Databases by Subject
Law, Politics & Society Research Guide
Law, Politics & Society
Database | Description | Available In SuperSearch | Alumni Access | More Info | Tutorial | |
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America: History and Life with Full Text (EBSCO)
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Journals and books covering the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. | Partial | No | more information | ||
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications | Index of federal government publications distributed through the Superintendent of Documents. | Yes | No | more information | ||
CountryWatch | Political, economic, and cultural information about every sovereign country in the world. | No | No | more information | ||
Declassified Documents Reference System (Gale)
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Previously classified government documents from presidential libraries and numerous executive agencies, spanning the 20th and 21st centuries. | No | Yes | more information | ||
Global Issues (Gale in Context)
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A resource for international viewpoints on a broad spectrum of global issues, topics, and current events. | No | Yes | more information | ||
HeinOnline | An online research tool with more than 100 million pages of legal history available in a fully-searchable, image-based format. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Index to Legal Periodicals (EBSCO)
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Citations to legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand, dating back to 1908. | Partial | No | more information | ||
LegalTrac (Gale)
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Citations and selective full-text for all major law reviews, law journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers. | Yes | Yes | more information | ||
Making of Modern Law | This database provides full-text access to over 22,000 American and British legal treatises. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Making of Modern Law Trials, 1600 - 1926 | A collection of legal transcripts and sensational trial accounts describing the courtroom drama in America, the British Empire and the world. | No | No | more information | ||
Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources | Offers online access to early state codes, city charters, documents relating to constitutional conventions, and other resources in American legal history. | No | No | more information | ||
New York Times | New York Times access 1851-present. Direct access to virtually all NY Times content from that time period. Requires a separate, one-time registration. For details, visit http://researchguides.drake.edu/nyt | No | No | more information | ||
New York Times (Proquest Historical Newspapers) | Full-text including scanned digital images of the New York Times, 1851-2020 | Yes | No | more information | ||
Oxford Handbooks Online | Full-text online versions of the Oxford Handbooks, available in seven complete subject modules: Business & Management, Philosophy, Political Science, Religion, Literature, Psychology, and History. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Politics in America | Information on members of the U.S. Congress and their districts. | Yes | No | more information | ||
ProQuest Congressional | Congressional publications and legislative histories. Includes citations for bills, public laws, and statutes. | Partial | No | more information | ||
Springer eBooks | A collection of electronic books in a variety of subjects. You also have the option to order a personal print copy of eBooks owned by Drake (2010-present) for $24.99 (regardless of the actual book price). These "MyCopy" books are soft-cover b/w print copies that are mailed to your address. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Statista | Online statistics portal providing access to data from market and opinion research institutions, as well as from business organizations and government institutions. Includes many easily-cited authoritative infographics. | No | No | more information | ||
Statistical Abstract of the United States (ProQuest)
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Authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. | No | No | more information | ||
Vital Statistics on American Politics | More than 230 tables and charts covering the full spectrum of American politics dating back to 1788. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Westlaw Campus Research (Thomson Reuters)
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A legal research database that also includes news and business publications. | Yes | No | more information |
Other Resources
Database | Description | Available In SuperSearch | Alumni Access | More Info | Tutorial | |
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Academic Search Ultimate (EBSCO)
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Journals, magazines, and newspapers in almost every subject area. | Partial | No | more information | ||
Academic Video Online (AVON) (ProQuest)
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Documentaries, educational films, and news clips in many subject areas. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Annual Reviews | Critical reviews of current research in the biomedical, physical, and social sciences. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Britannica Online | The complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus, Britannica Student Encyclopedia, and the Britannica Book of the Year. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Cambridge Histories Online | Online version of the prestigious Cambridge Histories Online. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Chicago Manual of Style Online (University of Chicago)
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16th and 17th editions of the Chicago Manual of Style. | No | No | more information | ||
Chicago Tribune (Proquest Historical Newspapers) | Chicago Tribune (1849-1994). | Yes | No | more information | ||
CQ Researcher (CQ Press)
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Discussions of current, controversial public policy issues. It offers pros & cons, background information, and in-depth analysis on a variety of topics, issues, and controversies currently in the news. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Credo Reference | Reference articles covering all major academic subjects. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Current Contents Connect (Web of Science)
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Complete tables of contents and bibliographic information from scholarly journals and books; also includes relevant, evaluated websites and documents. | No | No | more information | ||
Data Citation Index (Web of Science)
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Indexes data studies and datasets across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences and links the datasets/studies with published literature. | No | No | more information | ||
Derwent Innovations Index (Web of Science)
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Enables patent searching, letting you conduct patent and citation searches of inventions in chemical, electrical, electronic, and mechanical engineering. | No | No | more information | ||
Dissertations & Theses Global (ProQuest)
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Citation and full-text access to theses and dissertations from around the world. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Encyclopedia of Associations | Information concerning nonprofit American membership organizations. | No | No | more information | ||
eScholarShare (Drake University) | Scholarly repository of Drake University. Includes 1000+ electronic theses & dissertations. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest)
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Articles written primarily by Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asian & Pacific Islander, and Jewish people. | Yes | No | more information | ||
European Views of the Americas (EBSCO)
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Citation search of primary sources related to the Americas and written in Europe before 1750. | Partial | No | more information | ||
Gale eBooks | Reference works and eBooks in all subject areas. | Yes | Yes | more information | ||
Gale in Context: Environmental Studies (formerly GREENR) | Journal articles, case studies, news, and videos focused on the study of the environment and sustainability. | Partial | Yes | more information | ||
Gale Primary Sources | Search interface for all Gale Primary Source databases. | No | No | more information | ||
Government Printing Office (OCLC)
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Citation search of U.S. government documents. | Yes | No | more information | ||
GreenFILE (EBSCO)
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Environmental information from scholarly, government, and general interest sources. | Partial | No | more information | ||
Historic Documents Collection (Sage)
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Primary sources including presidential speeches, international agreements, Supreme Court decisions, US government reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions arranged chronologically. | Yes | No | more information | ||
JSTOR | More than a thousand academic journals and over 1 million images, letters, and other primary sources | Yes | No | more information | ||
Marquis Who's Who in America | Biographical information from various "Who's Who" series. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Mergent Online: Country Insight | Provides up-to-date political, economic and commercial information on over 130 countries worldwide, including risk assessment. Easily downloadable in PDF format. | No | No | more information | ||
Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO)
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Newspapers, television and radio news transcripts. | Yes | No | more information | ||
NewsVault | Cross-search Gale newspaper archives using a single interface. Drake has access to the complete (London) Times Digital Archive and the 19th Century U.S. Newspaper Digital Archive. | No | No | more information | ||
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale in Context)
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Articles on current controversial social subjects, offering informed views on both sides of each issue. | Yes | Yes | more information | ||
Oxford English Dictionary | 2nd edition of the 20-volume set. Includes meaning, history, & pronunciation of over 1/2 million words, both past and present. | No | No | more information | ||
Oxford Reference Online | Access to dictionaries & reference works in the humanities, sciences, and social sciences. Limit of 5 simultaneous users. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Oxford Scholarship Online Ebooks | eBooks in humanities, sciences, business, and social sciences. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Periodicals Archive Online (ProQuest)
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Archive of backfiles of scholarly periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences, spanning more than two centuries of content, 37 key subject areas, and multiple languages. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Project Muse | Full-text of scholarly journals published by Johns Hopkins University and other university presses. | Yes | Yes | more information | ||
SciELO Citation Index (Web of Science)
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SciELO content includes regional journals from Latin American and the Caribbean as well as titles from Spain, Portugal and South Africa. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Sociological Abstracts (Proquest)
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This database abstracts and indexes the international literature of sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Very Short Introductions (Oxford)
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Concise introductions to a wide range of subjects. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Wall Street Journal (Proquest) | Full-text of the newspaper's eastern edition, 1984 - present. | Yes | No | more information | ||
Web of Science | Journal article citations in science and technology, arts and humanities, and social sciences. | Partial | No | more information | ||
Web of Science Core Collection | This subset of Web of Science indexes primary journals and article citations in several databases spanning a wide range of disciplines. | Partial | No | more information | ||
World DataBank | Access to nation-by-nation (or aggregate) statistical data. | No | No | more information | ||
WorldCat (OCLC)
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Locate books, journals and magazines, music scores, and media in libraries worldwide. | No | No | more information | ||
WorldCat Dissertations (OCLC)
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Bibliographic database of all dissertations and theses available in WorldCat | No | No | more information |