POS 3703 Resources
Scope and Methods of Political Science

How to Access UCF Library Databases and Resources from off campus

General Internet Information

UCF Library Home Page provides links to the UCF library catalog and gateway to other resources, such as:
http://library.ucf.edu/

Public Affairs & Law, Social Sciences, Government and News & Current Events

- ABI/INFORM (ProQuest database) provides indexing and substantive abstracts to articles from more than 1,000 leading business and management publications, including over 350 English-language titles from outside the U.S. Provides access to the full text, page image of articles from over 600 journals. Dates of coverage: 1971+
- Academic Index (WebLUIS database) indexes articles in approximately 1000 scholarly journals and popular magazines in the arts, humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Abstracts are included for some articles. Provides access to ASCII full text of some articles. Dates of coverage: 1982+
Another version of this database, Expanded Academic ASAP (1980+ ) available through InfoTrac, allows you to limit your search to refereed journals and this version is updated daily and may have entries and full text that is somewhat more current; some articles have charts and illustrations not included in the WebLUIS version.
- Britannica Online (Encyclopedia Britannica) - The online version of the encyclopedia includes maps, articles, and statistics on individual countries, and weekly background articles for news and current events.
- DataTimes (FirstSearch database) provides abstracts for approximately 126 newspapers, 92 of which are regional U.S. newspapers.  The other 34 titles are from financial and regional newspapers published outside the U.S.  Dates of coverage:  1996+
- EBSCOhost Academic Search Elite provides abstracts and indexing for over 3,200 scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education and more. Also offers full text for over 1,000 journals with many dating back to 1990. Includes coverage of over 1,700 peer-reviewed journals.
- Ethnic Newswatch (Softline) is a full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press.
- FactSearch (FirstSearch database) is a guide to statistical statements on current social, economic, political, environmental and health issues, derived from some newspapers, periodicals, newsletter and documents such as the Christian Science Monitor, the Congressional Record, Congressional hearings, Daily Press Briefings of the White House, State Department and Department of Defense, and Australian, British and Canadian Parliamentary Debates. Web links to free full text are included frequently.
- GPO Monthly Catalog (FirstSearch database) consists of records published by the U.S. Government Printing Office since July 1976.  Includes references to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more.
- JSTOR provides full text, page image from over 100 scholarly journals, including 10 political science journals, such as  American Journal of International Law (1907-1996), Political Science Quarterly (1886-1995), Public Opinion Quarterly (1937-1994) and World Politics (1948-1995).
- netLibrary provides approximately 20,000 full text ebooks for previewing or 2-hour checkout.
- Project MUSE provides full text from over 100 scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics, including Human Rights Quarterly (1995+), Journal of Democracy (1995+), SAIS Review (1995+), and World Politics (1995+).
- Science Direct provides the electronic full-text version of approximately 1,100 of Elsevier's research journals, including approximately 80 social sciences titles, such as Cities, Electoral Studies, Food Policy, Land Use Policy, Resources Policy, and Transport Policy.  
- Social Sciences Abstracts (FirstSearch database) covers some 350 core periodicals in the fields of anthropology, economics, geography, law and criminology, political science, social work, sociology, and international relations. Dates of coverage: 1983+
- Sociological Abstracts (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts database) covers an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Dates of coverage: 1963+
- STAT-USA (U.S. Dept of Commerce) - State of the Nation provides current and historical economic and financial releases and economic data. GLOBUS & NTDB provide current and historical trade-related releases, international market research, trade opportunities, country analysis, and the National Trade Data Bank (NTDB).
- Universe databases (CIS/Lexis-Nexis) - Congressional Universe gives researchers access to vast and varied information published by and about Congress, including full text of almost all Committee Reports from 1990 forward and Congressional testimony from 1988 forward, and   indexing & abstracting from the CIS/Index to Publications of the U.S. Congress from 1970 forward. Statistical Universe provides the full text of Statistical Abstract of the U. S., plus indexing and abstracts (with some full text available) from American Statistics Index (ASI), Statistical Reference Index (SRI), and Index to International Statistics (IIS).  Academic Universe provides more than 9.5 million documents from over 18,300 sources, including access to company profiles and financial reports, government transcripts, trade journals and academic and legal databases. Their files are updated with full-text documents from general interest wire services, newspapers, and magazines from around the world.
- WilsonSelect (FirstSearch database) contains indexed and abstracted articles from periodicals, all with ASCII full text online. The database includes records from the following H.W. Wilson databases: Readers' Guide Abstracts, Social Sciences Abstracts, Humanities Abstracts, General Science Abstracts and Wilson Business Abstracts. Dates of coverage: 1994+

Political Science Resources on the Web
http://library.ucf.edu/Internet/Poli_Sci/