Political Science: Getting Started
Subject Guide: Political Science
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This Research Guide is designed to aid students in using Iona College Library resources to complete projects and assignments for Political Science and includes important reference works, articles in databases, and journals.
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Academic Search EliteArticles from journals, magazines and other resources covering multidisciplinary topics.
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ProQuest CentralProQuest Central contains provides access to journal databases across all major subject areas, including business, social sciences, arts and humanities, education, science and technology, and religion.
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JSTORScholarly journals and ebooks in the humanities, social sciences, and business. Journal coverage generally ends 3-5 years before the current year. Complimentary access to unlicensed collections has been made available by JSTOR through 6/30/2022 in an effort to support increased online learning during the COVID-19 outbreak.
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HeinOnline AcademicAccess to state and federal case law and articles from scholarly journals. Text of the world's constitutions, U.S and classic treatises and presidential documents.
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SAGE Journals OnlineSAGE Journals Online contains 600+ journals covering business, humanities, social sciences, science, technology and medicine. The full text of every issue is available from Volume 1, Issue 1 to the present.
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Congressional Research ServiceReports are prepared for members of Congress by the Library of Congress to provide background information on major policy issues. Many reports are updated on a regular basis, this site includes most versions of the reports.
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Gale eBooksEbook versions of encyclopedias and reference works covering most subjects, as well as a collection of classic literature and criticisms.
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Civil Rights and Social JusticeThis database brings together publications covering civil rights in the United States as their legal protections and definitions are expanded to cover more Americans. Containing hearings and committee prints, legislative histories on the landmark legislation, CRS and GAO reports, briefs from major Supreme Court cases, and publications from the Commission on Civil Rights, this database allows users to educate themselves on the ways our civil rights have been strengthened and expanded over time.
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eBook Collection on EBSCOhostReference books, scholarly monographs, novels, manuals, etc. available in ebook format.
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Knowledge Unlatched eBooksKnowledge Unlatched (KU) contains over 300 titles covering topics in the Humanities (History, Philosophy, Religious Studies), Social Sciences (Politics, Psychology) and Business from scholarly publishers to include Duke University Press, University of Michigan Press, and University Press of Colorado.
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Directory of Open Access eBooksPortal to discover peer reviewed books published under an Open Access license. Provided by the Open Access Publishing in European Networks (OAPEN) Foundation.
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Springer OpenThis portal searches a collection of fully open-access peer-reviewed journals, as well as some open-access ebooks which are available through Springer.
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Gale eBooksEbook versions of encyclopedias and reference works covering most subjects, as well as a collection of classic literature and criticisms.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book (HEB)Ebooks in the humanities representing disciplines such as politics, history, philosophy, religion, literature, etc
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Very Short Introductions: PoliticsVery Short Introductions are ebooks that offer concise introductions to a diverse range of subject areas.
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Gale Primary SourcesThis tool creates a federated (shared) search across all primary resources from one vendor to include: 18th Century Collections Online, 19th Century UK Periodicals, The Making of the Modern World, and Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive.
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Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational ArchiveThis collection is devoted to the scholarly study and understanding of slavery from a multinational perspective. Iona has access to collections 1(Debates ), 2 (Slave Trade), 3 (Institution) and 4 (Emancipation).
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American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection: Series 1Journals and magazine published from 1691 through 1820 representing print culture from early colonial imports to titles published on American soil during the Revolution and early republic
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Making of the Modern WorldMaking of the Modern World provides digital facsimile images of unique primary sources that track the development of the modern, western world through the lens of trade and wealth. Full-text searching across millions of pages of works from the period 1450-1930.
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Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & LawThis HeinOnline collection brings together, for the first time, all essential legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. Cases go into the 20th century, because long after slavery was ended, there were still court cases based on issues emanating from slavery.
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America's Historical ImprintsSearchable monographs, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents and ephemera. Collections: Early American Imprints (EAI), Series I: Evans, 1639-1800; EAI, Series II: Supplement from the Library Comp. of Phil., 1801-1819; EAI, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819; American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I; EAI, Series I: Suppl. from the Library Company of Phil., 1670-1800.
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Eighteenth Century Collections OnlineEbooks, pamphlets, essays, broadsides published in the UK during the 18th century.
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Chatham House Online Archive - 1920-1979Publications and archives of Chatham House, the world-leading independent international affairs policy institute. Contains analysis and research, as well as debates and speeches it has hosted.
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Prestatehood Legal MaterialsPrestatehood Legal Materials provides brief overviews of state histories from colonization to statehood and identifies a wide range of both materials from each state. Examine the legal issues with Native Americans, inter-state and the Mexican and Canadian borders, and the development of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of state government.
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StatistaFind statistics, consumer survey results, and industry studies. Categorized into 21 market sectors, the platform provides direct access to quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and a wide variety of other areas of interest or markets.
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CountryWatchReports on political, business, demographic, cultural, and environmental information and statistics on countries around the world. Also includes daily news coverage by country, comparable country data sets and regional maps.
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Opposing Viewpoints (Gale In Context)Covering many current social issues, features updated viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, images and other resources.
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OECD iLibraryOECD (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) iLibrary is OECD’s Online Library for books, papers and statistics and the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data. Indexes 480 complete databases with 4.5 billion+ data points produced since 1998. Iona has access to Main Economic Indicators (through Volume 2014 Issue 3) and OECD Economic Surveys (through Volume 2007).
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PolicyMapUsers can access thousands of U.S. data indicators to perform demographic and socioeconomic analysis, from a neighborhood census block group up to a national level, or create custom regions, for research and studies.
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U.S. Data and StatisticsData published by the government about the U.S., such as maps and population, demographic, and economic data.
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eurostatKey to European Statistics
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undataData published by the United Nations
Highlight on Ebooks
Where Are the Library Books related to Political Science?
- 320 Political Science
- 321 Systems of governments and states
- 322 Relations of state to organized groups
- 323 Civil and Political Rights
- 324 The Political Process
- 325 International migration and colonization
- 326 Slavery and emancipation
- 327 International Relations
- 328 The legislative Process
The 320's (books on political science) are found in Ryan Library, 3rd Floor, South Wing.
The 900's (books on history, including political science) are found in Ryan Library, 2nd Floor, West Wing.