Political Science

A multi-disciplinary database containing a vast and varied selection of full-text, indexed, and abstracted items. Our largest full-text collection.  Updated daily.

Access World News is a full-text news resource consisting of over 3,300+ local, regional, national and international sources (of which 1,400+ international sources). Access to many local sources, including The Lexington Herald Leader in all formats. Updated daily, it offers researchers and students valuable primary source information on today’s issues and events from newspapers, newswires, transcripts, video clips, web only, and blogs

From the alternative and independent press. Includes weekly newspapers, journals, and magazines. Alt-Press Watch will cover a wide array of fields, including the environment, government, labor, education, civil rights and liberties, gender issues, feminism, the Supreme Court, public policy, politics, religion, foreign policy, the arts, and entertainment.

JSTOR (Journal Storage) offers complete full-text back-files of core scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, life sciences, business, and statistics. Each title is fully digitized; most coverage begins with volume 1, number 1. The most recent four or five years of each journal are not usually available in this database.

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. It provides full-text for nearly 300 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 titles.

This database includes full-text coverage of the US newspaper of record. This database features national and international news, plus coverage of important speeches and documents, Supreme Court decisions, and presidential press conference transcripts. It covers 1980 - Present. It also includes the New York Times Book Review and New York Times Magazine (both 1997- Present).

Project MUSE is an all full text database with an emphasis on the humanities and social sciences. It presently has about 140 journal titles in the Basic College Collection. Project MUSE also links to our JSTOR holdings for some titles

The Reference Shelf is an annual series of six distinct volumes providing extensive exploration of a topic of importance in modern society, in a compilation of notable articles from respected publications.