Reference Tools

  • Europa World Online Full text of the Europa World Year Book. Offers country reports, statistics and directories. Covers the politics and economics of over 250 countries and territories from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Ongoing Updates

  • International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
    Massive online encyclopedia covering broad topics in the social sciences with many recent entries written by experts.

  • Oxford Reference Online
    This collection of online reference sources includes the following titles:A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
    A Dictionary of Geography
    A Dictionary of Political Biography
    The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics
    The Oxford Guide to the United States Government
    Handbook of the World

  • Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science
    Main Ref JA61 .B43 199

Library Catalogs/Books

LOUIS is the online catalog of the Brandeis Libraries, and is the principal means of locating books in the library collections.

For books located in other libraries outside of Brandeis:

  • Worldcat --a database listing books and other resources held in libraries throughout the country
  • Libdex --a meta-index to hundreds of library online catalogs around the world.
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Scholarly Articles

  • Annual Review of Political Science
    Synthesizes and filters primary research to identify the principal contributions in the field of political science.

  • American Political Science Review (recent)
    American Political Science Review (earlier years)
    Synthesizes and filters primary research to identify the principal contributions in the field of political science.

    Social sciences abstracts
    Index to over 550 scholarly journals in many fields within the social sciences including political science. Indexing from February 1983 to the present. Abstracts from January 1994. Updated monthly. Earlier years covered by Social sciences index

  • Public affairs information service bulletin (PAIS)
    PAIS indexes 1400 periodicals, journals, books and reports from 1972 to present.

  • Worldwide Political science abstracts
    Index to thousands of journals in political science and its complementary fields. Includes international relations, law, and public policy, 1975 to present.

  • Social sciences citation index via Web of Science
    An index to over 2,000 journals in the social sciences. Citation indexes, in addition to a keyword title index, allow the user to track a particular article to see if it has been cited by other authors

  • Academic search premiere
    Provides full text and indexing to thousands of journals in all academic fields. Dates vary according to publication.

  • JSTOR (Journal Storage Project)
    Historical full-text coverage of hundreds of journals in all fields. Does not usually contain the most recent 2-5 years of a journal. indexed in databases listed above.

  • Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
    Full-text source for theory and research in international affairs. Offers working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. 1991 to present.

  • The EDN (EINIRAS Database Network) is a Pan-European database for international relations and area studies supported by the Council of Europe.

  • Alternative press index
    Covers cultural, economic, political and social change from approximately 250 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines. 1991 to present.

  • ICPSR Bibliography of Data-Related Literature
    Indexes over 20,000 citations of known published and unpublished works generated from analyses of data held in the ICPSR archive.

  • PolicyFile
    Index and links to full-text reports and publications from public policy think tanks, university research programs, and other research organizations. Updated weekly.

News and Current Events

  • LexisNexis Academic (news files)
    News files in LEXIS contains a large collection of full-text online newspapers from around the country as well as a smaller collection of newspapers (English and foreign language) from around the world. ? Many titles in this collection are current (less than 24 hours old), and most titles cover the last 10-20 years.

    • World news connection.
      Translations of foreign broadcasts and news reports from the U.S. Government.

    • Ethnic newswatch
      Indexes and provides full text of over 200 newspapers, magazines and journals of the American ethnic press, 1960 to present, starting dates vary.

    • Keesing's record of world events
      Electronic full text archive that contains comprehensive coverage of world events with the ability to search 40 years of global news reports, 1960 to present.

Other comprehensive Newspaper Meta-Sites

Statistics

Data Sets

  • Data on the Net
    Well organized collection of links to data sets put together by the Data Service Unit of the library at the University of California in San Diego.
  • Armed Conflict Database
    Data and independent analysis on current and recent conflicts.
  • Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
    The World's largest archive of computerized social science data.
  • Research Guide to the Social Sciences
    A gateway to political science resources on the Internet. International, but with UK influence. Includes links to datasets. Note: links to proprietary resources will not connect from this page, but many can be accessed through Brandeis University Libraries Web pages.
  • Paul Hensel's International Relations Data Site
    "...data sources on processes of international conflict and cooperation, as well as data covering international economic, environmental, political, and social data and data on similar topics for the United States."

Government Documents

UNITED STATES

 Federal

Congressional

  • LexisNexis Congressional
    Accesses congressional publications, legislative histories, bills, current laws, regulations and information about congressional members and committees

  • CQ Weekly
    Weekly news source covering U.S. congressional activity including summaries of committee work, hearings, debates, votes and executive and judicial decisions impacting Congress. 1983 to present.

  • THOMAS
    Not as user-friendly as LexisNexis Congressional, but provide current bills, laws, hearings, and other publications relating to the work of Congress.

  • Congressional Research Service Reports
    Reports written by the Congressional Research Service for Congress.

Declassified Material

  • UC-Berkeley Libraries Guide
    Meta Site with links to repositories of declassified materials as well as background on FOIA and declassification.

  • Digital National Security Archive
    The National Security Archive is a non-profit research institute which provides access to declassified government documents obtained through use of the Freedom of Information Act. This collection contains more than 40,000 significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. Some additional collections are located on the NSA web site

INTERNATIONAL

Legal Resources

  • Lexis/Nexis Legal Research
    Federal and state case law, United States Code Annotatated, full text for hundreds of law review and journal articles, legal news.

  • Westlaw
    Federal and state case law, the United States Code Annotated (USCA), the Code of Federal Regulations (CFRs), the Federal Register (July, 1980-present), state administrative codes and statutes, American Jurisprudence 2d (law encyclopedia), American Law Reports (ALR) & index covering 2nd-5th and federal series, and 900+ current law journals and reviews

  • Hien-on-line
    Full-text law journal articles (including historical), Supreme Court opinions, U.S. Treaties, Federal Register

Meta-Sites in Politics

Citing Sources

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