Political Science Subject Guide 

To find specific journals (as opposed to individual journal articles), search:

Online Journals & Newspapers
Especially useful when you know the title of the journal and want to go straight to it online.

Orbis (Yale Library catalog)
Especially useful for locating print holdings of journals that are not entirely available online. Also includes records for online journals.

MORRIS (Yale Law Library catalog)
Includes records for online and print journals to which the Law Library subscribes.

Often, the most efficient way to find a wide range of journal articles (and working papers, book chapters, conference proceedings, government documents, and other materials) is to search within databases.

Five good starting points

The first three can be searched together (choose one, then on the search screen click "Specific Databases" to add the others). Look for the "Yale Links" button to connect to full text (when available).

• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
  Covers political science, international relations, law, and public administration / policy. Covers 1,500+ titles, of which 67% are international.
• PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)
  Indexes public affairs literature including political, economic and social issues. Contains references to articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, research reports, conference reports and publications of international agencies. Publications from more than 60 countries are included. Materials indexed are in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish.
• IBSS: International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
  Indexes more than 2,600 social sciences journals and 6,000 books each year, from more than 100 countries in more than 90 languages. The comprehensive coverage provided in the database, while based on the core disciplines of anthropology, economics, political science and sociology, also reflects the increasingly interdisciplinary nature of the social sciences.
• International Political Science Abstracts
  Indexes world's leading journals in political science with over 262,700 records from more than 1,000 journals published from 1951 to the present. Searchable in multiple languages.
• SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
  Includes abstracts of scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers, as well as an Electronic Paper Collection currently containing downloadable full text documents. Free registration required.

Find more databases for political science research

Browse Yale Library's complete list of databases (there are nearly one thousand) or search the list. Use the "Any Word" search box to find databases relevant to your topic (i.e. "congress," "international affairs," "china," "security," etc.).