Simpson Library: Political Science and International Affairs: Find Articles

Political Science & International Affairs Databases

Political Science Complete (EBSCO)
Provides full text for more than 520 journals, and indexing and abstracts for over 2,900 titles, (including top-ranked scholarly journals).
Nexis Uni
National and international newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, company profiles, court cases
ICPSR
Online repository of data sets (raw data collected by social scientists during primary research) from the Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.
JSTOR
Includes scholarly journals from a wide range of disciplines
Annual Reviews of Political Science
Covers significant developments in the field of Political Science including political theory and philosophy, international relations, political economy, political behavior, American and comparative politics, public administration and policy, and methodology.

Other Useful Databases

One Business (ProQuest)
Contains scholarly and popular periodicals, newspapers, company & industry research, case studies, news, dissertations, books, videos and more
American History in Video
5,752 videos, including commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and documentaries
Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest)
Full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing access to essential, often overlooked perspectives.
GenderWatch (ProQuest)
Journals, magazines, newspapers, newsletters, regional publications, books, NGO reports, government documents. 1970-present.
America: History and Life with Full Text (EBSCO)
Historical Abstracts with Full Text (EBSCO)
World history, excluding the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present
Communication and Mass Media Complete (EBSCO)
Speech, communication, media and journalism, articles as early as 1915 to the present
Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective (EBSCO)
Content from 1907-1984
Offers a broad range of subject coverage in the humanities and social sciences with high-quality indexing of more than 1,300,000 articles in nearly 1,100 periodicals, dating as far back as 1907, as well as citations of over 240,000 book reviews
MasterFILE Premier (EBSCO)
All subject areas, including country reports, biographies, historical primary documents, and an image gallery, from 1985 to the present
Military and Government Collection (EBSCO)
All branches of the military and government, 1995-present
Peace Research Abstracts (EBSCO)
Includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs, peace psychology, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
Issues & Controversies
An interdisciplinary database that offers extensive and objective analysis of hundreds of today’s hot topics and conflicts by presenting the key facts, arguments, history, and current context of today’s most important issues.
National Security Archive
Collections of declassified primary documents in foreign affairs and domestic politics obtained through Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) by journalists and scholars

Google Scholar

Want to search for articles on Google Scholar?

You are probably going to have to connect to the UMW Library databases.

Watch this video or read the PDF below to find out how:

Connecting your Google Scholar to UMW Library Databases

Finding Journals

Find an article and wonder if Simpson Library has access to the journal?

Example:

Ready, D. D. (2010). Socioeconomic disadvantage, school attendance, and early cognitive development: The differential effects of school exposure. Sociology of Education, 83(4), 271-286.

Sociology of Education is the title of the journal in which this article was published. This article is published in Volume 83, Issue 4, from 2010.

You need to use the library's Journal Search and type in the title of the journal (Sociology of Education), not the title of the article.

Once you find the journal, you will need to see if which database includes the volume / year of the article you want to find.

Newspapers Databases

Current News

Factiva
Current national and international news articles
Nexis Uni
National and international newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, company profiles, court cases
Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO)
1999-present. National and international newspapers; television and radio news transcripts