Research Guides: Political Science: Getting Started

Welcome

Welcome to the Calvin T. Ryan Library and the Library Research Guides. This guide is meant to help you pare down all the resources available to those most relevant for Political Science. For further help, please contact your subject guide, listed on the side.

LOPERSearch: One box to search many databases

Key Article Databases

Political Science Complete
Provides full text for over 400 publications, and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for over 800 journals in political science. Also features over 27,000 full text conference papers, including those of the American Political Science Association.
Politics Collection
Includes access to renowned databases such as PAIS and WPSA, covering the international literature in political science, public administration and policy.
HeinOnline
U.S. government documents, treaties, case law, and more.

Biographies

Dictionary of Political Biography

Oxford Handbooks on Political Science

Oxford Handbooks Online
Expert research reviews in political science

Political Science Encyclopedias

International Encyclopedia of Political Science
The International Encyclopedia of Political Science caters to the need for an exhaustive overview of the empirical findings and the reflections on politics.
Encyclopedia of Political Theory
The Princenton encyclopedia of American political history

Research Methods

Books on Political Science Research Methods

Political Science

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