Research Guides: Political Science: Finding Databases

Commonly used databases for Political Science

Political Science Complete This link opens in a new window
Provides full text access to over 500 publications, and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 800 journals; also includes full-text reference books and monographs and full text conference papers.
Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, plus indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals.
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America's News This link opens in a new window
A wide variety of local, regional and national news sources.
Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
This journal collection focuses on the sciences and social sciences. Annual Reviews articles are review articles summarizing the research on topics within fields like economics, anthropology, sociology, and most areas of the sciences.
Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window
Provides full text for over 1,100 peer-reviewed journals with content dating back to 1886 and searchable cited references back to 1998. Covers all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics
Galesburg Register-Mail This link opens in a new window
Galesburg Register-Mail newspaper online from 1997-present.
New York Times This link opens in a new window
New York Times current content.
Knox faculty, students and staff have access to most conent on the New York Times at no charge. To create your account on the NYTimes.com:
1. Go to the account access page (before the page appears you may be prompted to login to Knox--do that using your Knox email credentials). Note: If you are using Chrome, you may see a page saying "Did you mean nytimes.com?" Click on the "Ignore" button to head to the sign in page.
2. If you do not have an account on the NY Times site, click on the button to create one. Otherwise, click on the link to login to your account.
3. Enter your Knox email address, then click continue and enter your Knox Password
4. Select your graduation year, and start your access.
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Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Full text news sources including newspapers, news magazines, news wires, and online news sites. Also includes legal information: court cases and full text of law review journals. SEC filings are also a part of Nexis Uni.
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Statista This link opens in a new window
Statista.com consolidates market and consumer statistical data on over 80,000 topics from more than 22,500 sources. Results are presented in graphical display with Excel and pdf download options.
Statistical Abstract of the U.S. This link opens in a new window
Provides access to the Statistical Abstracts from 2013 through 2024. Data can be downloaded in pdf and Excel formats.