• Lists numerous science, social sciences and humanities data bases which the University Library has either purchased or prepared
• The largest is the Humanities Text Initiatve, the full text of English language literature

• Instructions and downloadable filters for using bibliographic management software with several MIRLYN Web Files
• MAC and PC versions
• ProCite for Wilson and Psych periodical indexes
• EndNote includes additional periodical indexes

Additional Web Indexes

• ABI Inform (UMich Only)
  • Index of business periodicals and corporate information since 1970
  • Full text of many articles in pdf format

• Alternative Press Index (UMich Only)
  • Indexes over 380 alternative, left, and radical leftist publications issued in North America since 1991
  • Alternative includes radicalism, minorities, gay/lesbian studies, music, and country advocates

• America: History and Life (UMich Only)
  Index and abstracts of 2000 journals in U.S. and Canadian history

• Bibliography of Asian Studies (UMich Only)
  • Index to journal articles and monographs on Asian culture, economics, and politics since 1971
  • Searchable and browsable by subject, country, and journal title
  • Once titles identifed, search MIRLYN-Web for call number of text

• Black Studies Database: Kaiser Index, 1948-1986 (UMich Only)
  • Index to periodicals, newspapers, and books on block studies
  • Searchable by keyword and date
  • Index only; does not provide full text

• Chicano Data Base (UMich Only)
  • Indexes 50,000 articles on Mexican-Americans and Chicanos since 1967
  • Updated quarterly

• Criminal Justice Abstracts (UMich Only)
  • Indexes books, articles, and dissertations on crime and criminal justice
  • Coverage since 1968 in Western European languages
  • Searchable by author, title, keyword, date, and language.
  • Lengthy astracts summarize the articles and may include some statistics

• Gay and Lesbian Abstracts (UMich Only)
  • Index to periodical articles on gay and Lesbian issues since 1997
  • Provides abstracts
  • Does not provide full text but will link to full text of articles also on the web

• Hispanic American Periodicals Index (UMich Only)
  • Indexes periodicals, book reviews, and original literary works since 1970
  • Approaches include keyword, author, title, journal, controlled subject heading, date, and language
  • Subjects include history, politics, economics, and culture of Latin America and Hispanics in the United States
  • Provides citations but not the full text

• Historical Abstracts (UMich Only)
  • Indexes 2000 journals on world history since 1450 (excluding U.S. and Canadian)
  • Since 1980 also covers books and dissertations

• Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (UMich Only)
  • Indexes 450 legal periodicals published outside the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain since 1985
  • Approach by author, title, subject, and keyword
  • Western European languages, including English

• Index to Legal Periodicals (UMich Only)
  • Index to legal journals and law reviews published in English-speaking countries since August 1981
  • Does not include full text

• Left Index (UMich Only)
  • Indexes 120 journals considered politically liberal since 1990
  • Cites article and provides journal's web site but does not provide the text
  • Sample Search: missile & defense/star & wars 1995 : 2001

• OCLC First Search (UMich Only)
  • Index to books and periodicals located in most libraries throughout the United States
  • Includes indexes to over 12,000 journals but does not contain the full text
  • Sample titles include Governing, Governance, Electoral Studies, and Congressional Digest
  • List of Journals Indexed by Discipline
  • Unique feature is Dissertation Abstracts and the full text of the New York Times for the past 90 days

• International Political Science Abstracts (UMich Only)
  • Index to scholarly political science journal articles in Western European languages
  • Choose IPSA from the menu first; go to the next screen before searching
  • Sample search: Russia near (Kosovo or Yugoslavia)
  • Searches may be recombined
  • Data includes author, title, journal, and abstract in English if the article is in English
  • If the article is in another language, the title is translated into English but the abstract is in French
  • A second interface needing a higher level browser is available at WebSpirs 4.0
  • Once you identify an article, search MIRLYN for the call number and location
  • Printed copy: International Political Science Abstracts, 1951- (Ref. JA 36 .I6)

• Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin (UMich Only)
  • Subject index to books, articles, and government documents on politics and economics since 1972 in Western European languages
  • Government documents include United States, United Nations, League of Nations, and State Governments
  • There are also paper versions (English, 1915+, Z 7163 .P98 and foreign, 1968+, Z 7164 .E2 P96)

• Social Sciences Citation Index 1956- (UMich Only)
  • Indexes current periodical articles by author, title/keyword, journal, and author's affiliation
  • Indexes cited authors by name, abbreviated title of book/journal and year
  • Results provide cross references between the cited author, the citating author, and related items
  • Data base also includes the Arts and Humanities and Sciences Citation Indexes
  • Corresponding paper copy located in the Graduate Library Stacks, 1956- (Z 7163 .S67)
  • Also on CD-ROM beginning 1981 at the Graduate Library Information Center
  • Social Sciences Citation Index Examples
  • Connect to MIRLYN to identify library location and call number of book or article

Political Science Periodical Indexes

• Describes periodical indexes available in the University Library
• Includes web version of Social Sciences Citation Index and CD-ROM versions of America History and Life and Historical Abstracts
• Lists the political science, economic, and history journals available in full-text form through JSTOR

Electronic Journal Mega-Sources

• MIRLYN-Electronic
  • Title list of campus and web-licensed electronic journals with hot links
  • Provides the URL

• Electronic Journals and Newspapers List (UMich Only)
  • Lists over 200 journals and newspapers for which the University of Michigan Library has electronic subscriptions
  • Arranged by title or detailed subject
  • Provides the individual URLs
  • All titles also listed in MIRLYN

• Electronic Journals at the University of Michigan
  • Alphabetical list of political science journals with full text through campus licenses
  • Indicates which source (e.g. Peak, JSTOR, Wilson Select) has text

Electronic Full Text Aggregators

• Academic Universe/Lexis (UMich Only)
  • Full text of newspapers from around the world and from major U.S. cities for up to 20 years
  • Most magazines are popular in nature
  • Business, entertainment, environmental, legal, and medical news
  • Replaces LEXIS on-line for most searching

• Columbia International Affairs Online (UMich Only)
  • Search engine indexes current world politics journals, books, conference proceedings, and think tank working papers
  • Full text primarily of working papers

• Congressional Quarterly (UMich Only)
  • Weekly publication with non-partisan political analysis of Congress
  • Identifies major legislation, the issues, and players
  • Roll call votes
  • Political party and election analysis
  • Web coverage begins in 1983 and is searchable

• Electronic Collections Online (UMich Only)
  • Full text and abstracts of approximately 120 scholarly periodicals in the sciences and social sciences beginning 1998
  • The data base includes periodicals to which the University does not subscribe but searches may be limited to those for which online versions are available
  • Administration and Society, American Politics Quarterly, American Review of Public Administration, Cooperation and Conflict, Diplomatic History, International Organization, Journal of Peace Research
  • Peace and Change, Political Quarterly, Political Studies, Political Theory, Politics and Society, Public Administration

• Ethnic News Watch
  • Full text of news and journal articles on the ethnic population of the United States as well as publications by the ethnic press
  • Coverage begins in the 1980s
  • Searchable by keyword, date, people, ethnic groups, and language

• Genderwatch
  • Full text journal, magazine, news and newsletter articles on women's issues since the 1970s
  • Ranges from gender and societal roles to birth control, sexual harassment, daycare, aging parents and eating disorders
  • Searchable by keyword, author, journal and date

• JSTOR Project (UMich/Mellon)
  • Project to convert the full text of scholarly journals to digital format
  • Subjects include Asian studies, ecology, economics, history, philosophy, political science, population studies and sociology
  • List of Titles
  • Access limited to subscribing institutions
  • As of September 1998, includes the full text of the following political science journals:
    • American Journal of International Law, 1907-96
    • American Journal of Political Science, 1957-98
    • American Political Science Review, 1906-96
    • International Organization, 1947-94
    • Journal of Politics, 1939-1996
    • Proceedings of the American Political Science Association, 1904-13
    • World Politics, 1948-95
  • Keyword indexing may be limited to text, abstract, author, article title or journal title
  • Printing and downloading requires application/tifflist or Adobe Acrobat

• National Journal (UMich Only)
  • Full text of the National Journal, which analyzes executive branch politics, since 1977
    • Paper copy also in Graduate Library as JK 1 .N28 with current issues in Documents Center
  • Almanac of American Politics, which analyzes Congressional Districts and the politics of their representatives, since 1998
  • Committee Markup Reports since 1999
  • Public opinion polls and election polls since the late 1990s
  • Congress Daily

• Oxford Analytica (UMich Only)
  • Concise, comprehensive analyses of political and economic developments around the world
  • Articles unsigned presumably to protect the writer from repercussions
  • Data base begins in 1987 and is supplemented by about 15 articles weekly
  • Searchable by country, topic, title, date, and free-text (preferred)

• Project Muse (UMich Only)
  • Full text of journals from Johns Hopkins University Press beginning 1995 or 1996
  • Includes Human Rights Quarterly, Journal of Democracy, and World Politics
  • Coverage extends to scientific, historical, and literary journals
  • Search engine can be used for one or more titles

• ProQuest (UMich Only)
  • Indexes some 2300 journal articles in all fields since the 1980s and provides the full text of many since the late 1990s
  • Includes popular and scholarly titles, such as Comparative Politics, Governing, International Political Science Review, The Journal of Conflict Resolution, and World Politics
  • Journals indexed by author, title, keyword, periodical, and date
  • Articles may be marked for downloading
  • Text in HTML and image formats
  • Journals List

• Science Direct/Elsevier Journals (UMich Only)
  • Index and full text of 1100 scholarly journals since 1996
  • Primarily scientific and economic but some additional social science material
  • Comprehensive searches by keyword or by fields (words in author, title, text, abstract, and date)
  • Individual journals also searchable or browsable
  • When given a personal v. group log-in, choose group log-in
  • Formerly known as Peak/Elsevier Journals

• Wilson Select (UMich Only)
  • Full text of 800 popular journals on line since 1994

Political Science Periodicals

• Links to the political science, economic, and history journals available in full-text form on the web
• Journals free-of-charge or available through University licenses

Academic Universe/Lexis (UMich Only)

• Full text of newspapers from around the world and from major U.S. cities for up to 20 years
• Business, entertainment, environmental, legal, and medical news
• Federal Supreme, circuit and district court decisions; sheparidizing for Supreme Court decisions
• State Supreme and appellate court decisions
• State constitutions and laws-in-force but not proposed legislation

World News Connection (U Mich Only)

• Newswires from around the world, translated into English through the Central Intelligence Agency
• Searchable by keword, region, and date
• Press releases begin November 1994 and continue the Foreign Broadcast Information Service

Political Science News Media

• Links to individual news sources available on the web as well as comprehensive indexes of world-wide scope

Dissertation Abstracts (UMich Only)

• Indexes dissertations from around the world beginning 1861 and includes abstracts beginning 1980
• Search by author, title, keyword, subject
• Full text since 1997
• Paper version is Dissertation Abstracts International (Ref. AS 30 .M63 with 1938-68 in stacks)

Dissertations

• Description of Comprehensive Dissertation Index on CD-ROM
• Dissertation Express, a service permitting University of Michigan affiiliates to purchase their own copies of dissertations for $30 and within a week
• Inter-Library Loan procedures

Access to Primary Sources (UMich Only)

• Index to an extensive microfilm collection of U.S. political and social history issued by University Publications of America
• Topics include: African American Studies, American Civil War, Immigration Studies, International Studies, Jurisprudence, Labor Studies, Military History and War, Native American Studies, Political History, Southern History, Western U.S. History, Women's Studies
• Sample collections: the FDR, Truman, Eisenhower and Kennedy Office Files; Lyndon Johnson National Security Files; Immigration and Naturalization Service correspondence from the early 20th Century; pacification in Vietnam; William Westmoreland Vietnam files; Confederate military records
• Browsing by topic or title yields the guide to the microform collection (HTML or PDF format)
• Search for individual entries in a single or all microform collections by keyword and date
• Resulting entries refer to microfilm collection location
• Search MIRLYN by title for the University of Michigan microfilm call number; contact Inter-Library Loan those collections not available at the University

Archives USA (UMich Only)

• Index to holdings of 4400 archives and 100,000 archival collections in the United States
• Searchable and browsable by keyword, collection name, city and state
• Information includes a description of the collection, hours, and a link to the repository's web site

Declassified Documents (UMich - Campus Only)

• Over 70,000 confidential, secret and top secret documents declassified under the Freedom of Information Act and deposited in Presidential Libraries
• Material includes White House, CIA, FBI, Defense Department, National Security Council, Atomic Energy Commission, NATO, United Nations and others
• Most are dated 1946-68
• Searchable by keyword with an advanced search that includes keyword, agency, classification level, sanitation level, date declassified and issue date
• PDF format for the original plus a more easily-read text format with the search keywords highlighted in red
• The corresponding microfiche is located in Serials Services and Microforms; the retrospective fiche is MICRO-F397; the current fiche is MICRO-F X194

Digital National Security Archive

• Full text of declassified federal documents issued during the Cold War period
• Many of the documents issued by the State Department, Defense Department, and Central Intelligence Agency
• Subjects include:

• Searchable by a combination of collection, subject, keyword, creator, recipient, classification, document type, and date
• Text in pdf or gif format

Microforms

• Microforms are listed in MIRLYN
  • Connect to MIRLYN
  • They can be identified by a title search or by a keyword search in which one of the words is microf?
  • It is easiest to identify microform sets using the University Publications of America catalog or one of the Publishers Catalogs listed above, and then searching MIRLYN

• Documents Center Major Microform Sets
  • Congressional reports and documents since 1789
  • Congressional hearings since 1817, including unpublished hearings
  • All federal government statistical publications since 1978, many business publications since 1980, and international agencies since 1983

• Serials and Microforms Selected Microform Sets
  • Confidential U S State Department Central Files
  • Documents of the National Security Council

Institute for Social Research

• Description of the programs for its three units: Center for Political Studies, Survey Research Center, and Panel on Group Dynamics
• Links to its major surveys: National Election Studies, National Survey of Health and Retirement, Panel Study on Income Dynamics

Inter-University Consortium for Political & Social Research

• Catalog and index to ICPSR's archival holdings of demographic, economic, health, and political machine readable data tapes
• IP access available on campus web sites
• Free web access to federal crime and aging data
• Links to U.S., international, and foreign data archives
• Organizational information about ICPSR and its summer institutes

Internet Securities (UMich Only)

• Commercial data base of emerging markets
• Baltic States, Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine, China, India, Andean Region, Argentina, Brazil and Colombia as of September 1997
• Financial news, company reports, market data, and selected legal information
• Macroeconomic section includes production by industry, foreign trade, foreign investment, and employment
• U-M access provided by the Kresge Business Administration Library, William Davidson Institute, and Center for International Business Education and International Affairs

Numeric Data Service

• Library service helping UMich users to identify, obtain, and interpret documentation of numeric data
• Serves as University contact with ICPSR
• Coordinates Harvard-MIT, Roper, and other memberships
• Web page describes data sets available to University of Michigan users

Source OECD (UMich Only)

• Statistical data bases and periodicals of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development
• In-depth time series of data for the Western European countries, United States, Canada, Japan, and Australia
• Main Economic Indicators, Historical Indicators, and National Income and Product Accounts appear under PERIODICALS/STATISTICAL PERIODICALS
• Economic Surveys are under PERIODICALS
• IMPORTANT USE INSTRUCTIONS
  • When you access the web site, you will be recognized as a University of Michigan user on the righthand side of the screen if you are eligible to use it
  • You MUST register the first time, create a password, and use it for each successive access
  • Use the search engine on the righthand side or the PERIODICALS or STATISTICS links at the top of the page
  • Thereafter you can navigate from the middle of the screen or the lefthand frame
  • Articles are in pdf format
  • Data bases require you to choose series, countries, and dates
  • Data can be downloaded in spreadsheet format

STAT-USA (Commerce Department) [Doc Cen Password Only]

• Economic Bulletin Board/State of the Nation Library includes thousands of current and time series tables on national income, trade, prices, treasury notes, employment, etc.
• Some data compressed for downloading; some are ASCII press releases
• No longer carries Business Cycle Indicators as of Spring 1997
• The Commerce Business Daily has federal government requests for proposals
• GLOBUS, National Trade Data Bank and Trade Opportunities Program Bulletin analyze the business climate

Statistical Universe (UMich Only)

• Indexes and abstracts federal government statistics since 1974
• Business, association and state government data (1980+) and international agencies (1983+)
• Power Tables provides direct access to data in selected statistical compendia, such as Statistical Abstract of the United States
  • Searchable by keyword, COVERAGE date, frequency, and demographic, economic, or geographic breakdown
• Primary access through the Abstracts menu
• Delimiters include Boolean operators and numerous proximity indicators, frequency, and comparative data (by city, by foreign country, by age, by disease)
  • Sample Search: gdp w/10 quarterly and by foreign country
• About 15% of the abstracts link to full text
• For items not hot-linked:
  • Write down abstract number (e.g. ASI 1997 9391-7) and bring to the Documents Center for the microfiche version
  • Consult Statistical Universe Guide for various web searching alternatives

Statistical Resources on the Web

• One of the most comprehensive guides to statistics on the Internet
• Covers 22 subject categories, including economics, demographics, transportation, government, elections

Webstract (UMich Only)

• Thousands of U.S. economic time series and some international, such as OECD and the International Monetary Fund
• Special software mounted in Documents Center with a link from the main Documents web page
• Guide provides description and instructions for obtaining client necessary to run web program
• See JoAnn Dionne jdionne@umich.edu for details
• Documents Center also collecting federal government, OECD and World Bank statistics on CD-ROM

Access UN

• Index to United Nations documents issued since 1956
• Searches may be defined by author, country, type of document (official record, sales publication), subject, title, text, and date
• Full text of resolutions since 1966
• Full text of General Assembly and Security Council debates since 1993 when they contain voting records as well as General Assembly committees since 1990

Congressional Universe (U Mich Only)

• Indexes and abstracts Congressional committee publications since 1970
• Provides full text of hearings (1988+), bills (1989+), reports and documents (1989+), Federal Register (1980+), the current United States Code and Code of Federal Regulations
• The web version of federal legislation in LEXIS

Gongwer News Service (Documents Center Signon)

• Behind-the-scenes political report on the Michigan Legislature and legislation
• Quotations by legislators and lobbyists made on the floor, in committee, and in news conferences
• Coverage begins with September 1993
• Searchable by date or keyword
• Single-site password available in Documents Center; ask staff for sign-on

State Capital Universe (UMich Only)

• Full text of bills for all 50 states since 1991 and bill status since 1990
• Indexes current legal codes of all states
• Full text of administrative regulations for 38 states, exclusing Michigan
• May be searched by state and keyword or across states by keyword
• Provides full text and notes
• Includes Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest
• Indexes official political journals of selected states and newspaper of record for all states
• Various policy briefs from the National Conference of State Legislatures

Documents Center

• One of the largest meta-indexes to government information at all levels as well as statistical data and documents in the news
• Includes political science teaching materials

Economics Department

• Economic publications, data sources, and software
• Economic departments throughout the country
• Student information

Ford School of Public Policy

• Research philosophy and working papers archive
• Academic programs and courses
• Computer support

Political Science Department (University of Michigan)

• List of faculty and staff with address, phone, and e-mail address
• Faculty Research Interests appears under Graduate Student Information
• Sections for graduate and undergraduate students include course guides
• Information about the Computer Assistance Program and accessing ICPSR data tapes

Population Studies Center

• Catalog of its data archive and some data available via anonymous ftp
• Links to U.S. and international population topics

University of Michigan

• Links to academic units, student and faculty services
• Latest University News
• Browse/Search accesses annotations to major web resources on campus

Quick Jumps:

Grace York, Political Science Librarian
University of Michigan Library
Graphics by Sherry Piontek and Barbara Perles

http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/univlib.html

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