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Articles in Scholarly Journals and Professional Publications

Core Bibliographic Databases

1951 - present.  Indexes an extensive number of articles, government reports, pamphlets, and books in various languages, though publications in English predominate. Most journals are indexed selectively.

1989 - present.  Provides citations and abstracts for journal and yearbook articles in the fields of international relations, political science, and public administration.

Designed to offer current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, this database offers a thorough collection of periodicals, academic journals, and other content pertinent to the increasing needs of those sites. The Military & Government Collection provides cover-to-cover full text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.

1972 - present.  Covers topics related to public affairs, policy, and politics.  Indexes articles, books, conference  proceedings, government documents, book chapters and statistical directories.

1975 - present.  Provides abstracts of articles from public affairs magazines, major newspapers, professional journals, and related books.

See als 
C.R.I.S.: the Combinded Retrospective Index Set to Journals in Political Science, 1886-1974.  8 vols. 
MSEL GEN REF JA1 .A1 C17 1977 QUARTO


Additional Bibliographic Databases

A multi-disciplinary database that provides the full-text for over 4,000 scholarly and general interest publications, as well as indexing and abstracting for all of the over 8,000 titles in the collection.

Covers the world's scholarly literature on the history of the United States and Canada.  Includes abstracts of articles and citations to book reviews.  Also provides abstracts for dissertations.  Coverage extends back to 1954.

Covers the scholarly literature on the history of the modern world, except the United States and Canada, from 1450 to the present.  Includes abstracts of articles and citations to books reviews.  Also includes abstracts for dissertations.  Coverage extends back to 1964.

An archival collection of core scholarly journals in a wide variety of disciplines.  Journals are digitized from their first issues to a moving wall of three to five years from the present (i.e. no current issues).  At present, over 30 political science journals are archived in JSTOR.

Searches the table of contents of over 4000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from their date of inception through 1996.  The earliest issue included is from 1790.

Provides online access to the full-text of over 200 scholarly journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press and over 20 other non-profit presses in the social sciences and humanities.   Most titles do not include coverage before 1993.

Combines Science Citation Index (1945-present), Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (1975-present), and more.  Allows for a cited reference search by author or journal title.  Also includes a current contents alert service and a journal citation report service. 

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