Political Science and Law Resources

LexisNexis Congressional Universe
Provides full-text information from a variety of sources within these five categories: news, business, legal research, medical, and general reference.

Law Library Microform Collection
LLMC is a non profit cooperative that is digitizing many primary sources of government publications, ex. Interior Department Decisions; Attorney General Opinions, Treasury decisions, etc.

LegalTrac (DISCUS)
This database is best used to find articles in all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers.

JSTOR
JSTOR is a collection of over 160 scholarly journal titles including more than 2,000,000 full-text articles on a wide range of topics. Both current articles and extensive backfiles are available.

Project Muse
Project MUSE offers nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. As one of the academic community’s primary electronic journals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

FedStats: Federal Statistics
Designed for easy access to a full range of statistics and information produced by more than 70 Federal agencies for public use.

GPO - Government Printing Office
U.S. Government publications.

GPO Access
Free searchable site of official federal government information.

Federal Sites by Topic
Search by keyword or by Subject Bibliography Index.

US Federal Documents Depository Shelflist Database
This is a keyword searchable database of 43000+ publications housed in the USCA Library Federal Depository on the library second floor.

American FactFinder
Your source for population, housing, economic, and geographic data from the U.S. Census Bureau - 2000.

South Carolina statistical information - SCIWay
Provides a wide variety of South Carolina statistics, government, and general information.

SC State Documents Depository Shelflist Database
This is a keyword searchable database of 5500+ publications housed in the USCA Library SC State Depository on the library second floor.

Academic Search Premier (Collegiate DISCUS)
The world’s largest academic multi-disciplinary database, Academic Search Premier provides full text for nearly 4,700 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Expanded Academic ASAP (DISCUS)
From arts and the humanities to social sciences, science and technology, this database meets research needs across all academic disciplines. Access scholarly journals, news magazines, and newspapers - many with full text and images!

InfoTrac OneFile Plus (DISCUS)
A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images.

Source OECD
SourceOECD is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. It covers a variety of topics including government & law. Some articles are available full text.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
Search Full-Text Publications or the Abstracts Database for criminal justice data.

PapersFirst (OCLC)
Papers included in every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium and meeting received at the British Library.

Proceedings (OCLC)
Citations of every congress, conference, exposition, workshop, symposium and meeting received at the British Library.

E-Print Network
Provides access to electronic preprints (generally, manuscripts that have not yet been published) covering physics, materials, chemistry, mathematics, biology and environmental sciences.

State Personal Income
Statistics include: personal income and earning variables, full and part employment variables, and transfer payments variables.

US Counties
U.S. Census Bureau statistics from 1998 by county covering a wide range of categories.

USPTO Web Patent Database
Free access to bibliographic and full-text patent databases.

Federal Citizen Information Center
Now known as the National Contact Center (NCC), this site has information on Federal programs, benefits, and services. The database can also be searched by keyword too.

Last modified on: March 25, 2008, at 06:27 AM