Political Science  

Learn to navigate Scholar OneSearch, the new search tool which  provides simple, one-stop searching for books, articles, digital media, and more.

Here are some great resources you may want to revisit!

      Use SimplyMap to display a variety of datasets for different geographic areas.  There's a learning curve, but the results are worth the effort!

  The NU Political Reference Suite collection (aka CQ Electronic Library) includes Politics in America, Vital Statistics on American Politics, Guide to the Presidency and Executive Branch, Guide to Congress, and the periodicals, CQ Weekly and CQ Researcher (other titles, too!).

  We have two excellent sources for polls: Roper's iPoll and Polling the Nations. For data try ICPSR.

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Homeland Security Digital Library - HSDL is a major collection of homeland security policy and strategy related documents. This resource provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and research reports from various universities, organizations, local agencies and state agencies.    

To locate books, e-books, government publications, and digital media try Scholar OneSearch.  This search box searches only the NU catalog; no articles are included in the search results.

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For Data, try

• ICPSR (Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research)

For Encyclopedia Articles, try

• International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences

• Encyclopedia Britannica