Public Opinion Databases
- Polling the Nations This link opens in a new windowA compilation of surveys conducted by over 700 polling organizations in the U.S. and in other countries.
Accessing Online Resources
To access the Mildred F. Sawyer Library databases, enter the Library Home Page, and select Databases by Subject or A-Z List of Databases. Choose a database. If you are off-campus, you will be asked to enter your login information before proceeding to the database.
To locate a specific online journal, type the journal title in the eJournal Locator box on the home page.
eJournal Locator
Alternatively, you may also type the journal title in the Library catalog.
Library Databases
- -- CQ AlmanacProvides annual analysis of legislation and policy in the U.S. Congress from 1945 through 2013.
- -- Vital Statistics on American PoliticsProvides data on social and economic policy, Congress, the Executive branch, elections, the media, and more.
- -- Historic Documents SeriesIncludes primary documents and analysis (updated yearly since 1972) covering presidential speeches, international agreements, and Supreme Court decisions, U.S. governmental reports, and more.
- CQ Magazine (Formerly CQ Weekly)Provides in-depth coverage of the U.S. Congress, including status of bills, votes, amendments, and committee activity. Searchable by topic, keyword, or date.
- CQ Press Library/Political Reference Suite This link opens in a new windowCQ Press Political Reference Suite offers the following databases:
- CQ Researcher This link opens in a new windowPublished by CQ Press, CQ Researcher provides 12,000-word reports 44 times a year, covering a single theme in each issue. Each report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues in fields, such as health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the U.S. economy.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowIndexes, abstracts, and provides full-text to over 5,990 periodicals, including more than 5,030 peer-reviewed journals in nearly every academic field.
- Congressional Research Service (CRS) ReportsCongressional Research Service (CRS) reports are known to be nonpartisan reports which contain extensive analysis, overviews, pro and con positions, and statistics.
- EconLitThe American Economic Association's electronic bibliographic database which provides citations and abstracts from over 450 economic journal articles, dissertations, books, and working papers.
- HeinOnlineThis is an image-based, comprehensive, searchable database that provides all material from its inception, including the Federal Register, all U.S. treaties and agreements, every published U.S. Supreme Court decision, a Legal Classics Library, and over 650 law review journals.
- International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Science 2d Ed.Searchable encyclopedia covering the social and behavioral sciences. Topics covered include political systems, political behavior, political parties, reform, and much more.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowA full-text collection of back issues of core scholarly journals, covering specific subject areas, including political science. Years covered generally begin with volume I and continue to the most recent five years.
- Oxford Journals Online This link opens in a new windowProvides online access to most Oxford journals. Includes nearly 20 political science journals.
- Political Science Complete This link opens in a new windowProvides full text for over 385 publications, and indexing for over 800 journals. Includes more than 165 full-text reference books and monographs and over 27,000 full text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association.
- Sage Journals OnlineSage Journals Online consists of PDF online content to ALL the academic journals published by the scholarly publisher, Sage, back to 1999. This is approximately 450 peer-reviewed journals covering various fields, including political science.
- ScienceDirectScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database of journal articles from more than 2,500 peer-reviewed journals. Subjects covered include political science and election studies.
- Social Science Citation Index (Web of Science)Social Science Citation Index is a citation indexing and search tool for the social sciences provided by Thomson Reuters. It provides abstracts and the tools to, analyze citations.
