Core Options for Politics
Start with these options for articles and other information on political topics:
- Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowA favorite for the social sciences, humanities, fine arts, medicine, and education, ASP indexes 8,200 periodicals. Full-text articles from 3,750 peer-reviewed, scholarly journals are found here, plus a number of popular sources.
- GovInfo This link opens in a new windowGovInfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO), which is a Federal agency in the legislative branch.
GovInfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government. GovInfo replaced the FDsys website in December 2018
Political Information Sources
Use these sources to look up facts and statistics, find politicians and government officials, and learn about agencies and organizations.
- Political Handbook of the World This link opens in a new windowThis is a detailed guide to countries of the world, including history, ethnic make-up, political status, government and political parties, cabinet, legislature, ambassador, media, and relative freedom of communication. Intergovernmental organizations are also found here.
Other Article Options
These general interest article resources, along with options from related fields, provide additional choices for article searching.
- Academic OneFile This link opens in a new windowThis indexes 12,500 periodicals in the Social Sciences, Humanities, Arts, Physical Sciences, Medicine and Education, with 5,400 titles in full-text. The sources are a mix of academic, professional, and popular periodicals and newspapers.
- Gale Power Search This link opens in a new windowCross-search content from select Gale products, including the Regis Library's subscription access to Gale's OneFile periodicals databases covering multiple subject areas, In-Context article databases, and eBooks hosted on the Gale platform.
- America: History and Life This link opens in a new windowArticle citations and abstracts from 1,700 journals on United States and Canadian history and culture, plus citations to books, chapters, book reviews and dissertations.
- Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new windowArticle citations and abstracts from journals covering world history (excluding the U.S. and Canada), as well as citations to book reviews and dissertations.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowNexis Uni provides access to more than 15,000 full text news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis with an interface designed for personalization, collaboration, and quick discovery.
Full Text Finder
If the full text of an article isn't available from the database you're searching, click on the Full Text Finder link that appears below the citation or abstract to see if it is available elsewhere. A new tab or window will open when you click the Full Text Finder link, and all linked options for accessing the full-text document will be listed. Links on this page are formatted to prompt the Regis login for subscription access. Options may include:
Check for full text at the publisher's site: this link will direct the user to the publisher's Web site while passing through our institutional subscription.- Find this article in full text from EBSCOhost SmartLinks+: this link will connect the user to the resource in our library system that provides full-text.
- Find this article in full text from [database name]: this link will connect the user to a specific database in our system that provides access to the full-text document.
- Request this item through interlibrary loan: if no other options are presented, the user can request a digital copy of the article using the interlibrary loan system.
Google Scholar
Tell Google you're affiliated with Regis and you'll be linked to resources in our library.
- Click on Settings.
- Type "Regis University" in the 'Library Links' section and select "Regis University - Full Text @ My Library."
- Click Save.
