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Major Databases
If you are looking for articles, one of the first databases you should check is CQ Press. This gateway provides access to the CQ Researcher, a source for basic information on a variety of topics, and the CQ Weekly, which provides up-to-date information on the U.S. Congress and its activities, and CQ Voting and Elections. All three are good databases to use.
Keesing Record of World Events, a favorite among faculty, is a monthly digest of worldwide political, diplomatic, and economic affairs from all regions of the world.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts via CSA, contains citations to materials from public affairs magazines, major news magazines, professional journals, and books devoted to politics and political analysis. Includes foreign politics as well as U.S. politics.
Lexis Nexis Academic includes national and international news, business, and legal research documents, including financial statements, corporate profiles, as well as U.S. state and federal codes and statutes.
Providing full text access to news, business, and legal resources, Campus Research also provides access to West's legal citation research service, KeyCite, and the Texas Annotated Code.
Academic Search Complete, a multidisciplinary database, offers a scholarly collection providing full text journal coverage for nearly all academic areas of study - including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies, etc.
Proquest Political Science Journals includes articles from leading political science journals, including such topics as comparative politics, political economy, international development, and environmental policy.
iPoll contains data from over 70 years of U.S. national public opinion surveys in a variety of topics.
CQ Political Reference Suite integrates numerous CQ Press resources on government and politics into one electronic format, including detailed information on U.S. politics, politicians, elections, and the U.S. government.
