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Political Science
Use this guide to identify print and online resources for research in United States politics and government.
In addition to print items like books and journals at the library, Northern Vermont University Libraries subscribes to many online databases, which contain mainly scholarly articles, but also other reliable information from a variety of different sources. Use the resources below to find articles on your topic.
Please Note: Off-campus access to article databases is available only for registered students, faculty and staff with a NVU username and password. Visitors to the library may use our public computers for access to the Internet and to our databases.
Looking for a Specific Article or Journal?
If you have a citation and need to locate the article, use the link below to search by journal title and see if we have access.
A multi-disciplinary resource indexing 13,000 leading magazines, journals and reference sources. Coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects.
Contains indexing and abstracts for more than 8,500 journals, with full text for more than 4,600 of those. Coverage in biology, chemistry, engineering, physics, psychology, religion & theology, etc.
full text digital archive of scholarly journals with complete back runs of many titles. As part of JSTOR's agreement with publishers, current issues (usually the last 3 - 5 years) are not digitized and may be obtained elsewhere.
Resource collection on social issues topics: viewpoint articles, topic overviews, full text magazines, academic journals, news articles, primary source documents, statistics, images, video and audio files.
Recommended as a starting-point for your research, especially for interdisciplinary topics. Contains articles from more than 17,000 publications, including many high-quality scholarly journals.
U.S. History In Context provides a complete overview of our nation’s past that covers the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political and cultural movements, and people.