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- Worldwide Political Science AbstractsCitations, abstracts, and indexing of the international journal literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. 1975 to present
- JSTOR Scholarly Journal ArchiveA collection of scholarly journals in many fields. Includes deep historical coverage but current years are excluded.
- ScopusArticles, books, reports, and patents in science, engineering, social science, and arts and humanities, particularly published after 1995. Includes citation features and tools to analyze authors and journals.
- Social Sciences Citation Index [Web of Science]Indexes high-impact science, social science, engineering, art and humanities research journals, plus cited reference searches. 1956 to present
- SSRN: Social Science Research NetworkWorking papers (abstracts and/or fulltext) for research in economics, management, and other social sciences. Includes working papers of MIT's Dept. of Political Science, Dept. of Economics, and Sloan School of Management. 1993 to present
- Air University Library Index to Military PeriodicalsIndex of articles and news items from military and aeronautical journals.
- America: History and LifeKey resource covering US and Canadian history, prehistory to present. Indexes and abstracts articles, book reviews, essay collections, dissertations, and media. For a mobile version of the search interface, go to http://libraries.mit.edu/get/m-ebsco and choose this database from the list.
- Historical AbstractsResource covering world history (excluding US and Canada), 1450 to present. Indexes and abstracts articles, books, essay collections, dissertations, and media. For a mobile version of the search interface, go to http://libraries.mit.edu/get/m-ebsco and choose this database from the list.
- Bibliography of Asian StudiesIndexes books, journal articles, and book chapters about Asian studies in the humanities and the social sciences in English and other languages. 1971 to present
- China Academic Journals -- Series G: Politics / Military affairs / LawIndexing and fulltext content of articles in scholarly Chinese-language journals in political science, military affairs, and law. 1994 to present
News
- LexisNexis AcademicLexisNexis Academic provides access to the full-text of many news, business, and legal resources, including the New York Times.
- FactivaNews articles and business information from over 8000 sources.
- World News ConnectionWorld News Connection is the successor database to the printed Daily Reports, published by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service. WNC contains full text and summaries of foreign newspaper and periodical articles and radio and television broadcasts in English translation. It's an essential source for following political, socioeconomic, technical, and environmental issues and events in non-U.S. media. 1995 to present
- Washington Post Historical ArchiveHistorical file of the Washington Post. Includes deep historical coverage but current years are excluded. 1877-1994
- Ethnic NewsWatchA full-text collection of newspapers, journals and magazines published by ethnic and minority presses. 1990 to present
Political Philosophy
- Oxford Companion to Philosophy (2nd ed., 2005)Over 2000 articles about all areas of philosophy and the ideas of philosophers from antiquity to the present.
- Oxford Scholarship Online -- Philosophy CollectionAccess to full text of Oxford University Press publications in philosophy.
- Past MastersFull-text collections of philosophical and historical scientific books.
- Encyclopedia of Philosophy (2nd ed., 10v, 2006)
- Political Philosophy A-Z / Pike, Jonathan E. (2007)
Data and Statistics
- EurostatStatistical Office of the European Union. Data and publications contain harmonized data from EU member countries. 1960 to present
- GovisticsProvides spending, revenue, employment and crime data for state and local governments and school districts across the U.S., pulling together data from different government sources.
- Harvard-MIT Data CenterMIT repository for numeric datasets. Houses data from ICPSR, data produced by MIT faculty, and others. Enables online subsetting and data analysis.
- ICPSR: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social ResearchWorld's largest archive of digital social science data. Search and browse for data and related publications. Provides training in data analysis.
- Polling the NationsDatabase of questions from public opinion polls around the world. Search question text and get poll results. 1986 to present
- Roper Center for Public Opinion ResearchArchive of data from public opinion surveys. Download data from their catalog or search IPoll, their question-level database of survey results.
- Social ExplorerVisually displays the demographic changes that have occurred in the US since 1790 from country through tract level.
- StatistaProvides statistics on a wide range of topics, including industries, markets, demography, countries & economies. Harvests data from market researchers, trade associations, scientific publications, and government sources, and compiles it in a central place.
- Statistical Abstract of the United StatesThis online reference source provides summary statistical tables on a range of topics and detailed citations to the original source for you to find more detailed data.
Dissertations
- Dissertations & ThesesIndexing and abstracting of dissertations and theses 1861 to present. Full text for most dissertations 1997 to present and selective full-text for earlier dissertations. Comprehensive coverage of North American universities and selective coverage worldwide.
- DSpace at MITContains research products of MIT faculty, including preprints, articles, technical reports, working papers, theses, conference papers, images, datasets and more.
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