Political Science Indexes
University of Michigan
Library
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Clifford
Berryman, Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
Last updated on February 2,
2006
- EndNote/Procite
(UMich)
- Instructions and downloadable filters for using bibliographic
management software with several MIRLYN Web Files
- MAC and PC versions
- ProCite for Wilson and Psych periodical indexes
- EndNote includes additional periodical indexes
- 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 Index (UMich Only)
- Indexes over 380 alternative, left, and radical leftist publications
issued in North America since 1991
- Alternative includes radicalism, minorities, gay/lesbian studies,
music, and country advocates
- CRIS: Combined Retrospective
Index to Journals in Political Science, 1886-1974 (Z 7161 .C77)
- Classified arrangement of 500+ English language titles
- Author index
- 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
- Google
Scholar
- Indexes peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, and other scholarly literature
- Full text may or may not be available online
- University of Michigan clients should use the SFX button to
determine online availability on campus
- International Bibliography of Political Science, 1953-
(Z 7163 .I62)
- Index to political science articles in Western European languages
- Subject index refers to abstract number
- International
Political Science Abstracts, 1989+ (UMich Only)
- Index to scholarly political science journal articles in Western
European languages
- Choose IPSA from the menu first; go to the next screen before searching
- Sample search: Russia near (Kosovo or Yugoslavia)
- Searches may be recombined
- Data includes author, title, journal, and abstract in English if the
article is in English
- If the article is in another language, the title is translated into
English but the abstract is in French
- Once you identify an article, search MIRLYN for the call
number and location
- Printed copy: International Political Science Abstracts,
1951- (Ref. JA 36 .I6)
- JSTOR
Project--http://www.jstor.org/jstor/ (UMich Only)
- Project to convert the full text of historical and economics journals
to digital format
- Titles may be search individually or as a group
- Downloading and printing requires Adobe Acrobat
- Political Science
- American Journal of International Law, 1907+
- American Journal of Political Science, 1973+
- American Political Science Review, 1906+
- International Organization, 1947+
- Journal of Politics, 1939+
- Midwest Journal of Political Science, 1957-72
- Political Science Quarterly, 1886-1993
- Proceedings of the American Political Science Association,
1904-13
- World Politics, 1948-94
- Journals by
Discipline
- Left
Index (UMich Only)
- Indexes 120 journals considered politically liberal since 1990
- Cites article and provides journal's web site but does not provide
the text
- Sample Search: missile & defense/star & wars 1995 : 2001
- OCLC
First Search (UMich Only)
- Index to books and periodicals located in most libraries
throughout the United States
- Includes indexes to over 12,000 journals but does not contain the
full text
- Sample titles include Governing,
Governance, Electoral
Studies,
and Congressional Digest
- List of
Journals Indexed by Discipline
- 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
- Project Muse (UMich
Only)
- 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
- Public Affairs
Information Service Bulletin (UMich Only)
- Subject index to books, articles, and government documents on
politics and economics since 1972 in Western European languages
- Government documents include United States, United Nations, League of
Nations, and State Governments
- There are also paper versions (English, 1915+, Z 7163 .P98 and
foreign, 1968+, Z 7164 .E2 P96)
- Social Sciences Index, 1974- (Z 7163 .S68)
- Interdisciplinary subject index to the social sciences
- Social
Sciences Citation Index 1956- (UMich Only)
- Indexes current periodical articles by author, title/keyword,
journal, and author's affiliation
- Indexes cited authors by name, abbreviated title of book/journal and year
- Results provide cross references between the cited author, the
citating author, and related items
- Data base also includes the Arts and Humanities and Sciences Citation
Indexes
- Corresponding paper copy located in the Graduate Library Stacks,
1956- (Z 7163 .S67)
- Also on CD-ROM beginning 1981 at the Graduate Library Information
Center
- Social Sciences Citation Index
Examples
- Connect to MIRLYN
to identify library location and call number of book or article
- TRANSDEX; Index to the Joint Publications Research Service,
1976- (Z 1223 .Z7 T77 with older issues cumulative issues on
microfiche in Serials Services)
- Keyword index to translations of periodical articles in countries considered strategic to
United States interests
- Articles primarily on politics, economics, defense, and science
- United States Political Science Documents, 1975-91
(Z 7163 .U625)
- Broad subject index to over 200 political science journals published in the United States
- Includes lengthy abstracts
- Ulrich's
International Periodicals Directory
- 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
- World
Political Science Abstracts
- Indexes political science journals, monographs, dissertations, and
book reviews since 1975 and provides abstracts
- Search by keyword, author, title; delimited by date
- No thesaurus so foreign language articles must be retrieved using
their native keywords or keywords translated into English
Indexes for Related
Fields
- Alternative
Press Index, 1991- (UMich Only) with paper copy of 1969+ in Reference (AI 3 .R13)
- America:
History and Life,
1977-
- ABI Inform
(UMich Only)
- Index of business periodicals and corporate information since 1970
- Full text of many articles in pdf format
- Bibliography of
Asian Studies, 1971- (UMich Only)
- Black Studies, (CD-ROM/Reference)
- Chicano
DataBase, 1967- (UMich Only)
- Hispanic American Periodical
Index, 1970 - (UMich Only)
- Historical
Abstracts,
1977-
- Index to
Foreign Legal Periodicals, 1985-
- Index
to Legal Periodicals, 1981+ (UMich Only)
- Women's Studies, 1989- (CD ROM/Reference)
- Women's Studies Abstracts, 1972- (Ref. HQ 1101 .W92)
- Academic
Universe/Lexis (UMich Only)
- Full text of newspapers from around the world and from major U.S.
cities for up to 20 years
- Business, entertainment, environmental, legal, and medical news
- Federal Supreme, circuit and district court decisions
- State Supreme and appellate court decisions
- State constitutions and laws-in-force but not proposed legislation
- Reference tools, biographies, state and foreign country profiles
- Some additional materials may be available through the on-line
version of LEXIS
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service, 1983- (Documents
Center)
- Translations of foreign news broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements, primarily on government, economic, and political events
- Translations located in the Serials Room in paper or on microfiche
- CD-ROM index may be searched by subject, country, or name
- FBIS Guide
- Replaced during 1996 by the World News Connection (UMich
Only)
- Web interface to translations searchable by keyword, region, and date
- Provides the full text
- Campus network license permits five simultaneous users
- Newspapers
at the University of Michigan Library
- Lists newspaper indexes and newspapers around the world available in various formats
within the University Library system
- Description of Newspapers on CD-ROM
- Dissertation
Abstracts (UMich Only)
- Indexes dissertations from around the world beginning 1861 and
includes abstracts beginning 1980
- Search by author, title, keyword, subject
- Index also available on CD-ROM, 1861+, in the Graduate Library
Reference Department
- Paper version is Dissertation Abstracts
International (Ref. AS 30 .M63 with 1938-68 in
stacks)
- University of Michigan dissertations are listed in MIRLYN
- Paper copies in Buhr and microfilm copies in the Serials/Microforms
Room
- University of Michigan affiliates should consult the Graduate
Library Information Center about the purchasing or borrowing
dissertations dissertations from other institutions
- Open
Archives Initiative (OAIster)
- Indexes digital collections created by over 600 museums and academic
institutions
from around the world
- Links to the full text
- Over 6 million records available as of February 2006
Consult Government
Resources on the Web for additional state, federal, international,
and foreign sources.
- Access UN
- Index to United Nations documents issued since 1966
- Searches may be defined by author, country, type of document
(official record, sales publication), subject, title, text, and date
- Full text of resolutions since 1966
- Full text of General Assembly and Security Council debates since 1993
when they contain voting records as well as General Assembly committees
since 1990
- Congressional Universe
(UMich Only)
- Indexes and abstracts committee hearings, committee prints, reports,
documents and public laws since 1970
- Provides the full text of hearings (1988+), selected committee prints
(1993+), reports and documents (1989+), bills (1989+), Congressional
Record (1985+), Federal Register (1980+), Public Laws (1988+), and the
current Code of Federal Regulations and United States Code
- Monthly
Catalog of United States Government
Publications, 1895-
- Indexes new publications of the Executive, Legislative, and
Judicial branches as they are first
issued
- Doc.Cen. Z 1223 .A18 with current issues in the Reference section
- There is a cumulative title index, 1789-1976 (Doc.Cen. Z 1223 .Z7
L471
-Ref.) and subject indexes for 1895-99 (Doc.Cen. Z 1223 .A18 C97 - Ref)
and 1900-71 (Doc.Cen. Z 1223 .A18 B918)
Monthly Catalog and not listed in
MIRLYN's MCAT
- Historical material may also appear in
OCLC
First Search
- Predecessor catalogs include:
- Benjamin Perley Poore's Descriptive Catalog of the
Government Publications of the United States, 1774-1881
(Doc.Cen. Z 1223.A 1953 - Ref.)
- John G. Ames' Comprehensive Index to the Publications of
the United States Government, 1881-1893 (Doc.Cen. Z 1223
.A13
1953)
- Catalog of the Publications of the...United States
Government,
1893-1940 (Doc.Cen. Z 1223 .A132)
- Many 19th Century Executive Branch publications were issued as
Congressional
documents and appear in
the Congressional Masterfile CD-ROM
listed below
- Statistical
Universe (UMich Only)
- Indexes and abstracts federal government statistics since 1974;
business and state government since 1980; international since 1983
- Access through the Statistical Sources menu
- Delimiters include Boolean operators and numerous proximity
indicators, frequency, and comparative data (by city, by foreign
country, by age, by disease)
- Sample Search: gdp w/10 quarterly and by foreign
country
- About 15% of the abstracts link to full text
- For items not hot-linked:
- Consult the Documents Center Staff for the Publications of
Other Governments
- Declassified Documents
- CIA Electronic Document
Archive
- Copies of highly-selected electronic documents declassified and
release to the public by the CIA
- Searchable but not browsable
- Advice on obtaining information through the FOIA Act
- Declassified
Documents
- Over 70,000 confidential, secret and top
secret documents declassified under the Freedom of Information Act and
deposited in Presidential Libraries
- Material includes White House,
CIA, FBI, Defense Department, National Security Council, Atomic Energy
Commission, NATO, United Nations and others
- Most are dated 1946-68
- Searchable by keyword with an advanced search that includes keyword,
agency, classification level, sanitation level, date declassified and
issue date
- PDF format for the original plus a more easily-read text
format with the search keywords highlighted in red
- The
corresponding microfiche is located in Serials Services and Microforms;
the retrospective fiche is MICRO-F397; the current fiche is MICRO-F
X194
- Digital
National Security Archive (UMich Only)
- Full text of declassified federal documents issued during the Cold
War period
- Many of the documents issued by the State Department, Defense
Department, and Central Intelligence Agency
- Subjects include:
Afghanistan
Berlin Crisis
Cuban Missile Crisis
El Salvador
| Intelligence Community
Iran-Contra Affair
Iranian Revolution
Military Uses of Space
| Nicaragua
Nuclear Nonproliferation
Philippines
South Africa | |
- Searchable by a combination of collection, subject, keyword, creator,
recipient, classification, document type, and date
- Text in pdf or gif format
- Federal Bureau of
Investigation Freedom of Information Act Archives
- Thousands of historic records in Adobe Acrobat format
- Includes the Rosenbergs, Lucille Ball, John Lennon, Al Capone,
Roswell UFO
- Arranged alphabetically by name or by subject category
- Categories include: Famous Persons, Historical Interest, Espionage,
Violent Crime, Gangster Era, Unusual Phenomena
- Foreign Relations of the United States: Diplomatic
Papers, 1861-
- The text of diplomatic correspondence and other documents declassified after 30 years
- Grad. JX 233 .A3
- National Security
Archives
- Non-profit organization which obtains primary documents on U.S. foreign
policy and intelligence under the Freedom of Information Act
- Web site provides catalog of publications
- Selected electronic texts include the Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuban
Missile Crisis, death of Che Guevara, China, Okinawa, and a meeting
between Richard Nixon and Elvis Presley
- Search MIRLYN for
commercial microfilming projects
- Archives
- Archives
USA (UMich Only)
- Index to holdings of 4400 archives and 100,000 archival collections
in the United States
- Searchable and browsable by keyword, collection name, city and state
- Information includes a description of the collection, hours, and a
link to the repository's web site
- Guide to the National Archives of the United
States
- Describes the files and record groups available at the National Archives
- Most material must be consulted on-site
- Doc.Cen. CD 3023 .A5 1974
- A catalog of microfilmed publications is shelved next to the
guide; microfilmed publications are available on Inter-Library Loan
- Also available at the National Archives web site
- National Inventory of Document Sources CD-ROM (Ref.)
- Index to microfiche set of published and unpublished finding aids
- For archives in the U.S. and United Kingdom
- Guide to the State Archives of Michigan: State Records
- Records from 1789-1972 arranged by branch of state government
- Good subject index
- Book Review Digest, 1905- (Ref. Z 1219 .B722)
- Summaries of book reviews appearing in major periodicals
- On OCLC First Search beginning 1983
- Book Review Index, 1965- (Ref. Z 1035 .A1
B72)
- More comprehensive than Book Review Digest
but covers a shorter time period and has contains summaries
- Social
Sciences Citation Index 1956- (UMich Only)
- Indexes current periodical articles by author, title/keyword,
journal, and author's affiliation
- Indexes cited authors by name, abbreviated title of book/journal and year
- Results provide cross references between the cited author, the
citating author, and related items
- Data base also includes the Arts and Humanities and Sciences Citation
Indexes
- Corresponding paper copy located in the Graduate Library Stacks,
1956- (Z 7163 .S67
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Grace York, Political Science Librarian
Christina Campbell, Documents Assistant, June 2000
University of Michigan Library
Graphics by Sherry Piontek and Barbara Perles
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