Political Science

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Databases - Specific

Legal Collection "an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts, and trends of the legal world."

Lexis Nexis Academic Includes newspapers, legal news, government publication, and more!

GPO Monthly Catalog (U.S. Goverment Publications) from FirstSearch
The U.S. Government Printing Office Monthly Catalog of Publications contains citations to documents published by the GPO since July 1976. The Catalog includes references to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more. The print edition counterpart to this database has been published by the government under various titles since 1895.

Databases - General

Research Library from ProQuest
Provides full text for over 1,700 scholarly journals and general magazines. All subjects.

Academic Search Complete from EBSCOhost
A scholarly, multi-disciplinary database that searches a total of 10,900 publications including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Full text is provided for 5,300 journals.

JSTOR
A digital archive of scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. The collection's coverage begins with the earliest issues of these journals and continues up to a few years before current publication.

Current Issues

New!Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: "Since 1981 the Center has conducted research and provided analysis for state and federal fiscal policy and public programs. The reports, which are online beginning with 1996 publications, cover public policy regarding fiscal issues, poverty, health, housing, social security, taxation, and welfare reform." - Library Journal

CQ Researcher from Congressional Quarterly
Provides in-depth, balanced coverage of social and political issues. Each report treats a single issue prominent in the news and provides background, statistics, related legislation, current situation, outlook, and pro/con positions. 1991 - present.

Journals in Lane Library

Subscriptions are subject to change. For complete, current journal holdings, and online access info, search the Journal Locator.Click titles below for access, information in blue indicates location of print sources in library, green indicates electronic access.

Web Sites

• Global Election Resources and information.
• Foreign Information by Country from the University of Colorado at Boulder.
• First Amendment Center
• American Political Science Association
• Amnesty International Human rights
• Brookings Institution Economics, foreign policy, & governance research
• Country Studies/Area Handbooks Overviews of countries from Library of Congress
• County & City Data Books Comparative data on U.S. cities, counties & states
• Economist.com: Country Briefings
• GPO Access U.S. Government Printing Office
• Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research Social science data from U. Michigan
• Perry-Castaeda Library Map Collection Current & historical maps
• Political Database of the Americas Georgetown University
• Portals to the World Links to info on countries from Library of Congress
• Statistical Abstract of the United States
• U.S. Census Bureau
• World Factbook from the C.I.A.

Selected Books in Lane library