Law, Government, and Politics Databases
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- Political Science Complete Full Text EBSCO
- Provides full text for more than 385 publications, and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 800 journals.
- Criminal Justice Periodicals Full Text ProQuest
- Indexes over 220 titles including full text for more than 65, some back to 1981. Covers U.S. and international criminal justice including law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law and industrial security.
- CQ Researcher Full Text CQ Press
- Full text reports on current affairs and issues. Each report includes an overview, chronology, tables and maps, opposing viewpoints, assessment of current situation, and bibliographies of key sources.
- Academic Search Complete Full Text EBSCO
- Multi-disciplinary full text database that contains more than 7,000 full-text periodicals, including nearly 6,000 peer-reviewed journals.
- CountryWatch Full Text CountryWatch
- Up-to-date news and information on each of the recognized countries of the world.
- Military and Government Collection Full Text EBSCO
- Indexes over 500 periodicals and other content on all branches of the military and government including full text of more than 300 titles.
- Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center Full Text Thomson Gale
- Articles, reports, statistics, and primary documents on social issues.
- Oxford Bibliographies Online Index only Oxford University Press
- Literary guides to important and significant sources in a variety of subjects.
- Oxford Guide to the United States Government Full Text Oxford University Press
- Key figures, events, and structures of the U.S. government
- Oxford Reference Online: Law Full Text Oxford University Press
- Homepage to Oxford dictionaries covering several aspects of U.S. Law, including a companion to the Supreme Court and its decisions.
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- A-Z of Countries of the World Full Text Oxford University Press
- Up-to-date overview of each country in the world
- Expanded Academic ASAP Full Text Thomson Gale
- Indexes over 3,880 publications on a wide range of topics including full text for over 3,500, some from 1980.
- General OneFile Full Text Thomson Gale
- Indexes over 9,200 titles including full text for over 5,156. Some titles back to 1980. Multidisciplinary and updated daily.
- History Reference Center Full Text EBSCO
- Offers full text from more than 2,500 reference books, encyclopedias and non-fiction books, cover to cover full text for nearly 170 leading history periodicals, more than 112,000 historical documents, 113,000 biographies of historical figures, more than 112,000 historical photos and maps, and more than 80 hours of historical video.
- JSTOR Full Text JSTOR
- For older articles. Contains back runs of core scholarly journals, some as far back as 1890. Does not include more recent issues.
- MasterFILE Premier Full Text EBSCO
- Indexes over 2,660 titles including full text for over 1,830. Multidisciplinary.
- Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World Full Text Oxford University Press
- People, concepts, and events that have shaped the world since 1993.