Research Resources: Political Science
Listed below are selected resources to help you with your research. The first section details political science resources selected from Woodbury's Databases. You must be affiliated with the university to access these services.

There is also a list of World Wide Web Resources, carefully selected by the reference librarians. These are available to everyone.


Woodbury's Databases: Political Science

ABI Inform Global (Part of ProQuest)Full-text. Global information on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, and computing.
CountryWatch Full-text. Profiles of 191 nations.
CQ Researcher Full-text. Contemporary issues.
Electronic Collections Online (Part of FirstSearch) Full-text. Scholarly journals.
GPO Monthly Catalog (Part of FirstSearch) Citation Index. U.S. government publications.
Lexis-Nexis Academic Full-text. Worldwide newspapers, business & legal journals, court cases, annual reports.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center Full-text. Social issues: topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links, newspaper & magazine articles.
Pro & Con Full-text. Access to "Congressional Digest," "Supreme Court Debates," and "International Debates."
Project Muse Full-text. Scholarly journals. Arts, humanities, social sciences.
ProQuest Direct Full-text. Business, social sciences, and humanities.
RAND California Statistics. California public policy and economic issues.

World Wide Web Resources

American Political Development
"The purpose of this site is to facilitate the study of American Political Development by bringing together a wide variety of resources for APD scholars in one easily accessible source."

Amnesty International On-line
The world's largest non-governmental organization devoted to human rights. This site contains news releases, campaign reports, annual reports, and publications dating back to 1996.

Campaigns and Elections
Provides a variety of information for the general public regarding American Politics.

Crisisweb
This resource provides "highly detailed reports, press releases, and news bulletins about various international crises around the globe." (CHOICE, Special Issue 39)

Department of State - International Information Programs
Contains press releases, texts of speeches, transcripts of radio broadcasts, and other resources for an international audience.

Elections Around the World
Provides information and analyses regarding recent elections from around the world.

Foreign Affairs Online
"Foreign Affairs Online has been specifically designed to assist students and other individuals interested in International Relations, International Law, and U.S. Foreign Policy."

Gay/Lesbian Politics and Law: WWW and Internet Resources
"A selective, annotated guide to the best and most authoritative resources on politics, law, and policy."

The Great Debate & Beyond
A multimedia exploration into the history of televised presidential debates.

Governments on the WWW
"Comprehensive database of governmental institutions on the World Wide Web: parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, city councils, public broadcasting corporations, central banks, multi-governmental institutions etc. Includes also political parties. Online since June 1995. Contains more than 17000 entries from more than 220 countries and territories as of June 2002."

Human & Constitutional Rights
"This new Columbia University Law Library Web site offers links to electronic resources on both constitutional and international human rights law." (CHOICE, Special Issue 39)

Kennedy School Online Political Information Network
"The library of the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard has put together a quick and easy to use Web site that consists of multiple links to other sites that pertain to federal and local government, parties and candidates, international affairs, think tanks, media, elections, etc." (CHOICE, Special Issue 39)

National Security Archive
This site functions mainly as a "clearinghouse of declassified US documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act." (CHOICE, Special Issue 39)

Opensecrets.org
A compilation of publicly available information pertaining to the influence of money in congressional elections and actions.

Political Information
A resource which provides a nonpartisan collection of political and public policy Web sites.

Political Science Resources on the Web
"Grace York (political science librarian, Univ. of Michigan) has organized an extremely comprehensive Web site on political science as a subset of her Documents Center for government publications." (CHOICE, Special Issue 39)

Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources
Links to relevant political science research resources and information on the Web with an emphasis on UK politics.

Terrorism Project
"CDI's Terrorism Program is designed to provide insights, in-depth analysis and facts on the military, security and foreign policy challenges as the United States, and the world, faces terrorism. The project will look at all aspects of fighting terrorism, from near-term issues of response and defense, to long-term questions about how the United States should shape its future international security strategy."

UCLA Online Campaign Literature Archive
Contains digitized primary resources pertaining mostly to campaign literature in California and Los Angeles.

University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
"The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library houses one of the largest collections of more than fourteen thousand core human rights documents, including several hundred human rights treaties and other primary international human rights instruments. The site also provides access to more than four thousands links and a unique search device for multiple human rights sites."

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