Political Science Resources

General Research Indexes:

• Academic Search Complete
  Index, abstracts, and full text for many scholarly publications covering all academic areas of study
• EJC - Electronic Journal Center
  Full text of 6000+ research journals
• Films on Demand
  Over 8200 full-length streaming video programs from academic and commercial publishers including PBS, BBC, CNBC, Films for the Humanities and Sciences, Bill Moyers Journal, the News Hour with Jim Lehrer
• Image Quick View (searches Academic Search Complete)
• ISI Web of Knowledge
  Portal to Web of Science, providing high quality, diversified scholarly information in the sciences, social sciences, and arts and humanities
• JSTOR
  Full text scholarly journals in the Arts & Sciences, Business, Language and Literature
• Lexis Nexis Academic
  Full text news, business, legal, medical, and reference information
• OhioLINK Digital Videos
  Education and Instructional Videos
• Scopus
  With over 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, Scopus offers a to support research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields and, in the arts and humanities
• VAST: Academic Video Online
  A multidisciplinary collection of streaming video which will include access to 20,000 videos in 2013.

Political Science Research Indexes:

• American History Online
• Annual Reviews
  Full text 1996 - present, Tables of Contents only 1984-1995
• CIAO
  Columbia International Affairs Online, access to journals, working papers, economic indicators, policy briefs, books, maps and country data
• Congressional Research Service Reports (University of North Texas)
  CRS is the public policy research arm of Congress, these reports provide history, policy and law pertaining to topics of public and political interest
• Country Watch
  Full text information on the people, history, economy, environment, of countries of the world; news articles, key data and complete country reviews available for downloading
• CQ Researcher
• CQ Weekly Web
• Environment Complete
  Index, abstracts and full text of articles on environmental studies
• Homeland Security Digital Library
• ICPSR: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
• International Political Science Abstracts
• Legal Collection
• Ohio Capitol Connection
• Opposing Viewpoints in Context
  Full text of major debate and research topics
• Proquest Statistical Data Sets
• The Roper Center
  "data from surveys of public opinion.  Data range from the 1930s,  to the present; most of the data are from the United States, but over 50 nations are represented"
• Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
  Information from over 600 sources which presents system characteristics, public opinion, offenses known, arrests, judicial processing, and corrections
• Statistical Abstract US (Proquest)
• United States Courts, from the Federal Judiciary
• WestlawNext Campus Research
  WestlawNext simplifies your starting point for legal research – this platform replaces the current Westlaw which will be phased out the end of the year
• World Data Analyst Online
  Detailed statistical comparisons of countries across the world