APSA Documentation
the american political science documentation guide explained by the Univeristy of Wisconsin-Madison's Writing Center

The American Political Science Documentation Guide
Abridged and revised for the Lamar University Political Science Department

recommended databases

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Political science articles, including international relations, law, and public policy.

J Stor
Full-text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journal.

HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index
Articles about Central and South America, the Caribbean, and Hispanics in the US. Click here for HAPI tutorial.

EbscoHost Academic Search Premier
A multi-disciplinary database that includes political science. Articles from popular press and scholarly publications, including peer-reviewed journals.

individual publications

CQ Public Affairs & CQ Researcher
Public Affairs reports on major policy areas through statistics, historic documents and primary source materials; Researcher gives an in-depth exploration of current issues.

Latin American Intelligence Service
Original analysis of politics and economics in Latin America.
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The National Journal
Policy Central, the National Journal's academic web service.

data sets

Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research (ICPSR)
A subscription service housed at the University of Michigan, the ICPSR. maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data.

internet sites

US Politics

• FEC.gov Federal Election Commission, Unites States of America
• FirstGov gateway to government information on the web
• Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs2004 Election Project seeks to provide "timely, non-partisan information about the 2004 elections"
• Policy Agendas Project Center for American Politics and Public Policy. Collects and organizes data from archived sources to trace changes in the national policy agenda and public policy outcomes since the Second World War.
• Political Advocacy Groups California State University. "a Directory of United States Lobbyists
• Political and Opinion Magazines a megasite from NewsLink; also check out the newspapers, general magazines, and the Search feature.
• Political Information "a search engine for politics, policy and political news"
• Political Science Resources on the Web University of Michigan Documents Department. Extensive metasite almost exhaustive in it's resources in 18 areas including links to NGO's and country info.
• Project Vote Smart "thousands of candidates and officials; backgrounds, issue positions, voting records, campaign finances and performance evaluations"
• THOMAS "legislative information on the Internet; in the spirit of Thomas Jefferson, a service of the Library of Congress"
• U.S. Presidential Elections: 1860-1996 University of Virginia Library, Geospatial & Statistical Data Center. "a continuing project which will eventually contain national election results for all presidential elections."

International Politics

• Foreign Politics University of Michigan. Parties, Elections, Military information on individual countries.
• Foreign Trade Information System (SICE from Spanish acronym) SICE centralizes the location of public, but often difficult to locate or obtain, documents on trade.
• Inter-parliamentary Union documents, press releases, publications and the PARLINE database.
• LANIC: Latin American Network Information Center University of Texas. A comprehensive collection of internet resources, arranged by category, searchable by keyword.
• Latin Americanist Research Resources Project Association of Research Libraries. Includes Latin American social sciences gray literature produced in Latin America, and presidential speeches from Mexico and Argentina.
• Statistical Sites on the World Wide Web U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Scroll down for international statistical agencies listed by country.