Political Science Indexes

Periodicals Indexes for Political Science

Ebsco Academic Search Premier (1975-current)
Designed specifically for academic institutions, Ebsco Academic Search Premier is the world’s largest scholarly, multidisciplinary database, including coverage of over 12,000 journals, with full text for over 4,500 of these, 3,600 of which are peer reviewed publications.

Historical Newspapers (ProQuest; back files)
The database offers the full-text back files of the following national newspapers: The Christian Science Monitor (1908-1993); Hartford Courant (1764-current); The New York Times (1851-2003); The Wall Street Journal (1889-1989); The Washington Post (1877-1990).

JSTOR 
Search and retrieve the back files of over 575 core scholarly journals from various disciplines including 29 Political Science journals. Full-text extends back to the 1800’s for some of the titles covered.

Lexis-Nexis Academic
Full text database with extensive coverage of news, business and legal material. Includes full text of newspapers, periodicals, wire stories, laws, federal regulations, State and Supreme Court cases, tax codes.

ProQuest Direct 
Search and retrieve the abstracts and full-text from 3,000 periodical titles in a variety of disciplines and subjects. Over 1,400 periodicals are full-text.

SocINDEX with Full Text (1895-present Ebsco)
Available through Ebsco. SocINDEX with Full Text features more than 1,660,000 records with subject headings from a 19,300 term sociological thesaurus. The database contains full text for 344 “core” coverage journals dating back to 1895, and 129 “priority” coverage journals. Also includes full text for more than 700 books and monographs, and full text for 6,800 conference papers.

Congress.gov
Provides federal legislative information, as well as bills, resolutions, roll call votes, congressional records and more.