Subject Guide - Political Science

EBSCO

EBSCOhost is a database that provides full-text articles from scholarly journals, newspapers, magazines, encyclopedias, dictionaries, and trade publications. Within EBSCO, you may choose to run a search through all of the databases or select the database(s) you want.

Academic Search Elite
Academic institutions worldwide depend on this database as their core resource of scholarly information. Academic Search Elite contains full text for more than 2,100 journals. Nearly 150 journals have PDF images dating back to 1985.

E-Book Academic Collection (EBSCOhost)
Among the multidisciplinary academic collection of 175,000 e-books, 49,000 political science books will be accessible with information relevant to the research needs.

E-Book Collection (EBSCOhost)
Among this collection, you may browse the category of Political Science to books on political science topics. You may also search using keywords in the standard search bar or by using the advanced search function.


JSTOR

This database hosts full-text, digital versions of books and academic journals primarily in the Humanities and Social Sciences. There are also journals in the hard sciences.

JSTOR journals or books can be searched by the Subject “Political Science” to find academic journals on the subject. You may also search using keywords in the standard search bar or by using the advanced search function.


INFOTRAC

Gale Academic OneFile connects the information you are looking for with tools that make discovery fast and easy. You will find this premier periodical resource that provides millions of articles from scholarly journals and other authoritative sources with extensive coverage in key subject areas. Journal articles and books can be searched by the subject “Political Science.”

Gale OneFile: News
Access major U.S. and international newspapers online to search articles instantly by title, headline, date, or other fields. This is a database that provides access to more than 2,300 major U.S. regional, national, and local newspapers, as well as leading titles from around the world. A search of the subject “political science” will bring over 300,000 news articles on the topic.

Opposing Viewpoints: Gale In Context
Covers today's social issues. Includes pro/con viewpoints, reference articles, interactive maps, and infographics that help learners develop critical-thinking skills and draw their own conclusions. This is a database that covers current controversial issues in society. The front page has several issues that can be browsed by their general topic. It also has a search function where specific topics on politics can be found.


Tennessee Electronic Library (TEL)

Provides a full list of databases by subject. TEL hosts a wide range of content including magazines, scholarly journals, podcasts, videos, e-books, test prep materials, federal census records, and more in every subject imaginable. TEL also connects searchers to results from a multitude of databases through the use of a powerful search engine tool that can be found under “All Resources.” The main page of TEL also has a basic search engine that connects searchers directly to articles and eBooks with keyword searches.

You may go to “All Resources” and search “Political Science” in Gale OneFile to find the information about “Political Science.”


Access World News: NewsBank

This database provides access to newspaper articles from around the world. The search tools on this site allow you to pinpoint articles about your topic by geographic region, publication, date, and more.

It provides Hot Topics for faculty and students with an easier path to locating topics of interest related to current global issues, events and people for personal and course research.

It provides you with suggested search topics in a range of fields. Choose a broad topic (e.g. Political Science) and subtopic (e.g. governmental issues), and Access World News will search for recent articles in that area.


InfoBase: World News Digest

This is a database that contains six separate sub-databases: African-American History, Issues & Controversies, Infobasebooks, CREDO Reference, Today’s Science, and World News Digest.

Issues and Controversies is a sub-database that covers arguments on controversial issues.

Links

National Archives
View America’s founding documents, transcripts and more with the National Archives Digital collection.

Constitution Annotated
Annotations and interpretations of the Constitution, including all amendments, from the U.S. Congress. This resource also discusses the latest court opinions and includes nonpartisan analysis from legal attorneys.

Princeton Gerrymandering Project
The Princeton Gerrymandering Project does nonpartisan analysis to understand partisan gerrymandering at a state-by-state level.