Political Science: Databases and Indexes

CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online is ... a ... comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It ... includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. It is divided into the following categories: working papers, conference proceedings, journal abstracts, books, a schedule of events, policy briefs and economic indicators, links and resources, and maps and country data.

Track Congressional legislation, find Congressional hearings, committee reports and prints, legislative histories of public laws, Congressional Record, and information on members of Congress. Access the historical Congressional Serial Set.

Full-length articles related to Congressional legislation include an overview, historical background, chronology, pro/con feature, plus resources for additional research. Graphics, photos and short "sidebar" features round out the reports.

Contains declassified government documents covering U.S. policy toward critical world events – including their military, intelligence, diplomatic and human rights dimensions – from 1945 to the present.

Full-text collection of newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority, and press covering 1985-present. The search interface is offered in both English and Spanish.

Indexes the "FBIS Daily Report" issued by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service of the U.S. government. These are translated transcripts of foreign radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from around the world. The full text and indexing is available from 1949-1996.

Indexes documents published by the U.S. Federal Government agencies, including books, reports, studies, serials, and maps. Covers a wide range of topics.

International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA), produced by the International Political Science Association, includes current indexing and abstracts of the world's leading journals in political science. This database contains over 282,000 records from over 1,000 journals published from 1951 to the present.

A broad-based database and full text online search service that provides indexing and full text access to sources in news, business, legal research, and Reference.

Provides selective coverage of a wide variety of international sources including journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more. PAIS International covers 1972 to present and PAIS Archive covers 1915-1976.

Advanced social media monitoring combined with a comprehensive database of legislative information. Covers issues and activity by Members of Congress in their bills, tweets, Facebook posts, YouTube videos, press releases, floor statements, emails to constituents, and more.

iPOLL offers over 800,000 questions and over 23,000 U.S. and international datasets. In includes data from 1923 to the present.

It features statistical data series created from more than 200,000 government and non-government data sets, covering popular topics of research interest for U.S. states, counties, cities, metropolitan areas, and ZIP codes. Datasets for 2017-21.

Foreign News Alert Service from the U.S. Government. Compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, focusing especially on local media sources. Covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events. (1995-2013)