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Academic Search Complete - A general multi-disciplinary database which contains professional and peer reviewed journals.  Many journals are full text.

Annual Reviews - Publishes full text online authoritative reviews in 31 disciplines including political science.  

Digital Dissertations - With more than 1.6 million entries, the Dissertation Abstracts database is the single, authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses. The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities. They add some 47,000 new dissertations and 12,000 new theses to the database each year.   Full text is available for the titles from 1997 forward.

Econlit - the American Economic Association's electronic database, is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature. EconLit adheres to the high quality standards long recognized by subscribers to the Journal of Economic Literature (JEL) and is a reliable source of citations and abstracts to economic research dating back to 1969. It provides comprehensive information on accounting, capital markets, econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics, monetary theory, urban economics and much more.

Federal Register - The official daily publication for Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive Orders and other Presidential Documents.

GPO Access - U.S. Government Printing Office service providing access to electronic government information products from over 50 databases. Full text.

JSTOR - JSTOR began as an effort to save space in libraries by sharing full text journal articles in a variety of journals.  Some of the political science titles that are indexed include: American Journal of Political Science, and the Journal of Politics.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe - Contains the full text of today's news with a backfile of more than 20 years and full text federal, state & international legal materials. Also includes financial and health information, and general reference sources.

OECD Source - is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development.

PAIS International - offers access to the international literature in public affairs, public and social policies, and international relations. The database contains references to more than 540,100 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more.

Project Muse - Project Muse includes nearly 200 full text online journals from 30 scholarly publishers.  Titles in political science include: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, and Journal of Democracy.

Science Direct - This database started with just the Elsevier journals and has evolved into one of the largest providers of scientific literature.  Political science titles include:  Cities, Electoral Studies, and the Journal of Rural Studies.

Texas Legislature Online -  Information updates to this website occur approximately 15 minutes to 1 hour after the information is entered into the legislature's internal computer system. The internal system is updated as soon as or shortly after legislative events occur.

Texas Register Online - The Texas Register Archive is hosted by the University of North Texas Libraries, and includes issues published since June 1991.  For the most current issue of the Texas Register, please visit the Texas Secretary of State's Web site.

Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet - Contains the full text of U.S. legislation, background information, and an overview of each day's proceedings.

U.S. Government Information - From the Government Printing Office. Contains the full-text of the Congressional Record, Congressional Bills, Public Laws, Federal Register, GAO Reports, and the United States Code. Dates of coverage vary.

Vanderbilt Television News Archive - collection at Vanderbilt University is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. The collection holds more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. These special reports and periodic news broadcasts cover presidential press conferences and political campaign coverage, and national and international events such as the Watergate hearings, the plight of American hostages in Iran, the Persian Gulf war, and the terrorist attack on the United States on September 11, 2001.

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