Subject Resources

Good Starting Points

Academic Search Premier
Provides full text for many topics. Great place to start research.  more info

Social Sciences Abstracts
Abstracts of articles on the social sciences.  more info

Sociological Abstracts
Abstracts on all aspects of sociology and related disciplines. NOTE: This database has changed from FirstSearch to Cambridge Scientific Abstracts.  more info

More Databases

Alternative Press Index
Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political, and social change.  more info

FindArticles.com
Contains articles dating back to 1998 from more than 300 magazines and journals  more info

Fuente Academica
Collection of scholarly academic journals from renowned Latin American, South American and Spanish publishers.  more info

ICPSR Direct
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Remote access only for UAA Students from the Anchorage Campus.  more info

Index to Legal Periodicals
International legal information covering all areas of jurisprudence.  more info

LexisNexis Academic
Provides full-text documents from over 6,000 news, business, legal, and reference publications.  more info

LexisNexis Congressional
Index to U. S. Congressional documents. For help with searching Congressional (From LexisNexis) Click here.  more info

LexisNexis Statistical
Federal and state statistical sources.  more info

Military & Government Collection.
Provides full text for over 330 military related periodicals and general interest magazines.  more info

NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research) Working Papers
Full-text research papers written by NBER economists on a broad range of topics. November 1994 to present.  more info

Oxford Reference Collection - Politics & Social Sciences
Search reference books by subject area.  more info

SIRS Researcher
Social, scientific, economic, and political issues worldwide.  more info

Social Sciences Citation Index
Multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the social sciences.  more info

TOPICsearch
Current events database.  more info

Washington Post
The paper from Washington, D.C.  more info

Wilson Select Plus
Provides full text for many topics. Great place to start research.  more info

Recommended Web Sites

American Government & Public Policy Internet Resources
Comprehensive academic site indexing hundreds of Government & policy resources  more info

APSA (American Political Science Association) Style
From the University of Wisconsin-Madison Writing Center.  more info

Country Studies / Area Handbooks
From the Library of Congress.  more info

electionline.org
Election reform information.  more info

Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research
Social science data and resources for researchers  more info

International Affairs Resources
From the WWW Virtual Library.  more info

Nation-State Resources
Sites selected by UAA librarians.  more info

Political Philosophy/Political Theory
Canadian academic site which profiles a wide variety of resources covering the philosophical and theoretical underpinnings of Politics  more info

Political Science Virtual Library
Links to WWW Political Science resources.  more info

PolyCy
Internet resources for political science.  more info

Public Agenda Online
The Inside Source for Public Opinion & Policy Analysis  more info

Richard Kimber`s Political Science Resources
British site with excellent collection of links to Political Science resources.  more info

State of Alaska Online
Official State of Alaska Website  more info

United Nations
Links to United Nations-related websites  more info

World Factbook
From the CIA.  more info

WWW Resources for Political Scientists
Excellent colletion of links.  more info

Selected Print and CD-ROM

ABC pol sci
Advance bibliography of contents: political science & government.  more info

Combined Retrospective Index to Journals in Poli. Sci.
Executive editor, Annadel N. Wile, assistant editor, Jeffrey Levi  more info

Political Science Student Writer`s Manual
by Gregory M. Scott  more info