LibGuides: Political Science: Search for Articles

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JSTOR Security Studies Collection This link opens in a new window
JSTOR Security Studies Collection includes 66 high-quality academic journals and 13,000+ policy reports in the areas of security studies, political science, international relations, foreign policy, cybersecurity, terrorism, drug trafficking, etc. (Journal issues for the most current years may not be available.)
Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new window
The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation's premier collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. It provides easy access to U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources, such as dissertations, reports and position papers from universities, research institutions, think tanks and U.S. local and state agencies as well as international governments.
The HSDL is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
HSDL features SeekOnce, a meta-search engine, which enables cross searching of more than 50 journal article databases and a wide range of web-based resources from NASA to the RAND Corporation. 2002 to current. However, HSDL is also collecting historical material relevant to homeland security from before 2002. Examples of historical documents in the collection include major legislation, executive orders, and presidential directives. It is updated every working day.
CQ Weekly (CQ Magazine) This link opens in a new window
CQ Magazine reports on the U.S. Congress, delivering accurate, nonpartisan news and analysis. Online coverage goes back to 1983. The CQ news team includes more than 100 reporters, editors and researchers. It covers virtually every act of Congress, and is widely used by members of Congress, the White House, federal agencies, the media and leading businesses.

The Forum: A Journal of Applied Research in Contemporary Politics Professionally informed commentary which includes issues engaging parties, elections, and political participation; the news media, interest groups, Congress, the Presidency, and the Courts; trends in public finance, presidential popularity, congressional productivity; in contemporary, historical, or comparative perspective. The journal is motivated by the view that social scientists, historians, and legal scholars frequently have important insights into the concerns that arise in contemporary politics and government, drawing upon the disciplinary knowledge at their command. Yet they frequently lack a publishing outlet willing to print the analytic reasoning that gives weight to the resulting commentary.

JSTOR (articles) This link opens in a new window
JSTOR includes scholarship published in high quality academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. (Journal issues for the most current years may not be available.) These journals may also be searched from the library catalog.
Academic Search Complete (aka. Academic Search Premier) This link opens in a new window
Scholarly journal and popular magazine with full-text and indexes, covering a wide range of topics. A good database for beginning searches.

More Political Science Databases

Making the Most of Google Scholar

Google Scholar is a search engine that can provide links to full-text articles Nicholson Library already subscribes to or to articles made freely available by a publisher. When the full-text is freely unavailable, Scholar provides citations and abstracts of an article that is copyright protected.

PROS OF GOOGLE SCHOLAR:
- Ease to use...similar to regular Google
- Citation information provided
- Results from a variety of information sources...technical reports, preprints, societal publications, etc.
- Full-text if available
CONS OF GOOGLE SCHOLAR:
- Full-text not available or restricted without a subscription
- Uneven coverage in social sciences, better for hard sciences
- No limiter for just scholarly publications
- Few options to limit or narrow search results

Political Science: Search for Articles

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