TC
Library's subscription Research Databases and the World Wide
Web offer a large number of valuable resources to those studying in the fields
of political science, pre-law and politics.
For political science, law, and related books and other materials in the TC Library collection, be sure to check our catalog. Another Subject Guide that will prove useful is the History page of the Links Library.
Research Databases
Research Databases are freely accessible to Tusculum College students faculty
and staff through IP authentication on campus or from off campus using
the TC username and password.
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Statesman's Yearbook is an excellent and current resource for government information from around the world. It is a current and reliable source of political, economic and social information and provides historical/political backgrounds for every country and international political organization, e.g., Iraq or NATO. |
Infotrac I OneFile, from TEL on Infotrac I, is a one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics, including history, biography, and all matter of political science. Millions of full-text articles, many with images, updated daily. |
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Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Allows its users to search its wealth of full-text periodical articles from law journals and various government reports, including text of court cases from the Supreme Court down to state level. |
Infotrac II: Custom Newspapers, provides full-text articles from 100 U.S. and International newspapers including the The New York Times, Washington Post, and Nashville Tennessean. |
| Infotrac I LegalTrac, from Gale on Infotrac II, contains citations, abstracts and articles from all major law reviews, law journals, speciality law and bar association journals and legal newspapers. | NetLibrary and Ebrary are repositories of full-text electronic books, including many recent titles in politics, law, government, and other disciplines related to the study of political science. |
| USA.gov "... the official U.S. gateway to all government information, ... the catalyst for a growing electronic government." All government departments, branches and agencies that have a web presence are accessible through this website. Free to all. | Polling the Nation is a survey tool designed to let users see raw data from various polls on a host of topics. |
| JSTOR (Journal Storage), available on campus and through our ACA proxy server, contains full-text articles in the areas of history and political science. There is a "rolling wall" of currency, meaning titles more recent than three to five years old must be found in one of the other current research databases | Infotrac II: Biography Resource Center + The Complete Marquis Who's Who, includes full-text articles from hundreds of periodicals and print reference works with biographies from all areas of knowledge and countries. Includes prominent, influential, famous and infamous political figures. |
| Infotrac I Expanded Academic ASAP, from Gale on Infotrac I, meets research needs across academic disciplines and is TC's primary subscription database for current, scholarly journals in the social sciences/humanities disciplines. | Custom Newspapers, which provides full-text and back files for 100 U.S. and International newspapers. |
Political Science and Law: Recommended
Websites
Political Science (general with emphasis on full-text resources)
American Political
Development Contains syllabi from 92 leading scholars of American
Political History and an electronic classroom which is a gateway to primary
sources on 20 century U.S. politics.
Center for Budget and Policy Priorities
Emory Law
Library, a helpful source for legal documents of all kinds, PARTICULARLY
NOTE its link to full-text journal articles
"Foreign
Relations of the United States"
the U.S. Department of State has just posted on line the full-text
volumes from a significant portion of its "Foreign Relations of the United
States" series. The volumes, which are not part of the print collection of The
Library at Tusculum College, are complete for the Kennedy-Johnson years and
scattered for Truman, Eisenhower, and Nixon/Ford. Included is full coverage of
such topics as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Nigerian civil war, the Vietnam
War, and so forth.
Justice Information Center, from
NCJRS, contains links to hundreds of full-text documents/reports
Links to Government Servers and WWW Information Sources
The National Political Index,
a frequently-updated, one-stop source for tracking federal, state, and local
legislation, contacting public officials and agencies, and watching elections
NEW!
Political Resources on the Net
provides access to websites by country that are related to politics. Recommended
by U of Mich. Documents Center.
Rand Corporation, a noted "think
tank"
The Southern Poverty Law Center
Center
for Spatially Integrated Social Science "seeks
to develop unrestricted access to tools and perspectives that will advance the
spatial analytic capabilities of researchers throughout the social sciences.
CSISS is funded by the National Science Foundation
under its program of support for infrastructure in the social and behavioral
sciences."
Political Theory back to top
All of the classic works are available on-line from NetLibrary (noted above). Additionally, you may wish to check the following splendid link compilations:
Forum of Federations
concerns the topic of federalism on a world-wide basis. Click on the
library link and you will be able to access hundreds of relevant reports and
thousands of articles.
Foundations of Political
Theory from political-theory.org
Political Philosophy/Political
Theory on the Internet is a comprehensive links collection
courtesy of the University of British Columbia Library.
Census Bureau
Home Page
A Century
of Lawmaking for a New Nation, offers a documentary record of the
Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the first 20 Congresses
of the United States (1774-1829)
Congressional Research
Service WWW Accessible Reports
Constitution
of the U.S... and other related
documents courtesy of the U.S. Government Printing Office.
Declaration of
Independence Interpretating the Declaration of Independence by
translation.
Fedstats, the comprehensive
Federal statistics index, with data from over 100 agencies. Accessible
also through Firstgov.
Infomine,
helps you find both Federal and state documents
Population Reference Bureau,offers
a variety of reports
THOMAS, Legislative Information on the
Internet Up to the minute Federal legislative information and
historic Bill Summaries (1973-present) and the Congressional Record
(1989-Present). Also includes House and Senate Committee Reports from the
104th-108th Congresses.
University of Michigan Documents Center
Inside Politics,
from CNN
Center for Voting and
Democracy
Federal Election
Commission
League of Women Voters
Project Vote Smart
is quite complete and now provides speeches by state governors as well as
major elected Federal office holders and would-be office holders
(candidates).
U.S. Electoral
College, for anyone needing an explanation of the electoral college or
searching for electoral college statistics
Women in Politics,currently
cites 650 titles, including books, articles in books, periodical articles,
and other organizational or governmental publications
Free Advice.Com,
Site provides free legal advice from estate planning to intellectual
property and litigation.
The Freedom Forum Online,
for students or scholars researching free speech, journalism, politics, or
law.
Freedom of Information
site, from the Society of Professional Journalists
Lawyers.Com,
from Lexis Nexis
includes profiles of 420,000 lawyers and law firms.
Legal Docs,
This site allows you to prepare
customized legal documents and legal forms directly online. There may be a
fee involved.
Legal Information
Institute, a
valuable source for recent Supreme Court cases, constitutions and codes, and
law by source or jurisdiction courtesy of Cornell Law School.
Famous
Trials gathers together information on a number of famous proceedings,
from Cicero to Scopes to McMartin Preschool.
Federal Judiciary, maintained
by the Administrative Office of the U.S. courts
FindLaw:
US Supreme Court Opinions. Search this database by case or by topic.
JURIST is an award-winning
legal site courtesy of the U. of Pittsburgh School of Law.
Supreme Court of the U.S.
The court's website.
Federal Government back to top
NEW!
American Presidency Project a consolidated website of all messages
and papers of the presidents from Washington to G. W. Bush.
American President.org
"Internet's most comprehensive, non partisan resource on the history and
workings of the American presidency. Biographies of presidents, first ladies,
cabinet officers, staffers, advisors, timelines. Website content is
overseen by an editorial board of renowned scholars"
CongressLink
provides information
about the U.S. Congress – how it works, its members and leaders,and the public
policies it produces.
Congress.Org,
allows you to check votes and other happenings
Federal
Citizen Information Center,
answers questions about Federal programs, benefits, services, etc.
Federal Budget is current and full text. Keyword searching of one or more publications,
but not browseable.
Fedworld Home Page
GPO Access
National Geographic's Inside
the White House will tell you what kind of president you would make.
The Legislative Process: Tying it All Together
from the US House of Representatives summarizes the legislative process.
President, a UNC
site, is designed to bring "presidential libraries materials onto the
Internet for improved public access".
Miller Center of
Public Affairs Scripps Library at U of VA Research material
on the American presidency available in both print and digital formats.
Digital holdings include secret White House recordings, oral history interviews
given by presidents, audio and video recordings of Miller Center Forums and
many photographs and documents related to the executive branch. An
invaluable resource.
Project Vote Smart's Government
101 explains the workings of the Federal government
The United
States Government Manual is archived back to 1995.
United States Politics
brought to you by University of Michigan's Libraries' Documents Center.
The White House
All States Home Pages & Web Sites provided by the Library of
Congress.
Council of State Governments
National Center for State Courts
National City
Government Resource Center, provides links to nearly a hundred nonprofit
professional associations, research institutes, and advocacy groups
National Conference of State Legislatures
National Governors Association
National League of Cities
National Network of State
Polls
State and
Local Government on the Net
Tennessee: back to top
Tennessee Anytime is a portal
to the state government.
The Tennessee Blue
Book, includes all kinds of information on the Volunteer State,
including its constitution.
Tennessee Election Commission Links
Tennessee
State and Local Government Entities, contains links to every local site
having a web presence.
Tennessee State Search Engine
Foreign/Comparative Government:
Elections Around the World
provides comprehensive information on this process by
country and region
Embassy
World directory of embassies around the world allows you to use click-down
menus, or to find embassies alphabetically. A separate alphabetical list of US
embassies worldwide is also available.
Foreign
Government Resources on the Web, by the U. of Michigan.
"Foreign Relations of the
United States"
the U.S. Department of State has just posted on line the full-text
volumes from a significant portion of its "Foreign Relations of the United
States" series. The volumes, which are not part of the print collection of The
Library at Tusculum College, are complete for the Kennedy-Johnson years and
scattered for Truman, Eisenhower, and Nixon/Ford. Included is full coverage of
such topics as the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Nigerian civil war, the Vietnam
War, and so forth.
Governments on the Web,
lists sites from 200 countries.
NEW!
International
Relations and Foreign Policy by Vincent Ferraro, Ruth C. Lawson
Professor of International Politics at Mount Holyoke College
Official Documents, from the U.K.
United Nations
United
Nations Documentation: Research Guide, provides an overview of the
various types of documents and publications issued by the Organization
(e.g., reports, resolutions, meeting records, sales publications, press
releases) and gives guidance as to where to find them in either electronic
or paper format and how to work with them.
United Nations Scholars'
Workstation, collection of texts, finding aids, data sets, maps, and
references to print and electronic information courtesy of Yale University.
World
Fact Book, from the CIA.
World Political
Leaders, 1945-date
References to Tennessee will also be found on the Local, State, and Regional Resources page of our "Links Library." Some document sources are also listed with the "Virtual Reference Desks" section of our "Links Library.