The best way to find scholarly, peer-reviewed articles on your topic is to search databases, which index content from hundreds, sometimes thousands of journals, on a topic. Here are some recommended databases for finding articles in Political Studies.
Full text for more than 5,300 periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study and offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals.
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Provides full text for over 7,400 periodicals and other sources, including peer-reviewed business publications, country economic reports, industry reports and yearbooks, monographs and market research reports.
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Canadian Newsstream provides users with access to current Canadian news content with archives as far back as the 1970s, from almost 400 news sources. Newspapers including The Globe and Mail and Montreal Gazette along with newswires and broadcast transcripts in full-text format. Sherbrooke’s local newspaper, The Record, is also available through this database. Canadian Newsstream content is updated daily so researchers always have timely access to new information.
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This collection provides in-depth access to a wide diversity of Canadian periodicals, ranging from academic titles to special interest publications to general magazines. The academic titles include the most prominent journals from the humanities, social sciences, sciences, and professions. Other magazines focus on opinion, public policy, children/youth, lifestyles, arts and culture, health, regional concerns, etc.
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Unique manuscript material relating to the activities and observations of British and American diplomats, missionaries, business people and tourists in China from 1793 to 1980, together with rare periodicals, colour paintings, maps, photographs and drawings.
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Provides access (some full-text, some indexing only) to a large number of Canadian periodical titles. Access to some Canadian reference materials also. This database replaces and extends the print edition of the Canadian Periodical Index, which is no longer being published.
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Created and hosted by CQ Press, the CQ Press Electronic Library (CQEL) is the definitive reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs.
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The Economist Intelligence Unit is the world’s foremost provider of country, industry and management analysis. The database covers over 200 markets, including country analysis and forecasts, risk assessment, economic and market data, daily news analysis, industry trends and management strategies.
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The Emerald database provides full-text access to the MCB University Press online journal collection. Among the subjects covered are management, information studies, human resources, marketing, etc.
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The JSTOR archives include scholarship published in over one thousand of the highest-quality academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as monographs and other materials valuable for academic work. JStor Arts & Sciences I through VI, including Business II, Arts & Sciences Complement and Life Sciences (Biological Sciences/Health and General Sciences combined) are included.
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Extensive online library of 20 thematic book collections, 24 periodicals and 24 statistical databases from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.
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A major online periodical archive, providing access to the backfiles (1802-1995) of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences.
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Religion and Philosophy Collection provides access to scholarly journals and magazines which offer balanced content for topics across a wide range of philosophies and religions.
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Provides access to many thousands of original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, maps and images. Most are reproduced as high quality greyscale images, but there are also a significant number of colour images. All printed items are full text searchable and manuscripts have document level indexing.
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Statista integrates statistical data from over 80,000 topics in areas such as business, education, finance, media, politics, society, and technology. Statista gathers data from over 22,000 sources, including market reports, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases. The reports, charts, infographics, and statistics found in the database can be downloaded in Excel, PDF, PNG, or PowerPoint formats or embedded in web pages.
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Canadian Socio-Economic Information Management System is produced by Statistics Canada. It is a database containing more than 650,000 time series covering various aspects of the Canadian economy and society.
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A searchable database, providing access to the full text of all Taylor & Francis’ social sciences and humanities journals in the following subject areas: arts and humanities, business and management, economics, education and social sciences. Select “Only show content I have full access to” under Refine your search to search within subscribed titles.
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This World Bank database provides direct access to more than 800 development indicators with time series for 209 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to 2008, where data are available.
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Science database, indexing more than 5700 journals in 164 disciplines. Includes searchable author abstracts, and covers data from 1989 onward.
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