Political Science
A Quick Guide

Books and Other Media 

• Reed Library Catalog: -- locate materials in Reed Library
• WorldCat: Locate materials in other libraries, and request via interlibrary loan.

Journals/Articles 

• Academic Search Premiere: Find information on almost any topic! Contains  the full text of over 4,450 magazines, journals and newspapers and indexing for many, many more. Coverage dates back to 1975 for many publications. A great starting point for research!
• Annual Reviews: Locate full text analytic reviews in Political Science. Coverage dates back to the 1930s for some publications.
• JSTOR: Provides a comprehensive backfile of major scholarly journals in the Arts and Sciences, Business, Ecology & Botany, General Science, Language & Literature, and Music.  Journals are not current, most having a "moving wall" or "embargo" of three to five years, depending on publication.
• Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe: Primarily used for legal research, this source also covers news, financial, and medical information.
• SocIndex Plus Full Text: Provides journal articles for all areas of Scoiology, with coverage for some journals dating back to 1895.

Reference

• Political Handbook of the World: Ref JF 37 P6
• The Statesman's Yearbook: Ref JA 51.S7
• Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy: Print Version also available Ref JX 1407.E53 2002
• Encyclopedia of the American Constitution (Online Version)
• Oxford Reference: includes over 175 titles language and subject reference works from the Oxford Companions and Oxford Dictionaries series, plus the Visual English Dictionary, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and the Encyclopedia of

More Guides

• Legal Studies: Look for laws and legal information
• News & Current Events: See whats going on around the world
• Countries and Cultures Guide: Find out about the countries and cultures of the world 

Other Tools

• Country Watch: Provides up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world.