Walker Library: Political Science: Journal & Magazine Articles

Journal Articles - Library Databases

Academic Search Ultimate
Fulltext multidisciplinary database of academic journals, magazines, periodicals and other reports, 19th century to present.

Academic Search Ultimate is an excellent source of scholarly journals in all academic disciplines. More than 13,600 journals are indexed and full text is provided for more than 9,000. Searchable cited references are provided for selected titles
JSTOR
Complete full text (page images) for back issues of various leading scholarly journals.
Scopus
Abstracts and citations from peer-reviewed literature and conference proceedings in Life Sciences, Medicine, Physical Sciences, Technology, Social Sciences and Arts & Humanities.

Video Tutorials
Content Coverage Guide

ProQuest Search
International business, technology, sociology, theses/dissertations, and a few historical newspapers.

Annual Reviews
Click on Journals then select "Political Science"-- The Annual Review of Political Science covers the year's most significant developments.

Annual Reviews is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to provide the worldwide scientific community with a useful and intelligent synthesis of the primary research literature for a broad spectrum of scientific disciplines.

Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited
in scientific literature as indexed by the Thomson Reuters Journal Citation Reports® (JCR).
Stratfor Worldview
Strategic geopolitical analysis and forecasts on international political, economic and security issues.
World Politics Review
Original news and analysis on foreign policy, national security, and international affairs, 2006 to present. Subscription includes access to the WPR database, searchable through EBSCOhost.

Read about World Politics Review.
CQ Researcher
In-depth reports on leading national policy issues, 1991-present.
Sociological Abstracts
Indexes journal articles, dissertations, book abstracts, chapter abstracts, and association paper abstracts related to sociology. It covers theoretical and applied social science.
Google Scholar
Google's scholarly article search with full text links back to MTSU subscription resources.

War and Terrorism
Conflicts and their causes, impact, and perception on a global scale.

News & Analysis - Library Databases

POLITICO Pro (trial access through 11/4/2022) This link opens in a new window
POLITICO Pro provides real-time policy reporting in agriculture, budget & appropriations, campaigns, cybersecurity, defense, education, eHealth, energy, financial services, health care, labor & employment, sustainability, tax, technology, trade, and transportation
Policy Commons (trial access through 10/31/2022) This link opens in a new window
Curated, high quality policy reports, briefs, analyses, working papers, and datasets from thousands of policy organizations. Includes more than 500,000 pages of books and reports licensed from leading publishers.

Policy Commons treats think-tank publishing as a formal body of literature in its own right, with tools to systematically search it, cite it, understand its impact, catalog it, and preserve it for the long term.

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Stratfor Worldview This link opens in a new window
Strategic geopolitical analysis and forecasts on international political, economic and security issues.
World Politics Review This link opens in a new window
Original news and analysis on foreign policy, national security, and international affairs, 2006 to present. Subscription includes access to the WPR database, searchable through EBSCOhost.

Read about World Politics Review.
60 Minutes: 1997-2014 This link opens in a new window
250 hours of streaming video from the CBS News show, 60 Minutes.

Title list (.xls)
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
In-depth reports on leading national policy issues, 1991-present.
CQ Almanac This link opens in a new window
Reference for studying the U.S. Congress, 1945 - 2010.