Need help narrowing down your topic? Try searching a general database with keywords to help you focus your research. Once you've collected a few key terms, try searchihng a more politics-specific database. UNet login required.
Wide variety of scholarly literature, newspapers, magazines, and more covering topics from a wide variety of disciplines. A great place to start searching for sources on your subject!
Archive of scholarly journals and ebooks spanning many disciplines, primarily in the humanities and social sciences. Often does not have the last 1-3 years of a publication. Use Advanced Search to select specific subject areas.
Uses Google's powerful search to find scholarly literature. This link to Google Scholar authenticates you as a Brandeis user and provides the Brandeis Get It button next to many of your search results, allowing you to more easily find the full text of the articles.
Journal Articles and Book Chapters
Scholarly Articles can be found in different subscription databases made avialable through the library. UNet login may be required to access databases.
Search millions of journal articles and selected books in this interdisciplinary database. Especially strong in anthropology, economics, political science and sociology. 1951-present.
Offers access to U.S. foreign and domestic policy papers and gray literature. Updated weekly with abstracts and links to reports, papers, and documents from think tanks, research institutes, and agencies.
Indexes 140 leading political science and international relations journals, sometimes with full text and images. Includes comparative politics, political economy, international development, environmental policy, and hundreds of related topics, 1985-present.
Cross-search a collection of four databases covering the international literature in political science and public administration/policy: Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (WPSA), PAIS Index, PolicyFile, and ProQuest's Politics Database.
Indexes journals in political science and its complementary fields, such as international relations, law, and public administration policy. 1975 to present.
