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Contains numerous journals on Political Science and other disciplines.

Contains more than 4,600 journals from all of the major disciplines. Click "Select all" to search all of the library's Ebsco databases. When on the search page, remember to select "Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals" and "References Available" to make sure that you are searching our scholarly journals. Be sure to select "Academic Search Complete", "MAS Ultra", etc.

Academic Search Complete, designed specifically for academic institutions, is the world's largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary full text database containing full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including more than 3,500 peer-reviewed publications. In addition to the full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for all 8,052 journals in the collection.

Designed specifically for high school libraries, this database contains full text for nearly 500 popular, high school magazines, as well as peer-reviewed scholarly journals and books. MAS Ultra – School Edition also provides more than 360 full text reference books, 85,670 biographies, over 107,000 primary source documents, and an Image Collection of over 510,000 photos, maps & flags, color PDFs and expanded full text backfiles (back to 1975) for key publications.

Contains current, unclassified documents from the Department of Homeland Security.

Contains statistical data for the United State dating back to the Civil War.

Research and analysis of contemporary issues. Scholarly.

A library of Reference eBooks from various publishers. Scrolls to the bottom of the page for citation data.

Access to Congressional Publications, Legislative Histories, Bills and Laws, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, Congressional Record, Rules of Congress, Political News, Hot Bills, Hot Topics, Members of Congress, and Congressional Committees.

Legal, business, and reference information. Legal research includes Legal News, Law Reviews, Federal Case Law, State Case Law, Federal Code, Federal Regulations, State Codes, Tax Law, International Law, and Patents. Business information includes business news, industry news, accounting literature, company profiles, company financials, company comparisons, SEC Filings, and Directories. Reference information includes biographical information, Roper polls, CIA World Fact Book, and World Almanac.

Contains a large amount of older political science journals and information. One easy way to search for just political science material is to browse by the Political Science discipline. Keep in mind that JSTOR is an archive. Use the Journals list to locate current journal issues.

Interdisciplinary collection of scholarly journals. Project MUSE has a Politics and Policy, history, sociology, and other social sciences journal collections.