LibGuides: Databases by Major or Subject: Political Science

History & Political Science Sources

History & Political Science Databases

Black Life in America This link opens in a new window The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media, 1976 - present.
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new window A database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages.Produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
Exploring Race in Society This link opens in a new window "Contains context and solutions-oriented points of view within a scholarly collection of proprietary and licensed content on topics related to race, ethnicity, diversity and inclusiveness."
Hispanic Life in America This link opens in a new window The experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media, 2010 to today.
Nexis Uni (Formerly LexisNexis) This link opens in a new window Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.Accessing Nexis Uni requires an account. You can create an account while on the campus network. Please contact a librarian for help creating an account from off-campus.
ProQuest One Literature This link opens in a new window
Oxford English Dictionary: OED This link opens in a new window The definitive record of the English language

News Resources

NewsBank - Access World News This link opens in a new window Browse by topic or publication for up-to-date coverage of news resources. Features reliable, credible information from a wide variety of international, national and local news sources, including the Reading Eagle.
Newswires This link opens in a new window
Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window Access the Wall Street Journal online. Alvernia students, staff, and faculty can create a free account using their Alvernia email address. Your account password does not need to match your Alvernia credentials, but in order to get access you MUST use your Alvernia email.

Multidisciplinary Databases

Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window Covers a broad array of subjects including biology, chemistry, physics, education, health, psychology, religion & theology, and social work.Academic Search ™ Premier contains indexing for 8,200 publications, with full text for more than 4,650 of those titles. Over 6,800 peer-reviewed journals are indexed, with full text for 3,600 titles.
Alexander Street Academic Video Online This link opens in a new window Academic Video Online is the most comprehensive video subscription available to libraries. It delivers more than 62,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more. Curated for the educational experience, the massive depth of content and breadth of content-types (such as documentaries, films, demonstrations, etc.) in Academic Video Online makes it a useful resource for all types of patrons, giving libraries a high return on investment.
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window Find background information, definitions, and basic explanations of concepts and theories
Digital Commons Network This link opens in a new window The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.
Google Scholar This link opens in a new window Searches scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window JSTOR, (short for Journal Storage) covers journals in business, economics, education, history, political science, literature, sociology, ecology, mathematics, and statistics.
Library One Search This link opens in a new window Search for print books, eBooks, journal articles, and everything else available at Alvernia's library from one search box!
NewsBank - Access World News This link opens in a new window Browse by topic or publication for up-to-date coverage of news resources. Features reliable, credible information from a wide variety of international, national and local news sources, including the Reading Eagle.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window Information on current social issues: pro and con viewpoint articles, reference articles that provide context, full-text magazines, academic journals, and newspapers, primary source documents, government and organizational statistics, multimedia, including images and podcasts, and links to selected web sites.
SAGE Research Methods This link opens in a new window Resources to answer your research methods and statistics questions
Springer Open This link opens in a new window A multidisciplinary database of open access journals.

Law Databases

Nexis Uni (Formerly LexisNexis) This link opens in a new window Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790.Accessing Nexis Uni requires an account. You can create an account while on the campus network. Please contact a librarian for help creating an account from off-campus.
Hispanic Life in America This link opens in a new window The experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media, 2010 to today.

Specialized Nexis Uni Tools

NexisUni Company Profiles Next to the main search bar, click Company and Financial. Choose Company Profiles from the drop down menu. Search for the company of your choosing.
NexisUni SEC Filings Next to the main search bar, click Company and Financial. Choose SEC Filings from the drop down menu. Search for the company of your choosing.
NexusUni Patents Next to the Nexis Uni page title, click Menu. Choose Patents from the drop down menu. Search the patent database.

News

News Databases

Black Life in America This link opens in a new window The experience and impact of African Americans as recorded by the news media, 1976 - present.
Chronicle of Higher Education This link opens in a new window
Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers This link opens in a new window A database of U.S. newspapers with descriptive information and select digitization of historic pages.Produced by the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP). NDNP, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.
Google News This link opens in a new window Comprehensive up-to-date news coverage, aggregated from sources all over the world. Use the edition drop down to select news from selected countries.
Hispanic Life in America This link opens in a new window The experience and impact of Hispanic Americans as recorded by the news media, 2010 to today.
NewsBank - Access World News This link opens in a new window Browse by topic or publication for up-to-date coverage of news resources. Features reliable, credible information from a wide variety of international, national and local news sources, including the Reading Eagle.
Newswires This link opens in a new window Near real-time news articles sourced from a variety of domestic and international news outlets.
Regional Business News This link opens in a new window Regional Business News provides comprehensive full text for for nearly 100 regional U.S. and Canadian business publications.
Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new window Access the Wall Street Journal online. Alvernia students, staff, and faculty can create a free account using their Alvernia email address. Your account password does not need to match your Alvernia credentials, but in order to get access you MUST use your Alvernia email.