LibGuides: PS 300: Research Design: Articles and Books

Useful Databases

CQ Weekly
Taking you deep inside the policy-making process, CQ Weekly provides non-partisan news and analysis on how legislation is shaped, who is shaping it and how it could affect your interests.
Coverage Dates: 1998 -

Many databases contain articles you can use, but the following are considered to be especially useful in political science.

Sociological Abstracts
Index to articles from journals in sociology, social work and other social sciences.
Coverage Dates: 1963 - present
Social Sciences Citation Index (ISI Web of Science)
The Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI) provides access to current and retrospective bibliographic information, author abstracts, and cited references found in over 1,700 of the world's leading scholarly social sciences journals covering more than 50 disciplines. They also cover individually selected, relevant items from approximately 3,300 of the world's leading science and technology journals. Coverage is from 1970-present.
Coverage Dates: 1970 - present
Military and Government Collection
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 400 journals and periodicals and indexing and abstracts for more than 500 titles.
Coverage Dates: - present

Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new window
The HSDL collection provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies. The resources are reviewed and selected by a team of homeland security researchers and organized in a unique homeland security taxonomy. HSDL content includes state-of-the-art multi-media offerings and other valuable assets identified by CHDS master's degree participants and instructors.
Coverage Dates: - present
Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost) This link opens in a new window
Newly Updated: Now includes 1,000 more journals than Academic Search Premier.

Academic Search Complete provides full text for nearly 4,600 scholarly publications, including full text for more than 3,500 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers information dating as far back as 1975.

Nexis Uni
Comprehensive index to newspaper and magazine articles, radio and TV news program transcripts, legal material and other reference sources. Primarily focused on news, business and legal topics.
Coverage Dates: - Varies by title

Citation Management: EndNote Web

EndNote Web is the free web-based version of EndNote, a personal citation/bibliography manager software program that helps researchers organize references in a database (called a library). Any OSU student, faculty or staff may access it. EndNote is not as fully-featured as the original version (which costs money), but all of the basic features are available: references can be collected and organized in an online library and these references can be used to easily create bibliographies and format references in word processing software.

References can be added to an EndNote library in many different ways: direct export from databases, journal websites and Google Scholar, by reference file import and by hand-entry.

You may wish to refer to the EndNote Tutorial (http://ica.library.oregonstate.edu/subject-guide/946-EndNote-Guide) for more information and guidance.

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