Political Science and Public Administration (SUBJECT GUIDE): Articles & Databases

Full-text articles on the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into two sides of the issues, bibliographies and more.
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The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research and iPOLL is a full-text, question-level retrieval system for all US public opinion polling firms from 1935 to the present. Users have access to a broad topical coverage of opinions and behavior on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, and more. Through subject, word, organization, and date indexes, users can retrieve the complete question text and the percentage of respondents giving each response. iPOLL also provides study-level information including the name of the organization(s) that conducted and sponsored the poll, polling dates, polling method used, and a full description of the sample. Major survey research organizations represented in iPOLL include The Gallup Organization, The Roper Organization, Louis Harris and Associates, the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post and the Associated Press.
Please note: Gallup Datasets are loaded quarterly and reflect about 20% of all Gallup data.

Access to the full text of scholarly journals from a variety of disciplines. Coverage: varies. Collections include: Arts and Science I - XV, Business IV, Life Sciences, and Sustainability. Access to JSTOR Arts & Sciences V - XIV, Business IV, Life Sciences, and Sustainability is made possible by UWL Student Differential Tuition. Access to the JSTOR Arts & Sciences XV collection is made possible by the Murphy Library Endowment Fund and UWL Student Differential Tuition.

This database contains full text for over 520 journals, and cover-to-cover citations and abstracts for more than 2,900 journals. The database has a worldwide focus and features more than 340 full-text reference books and monographs, and over 36,000 full-text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association. PSC includes a subject-specific thesaurus with 17,500 terms.

The Yearbook includes detailed and multidisciplinary profiles of more than 65,000 international organizations. The database covers 300 countries and territories, including approximately 1,200 new entries each year. (Updates every 6-8 weeks)

A comprehensive collection of business resources, consisting of: ABI/INFORM Collection; J.P Morgan Research; Entrepreneurship Database; Accounting, Tax & Banking Collection; Asian & European Business Collection; and Business Market Research Collection. With global coverage in business and economics, the Business Premium Collection includes full-text journals, dissertations, and working papers, as well as trade publications, market research reports, and key periodicals such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Economist.

This database includes full text for over 2,300 business journals, including over a thousand peer-reviewed titles. Non-journal full text includes: market research reports, industry reports, country reports, company profiles and SWOT analyses.

The CGP is the comprehensive catalog of publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government. Provides direct links to those documents that are available online. Coverage: 1976-

Communication & Mass Media Complete incorporates the content of CommSearch (formerly produced by the National Communication Association) and Mass Media Articles Index (formerly produced by Penn State) along with numerous other journals in communication, mass media, and other closely-related fields of study to create a research and reference resource of unprecedented scope and depth encompassing the breadth of the communication discipline. CMMC offers cover-to-cover (“core”) indexing and abstracts for more than 570 journals, and selected (“priority”) coverage of nearly 200 more, for a combined coverage of more than 770 titles. Furthermore, this database includes full text for over 450 journals.

Full-text coverage of all business disciplines including accounting, economics, finance, marketing, management, and strategy, as well as business theory and practice. Includes nearly 4,000 leading business and trade publications, updated daily.

Current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. Provides full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and offers indexing and abstracts for more than 400 titles, including The World Factbook (CIA).

Provides an overall view of some of the most sought-after and controversial legal topics in the United States as covered in state laws, and facilitates state-by-state comparisons. Includes the current edition with interim updates, and all previous editions back to the first (1993).

Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center brings together pro and con viewpoint articles from the Greenhaven Press book series, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, hundreds of primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, links to hand-selected web sites, and more. In addition, it has thousands of links to reviewed and subject-indexed websites and podcasts, including weekly presidential addresses and premier NPR programs. Access to this resource is made possible by UWL Student Differential Tuition.

This is a full-text database that includes essays covering multiple sides of a current issue. 343 topics are included, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument),counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. In addition to essays, articles from political magazines different points of view, newspapers, radio & TV news transcripts, primary source documents and reference books are included.

Includes the full text of over 300 scholarly journals in the fields of: literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, and many others.

Historical Congressional information and publications on many topics including scientific undertakings, historical events, social welfare, economic conditions, and communication policies. Includes: Bills and Laws 1789-Present, Committee Prints & Misc. Publications 1817-Present, Congressional Record Bound Edition & Predecessors 1998-Present, CRS Reports 1916-Present, Hearings 1824-Present, House and Senate Documents 1817-2014, House and Senate Reports 1817-2014, Serial Set 1789-Present, Serial Set Maps 1789-Present, and Executive Branch Documents 1789-1939.

Comprised of fully searchable PDFs of full-text publications generated in the course of congressional lawmaking. These include the full text of the Public Law itself, all versions of related bills, law-specific Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, and prints. Also included are Presidential signing statements, CRS reports, and miscellaneous congressional publications that provide background material to aid in the understanding of issues related to the making of the law. Part A which covers 1929-2012, and Part B (when completed) will cover: 1789-1960; 2013 and 2014.

SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 890 journals and includes full text for more than 850 books and monographs, full text for 16,800 conference papers, and profiles for 25,000 scholars in the field. Topics covered include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, and many others.

Provides an overall view of some of the most sought-after and controversial legal topics in the United States as covered in state laws, and facilitates state-by-state comparisons. Includes the current edition with interim updates, and all previous editions back to the first (1993).

Social Sciences Citation Index is a multidisciplinary index that is a part of the Web of Science Core Collection. It fully covers over 3,200 journals across 50 social sciences disciplines, as well as indexing individually selected, relevant items from over 3,500 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals. It can also be used to find other articles citing a specific article (footnotes in reverse).

1930s-current
Datasets include public-domain and licensed information. Users can search and view charts, maps, and rankings of time series at the country, state, county, MSA, postal code, and census-tract/block group levels. All of the data are drawn from authoritative sources (including the International Monetary Fund) and are citable. The product provides high-level summary information as well as detailed line item views. Subject areas includes: Food & Agriculture, banking, Finance & Insurance, Criminal Justice & Law Enforcement, Education, Energy Resources & Industries, Government & Politics, Health & Vital Statistics, Housing & Construction, Industry, Business & Commerce, International Relations & Trade, Labor & Employment, Military & Defense, Natural Resources & Environment, Population & Income, Prices, Consumption & Cost of Living, Transportation & Traffic.

Please Note: This Madison-extended resource will no longer be updated with new content after August 31st, 2019.
OECD iLibrary is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. It includes 20 book collections by theme, 24 periodicals, the OECD statistical databases, and the OECD Guidelines for the Testing of Chemicals. Publications can be accessed using the list of categories on the OECD iLibrary home page or they can be found by using a keyword search. An "advanced" search feature allows for searching of journals only.

The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research and iPOLL is a full-text, question-level retrieval system for all US public opinion polling firms from 1935 to the present. Users have access to a broad topical coverage of opinions and behavior on social issues, politics, pop culture, international affairs, and more. Through subject, word, organization, and date indexes, users can retrieve the complete question text and the percentage of respondents giving each response. iPOLL also provides study-level information including the name of the organization(s) that conducted and sponsored the poll, polling dates, polling method used, and a full description of the sample. Major survey research organizations represented in iPOLL include The Gallup Organization, The Roper Organization, Louis Harris and Associates, the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post and the Associated Press.
Please note: Gallup Datasets are loaded quarterly and reflect about 20% of all Gallup data.