Yale University Library Research Guides: Political Science Subject Guide: Political Science

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Welcome to the Political Science Subject Guide. In this guide, you'll find:

Tips and ways to access books and dissertations
Information on Government Documents, data and statistics, country information
Recommended databases that you can access 24/7.
Ways to access news, help with senior essays, information on literature reviews, and organizing your research
Where to ask for help.

Politico Pro Congress

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Hein Online
Contains many "libraries" of legal materials, including law journals, treaties, U.S. government information, and more.
International Political Science Abstracts
Indexes the world's leading journals in political science.
ProQuest Social Science Search
Single search of many databases, including: EconLit; IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences); PAIS International (policy literature); Sociological Abstracts; Worldwide Political Science Abstracts; ...and more. To restrict your search to some or all of the databases above, click on "Searching: 25 databases" in the upper left of the screen.
Social Science Citation Index
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The ISI Web of Science provides seamless access to the Social Sciences Citation Expanded®, Science Citation Index®, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index™. It enables users to search current and r etrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. ISI Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. With it, users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover all the information relevant to their research. Users can also navigate to electronic full-text journal articles.
Social Explorer
Years: 1790-2000 (decennial census), 2005-2012 (ACS)
Geographies: all, down to block groups
Formats: Download data to Excel, SAS, SPSS, Stata; download maps as images

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Political Science Subject Guide: Political Science

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