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Popular databases

• Academic Search Ultimate: broad coverage of all subjects and types of sources; a good place to start your research on any topic.
• JStor and Project MUSE: full text databases of high quality scholarly sources.
• International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA): index of leading political science journals in the world.
• Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) and Scopus: databases that track citations
• CQ Electronic Library: full text databases of reference and primary sources on US politics.
• Google Scholar

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Annual Reviews

Oxford Handbooks Online: Political Science

Oxford Scholarship Online: Political Science

Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Politics

Oxford Reference: The International Studies Encyclopedia

The Sage Handbook of Political Science

The Sage Handbook of International Relations (2012)

Encyclopedia of American Government

Gale Virtual Reference Library