Political Science Resources
Periodicals
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Comprehensive
Listings
- ABI Inform
(UMich Only)
- Index of business periodicals and corporate information since 1970
- Full text of many articles in pdf format
- All
Academic
- Index and full text of journal articles and working papers available
free on the web
- Searchable by author, title, subject, type of article
- User may specify citation in MLA, APA, or Chicago Style Manual format
- Sample titles: The Atlantic Monthly, Bulletin of the Atomic
Scientists, European Journal of International Law, Dissent
- Alternative Press
- Alternative
MagaZines on the web
- Annotated links to anarchist and radical magazines
- Includes titles such as the Chomsky Archives
and Freedom Press
- Alternative Press
Center
- Lists periodicals included in Alternative Press Index (GL, UGL and
Labadie AI 3.R13)
- Alternative includes radicalism, minorities, gay/lesbian studies,
music, and country advocates
- Links to alternative organization web sites
- Cambridge Journals
On-Line
- Tables of contents for several social science journals, including
Journal of Social Policy and Journal of African History since 1997
- Full text of articles in Adobe Acrobat format available free on line
for only a few months in 1997
- CIC Electronic
Journals Collection
- Full text of lesser-known scholarly journals in the sciences, social
sciences and humanities
- As of November 1996, there was only one political science title but
related journals under education and law
- Columbia
International Affairs Online (UMich Only)
- Search engine indexes current world politics journals, books,
conference proceedings, and think tank working papers
- Full text primarily of working papers
- Conservative
Media
- Links to conservative periodicals and newspapers on the web
- Electronic
Collections Online (UMich Only)
- Full text and abstracts of
approximately 120 scholarly periodicals in the sciences and social
sciences beginning 1998
- The data base includes periodicals to which the
University does not subscribe but searches may be limited to those for
which online versions are available
- Administration and Society,
American Politics Quarterly,
American Review of Public Administration,
Cooperation and Conflict,
Diplomatic History,
International Organization,
Journal of Peace Research
- Peace and Change,
Political Quarterly,
Political Studies,
Political Theory,
Politics and Society,
Public Administration
- Electronic
Journals and Newspapers List (UMich Only)
- Lists over 200 journals and newspapers for which the University of
Michigan Library has electronic subscriptions
- Arranged by title or detailed subject
- Provides the individual URLs
- All titles also listed in MIRLYN
- Ethnic News
Watch
- Full text of news and journal articles on the ethnic population of
the United States as well as publications by the ethnic press
- Coverage begins in the 1980s
- Searchable by keyword, date, people, ethnic groups, and language
- Genderwatch
- Full text journal, magazine, news and newsletter articles on women's
issues
- Ranges from gender and societal roles to birth control, sexual
harassment, daycare, aging parents and eating disorders
- Searchable by keyword, author, journal and date
- InfoTrac
General Reference Gold (UMich Only)
- Full text of articles in over a 1000 journals since 1980
- Also includes reference tools, such as encyclopedias
- International
Affairs Periodicals (Elizabethtown College)
- Numerous English language periodicals on international affairs and
foreign relations
- Most include the text of the current issue only
- Jefferson
Project
- Extensive links to political magazines, including
less-known issue-oriented periodicals
- JSTOR (UMich Only)
- Separate entry due to length of annotation
- Liberal
Magazines
- Annotated list of liberal magazines on the web or in print
- OCLC
First Search (UMich Only)
- Index to books and periodicals located in most libraries
throughout the United States
- Numerous periodical data bases, some of which duplicate
MIRLYN
- Selected full text of articles; first choose subject discipline and
then the file FASTDOC
- Unique feature is Dissertation Abstracts and the
full text of the New York Times for the past 90 days
- Periodicals.Net
- Search for individual journal by title or ISSN number to determine
which commercial aggregator makes it available
- About 97,000 journal titles included
- Search can be delimited by aggregator (e.g. LEXIS, Gale), full text
or index only
- Political Science Electronic Journals
at the University of Michigan
- Web page under construction
- Will list indexed and full text sources available through campus
subscriptions
- Political Theory
Journals
- Links to political theory journals, associations, and research
institutions
- From the Foundations for Political Theory section of the American
Political Science Association
- ProQuest
(UMich Only)
- Indexes some 2300 journal articles in all fields since the 1980s and
provides the full text of many since the late 1990s
- Includes popular and scholarly titles, such as Comparative Politics,
Governing, International Political Science Review, The Journal of
Conflict Resolution, and World Politics
- Journals indexed by author, title, keyword, periodical, and date
- Articles may be marked for downloading
- Text in HTML and image formats
- Journals
List
- ProQuest also publishes its own Journals
List
- Science Direct/Elsevier
Journals (UMich Only)
- Index and full text of 1100 scholarly journals since 1996
- Primarily scientific and economic but some additional social science
material
- Comprehensive searches by keyword or by fields (words in author,
title, text, abstract, and date)
- Individual journals also searchable or browsable
- When given a personal v. group log-in, choose group log-in
- Formerly known as Peak/Elsevier Journals
- Ulrich's
International Periodicals Directory (UMich Only)
- Lists 150,000 periodicals and 8000 newspapers
- Browsable by title, subject and publisher
- Searchable by title, publisher, description and ISSN
- Information includes title, link to publisher, advertising rates,
circulation, formats including web, and e-mail address if applicable
- Lists abstracting services which index the journal
- Wilson
Select (UMich Only)
- Full text of 800 popular journals on line since 1994
- Journal
List
Individual
Titles
- Articles, editorials and review of international law and court
decisions as well as book review
- Full text of the periodical
- Searchable by keyword and field or browsable by issue
- Printing or downloading requires Adobe Acrobat
- Full text of issues 1980+ also on Academic
Universe under Law Reviews
- Full text of the periodical digitized at UMich through a Mellon grant
- Searchable by keyword and field or browsable by issue
- Printing and downloading requires Adobe
Acrobat or application/tifflist;
contact jstor-info@umich.edu for
further information
American Political
Science Review
- Subtitle: A Journal for the Liberal Imagination"
- Text of current articles and an archive
- Articles on current American politics and 1996 elections
- Identify Member of Congress by State, zip code, or name
- Profile section includes biographical, campaign finance, district,
and election information; bills introduced, current speeches, roll call
votes
- A rating section allows user to compare opinions with the Senator or
Representative
- Weekly business, political, economic, health, and environmental news for
the Middle and Far East beginning June 9, 1995
- Use the "Newsmap" to access information by country and "Archives" for
entire issues
- Each issue ranks about 60 Asian and developed countries on basic
economic and population data while individual issues cover additional
subjects, such as immunizations and energy
- Bimonthly journal of culture and politics with prestigious authors
such as Joseph Brodsky and Noam Chomsky
- Full text of articles from last three issues
- Think tank periodical on U.S. policy
- Tables of contents beginning Fall 1995
- Full text of selected articles (e.g. telecommunications, crime,
national security
- Weekly newsmagazine with new on Central and Eastern Europe
- Special feature articles on politics, economics or culture of the region
- Searchable archives beginning June 1999
- Election news, political odds on the candidates
- Rate Your Rep for comparing voter views
against those of a Congressperson
- Political services and buyer's guide
- Some sections require password
- Full text of periodical available to University of Michigan
affiliates through Proquest
- Daily stories on U.S. politics
- Links to major political magazines, news magazines and newspapers
- Sponsored by the Federal News Service whose publications and
transcripts are available on LEXIS in the Documents
Center and at the Graduate Library Information Center
- Discontinued? 5-5-98
- Weekly newspaper on higher education issues
- Numerous reports, statistics, and analysis
- Extensive section of academic job postings
- Indexed since 1983 in Education
Abstracts (UMich Only)
- Full text without job openings in Academic Universe, Sept.
1997+
- Found in its own separate file under General News
Topics
- Academe This
Week carries today's news and last week's (not current
week's) jobs without subscription
- Statistical
Universe provides more comprehensive indexing of the
statistical tables; Documents Center maintains corresponding microfiche
for text not found in Academic Universe
- Paper copies of the Chronicle are maintained in the
Serials Room (LB 2300 .C56) until Serials receives the microfilm
version (FILM X974)
- Articles on campaign and lobby reform beginning Fall 1995
- Many articles include statistics
- While Common Cause News and In Common do not have their
own web site, the articles are easily identifiable from the Texas Common
Cause home page
- Weekly publication with non-partisan political analysis of Congress
- Identifies major legislation, the issues, and players
- Roll call votes
- Political party and election analysis
- Web coverage begins in 1983 and is searchable
- Also includes CQ Researcher which
analyzes individual "hot topics" for debate purposes
- Selected articles on business and politics from the current issue of
this British weekly periodical
- Summaries of articles in current issue and full text of lead article
- Contents searchable by author, subject, and issue since 1988 but full
text not provided
- The printed copy of the periodical is located in the
Graduate Library stacks (JX 1 .F78) with current issues in
Serials Services
- Brief reports on policy issues such as U.S.-Russian relations
- Its Progressive Response provides numerous
short papers on current topics, such as Iraqi sanctions, Kosovo, and
terrorism
- Sponsored by the Interhemispheric Resource Center and Institute for
Policy Studies
- Magazine focused on state and local government
- Web site has text of lead article in current issue and preview of
next issue
- Wonk Heaven
has links to comprehensive state and local government web indexes
- Weekly periodical meant for Members of Congress and the Executive Branch
- In-depth discussion of political underpinnings
- Current issue free-of-charge
- Articles on United Nations, regional governmental, and
non-governmental human rights actions
- Philosophical and policy essays, book reviews
- Full text of issues beginning 1995 are part of Project Muse campus
subscription
- Paper copies of issues beginning 1981 are available in the Graduate
Library (JC571 .H93) with current issues in Current Serials
Service
- Analytical articles on wars throughout the world
- Proceedings of current war crimes tribunals
- Articles begin in 1995 but previous reports are available via
e-mail
- Non-partisan weekly periodical on public policy issues
- Sample topics since June 1996 include education, welfare reform,
chemical weapons, Internet policy, and America's cities
- Interactive cyberpoll with results and selected comments
- Articles on democracy throughout the world, primary documents,
reviews, and news
- Issues beginning 1996 are part of Project Muse campus subscription
- Paper copies since 1990 available in the Graduate Library (JF 1051
.J681) with current issues in Current Serials
- Full text of the periodical digitized at UMich through a Mellon grant
- Searchable by keyword and field or browsable by issue
- Printing and downloading requires Adobe
Acrobat or application/tifflist;
contact jstor-info@umich.edu for
further information
- Project to convert the full text of scholarly journals to
digital format
- Subjects include Asian studies, ecology, economics, history,
philosophy, political science, population studies and sociology
- List of
Titles
- Access limited to subscribing institutions
- As of September 1998, includes the full text of the following
political science journals:
- American Journal of International Law, 1907-94
- American Journal of Political Science, 1957-94
- American Political Science Review, 1906-94
- International Organization, 1947-
- Journal of Politics, 1939-1994
- Proceedings of the American Political Science Association,
1904-13
- Public Opinion Quarterly, 1937-93
- World Politics, 1948-92
- Keyword indexing may be limited to text, abstract, author, article
title or journal title
- Printing and downloading requires
application/tifflist or Adobe
Acrobat
- Scholarly articles on political topics primarily from college
students throughout the country
- Full text archived from Fall 1995
- Book reviews and selected political science links
- Investigative reporting, including scandals, from a liberal perspective
- Includes full text of most current issue
- National Journal focuses on the politics of the Executive
Branch with
some reference to current legislation
- Full text since 1977 available through the University of Michigan's
campus license to Congressional
Compass
- Follow the Inside Washington logo on the
main Congressional Universe screen
- Quarterly journal of scholarly articles on nuclear, chemical and
biological non-proliferation since 1993
- Usually one article from each issue is available free on the web
- Subscription required for specialized data bases
- From the Monterey Institute of International Studies
- News, articles and commentary on society and politics from a
Jeffersonian Conservative perspective
- Full text of scholarly articles on peace studies, beginning
1994
- Supports nonviolent and democratic movements throughout the world
- Web issues begin with November 1996
- December 1996 special issue devoted to political prisoners
- Daily periodical with current policy news, issue of the
week, and in-depth analysis of 20 current policy issues
- Virtual Congress features speeches
and votes on topics
- Includes a policy chat room
- Subtitle: The Journal of American Citizenship
- Quarterly periodical with articles on public policy from a
conservative viewpoint, beginning Spring 1995
- Project to develop online distribution of scholarly manuscripts
in political science
- Accepts abstracts or the full text of teaching or
research-oriented manuscripts
- Searchable by keyword
- Articles by well-known scholars on U.S. and international politics
- Full text of the current lead article and abstracts of all
articles beginning 1976
- Full text of journals from Johns Hopkins University Press beginning
1995 or 1996
- Includes Human Rights Quarterly,
Journal of Democracy, and World
Politics
- Coverage extends to scientific, historical, and literary journals
- Search engine can be used for one or more titles
- Full text of refereed Internet journal beginning 1996
- Scholarly articles both international and domestic in scope
- Full text of scholarly journal analyzing public opinion worldwide
- Searchable by keyword, author, journal, date
- Part of JSTOR project
- Tables of Contents listed since 1971
- The full text is located in the Graduate Library (JK 1 .P98)
with current issues in the Current Serials Service
- French-speaking contribution to comparative politics
- Abstracts in French, English and Spanish; articles in French
- Several articles on todays Congressional news; archive only by
subscription
- Extensive policy briefings on a current topic (e.g. appropriations)
changed every few weeks
- Political assessments of Congressional races in the 50
states
- Summarizes daily news reports from U.S. and international sources
with links to the full text
- Summarizes Sunday talk show interviews with political pundits
- Carries feature articles
- Excerpts of book, book chapters, and articles relating to urban poverty
- Sponsored by the Joint Center for Poverty Research and Kennedy School
of Government
- Journal publishes scholarly articles primarily on European politics
and political theory
- Web version provides abstracts of articles in German, French, and
English beginning Summer 1995 but not the full text
- Annual indexes to the issues arranged by type of publication
(article, review, etc.) and author
- Lead articles in the latest issues to Time, National
Review, and People
- Lead articles in Asia Week beginning January
1995
- Historical coverage of important public events, such as the federal
shutdown, election polls, Bosnia
- Articles on current United States politics and elections
- "News You Can Use"
- Weekly summaries of European Union activities and issues since 1996
- Browsable by date only
World
Politics
- World
Politics, 1948-92 (UMich Only)
- Full text converted by the JSTOR project
- Searchable by author, title, and keyword
- Full text can be printed or downloaded using Adobe Acrobat or
tifflist
- World Politics,
April 1996+
- Full text of periodical with search engine
- Part of University of Michigan networked subscription to Project
Muse
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