Databases
These are some of the core databases for Political Science that you have access to through CSU. Use them to help you track down articles about your topic.
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- Academic Search Ultimate
Coverage: Varies
Multi-disciplinary database of scholarly and popular articles. Includes full text, peer-reviewed journals, PDF backfiles to 1975, and searchable cited references. - America: History & LifeMaximum Concurrent Users: 6
Coverage: 1954 to present
Provides historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. - Communication & Mass Media CompleteCoverage: Varies
Full text and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for journals covering communication, mass media, linguistics, rhetoric, language, logic, and other closely related fields.
- Congressional Hearings (ProQuest)Written and oral statements of witnesses, transcripts question-and-answer session between the committee and witnesses, reports, exhibits, and other materials submitted for the record by witnesses.
- Congressional Publications (ProQuest)A web-based indexing and abstracting service for Congressional committee publications, including hearings (testimony), committee prints, reports, documents, and public laws.
- CQ Researcher OnlineCoverage: 1991 to present
A collection of reports covering political and social issues, including topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Reports include opposing perspectives, background information on issues, and relevant contacts and further reading. - JSTORCoverage: Varies
A digital library for scholars, researchers, and students. Access more than 10 million academic journal articles, books, and primary sources in 75 disciplines.
Temporary access to: JSTOR Business IV, Hebrew Journals, Ireland, Jewish Studies, Lives of Literature, 19th Century British Pamphlets, World Heritage Sights: Africa, Struggles for Freedom: Southern Africa. Ends July 1, 2021
- Kanopy Political Science CollectionKanopy's political science collection contains over 800 streaming videos on a variety of topics such as international politics, political figures, social & political revolutions, women in politics, and more.
- Legislative Insight (ProQuest)Coverage: Varies
Comprised of PDFs of full-text publications generated in the course of congressional lawmaking. Each history includes the full text of the public law itself, all versions of related bills, law-specific Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, and prints. Also included are presidential signing statements, CRS reports, and miscellaneous congressional publications that provide background material to aid in the understanding of issues related to the making of the law. - National Journal HotlineCoverage: 2001 to present
Political tracking tool condenses political coverage from hundreds of sources over the previous 24 hours to provide you with news on campaigns and predictive intelligence on elections. - NewsBank Access World NewsCoverage: Varies
Includes a variety of news publications worldwide. These sources include major national and international newspapers, as well as local and regional titles as well as newswires, blogs, web-only content, videos, journals, magazines, transcripts and more. Includes fully searchable primary sources. - PAIS InternationalCoverage: 1915 to present
Contains references to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, and more chronicling global public policy and social issues.
- Europa World PlusCoverage: 1926 to present
Europa World Plus is the online version of the Europa World Year Book and the Europa Regional Surveys of the World series. One of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories. - Social Sciences (ProQuest Collection)Political science, sociology, the applied social sciences, criminal justice, education, and other areas. Indexing coverage of the scholarly literature in the social sciences, including full-text scholarly journals, many published outside of North America and in languages other than English, and key non-periodical sources such as dissertations and working papers.
- Social TheorySocial Theory delves into the history and evolution of social thought. Topics include sociology, economics, political science, history, anthropology, media studies, diversity studies, literature, and psychology.
Basic mechanics for making efficient search statements
Core principles for creating efficient search statements that are applicable in virtually any database.
| And | Or | Not |
| Each result contains all search terms. | Each result contains at least one search term. | Results do not contain the specified terms. |
| The search heart and lung finds items that contain both heart andlung. | The search heart or lung finds items that contain either heart or items that containlung. | The search heart not lung finds items that contain heart but do not containlung. |
- Wildcard (#): The “#” replaces any extra characters that may appear in alternative spellings. For example, “colo#r” finds both color and colour.
- Wildcard (?): The “?” replaces one character, for example “ne?t” finds neat, nest, or next, but will not find net.
- Truncation (*): The “*” replaces any number of characters and will find all forms of a word root, for example, “therap*” finds therapy, therapies, therapist, therapists, therapeutic, therapeutically, etc.
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