Politics JP: Politics & the Media 

Here are several general purpose, multi-disciplinary databases for finding articles related to topics in politics:

• JSTOR
• Project Muse
• ProQuest Research Library
• Ebsco Academic Search Premier
• Wilson OmniFile

All of these provide references to scholarly articles from reliable sources.

Some of the article databases provide the full text of articles while most do not.

Look out for the orange "Find it @ PUL" button among the search results you get in any of the article databases.

Click on it to see if Princeton provides full text access to the article via one of our electronic journal packages.

As a student of politics, you should familiarize yourself with the following databases, all of which appear as CORE resources for Politics if you navigate as follows: Library home page ==> Articles & Databases ==> Select Subject [or See all Subjects] ==> Politics.

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (1975-present)

• Covers international literature in political science, including journal articles, books and book chapters, dissertations, and reviews.

International Political Science Abstracts (1989-present)

• Provides abstracts in English or French to articles selected from international political science journals.

International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (1951-present)

• Provides bibliographic information from an international selection of journals in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology.

PAIS International (1915-present)

• Provides citations to articles, books, reports, and select government documents on U.S. and international public policy issues.
• Generally considered a comprehensive index to policy literature.

Social Sciences Citation Index (1956-present)

• Multidisciplinary index to journals in the social and behavioral sciences.
• Find references to articles that were cited in a given article, as well as other articles that cite that article.

ABI Inform (1971-present)

• Provides indexing and some full text of articles dealing with business, economics, management techniques, advertising, marketing, human resources, finance and taxation.

Alternative Press Index (1991-present)

• Indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change in the humanities and social sciences from alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines.

America: History & Life (1954-present)

• Indexes books and journal articles on the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.
• This resource can be useful for finding articles that discuss U.S. relations with, and influences on other countries

Business Full Text (1982-present)

• Indexes leading business magazines and trade journals.

Communications Abstracts (1977-present)

• This database provides abstracting and indexing of communications-related articles, reports, papers and books.
• Covers literature in other film studies, technology in human communications, risk communication, crisis communication and public opinion.

Communication & Mass Media Complete (1915-present)

• Covers journals in mass communications, mass media and related fields
• Much of the content is available in full text.

EconLit (1969-present)

• Provides citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings and book reviews on regional and international economics, urban economics, economic development, fiscal and monetary theory, public finance and business.

GenderWatch (1970-present)

• Covers a wide range of sources, including both scholarly and popular articles, about women, gender, and GLBT issues.

Historical Abstracts (1450-present)

• Leading bibliography provides coverage of world history (excluding North America).

Left Index (1982-present)

• Guide to the diverse literature of the left, with an emphasis on political, economic, social and cultural scholarship from significant but little-known sources of news and ideas.

Policyfile (1990-present)

• Provides indexing and abstracts of research publications addressing the complete range of public policy research.

PsychInfo (1990-present)

• Provides abstracts and citations to the scholarly literature in the behavioral sciences and mental health.
• Useful for finding articles concerning the intersection between psychology and politics.

Readers Guide to Periodical Literature (1890-present)

• Provides indexing and abstracting of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States.

Sociological Abstracts (1963-present)

• Index of the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied.