Political Science Resources on the Web

Comprehensive Web Pages

• University of Michigan Internet Guides to Political Science Resources (http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/frames/psintrfr.html)
• University of Santa Barbara Library Political Science Guide (http://www.library.ucsb.edu/subjects/polisci/politica.html)
• Ultimate Political Science Links Page (http://psruckman.com/UPSlinks/)
• Richard Kimber’s Political Science Resources (http://www.psr.keele.ac.uk/)
• National Political Index (http://www.politicalindex.com)
• Political Information (http://www.politicalinformation.com)
• Poly-Cy Internet Resources for Political Science (http://www.polsci.wvu.edu/polycy/psother.html)

Electronic Reference Sources

• CQ Electronic Library [restricted to the HSU community] - CQ Weekly covers the Congress and provides information current activities, votes, status of bills, committee activities. CQ Researcher provides general, balanced information on current controversial issues.
• Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy [restricted to the HSU community]
• Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations [restricted to the HSU community]
• Online Library of Liberty (http://oll.libertyfund.org/?) - Full-text access to classic and contemporary books related to individual liberty, limited government, and free markets.  Users may search by author, title, etc.

Government

• This Nation's American Government and Politics Textbook (http://www.thisnation.com/textbook.html)
• Central Intelligence Agency Freedom of Information Reading Room (http://www.foia.cia.gov/default.asp) - Provides instructions on how to request CIA documents and access to recently declassified documents and a searchable archive of “nonexempt historically-valuable records 25 years old or older.”
• Civil Rights Digital Library (http://crdl.usg.edu/voci/go/crdl/home/) - Archive of primary source materials on civil rights, including unedited film archives of 2 television stations: WSB-TV Atlanta and WALB-TV Albany.
• Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive (http://millercenter.org/scripps) - Presidential documents, oral history reviews, secret White House recordings.

Polling & Data Sets

• SSRIC: Social Science Research & Instruction Center (http://www.ssric.org/) - Access to ICPSR data, the Field Polls (California), and the Roper Polls.
• Field Poll (http://www.ssric.org/data/field_polls) - Data on public opinion trends in California.
• Gallup.com (http://www.gallup.com) - Polling data dating back to 1952.
• Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/index.html)
• ICPSR Data Use Tutorial (http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/help/newuser.html)
• National Journal [restricted to the HSU community] - Click on the "Poll Track" link to track polls related to public opinion on campaigns and legislative and policy issues.
• Polling Report.com (http://www.pollingreport.com/) - "An independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion."
• The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (http://www.ropercenter.uconn.edu/)

Politics

• Political Advertising Resource Center (PARC) (http://www.umdparc.org/)
• Project Vote Smart (http://www.votesmart.org/)
• California Voter: Interest Groups on the Web (http://www.calvoter.org/voter/politics/groups.html)

Public Policy

• Center for Government Studies PolicyArchive (http://www.policyarchive.org/advanced-search) - Searchable "digital archive of global, non-partisan public policy research."
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (http://www.cbpp.org/)
• Institute of Government Studies—UC Berkeley (http://igs.berkeley.edu/library/gallery.html) - Covers the nation and California.

International Affairs

• Council on Foreign Relations Backgrounder (http://www.cfr.org/publication/by_type/backgrounder.html)
• Foreign Information by Country (http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/govpubs/for/foreigngovt.htm)
• Vincent Ferraro’s Resources for the Study of International Relations (http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/feros-pg.htm) - International Relations documents, governmental homepages, intergovernmental organization homepages, non-governmental home pages, links for think tanks.
• World Values Survey (http://www.worldvaluessurvey.org/)
• Genocide Studies Program (http://www.yale.edu/gsp/) - Repository for research an reports on current and historical genocides: maps, full-text articles, and databases.

Think Tanks

• University of Michigan Library Documents Center: Think Tanks (http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/psthink.html)

Indexes

• See Articles and Databases: Political Science (http://library.humboldt.edu/infoservices/indexes/polisci.html)

Style Manuals

• APSA Documentation (University of Wisconsin-Madison) (http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/DocAPSA.html)
• American Political Science Association Style Manual (http://dept.lamar.edu/polisci/DRURY/drury.html)