"What's the problem / (policy)?"
Find background information and policy proposals on problems to be solved with better policies.
- ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new windowProQuest Congressional allows you to explore Congress in action with the most comprehensive collection of Congressional publications from 1789-present available. You can perform in-depth research in public policy, historical, and legal areas of interest. Users will find indexing and abstracts for House and Senate reports and documents, Congressional committee prints and published hearings, information on members and committees, topic pages covering key concepts and policies, as well as the full text of many House and Senate documents, Hearings, Bills, nonpartisan Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports, Executive Orders, and more.
- Policy File Index This link opens in a new windowFind information on both sides of a public policy debate. Search and access reports from over 300 active think tanks, research organizations, and advocacy groups.
Find Scholarly Articles from Political Science Journals, using the Article Databases
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowAcademic Search Complete and Political Science Complete will look and behave in the same way, since both are products from the same vendor, EBSCO. Academic Search Complete covers a wider variety of disciplines (but not as many as the the OneSearch option).
- Political Science Complete This link opens in a new windowPolitical Science Complete is a discipline specific database of journal articles from multiple publishers.
- Cambridge Core (Journals and eBooks) This link opens in a new windowIncludes peer-reviewed journals and academic ebooks published by Cambridge University Press.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowA highly selective, multidisciplinary collection of over 1500 academic journals.
- Oxford Journals Online This link opens in a new windowInterdisciplinary collection of over 300 journals published by Oxford University Press.
- SAGE Journals Online This link opens in a new windowA collection of 1,000+ high-quality, peer-reviewed journals covering many disciplines. Includes American Politics Research and The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
- ScienceDirect This link opens in a new windowProvides access to the full text of articles from over 2000 journals published by Elsevier.
- Springer LINK This link opens in a new windowSpringerLink is a collection of ebooks and journals covering scientific, technical and medical literature.
- Wiley Online Library This link opens in a new windowContains several leading journals in political science, including Policy Studies Journal and Political Science Quarterly.
Find a Specific Journal
Did your professor recommend a particular journal?
Use the Journal drop-down search box on the Sawyer Library home page, to search for the name of the journal and determine if it is available in one of the journal databases.
A search for the journal Political Research Quarterly shows that this journal is available in the
Wiley Online Library 01/01/1998 - present.
Examples of Poli.-Sci. Journals
Navigate the Lists of Databases
From the Sawyer Library home page,
> Scroll to the 'Databases' drop-down menu.
> Select 'Find database by Subject'
> Scroll to 'Social Sciences'
> Select 'Political Science'
The databases listed in this subsection contain content relating to political science. Some provide information about Congress and the government, and others provide access to scholarly articles on various topics in political science.
