POLI SCI 102: The American Presidency

The following selected journals from both sides of the aisle are good sources for possible topics/research questions.

The Berkeley Library provides access to hundreds of databases, below are some that might be particularly helpful.

• Academic Search Complete
  A multidisciplinary index to articles in more than 11,000 journals, many include fulltext.
  
• America: History and Life
  Core resource for U.S history, also strong in some contemporary areas such as ethnic studies.
  
• Historical Abstracts
  Core resource for world history (minus U.S. and Canada).
  
• Sociological Abstracts
  Core resource for sociology, as well as some article in anthropology, criminology, demography, law, social psychology, and urban development.(Search all CSA/Illumina Social Sciences databases.)
  
• Business Source Complete
  Full-text for several thousand scholarly business journals. Information in nearly every area of business and other sources of full text information such as country economic reports. For guidance on how to search, see Business Source Complete tutorial
  
• EconLit
  Most comprehensive index to scholarly journal articles in economics, also indexes books and dissertations.
  
• LexisNexis Academic
  Core resource for newspapers from around the world and legal sources.
  
• PolicyFile
  Index to public policy from a wide range of thinks tanks, Non-governmental organizations, international governmental organizations, and other institutions worldwide.
  
• Project MUSE
  250 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. Topics include literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics and many others.
  
• Black Studies Center (BSC)
  A mix of current and historic sources.