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Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Knowledge Lab, 2nd Floor
Tulane University
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New Orleans, Louisiana 70118

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Subjects: Africana Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, History, Jewish Studies, Political Science

Welcome

Welcome to the POLITICAL SCIENCE library guide!

This guide provides you with resources to help with your teaching, learning, and research. Subject guides like this provide access points to popular and frequently used resources in a specific discipline.

Use the menu to the left to navigate to the sections that speak to your research needs.

Key Resources

Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
Access scholarly sources, including full text, across the entire spectrum of the social sciences with deep coverage of sociology and politics, to include criminal justice, education, linguistics, and language behavior. Search 16 ProQuest databases at once.
Featured databases include IBSS, Sociological Abstracts and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. Together, they provide abstracts, indexing and full-text coverage of journal articles, books, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, and more
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents. NOTE: Before searching, please change the default previous 2 years to all available dates.

Statistics & Data for the Social Sciences
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Provides abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. Updated monthly.
Policy Commons This link opens in a new window
A community platform for objective, fact-based research from the world’s leading policy experts, nonpartisan think tanks, IGOs and NGOs. NOTE: Users must have a Tulane email AND create/have a Policy Commons login/password from on campus to access this resource.