scholarly articles for political science
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Academic Search Elite
Subject: Multidisciplinary.
Academic Search Elite is a multidisciplinary database covering both popular and scholarly journals. This database is most useful for students in the early stages of research, because searches return a broad range of article results
Alternative Press Index
Subject: Social Sciences. News.
Alternative Press Index provides access to journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change
Alternative Press Index Archive
Subject: Social Sciences. News.
Alternative Press Index Archive provides access to journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change.
America: History & Life
Subject: Humanities > History.
America: History & Life offers access to scholarly articles, books, book reviews, and dissertations about United States and Canadian history from prehistory to the present.
CQ Researcher
Subject: Social Sciences. News. Reference.
CQ Researcher offers full-text comprehensive research on current events and issues. It is a great place to start researching current issues and controversies, because the articles are clear and provide many references for further research.
CQ Weekly
Subject: Social Sciences. News. Reference.
CQ Researcher offers expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Subject: Multidisciplinary
The Directory of Open Access Journals is a selection of freely available full-text journals in a variety of subjects. Their search page is one way to find articles that are freely available.
HAPI: The Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Subject: Foreign Language. Social Sciences
The Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) is your source for over 265,000 journal article citations about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States. HAPI currently provides over 34,000 links to the full text of articles appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world.
HighWire Press Stanford University
Subject: Multidisciplinary.
HighWire Press hosts the largest repository of high impact, peer-reviewed content, with 1054 journals and 4,343,436 full text articles from over 130 scholarly publishers. Some articles are available in full text.
Historical Abstracts
Subject: Humanities > History.
Historical Abstracts offers access to scholarly articles, books, book reviews, and dissertations covering world history (except for the U.S. and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
Historical Statistics of the United States
Subject: Multidisciplinary. Reference. Business & Industry. Humanities > History. Social Sciences.
This thoroughly revised five-volume reference work, contains thirty years of new data and scholarship. Topics include demographic information about migration, health and crime, among many others.
JSTOR
Subject: Humanities. Social Sciences. Sciences.
JSTOR provides access to core scholarly journals covering many liberal arts disciplines: African American Studies, African Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Asian Studies, Biological Sciences, Business, Classical Studies, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Economics, Education, Finance, Geography, History, History of Science & Technology, Language & Literature, Latin American Studies, Mathematics, Middle East Studies, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics.
Lexis Nexis Academic Universe
Subject: Multidisciplinary. News.
Lexis Nexis Academic Universe provides access to national and international newspapers, including articles covering corporate news; medical/health topics; legal news, reviews and reporters; federal case law; US Code; and state legal research.
Project MUSE
Subject: Humanities. Social Sciences.
Project Muse provides access to scholarly articles covering the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, and gender studies.
Sociological Abstracts
Subject: Social Sciences > Sociology.
Sociological Abstracts provides access to articles, books, chapters in books, and more in the fields of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
Statesman's Yearbook
Subject: Multidisciplinary. Reference. Business & Industry. Humanities > History. Social Sciences > Political Science.
Provides brief entries on countries, people, & international organizations. Areas of description include city profiles, climate, government, industry, defence, & economy, as well as others. Available On Campus Only.
Thomas: Search the U.S. Code
Subject: Government & Law
This is a free full-text search of the United States Code. It can be searched both by legal citation as well as by keywords.
Web of Knowledge
Subject: Sciences. Social Sciences.
Web of Knowledge contains the two databases: Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Science Citation Index. These databases are core to science and social science research.
Wiley Interscience
Subject: Sciences. Social Sciences. Business & Industry.
Wiley Interscience provides access to scholarly articles covering virtually all science and technology related fields, business, and some social sciences. Contains abstracts and full-text access to articles in journals to which Moravian and other local colleges and universities subscribe, dating back to 1997.
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