General Statistical & Data Resources
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Statistical Abstract of the United StatesAn authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. This resource includes monthly updates to tables, image and spreadsheet versions of all current and historical tables, along with links to provider sites. Previously published by the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Statistical InsightAbstracts and index to U.S. federal & state government publications, and to privately published & international and intergovernmental statistical sources from 1972.
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ICPSR (Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research)ICPSR maintains a data archive of more than 250,000 files of research in the social and behavioral sciences. It hosts 21 specialized collections of data in education, aging, criminal justice, substance abuse, terrorism, and other fields.
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OECD iLibraryOnline library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data. It contains all books and papers published since 1998, as well as a vast collection of statistics, with data going back to the early 1960s and covering more than 80 countries.
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IMF DataProvides comprehensive access to International financial statistics (IFS), Balance of payments statistics (BOPS), Direction of trade statistics (DOTS), and Government finance statistics (GFS) databases. View and download predefined reports or build your own data reports using IMF (International Monetary Fund) data.
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World Bank Data CatalogRecognizing that transparency and accountability are essential to development, the World Bank Group provides free access to its comprehensive set of data on living standards around the globe--some 2,000 indicators, including hundreds that go back 50 years. The data is available in Arabic, French, and Spanish in addition to English.
Political Science Databases: Top tier
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Worldwide Political Science AbstractsThis database covers the international literature of political science and complementary fields, The database provides abstracts of journal articles and citations to book reviews drawn from over 1,500+ serials publications and also provides abstracts of books, book chapters, dissertations and working papers.
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PAIS InternationalContains references to journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. PAIS covers 1915 forward from most sources.
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Political Science DatabaseIn addition to hundreds of leading political science and international relations journals, this resource includes over a thousand recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country profiles, political news and other sources.
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Social Sciences Citation IndexIncludes: Part of Web of Science. Search by subject, author, or cited reference. On the search screen, clear the checkboxes for Science Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index if you do not want to search all 3 databases simultaneously (the default). An excellent current awareness and bibliography-building tool. 1,725 journals from 1965- present.
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Annual Review of Political ScienceThe Annual Review of Political Science covers significant developments in the field of Political Science including political theory and philosophy, international relations, political economy, political behavior, American and comparative politics, public administration and policy, and methodology. Annual Review articles are review articles. Finding the sources mentioned in the reviews requires the additional step of searching for the material in UNR's holdings, and possibly obtaining through interlibrary loan
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CQ ResearcherFull text overviews providing the pros and cons on current controversial issues with complete summaries, bibliographies and time-lines.
General databases with coverage of Political Science: Second tier
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Project MUSE250 scholarly electronic journals in the humanities and social sciences, from Johns Hopkins University Press and other university presses, such as Duke University, MIT, and Indiana University. 1993- present for some titles.
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JSTORCore academic journals in mathematics, humanities and social sciences disciplines, beginning with their first volumes (sometimes dating back to the 1800s). Issues from the most recent 3-5 years are not available electronically through JSTOR; however, they may be available through their publishers or other vendors.
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Academic Search CompleteThis multidisciplinary database indexes over 10,000+ scholarly journals, with full text for almost 9,000 titles. Covers social sciences, humanities, education, computer science and engineering, general science, medicine, ethnic studies, and more. 1965- present for selected titles.
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ProQuest Dissertations & Theses GlobalIncludes searchable citations to dissertations and theses from 1861 to the present day. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and some full-text coverage for older graduate works.
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Nexis UniNexis Uni is no longer available from the UNR Libraries, as of July 1, 2018. If you are looking for legal or government information, try Westlaw or HeinOnline. For news, try U.S. Newsstream or Access World News.
Political Science Librarian
Teresa Schultz
Contact:
Room 214H
Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center
University of Nevada, Reno
Mathewson-IGT Knowledge Center
University of Nevada, Reno
775.682.5638
