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Academic Search Premier: A multi-disciplinary index to periodicals that covers over 8,000 scholarly and popular periodicals, and includes full-text for more than 4,500 of these. Designed specifically for academic institutions, ASP spans most areas of study. Coverage varies, but most titles begin in the late 1980's and early 1990's.
CQ Weekly: CQ Weekly is known as the pre-eminent resource for non-partisan legislative news and analysis, including feature-length articles on a full array of policy topics, updates on committee activity, side-by-side comparisons of competing versions of bills, and coverage of appropriations. Coverage is from 1983 to the present.
JSTOR: Full-text back files of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. JSTOR includes many journals in the area of political science. Note: coverage varies by title, but the most recent 2-5 years is not available.
LexisNexis Academic: A collection of databases with information on a wide range of topics, including news, business, politics and government, law, state and country information, biography, references works and dictionaries, health and medicine, and taxes and accounting. Most articles are in full-text. Covers 1980's to the present.
OmniFile Full Text Mega: Collection of Wilson full-text databases, including Social Sciences Full Text and Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text, two good resources for finding scholarly undergraduate-level journal articles. Indexing begins in 1983; full-text of selected articles in 1995.
Project Muse: Full-text from nearly 250 academic journals in the humanities and social sciences. Includes several journals in the area of politics and policy studies. Coverage varies by title.

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Annual Reviews: Contains critical reviews of significant primary literature. Published yearly, this is the online, full-text version of the printed Annual Review of ... series.
Europa World: Europa World is the online version of the Europa World Year Book, the indispensable source of information on world-wide affairs. Covers recent history plus the current political and economic system in each country of the world. Includes some statistics, information on political parties and political structure, and media information.
Facts on File World News Digest: World news coverage from Facts on File News Services and Reuters, including the complete Facts on File World News Digest from 1940. Includes editorials, obituaries, government leaders, country profiles, plus additional special features including maps, photographs, historic documents, and overviews of key issues, newsmakers and events. Coverage is from 1940 to the present.
Global Legal Information Network (GLIN): A searchable online database containing the legal documents in the categories of laws, judicial decisions, legislative records, and legal literature for jurisdictions spanning the globe. GLIN members (governmental agencies and international organizations) contribute original-language, officially published, full text documents in electronic format.
Oxford Reference Online: Politics & Social Sciences: Oxford Reference Online includes full-text of more than 125 titles from Oxford University Press. The collection includes authoritative dictionaries, encyclopedias, and reference works in more than 20 subject areas in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences.

Last updated October 24, 2008