This research guide provides links to library resources for the field of Political Science. Click on the tabs on the left to search the resources.
Political Science
Introduction
Contact
For help with your research, please contact Fadi Dagher at fdagher@stu.edu or (305) 628-6631.
Find EBooks
EBSCO e-Book Collection
Gale Ebooks
Provides titles from many publishers, spanning a variety of subjects, including Psychology.
ProQuest EBook Central
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Find Journal Articles
Academic Search Ultimate
Provides access to over 10,099 active full-text journals. It covers a wide range of subject areas, offering thousands of international journals to provide a global context to research.
Gale Academic OneFile
Provides access to complete, up-to-date content from the world's leading journals and reference sources.
Gale OneFile Military and Intelligence
Gale OneFile U.S History
Provides access to the nation's past, covering the most-studied events, decades, conflicts, wars, political, and cultural.
ProQuest Central Premium
Provides access to The Lancet, Nature, MIT Sloan Management Review, and 14,000 other scholarly journals. Provides access also to working papers, conference proceedings, and more.
Find News
Access World News Research Collection
Provides access to current and archived news content dating back to the 1980s, from over 14,500 sources spanning more than 200 countries and territories.
New York Times (1980 - Current)
Provides access to news and opinion by journalists from around the world.
New York Times Archive
Archival access to news and opinion, from 1851 to 2021.
Popular Magazines
Provides access to hundreds of magazines from around the world.
Find Statistics
Data.gov
Provides access to U.S. government open data and resources.
OECD Library
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development provides statistics on trade, environment, agriculture, technology, and economic development.
UNData
Provides access to statistics from UN agencies that collect them.
U.S. Census
Provides access to dozens of topics across more than 130 surveys and programs.
World Bank
The Databank is an analysis and visualization tool that contains collections of time-series data on various subjects.
Federal Government
Primary Documents
Gale OneFile: LegalTrac
Search the index of prestigious and comprehensive legal content. Endorsed by The American Association of Law Libraries.
The Making of Modern Law
Provides collections of global legal primary source materials from three centuries of history.
The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800–1926![]()
Search this comprehensive collection of legal treatises on U.S. and British law published from 1800 through 1926.
Get Citation Help
American Psychological Association (APA)
The Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (7th ed.) is the preferred writing style and citation manual for research in Psychology and the Social Sciences. A copy of the manual is available at the library.
Resources on APA Style and Documentation, 7th Edition
APA Style Quick Reference Guide (Created by APA)
APA Style and Grammar Guidelines (Created by APA)
APA Style Sample Papers (Created by APA)
APA Style Citing Artificial Intelligence (Created by APA)
APA Style Tutorials and Webinars (Created by APA)
The Purdue University OWL APA Style Introduction
Citation Management Programs
Use one of these two programs: the STU-provided RefWorks or the open-access Zotero to help you collect and organize citations, collaborate with other researchers, and cite and build reference lists.
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