dictionaries covering many languages and topics.
- Oxford
Dictionary of Modern Quotations
- Oxford
Dictionary of Quotations
- Oxford
English Dictionary: OED Online This contains two separate
texts, the complete Second Edition and the New Edition in progress.
The first set
is a complete A to Z sequence of entries, while the second
is incomplete, but growing every quarter.
- WWW Virtual
Library Web Gateways to English and foreign language dictionaries,
acronyms and abbreviations, subject lexicons, glossaries, thesauri,
quotations, and rhyming dictionaries.
Biographical Dictionaries & Encyclopedias
- American
National Biography Articles and portraits of about 19,000
historically noteworthy Americans.
- Biographical
Dictionary Covers more than 28,000 notable men and women
from ancient times to the present day. Can be searched by birth
years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and
artistic works,
achievements, and other keywords.
- Biography
Resource Center Biographical information on nearly
275,000 people from throughout history; includes some full-text
feature-length biographical
articles and links
to selected web sites.
- Colegrove, Kenneth (1886-1975) Papers A finding aid to the papers of a Political science professor at Northwestern (1919-1952) and expert in Japanese politics and law. 90 boxes (30 linear feet).
- Conversations with History: Institute of International Studies (UC Berkeley) Lively and unedited video interviews and printable transcripts, with distinguished men and women from all over the world. Includes over 300 diplomats, statesmen, stateswomen, soldiers, economists, political scientists, activists and artists. Click on "Interviews by Guest Name" for the alphabetical list.
- Dictionary
of American History , 3rd edition, 10 volumes, 2003.
- Dictionary
of Political Biography
- Encyclopedia
of U.S. National Security
- McGovern, William M. (1897-1964) Papers, 1919-1967 A finding aid to the papers of a Professor of Political Science at Northwestern, known for his travels to Tibet in the 1920s. 6 boxes (2 cubic feet.)
- Oxford
Dictionary of National Biography
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