Political science
Annual Reviews |
Collection of Annual Review Journals featuring literature reviews in the fields of Social Science. Access level: John Jay |
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CIA World Factbook |
An annual publication of the CIA providing a two- to three-page summary of the demographics, geography, communications, government, economy, and military of 266 U.S.-recognized countries, dependencies, and other areas in the world. Includes: maps of the major world regions, as well as Flags of the World, a Physical Map of the World, a Political Map of the World, a World Oceans map, and Standard Time Zones of the World map. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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CQ Almanac |
Chronicles and analyzes major bills and legislation in the House and Senate from 1945 through 2012. Includes legislative overviews, key votes, vote studies, roll call votes and public laws. Access level: John Jay |
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CQ Press Electronic Library |
Provides access to CQ publications available online including CQ Almanac, CQ Researcher Plus Archive, CQ Magazine (formerly CQ Weekly), Political Handbook of the World, Politics in America and Supreme Court Yearbook. Also provides access to these CQ resources now available on the Sage Knowledge Platform: Congress and the Nation, Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court, Historic Document Series, Vital Statistics on American Politics and the Washington Information Directory. More about how to use CQ publications » Access level: John Jay |
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CQ Press Voting and Elections Collection |
Find data and analysis on all aspects of American elections. Provides in-depth insight into the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships. A video tutorital on how to use this collection can be found at https://youtu.be/abOfvhakHg8
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Docuseek2 Complete collection |
Over 800 documentaries and social issues films from Icarus, BullFrog and other distributors. Issues covered include history, politics, anthropology, human rights, and justice and environment broadly interpreted. Access level: John Jay |
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Economist Historical Archive |
The full text of The Economist from 1843 to 2013. Essential reading for anyone engaged in politics, current affairs, business and trade worldwide. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Films on Demand (Infobase Learning) |
A comprehensive streaming video collection of 1,000s of full length educational videos and clips covering a broad range of topics. You can search by title, by keywords in segments, browsing titles alphabetically, and browsing or searching within the subject area. Most of the titles in the collection have closed-captioning and many have interactive transcripts. Access level: John Jay |
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Foreign Policy |
Foreign Policy website including access to Foreign Policy Magazine Alternate access via CUNY login credentials |
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Foreign Policy magazine |
Access Foreign Policy magazine from 1970 to present and its website, which focuses on leading global issues in national security, technology, markets, and energy & resources. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Global Issues In Context |
Focuses on issues beyond the United States, with news articles, videos, statistics, reference materials & some academic articles. Includes foreign, English language newspaper articles written for readers in other countries. User friendly; focus is on broad topics. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Gun Regulation and Legislation in America |
Brings together over 500 relevant titles including periodicals, federal legislative histories, congressional hearings, Congressional Research Study (CRS) Reports and Supreme Court Briefs. Access level: Freely available to the public |
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Hein Online |
Several historical American and international law collections incuding law reviews and journals from their first volume of publication, the Federal Register, Presidential Documents, U.S. Congressional Serial Set, Attorney Generals Opinions, World Constitutions, legal classics, and the newest collection, Slavery in America and the World; History, Culture and Law. A comprehensive user's guide to this database is available at https://heinonline.org/HeinDocs/HOLUserGuide.pdf. Access level: John Jay |
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Loeb Classical Library (digital) |
Provided by the Harvard University Press, this online resource provides more than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts in a modern interface that allows readers to browse, search, bookmark, and annotate content. Content cannot be downloaded or printed. (Note: The library has the print edition of the Loeb Classical Library).
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Making of the Modern World |
Provides the full text of 61,000 works of literature in business, politics, and economics published from 1450 to 1850. Includes the full Goldsmiths Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Military and Government Collection |
Articles from journals and other periodicals and current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Oxford Reference Online Premium |
Over 200 reference books from Oxford University Press, including language dictionaries, and reference works in art, science, classics, business, history, law, literature, medicine, geography, performing arts, philosophy, and social science. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Project MUSE |
An interdisciplinary collection of high quality, peer reviewed journals. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Public Administration Abstracts |
Information on public administration and related areas such as organizational structures, public service personnel, economic issues, taxation, society issues, theory and research in the field. Access level: John Jay |
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Sage Journals |
Access level: John Jay |
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Sage Knowledge Collection |
Hundreds of ebooks and subject encyclopedias, including major titles in criminal justice, research methods, psychology, and social issues from Sage and CQ Press. Access level: John Jay |
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Social Sciences Premium Collection (ProQuest) |
Compilation of ProQuest collections in the social sciences with deep coverage of sociology, politics (including PAIS International), criminal justice, education (including ERIC), and linguistics. Provides abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers and more. Access level: John Jay |
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TRACFED |
Data about federal enforcement activities -- criminal, civil, and administrative -- including detailed information about federal staffing, federal enforcement agencies, and income and demographic statistics. Access level: John Jay |
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Urban Studies Abstracts |
Articles and reports as well as book abstracts about crime and other urban problems, possible solutions, studies of police departments, social welfare agencies, and more. Access level: John Jay |
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Very Short Introductions |
Short but authoritative introductions to topics written by authors who are experts in their field. These short introductions cover a range of subjects in the arts and humanities, law, medicine and health, science and mathematics and the social sciences. Access level: John Jay |
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Vital Statistics on American Politics |
Provides summary data on political behavior such as voter turnout, election results, public opinion, media trends, campaign financing and more. Some charts provide data from the 1790s, but most focus on the 1940s to 2012. Data can be downloaded. Access level: John Jay |
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Women and Social Movements in the U.S. 1600-2000 |
Brings together primary documents, books, images, scholarly essays, book reviews, audio recordings, Web site reviews, and teaching tools, all documenting the multiplicity of women’s activism in public life. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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World Scholar: Latin America and the Caribbean |
Brings together primary source documents relating to Latin America and the Caribbean; academic journals and news-feeds; reference materials; maps; statistics; audio and video. Covers politics, economics, religion, culture, international affairs, the environment, science and technology. Alternate access via CUNY login credentialsAccess level: CUNY |
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts |
Journal articles and book abstracts in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. Coverage from 1975 to the present. Access level: John Jay |
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