Political Science: Finding Articles in Political Science

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Indexes articles, news items, book reviews and editorials from 63 English language military and aeronautical periodicals.

Covers floor proceedings of the U.S. House of Representatives, the U.S. Senate, public affairs events, congressional hearings, press briefings, speeches, and news conferences related to public affairs. Over 238,000 hours of programming made available to the public for free in an effort to provide government transparency to the American people.

A legal research database containing Federal, state, and Tribal cases, statutes, and regulations. For Federal courts, Casemaker includes all published cases. Although states vary, most published state cases are available back to the beginning, including Kansas (1862), Missouri Supreme Court (1821), Missouri Appellate (1876). Also includes a “Citing References & Cited Cases Graph,” which helps you determine if a case is still good law. *You will need to sign up using your @moval.edu email account the first time you access Casemaker.

Contains reports from the Congressional Research Service, which provides valuable insight and non-partisan analysis of issues of public debate.

Online reference materials covering a variety of subjects. Includes special tools such as a Mind Map, topic search, and image search. Credo has a variety of Research Guides with links to topic pages and other useful content in over 60 different subject areas.

The academic form of Google, Scholar will search for scholarly articles and books instead of websites. This includes a large number of scholarly eJournal articles subscribed to by Murrell Library. To get full text articles, you must go to “Settings” and select Missouri Valley College in the “Library Links” the very first time you use Google Scholar on your computer. Your computer will save this information and you will not have to enter it again. Click here for a guide to setting up Google Scholar.

Contains status of federal legislation, information about representative and senators including voting records, and original research on legislation and congressional oversight & investigations.

An interdisciplinary database with provides full text for nearly 1,700 periodicals. Selected full-text dates from. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books andand many primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 592,000 photos, maps & flags.

Site which has current and archived Missouri state regulations. Updated each year.

Search by Bill Number, Keyword, or Sponsor-Co-Sponsor to track actions on bills in the Missouri Legislature.

A collection of selected Missouri State Government publications from Missouri State Agencies contributed to the Internet Archives by the Missouri State Library

Provides cover-to-cover full text for hundreds of national (U.S.), international and regional newspapers. In addition, it offers television and radio news transcripts from major networks.

Indexing and Abstracting only - no full text. Indexes global contemporary public policy issues including public health, the environment, housing, human and civil rights, international conflict, and natural disasters. This database draws on a diverse array of scholarly publications, conference papers, government documents, and current reference works. Click here to access this database.