Research Guides: Political Science: Databases & Journals

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Academic Search Complete Offers an enormous collection of the most valuable full-text journals, providing users access to critical information from many sources unique to this database. In addition, this database is the leading source of peer-reviewed, full-text for STM research, as well as for the Social Sciences and Humanities. This scholarly collection offers unmatched coverage of information spanning a broad range of important areas of academic study, including anthropology, engineering, law, sciences and more.
Canadian Business & Current Affairs (CBCA Complete) CBCA Complete combines full text and indexed content from all four CBCA database subsets (Business, Current Events, Education, and Reference). Subject coverage is comprehensive and information is available from the broadest range of Canadian sources anywhere. With over 4.5 million records and more than 1,730 titles, CBCA Complete is ideal for anyone interested in current events, business, science, the arts, and academic information as produced in Canada.
CanLII _ Canadian Legal Information Institute Provides access to court judgments, tribunal decisions, statutes and regulations from all Canadian jurisdictions.
CPI.Q Canadian Peridicals Index Indexing and access to Canadian and international journals,magazine, newspapers and reference content.
Social Sciences Full Text Covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences.

There are many e-journals available on a wide variety of topics in this area. Below are a select few.

Canadian Political Science Review
Canada & the World Presents articles and views dealing with issues of socio-political concern, with an apparent liberal slant..

Political Science