Remote Access and Library Support
More about UC San Diego Library services during the Covid-19 campus response.
Off-Campus Access to Journals, Ebooks, and Databases: Use AnyConnect VPN.
- When logging in, select the 2 Step Secured - althruucsd option (click to see an example)
- Duo two-step login also required
- I can also help with VPN/remote access troubleshooting.
Welcome!
Hello Researchers!
This guide is designed to help you start your Political Science library research.
Please feel free to email me if you get stuck, have additional research questions, would like to set up an appointment, or have other sources to include in the guide.
~Annelise
Search Engines
Library Research Step by Step
Best Bets
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts1975-present. Research within the political science discipline and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. Use the UC-eLinks button to find full text, print, and/or request the item from another library.
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ProQuest - All DatabasesSelect and search across multiple databases we license from ProQuest. Most of these databases index--and in some cases provide full text access--of journals in all subject areas, along with indexing books, book chapters, dissertations and other sources. You can also add some non-journal databases to your search, like Dissertations & Theses and several major newspapers (New York Times, Wall Street Journal, etc). However, a few ProQuest products, such as Congressional, Statistical Abstracts of the World, and Statistical Insight, are not included here and must be searched separately.
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EBSCO - All DatabasesSelect and search across multiple databases we license from EBSCO, including Academic Search Complete. These databases index journals and magazines--and in many cases provide full text access--in all subject areas in the social sciences, arts and humanities, and science and engineering. Additional sources like newspapers, books and book chapters are also indexed in some of these databases.
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Access World NewsDates vary, but some historical coverage as far back as 1690. More than 5000 sources worldwide, including nearly 1500 in the U.S. Many historical newspapers are in digitized image form. Largely newspapers, with newswires, transcripts, newsletters, magazines, videos.
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Nexis UniNexis Uni contains thousands of full-text sources including newspapers, wires, transcripts, newsletters, magazines, trade journals; also industry news, company information, law reviews, court decisions, statutes. Coverage dates vary. International and U.S. sources. (Previously called Lexis Nexis Academic).
Finding Key Human Rights Documents
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Human Rights Library - University of Minnesota*The* site to begin human rights research. Comprehensive site includes full-text documents, treaties, international agreements, and more.
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Human Rights - United Nations Documentation: Research GuideResearch guide to UN materials dealing with human rights, with links to full text when available.
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Council of Europe Human Rights and Rule of LawContains news and full-text legal documents
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Project Diana: Human Rights Cases (Project Avalon)Contains articles, documents, and links to resources in a variety of subject areas
Human Rights News
UC San Diego Library Catalog (Keyword Search)
Search Tip: Roger is UC San Diego's Library catalog. Use it to find whether we own books, journals, films, maps, documents, etc. Will not return results for individual journal articles.
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While the Library is closed and we have no access to our own print collection, UC San Diego users will have access to scanned copies of books owned by the University of California Libraries that were deposited in HathiTrust, The HathiTrust.org Emergency Temporary Access Service (ETAS) has opened up copyrighted material in the HathiTrust digital library to member institutions with copies of those items in their physical collections. Millions of digitized books available through HathiTrust which are also in UC libraries’ collections are now available online to UC students, faculty, and staff. Use your UC credentials to login to the HathiTrust Digital Library, and then check-out in copyright books for online reading access for renewable one-hour loans. You can also still, as before, read and download public domain books at will.
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HathiTrustPartnership of academic and research organizations offering a collection of millions of digitized materials from libraries around the world, include the UC San Diego Library. Full text is available for many but not all items - you can restrict your search to full text items.
Melvyl
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Melvyl (WorldCat Discovery)The MELVYL Catalog combines the holdings of all UC Library catalogs (it also includes WorldCat) and includes books, government documents, journals and select individual articles. Use the Request button to ask for books from another UC library. Items from these libraries arrive within 2-4 days.
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