POLI SCI 999: UCDC American Presidency

• Academic Search Complete
  A multidisciplinary index to articles
  
• America: History and Life
  Indexes over 2,000 journals published worldwide on the history of the US and Canada
  
• Historical Abstracts
  Indexes over 2,000 journals, about all aspects of world history (excluding US and Canada) from 1450 to the present.
  
• Sociological Abstracts
  social sciences as well as selected anthropology, criminology, demography, law, social psychology, and urban development.
  
• Business Source Complete
  scholarly business journals including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business.
  
• EconLit
  scholarly journal articles in economics.
  
• LegalTrac
  legal research and commentary on case studies, government regulations, the practice of law, statutes, taxation, and international law.
  
• LexisNexis Academic
  international, national and local newspapers and wire services; radio and television transcripts; and business, medical, industry, and legislative magazines, journals, and newsletters.
  
• PolicyFile
  economics, politics, the environment, and social issues,
  
• Urban Studies and Planning: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
  Economic Development, Planning Practice and Theory, Policy Analysis, Political Science, Public Administration, Regional Geography, Residential and Community Development, Sociology, Urban and Regional Planning, Urban Policy, and Welfare Economics.
  
• Project MUSE
  humanities and social sciences including literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics and many others.
  

Use these databases as a starting point in political science research.

• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
  political science, international relations, law and politics, political economy, public administration, and public policy.
  
• PAIS International
  public policy, politics, economics, and social issues worldwide.
  
• CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
  Indexes journals, books, policy briefs, working papers, and conference proceedings from research institutes worldwide related to international affairs analysis and advocacy materials.
  
• Political Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection
  American Government and Politics, Policy Studies, Peace and Conflict Studies and International Relations.
  
• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)
  economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology .
  

Google Scholar is an easy way to do interdisciplinary research, and with some settings changes can become even more useful.  You need a Google account to use these features.

• Set up a Google Scholar Alert to be automatically notified when new articles are added to Google on topics of interest: 

Do your search in Google Scholar. Look in the green toolbar for the envelope icon, and click it.  New items will be sent to your email account as they are found by Google.

• Make Google display links to full text of articles that Berkeley subscribes to:

Open Scholar.  Click on the gear icon in the upper right corner, and choose 'scholar preferences'. In the new window, scroll down to 'Library Links', type the word Berkeley.  Choose University of California, Berkeley-- UC eLinks, and Open Worldcat Search.

• Ever wanted to trace an article’s impact? Google now permits searching within citing articles.

Do a Google Scholar search. Click on the "Cited by" link under a citation and select the "Search within articles citing..." checkbox.

Melvyl has become a good place to start your search for scholarly articles because it displays the contents of some article databases.  While it does not include as many articles as the databases like Academic Search Complete or JSTOR, it is easy to use, because it is a one-stop search.

Within Melvyl you can turn on or turn off specific databases if you find the results aren't relevant.