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Welcome to the Political Science Research Guide!

Welcome to the Political Science research guide. This guide aggregates resources valuable to the study of Political Science at Murray State University. This includes information on books, scholarly article databases, relevant websites, and government resources. If you require any assistance feel free to contact your liaison librarian.

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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
The world's most valuable and comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary database. Indexes newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals in all disciplines. Contains a significant amount of full-text. Content available from 1915-present.
JSTOR - All Content This link opens in a new window
Searches indexed content, as well as full text content, on the JSTOR interface. Provides indexing for more than 12 million journal articles, books, and other content from a wide variety publishers on the well-known JSTOR interface.
Public Administration Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Covers public administration theory, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.The index contains more than 93,600 records, including the Journal of Public Economics, Public Administration, Public Administration Review, etc. Coverage from 1974-present.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
Opposing Viewpoints in Context helps students research, analyze and organize a broad variety of data for conducting research, completing writing assignments, preparing for debates, creating presentations and more. Includes different information formats, include statistics, opinion, news, and peer-reviewed articles.

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Political Science often encompasses aspects of other areas of study. Below are other research guides that may assist in your research: