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Political Science Resources
- CQ Researcher - historically a paper title now gone electronic; concatenates news and essays and other materials about current issues into one place; a great place to begin studying any given issue
- Academic
Universe: Legal Research - Provides the full text of legal
literature (news and law reviews), state and federal case law, legal
codes and regulations, and more.
- JSTOR -
Provides the full text for 26 Political Science journals and 39 History
journals.
- Legal Collection -Contains full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. The Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
- U.S. Congressional Serial Set 1817-1980 -
"The bound, sequentially numbered volumes of all the Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives constitutes a rich source of primary source material on all aspects of American history. Upon completion, the digital version of the Serial Set will consist of approximately 13,800 volumes and over 12 million pages" --Newsbank (vendor)
- Texas Almanac (now available only in print – see Reference Desk)
- Provides information and data about the federal government, Texas
state government, and local governments in Texas.
- TOPICsearch
- Allows researchers to explore social, political & economic issues, scientific discoveries and other popular topics discussed in today’s classrooms. TOPICsearch contains full text for over 139,800 articles from more than 4,800 diverse sources.
- ProQuest Direct -
Provides many full text articles from general, scholarly, business, and
criminal justice periodicals. This database can also be searched by subject. (i.e. Politics, Goverment and Law)
- Digital Dissertations - "access to citations and abstracts for every title in Dissertation Abstracts Subset A (Humanities and Social Sciences) plus all dissertations with a degree date of 2004 or 2005.
Titles published since 1997 are available in PDF digital format and have 24 page previews available. " --Dissertation Abstracts
- Facts.com -
Database of 'yearbook' highlights. Very useful for retrieving news
stories about specific historical occurances in the modern U.S.
timeline.
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- MarciveWeb
Docs - Catalog of U.S. federal government publications (1976 -
current).
- ArticleFirst(Link goes to main list, please select from there)
- Includes bibliographic citations from over 12,600 magazines and
serials, covering science, technology, medicine, social science,
business, the humanities and popular culture from 1990 to the present.
- ECO
- OCLC’s Electronic Collections Online (ECO) offers Web access to thousands of titles in a wide range of subject areas, from over 70 publishers of academic and professional journals.
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- FirstGov.gov - designed to be an entry portal, directory, and government information search engine for the masses, this official U.S. Government site does as good a job as possible collecting government information for general perusal
- Ben's Guide to U.S. Government - Don't be offended that this site purports to be "for kids." This site provides excellent, clear perspectives on the major work of U.S. Government.
- GPOAccess.gov - very much a fulltext resource, GPOAccess is currently the premier outlet for Federal Government-produced information. All the main work of government from all of its branches and agencies is represented here.
- The
National Archives - NARA offers excellent, fulltext and in most cases full-image versions of important, foundational historic documents such as The Constitution, Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, Louisiana Purchase, etc.
- See Also:
- Government Information - homepage of Killam Library's Government
Documents Depository
- Laws
and Legislation - subpart of above, includes Courts, Bill
Tracking, Regulations, Constitution resources
- Government
Organization
- supbpart of GovDocs main site, includes resources that help describe the structures
and protocols of government
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