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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Find information on almost any topic. Contains the full text of over 4,450 magazines, journals and newspapers, and indexing for many more, with coverage dates back to 1975 for many publications.
Environmental Studies and Policies Collection This link opens in a new window
Includes nearly 200 journals and provides instant access to the multiple viewpoints of this volatile field of study, including perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Provides a comprehensive backfile of major scholarly journals in the arts and sciences, business, ecology, language, literature, and music.
Military and Government Collection This link opens in a new window
Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content.
Military and Intelligence Database This link opens in a new window
Includes scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of the past and current state of military affairs. Subject areas include governmental policies, the socioeconomic effects of war, the structure of the armed forces, and more.
Social Sciences Full Text This link opens in a new window
Provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language journals published in the social sciences. This resource provides detailed indexing for over 625 periodicals dating back as far as 1983—nearly 400 of which are peer-reviewed.
SocINDEX with Full Text This link opens in a new window
Provides journal articles for all areas of sociology and related subject areas, with coverage for some journals dating back to 1895.
War and Terrorism Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides access to academic journals and magazines of interest to analysts, risk management professionals, and students of military science, history, and social science. The database offers balanced coverage of both historic and contemporary topics in the fields of war and terrorism.
Web of Science This link opens in a new window
Search for citations to scholarly journal articles in all subject areas. Conduct cited reference searches for articles that cite a previously published work (1970 - present).
Politics and Current Affairs Video Online This link opens in a new window
A collection of issue-based documentaries from around the world. Covering Immigration and Border Studies, Middle East Studies, Urban Studies, Political Science, Globalization, and Human Rights, the films focus on the key issues and events of recent global history.

Ballot Measure Database
An index of statewide ballot measures maintained by the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Data.gov
"The home of the U.S. Government’s open data." Data.gov is managed and hosted by the U.S. General Services Administration.
Directory of Open Access Journals
Independent, international database that contains over 16,500 peer-reviewed open access journals, including many political science publications.
HathiTrust
Open access digital library offering access to over 17 million digitized items, including classic texts by thinkers like Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau.
United States Census
U.S. Census data. For tutorials about searching, see - https://www.census.gov/data/academy/data-gems.html. (American FactFinder has been discontinued, as of March 31, 2020.)
Project Gutenberg
An online repository that provides free access to ebooks in the public domain, including classic texts in political science.

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