eResources and Databases

Recommended Resources for Politics

If you want to search for journal articles on a particular topic within the Politics subject discipline, the main electronic databases to search are:

• Political Science - This database gives users access to hundreds of leading political science and international relations journals.
• Academic Search Complete - A database of over 6000 journals including over 400 in the politics and international affairs subject areas.
• Historical Abstracts - Covering the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450-present, it indexes over 2,300 academic historical journals back to 1955.
• Humanities International Complete - Includes journals relevant to the historical study of the United States and Canada.
• JSTOR - An archive of older journal issues covering many relevant areas in arts and humanities.
• Project Muse - A collection of arts and humanities titles including Political Science. 
• Social Policy and Practice - An abstract database of social policy materials from 1890-present, including information on public health, social care, homelessness, and crime.
• Taylor and Francis Journal Collection - multidisciplinary collection including arts and humanities.
• Brexit: Five Months On - On 23 June Britain voted to leave the European Union. Five months on, SAGE is providing free access to a range of academic research which engages directly with the referendum, the potential impacts of Brexit, or gives a background on the UK-EU relationship.

Government and Legal Information

• Westlaw UK - A large, comprehensive legal online service including UK case law, legislation, the Legal Journals Index , some full-text journal articles and a current awareness service.
• Lexis Library (Butterworths) - UK cases, legislation, legal journals, Halsbury’s Law, Halsbury’s Statutes - important legal database
• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers - Fully indexed and searchable full-text House of Commons Parliamentary Paper from 1715 to present. Some supplementary material back to 1688.
• Proceedings of the Old Bailey - A free resource which gives a fully searchable collection of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people in 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.

Journal Archives

• British Periodicals - These trace the growth and development of the periodical press in Britain from its origins in the seventeenth century to the Victorian age and beyond.
• Brill - A multi disciplinary archive of over 80 Journals published before 2000
• Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals Online - Provides access to nearly 100 periodicals for the study of British life in the 19th century - from women, to sport, to children and humour.
• Periodicals Archive Online Collection - 80 full text journals from 1891-2000, covering a variety of subject areas.
• Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals - An index to the authorship of articles, and a bibliography of articles written by each contributor, and using each pseudonym.

Abstract & Indexing Databases

Should you want to undertake a more thorough search for research materials/literature try searching the following abstract and indexing databases. 

• Scopus
• Web of Science