Politics

This is UCLan's Politics library page.

For more help and guidance please contact your Subject Librarian: Francesca Robinson

Books

Search for books and ebooks on Library Search. It will tell you what we have in stock and where to find it.

Sometimes there may only be a chapter on a specific topic rather than a whole book. To find those, you will need to use one of our ebook databases which allow you to search through the whole text of a book. We have several ebook collections but a good place to start would be Ebook Central.

• Library Search
• Ebook collections

• Ebook Central

ACLS Humanities eBooks

Journals and Articles

If you have a reference for a particular journal article, or if you want to find out if we take a particular journal title, use the Journal Finder.

If the Library does not have the journal article you want, you can request a copy using the Inter-library loan Service.

eResources and Databases

Subject Specific databases

Political Science - This database gives users access to hundreds of leading political science and international relations journals.
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.
Social Science Database

Multi Subject databases

Academic Search Complete - good general database which includes topics relating to literature and humanities more broadly.
ProQuest Central - large multidisciplinary collection including humanities and languages.
Sage Premier Journals - contains most subject areas including social sciences and humanities.
Taylor and Francis Journal Collection - multidisciplinary collection including arts and humanities.

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 multidisciplinary database of journals published before 2000
Nineteenth Century UK Periodicals Online - related to the study of British life in the 19th Century.
Periodicals Archive Online Collection (1981-2000) - multidisciplinary database.

Multi Subject Abstract & Indexing databases

These databases have a wider scope than those listed above but do not contain any full-text articles.

Additional Resources

News

Nexis - a full-text database of news from over 29,000 sources including local, regional and national newspapers as well as worldwide publications.

Newspaper archives

New York Times (1851-2010)
Artemis Primary Sources - Includes 19th Century British Library Newspapers, 19th Century Periodicals, Illustrated London News (1842-2003), the Picture Post (1938-1957), The Economist (1843-2011), The Times (1785-2011), the Daily Mail (1896-2004) and the Financial Times (1843-2011). Use Artemis Primary Sources to search all the collections simultaneously.
The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer(1791-2000)
The Telegraph (1855-2000)
FBIS Daily Reports, 1974–1996, is a multidisciplinary resource consisting of translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the globe.

Census

Digimap - an online maps service which includes ordinance survey maps, historic maps and census data in the society section which you are able to view and manipulate.

Ephemera

John Johnson Collection - the digitised collection of more than 65,000 items drawn from the Bodleians John Johnson Collection of printed ephemera.
Burney Newspaper Collection - Also includes pamphlets, newspapers and books collected before 1817.
British Labour History Ephemera (Microfilm) - 1880-1926 - A collection of more than 2000 pamphlets, leaflets and other ephemera of British labour history. A full list of the contents can be viewed by searching on library search.

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