BC Libraries Research Guides
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ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts is an indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional. Updated monthly, ASSIA currently contains over 312,000 records from 650 journals in 16 different countries, including the UK and US.
International Political Science Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts articles from nearly 900 major political science journals. Covers theory, government, political process, international relations, and national and area studies.
PAIS International
An index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. Journal articles; books; government documents; statistical compilations; committee reports; directories; serials; reports of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations; and most other forms of printed literature from all over the world are indexed.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Includes citations and abstracts from public affairs magazines, major
newspapers, professional journals, and books devoted to politics and political
analysis. Major coverage in the areas of developing nations, economic policy,
electoral systems, environmental policy, international relations, international
trade, labor relations, military policy, public administration, security and
defense.
British Humanities Index
BHI indexes over 320 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK.
Expanded Academic ASAP (1980 - present)
Academic and popular journals indexed for recent years in
all subject areas with some full text, depending on the publication.
FRANCIS (1984 - present)
FRANCIS covers a wide range of multilingual, multidisciplinary information in the humanities (67%), social sciences (30%), and economics (3%). FRANCIS is strong in religion, the history of art, and literature, with particular emphasis on current trends in European and world literature. Updated monthly.
Periodicals Contents Index (PCI Full-text) (1770-1995)
Over 3000 scholarly journals from their inception to
the present are indexed in 23 broad subject areas in several Western languages.
Some of the citations have links to full text of the articles.
Web of Science
The ISI Web of Science provides seamless access to the Science Citation Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. It enables users to search current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. ISI Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. With it, users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover all the information relevant to their research. Users can also navigate to electronic full-text journal articles.
CQ Researcher
The CQ Researcher is published 44 times a year and each issue is a 12,000
word overview of a single "hot" issue. Each issue includes charts, graphs and
sidebar articles, a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a
list of contacts. An excellent place to get overview or current economic,
political, and social issues.
Dissertations and Theses - Full Text (ProQuest)
Citations and abstracts to more than 2 million dissertations and masters theses in all fields produced in North American colleges and universities from 1861 to the present, and from around the world since 1988. The full text of dissertations published since 1997 are also available for download.
JSTOR
This is a full-text database, and very good for retrospective
research in history. It has journal articles from a selected list of major journals
in several subjects, including history. You must choose which sets of journals
to search, and they are covered in a moving wall from 2 to 5 years ago back
to the beginning volume of the journals. It has extraordinary value for its
retrospective coverage of the selected journals. An ongoing project, with continual
adding of journals.
Project Muse
Unlike JSTOR, this includes only recent issues of journals
full text, but not the backfile. With coverage of over 200 journals in arts
and humanities, social science, and mathematics from Johns Hopkins and selected
other publishers, it includes many history journals full text which can be searched
online. Use in tandem with JSTOR for full text retrieval of history articles
from scholarly journals on your paper topic.
LexisNexis State Capital
Access bills, laws, constitutions, proposed and enacted regulations; legislature membership, and newspapers of record for one state, any combination of states or all 50 states. Compare law and public policy developments. Click "Issues" for news on state legislative matters.
Institute on Money in State Politics
The "Follow the Money" database offers data on specific businesses or contributors invested in elections in your state and on the funds raised by particular candidates in state-wide elections. The Tools and Resources page offers links to related sites, including state disclosure offices. The institute is "a nonpartisan, nonprofit program dedicated to accurate, comprehensive and unbiased documentation and research on campaign finance at the state level. The Institute is led by Samantha Sanchez, a tax-law expert."
The Campaign Disclosure Project
The site assigns grades to state disclosure laws and policies and includes the Campaign Disclosure Law Database, which contains statutes and regulations in 105 categories from 50 states, the District of Columbia and the FEC. The database is current as of June 30, 2004. The project "is designed to bring greater transparency and accountability to the role of money in state and federal campaigns." It is sponsored bythe UCLA School of Law, the Center for Governmental Studies, and the California Voter Foundation.
Political Advocacy Groups: A Directory of United States Lobbyists
Kathi Carlisle Fountain, Political Science Librarian at California State University-Chico, has compiled this list of political advocacy groups.
Alt-PressWatch
Provides full-text coverage of more than 150 newspapers, magazines, academic and scholarly journals of the alternative and independent press. Offers access to viewpoints and perspectives that are not always available in mainstream media coverage.
CQ Researcher
The CQ Researcher is published 44 times a year and each issue is a 12,000
word overview of a single "hot" issue. Each issue includes charts, graphs and
sidebar articles, a pro-con feature, a chronology, lengthy bibliographies and a
list of contacts. An excellent place to get overview or current economic,
political, and social issues.
Factiva
Current full text news and financial information for companies, industries and general business and economic news. Sources are both U.S. and international and include: newspapers, magazines, media transcripts, wire services, pictures and web sites. Also contains over 20,000 company reports and various company and industry specific data. Full text of Wall Street Journal back to 1979.
LexisNexis Academic
Research areas in LEXIS-NEXIS Academic cover news,industry, and market news;
legal news and research; company financial information; general medical topics ;
accounting, auditing, and tax information; law reviews; case law; U.S. Code.