Use this guide to discover useful resources for conducting Politics research.
The University of Sussex's Library Search is a good starting point, as it spans all subjects and searches the university's collections and subscriptions. However, to be more comprehensive in your research, you’ll need to use other databases and collections to find resources.
This guide provides a list of places to search for politics-related material, including academic sources like books and journal articles, UK government documents, statistics, news and historical sources. For even more useful resources, try checking the listings of other relevant subject guides.
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A multidisciplinary abstract and citation database of academic journal articles, books and conference proceedings covering all subjects, dating back to 1900. Web of Science consists of multiple different databases including the Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index and Arts & Humanities Citation Index. Features: citation analysis, researcher profiles, journal metrics, search alerts.
Scopus is a multidisciplinary abstract and citation database, which provides access to academic journals, books, conference proceedings, and patents from 1788–present.
Advanced Features: citation analysis, author profiles, journal metrics; data export and analysis, search alerts.
An online database that contains over six million bibliographic references. Dating back to 1951, these references include journal articles, books, newspapers, and dissertations. The subjects covered range from anthropology and economics to politics and sociology. Interdisciplinary subjects such as development studies, human geography, and gender studies are also included.
Digitised and fully searchable records of the British Cabinet from 1915-78. Contains papers, precedent books, and notebooks, including minutes, memoranda, and conclusions from meetings. Divided into three themes: ‘The United Kingdom and the World,’ ‘The Economy, Business, and Resources,’ and ‘Society and the Welfare State.’
Provides complete online coverage of the sessional papers of the British House of Commons and House of Lords. Includes; 18th to 20th-century parliamentary papers, House of Commons parliamentary papers, House of Lords parliamentary papers, public petitions to parliament, 1833-1918, Hansard 1803-2005.
Collection of over 50,000 ebooks on Law and Social and Political Science published by Edward Elgar, including handbooks, encyclopedias, research reviews and legal commentaries.
Ebooks on American politics, European Union, international relations, political economy and Russian politics.
Access to the independent, not-for-profit, online newspaper established in 2000, covering EU affairs in all member states.
American periodicals published between 1740 and 1940, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines and many other historically-significant periodicals. Combines collections from American Periodicals Series Online (APS Online) and American Periodicals from the Center for Research (APCRL).
A digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals from the special collections of academic institutions. Materials produced by feminists, dissident GIs, campus radicals, Native Americans, anti-war activists, Black Power advocates, Hispanics, LGBT activists, the extreme right-wing press and alternative literary magazines during the latter half of the 20th century.
A collection of primary and secondary sources which explore and provide historical background on worldwide border areas, including: U.S. and Mexico; the European Union; Afghanistan; Israel; Turkey; The Congo; Argentina; China; Thailand; and more. The collection, which spans the 19th to the 21st century, is organized by key themes associated with border and migration issues.
A database of primary source documents from the sixteenth to the eighteenth centuries, integrating two archives: ‘Privy Council and related bodies: America and West Indies, Colonial Papers’ and ‘The Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America and the West Indies 1574-1739.’ The collections relate to the British governance of early settlements, encounters with Native Americans, piracy, the slave trade, and conflicts with the Spanish and French.
A collection of John Thomas (J.T.) Murphy and Molly Murphy’s personal and political papers, covering his imprisonment in 1925, his campaign to become a Member of Parliament, and his travels in post-revolutionary Russia. It also includes documents detailing Molly’s time as a suffragette, nursing on the frontlines of the Spanish Civil War and her time in the Soviet Union. Together, these materials provide insight into the internal debates occupying the British and European left during the 1920s and 1930s.
An online collection of more than 100,000 declassified records documenting historic U.S. foreign and military policy decisions since 1945.
Access to two collections within the database: British Politics and Society and Romantic Literature (the Corvey Collection).
A streaming service for UK higher education, containing a searchable archive of over 2 million TV and radio broadcasts dating back to the 1990s. New broadcasts added daily. Record from 75+ channels, create clips, search transcripts, compile playlists and more.
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