Political Science & International Relations

Coverage: 1975 - present
ASP provides comprehensive content, including PDF backfiles to 1975 for nearly 140 journals and searchable cited references for more than 1,000 titles. As a leading scholarly database, it provides access to acclaimed full-text journals, magazines, and other valuable resources.
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The ACM Digital Library is a research, discovery and networking platform containing:
The Full-Text Collection of all ACM publications, including journals, conference proceedings, technical magazines, newsletters and books.
A collection of curated and hosted full-text publications from select publishers.
The ACM Guide to Computing Literature, a comprehensive bibliographic database focused exclusively on the field of computing.

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Coverage: 1861 - present
Doctoral dissertations & masters theses. **Widener dissertations published after 1997 are FULL TEXT**
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This database gives access to the dissertations and theses produced by Widener University students.

Note: Widener dissertations published after 1997 are available in Full Text
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JSTOR is a digital library of academic journals, books, and primary sources.
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Coverage: Varies
Includes international, national and local news sources; legal research resources; business news and financial information; medical and reference resources.
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WorldCat Dissertations and Theses houses dissertation, theses, and some published materials from member libraries.

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More than 72,000 titles spanning the widest range of subject areas including anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more
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Primary source material spanning the 15th – 21st centuries
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Coverage: 1990 - present
Search for and view both journals' tables of contents and individual article citations in ArticleFirst. Contains citations to journal articles covering the humanities, popular culture, science, technology, business and the social sciences. Updated daily.

Contains electronic books across many academic disciplines. Books may be "checked out" for a limited period of time.
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Contains electronic books across many academic disciplines. Books may be "checked out" for a limited period of time.
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Coverage: 1965 to present
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Coverage: 1995 - present
Indexing and browsable tables of contents for over 2,800 journals in all subject areas, with full text for the 351 of them subscribed to by Widener University.

This research platform provides full-text online access to legal journals and reviews. Both historical and current collections of legal documents can be found here.

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Coverage: 1954 - present
Historical Abstracts provides a robust selection of bibliographic records from thousands of academic journals, magazines, books and monographs.

Provides an archive of data sets for analysis in a range of academic disciplines, including political science, sociology, demography, history, economics, international relations, gerontology, public health, criminal justice, and education. Data collections consist of raw, unanalyzed data files, and codebooks. ICPSR data sets can be downloaded directly to a user's computer for use with statistical software such as SPSS or SAS.

Coverage: Varies
Provides selected full text for over 180 regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns and other sources as well as indexing and abstracts for national newspapers. In addition, full text television & radio news transcripts are provided from CBS News, FOX News, NPR, etc. This database is updated daily.

Coverage: 1980 - present
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Coverage: 1993 - present
Provides access to individual papers presented at conferences worldwide, covering every congress, symposium, exposition, workshop and meeting added to the The British Library Document Supply Centre's collection. Updated Semi-Monthly.

Project MUSE is a leading provider of digital humanities and social science content for the scholarly community around the world. For over 20 years, Project MUSE has been the trusted and reliable source of complete, full-text versions of scholarly journals from many of the world's leading universities and scholarly societies. Currently, Project MUSE has over 674 journals from 125 publishers and offers over 50,000 books from more than 100 presses.

Comprehensive online collection of primary source congressional publications and legislative research materials covering all topics, including government, current events, politics, economics, business, science and technology, international relations, social issues, finance, insurance, and medicine. Finding aid for congressional hearings, committee prints, committee reports and documents from 1970-present, and the daily Congressional Record from 1985-present. Compiled legislative histories from 1969-present.

UNCDB provides selected series from numerous specialized international data sources for all available countries and areas.

Coverage: 1988 - present
Breaking news and analysis on politics, business, world national news, entertainment and more.