UTUGuides: Political Science: Databases

Databases for Political Science

Political Science Complete (EBSCO)
A Political Science full-text database that includes more than 700 journals and 300 books (monographs and reference books).
Historical Abstracts (EBSCO)
Historical Abstracts is a complete reference guide to the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the United States and Canada.)
Political Science Database (ProQuest)
Military Database (ProQuest)
The Military Database covers topics across all government and military branches, including international relations, political science, criminology, defense, aeronautics and space flight, communications, civil engineering, and more. An important benefit of the Military Database is its content diversity. Included are scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
JSTOR
JSTOR is a scholarly journal archive offering fulltext articles from the journal's first issue on (dating back to the late 1800's). The most recent issue available is at least 12 months (often 3-5 years) old. JSTOR has access to over 340 full-text journals. Subject areas include the humanities, social sciences and economics. Boolean NOT searches are not supported. Truncation is not supported.
ProQuest databases
ABI/Inform, Ebrary, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, The New York Times (1851-2010), The Washington Post (1877-1997) and many more.
ScienceDirect
ScienceDirect is an information source for scientific, technical, and medical research. It is searched using hte Scirus search engine. Scirus is the most comprehensive science-specific search engine available on the Internet.
Web of Science
Web of Science (ISI) Core Collection databases, including Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI). SSCI provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines. It also covers individually selected, relevant items from approximately 3,300 of the world's leading science and technology journals.
Wiley Online Library
More than 1300 online publications from several diciplines.
History of Feminism
Covers the subject of feminism over the long nineteenth century (1776–1928). It contains an extensive range of primary and secondary resources, including full books, selected chapters, and journal articles, as well as new thematic essays, and subject introductions on its structural themes: - Politics and Law, - Religion and Belief, - Education, - Literature and Writings, - Women at Home, - Society and Culture, - Empire, - Movements and Ideologies

Google Scholar

Tools for citation analysis

Web of Science
Web of Science Core Collection (Science Citation Index (SCI) Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (A&HCI), Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Science (CPCI-S), Conference Proceedings Citation Index - Social Science & Humanities (CPCI-SSH), Book Citation Index - Science (BKCI-S), Book Citation Index - Social Sciences & Humanities (BKCI-SSH), Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI), Current Chemical Reactions (CCR-EXPANDED), Index Chemicus (IC)), BIOSIS Citation Index, Current Contents Connect, Data Citation Index, Derwent Innovations Index, MEDLINE, Russian Science Citation Index, SciELO Citation Index, Zoological Record.

Web of Science Recorded Training Videos
Online training videos on how to do author search, cited reference search and citation report.

Russia and Eastern Europe

EBSEES - European Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies
Lists books, journal articles, reviews and theses on Eastern Europe, formerly Communist countries, published between 1991 and 2006 in the UK, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Finland and Switzerland. It includes documents from all these countries, whether published in that country’s language or in the languages of the countries studied. This includes national minorities and émigré publications.
Inion
Containing over 3,500,000 records and more than 14 million items for articles, books, manuscripts and dissertations in the humanities and social sciences published since 1980. Over 12,500 journals in 140 languages are indexed, primarily from Russia, the CIS, and Eastern Europe.
Polnoe Sobranie Zakonov Rossijskoj Imperii
Digitalized Russian legislation collection 1649-1913.
Socionet
Socionet is a Russian portal to economics and social sciences. Socionet has been developed independently in Russia within frameworks of the international projects RePEc and Open Archives Initiative. The types of resources vary from archives of electronic publications to contents of online journals, library catalogues of new acquisitions, catalogues of publishing houses etc.
Letopis' Zhurnal'nykh Statei
Letopis' Zhurnal'nykh Statei, a digitized serial publication that indexes Soviet-era periodicals from 1956 to 1975. The paper version, in publication since 1926, covers more than 1,700 journals, series, and continuing publications of academies, universities, and research institutes in the fields of humanities, natural sciences, and the social sciences, and it also covers the popular periodical literature.
Putevoditeli po Rossijkim Arhivam (Guide Books to Russian Archives)
This database contains guidebooks to the Russian archives published in 1987-2008.
Slaavilaisen kirjaston wiki - Slavika wiki
ELibraryRu
Citation database, including russian scientific publications.
MGU history department
History reference books
Russian National Library's digital library
Russian State Library's digital library
UIS-Russia
Moscow university's informing system including periodicals, statistics and election results. Only part of the materials are freely available.

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