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POLI 245: Courts, Judges and American Judicial Politics

Resources for Peer-Reviewed Articles, Reports & Policy, and More

Political Science Databases
Social Issues & Multidisciplinary Databases

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Politics, international relations, government, public policy.
PAIS
Index to journals, books, government publications, etc., on global public policy and social issues.
ProQuest Politics Collection
Combined search of four ProQuest products: Digital National Security Archive, PAIS Index, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, and News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive (feat. Newsweek)
HeinOnline
Legal history, government documents, and law-related periodicals. Includes access to New York State package (State Constitutions, Session Laws, State Statutes, State Reports, Attorney General Opinions, Prestatehood Legal Materials for all 50 states, and Political and Legal History).
NCJRS (National Criminal Justice Reference Service) Abstracts Database
Abstracts of criminal justice publications and documents related to government programs.

Sociological Abstracts
Covers international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.
ProQuest Research Library
Multidisciplinary index to articles in scholarly and popular periodicals. Coverage 1850 - present
Web of Science
Index of articles from scholarly journals spanning the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Provides cited reference searching capability.
Includes Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED); Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI), Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI); Book Citation Index - Science (BCKI-S); Book Citation Index - Social Sciences & Humanities (BCKI-SSH); Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI); Current Chemical Reactions (CCR-EXPANDED); and Index Chemicus (IC)
Academic OneFile
Multidisciplinary index to articles in scholarly and popular periodicals; also includes articles from newspapers and reference books. Date range: 1905 - present
Google Scholar
Links to peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations
ProQuest Social Science Collection
Combined search of 15 ProQuest products: Alt-PressWatch, APA PsycArticles, APA PsycInfo, Black Study Center, Coronavirus Research Database, Econlit, ERIC, Ethnic NewsWatch, GenderWatch, Healthcare Administration Database, LGBT Magazine Archive, PAIS, PTSDpubs, Sociological Abstracts, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
JSTOR
Provides full text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, architecture and art history and other fields. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title, but usually ends several years before the current year.
Scopus
Index of articles from scholarly journals spanning the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Provides cited reference searching capability.
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Core Political Science Journals

AJPS American Journal of Political Science (Current)
AJPS American Journal of Political Science (Backfiles)
APSR American Political Science Review (Current)
APSR American Political Science Review (Backfiles)
JOP: Journal of Politics (Current)
JOP Journal of Politics (Backfiles)
APR American Politics Research
Previously titled APQ American Politics Quarterly
PRQ Political Research Quarterly
Annual Review of Political Science
The Annual Review of Political Science, in publication since 1998, covers significant developments in the field of Political Science.

Newspapers & Magazines

News, Policy & Politics Magazine Archive
Archival collection comprising the backfiles of 15 major magazines (including the Newsweek archive), covering current events, international relations, and public policy
U.S. Newsstream
Most recent premium U.S. news content, as well as archives back into the 1980s featuring newspapers, newswires, blogs, and news sites. Includes major and local sources, leading Hispanic news sources, and video and transcripts from CBS 60 Minutes from 1997–2014.

The Nation Archive (1865- 2020)
America's oldest weekly magazine and journal of opinion, covering politics, culture, books and the arts. Visit TheNation.com for limited access to current issues.

Washington Post website
Full access to the online Washington Post from 2004-present. WaPo content before 2004 is available through other library resources.
Site-wide access is available from a web browser on any device through the library proxy, on campus or at home. More information on creating an account is available: https://library.vassar.edu/wapo
Use the link here- it's different than washingtonpost.com and routes through the Vassar Library proxy server.
New York Times (NYTimes.com)
Full access to NYTimes.com and the NYTimes.com smartphone apps for a period of 52 weeks (364 days) from the date you activate it.
The Atlantic
Full access to The Atlantic back to 1857.