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- Worth a look
- Encyclopedias and dictionaries
- High impact journals
- Web sites and Internet resources
Key databases
APA-FT: Australian Public Affairs Full-Text 
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Provides online access to full-text articles from nearly 400 journals in the social sciences and humanities from 1995. 
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Humanities and Social Sciences Collection (Informit) Full Text
Access to journals, monographs and books, conference proceedings, research papers and reference materials.
JSTOR Full Text
JSTOR contains the full-text of hundreds of journals across the disciplines from archaeology to zoology. Many journal backsets begin in the nineteenth or early twentieth century, however most publishers included in JSTOR have negotiated 3-5 year embargoes, so the latest issues are not included.
HeinOnline Full Text
1,200 law journals on all aspects of the environment, history, politics, business, public policy, government, international issues and criminal justice. Check HeinOnline Titles for a full list.
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HeinOnline also has a library of US Treaties and Agreements, US Attorney General Opinions and US Federal Legislative History of historically significant legislation. The US Presidential Library is a major resource that includes papers of all of the Presidents, Presidential documents from 1965, Inaugural Addresses, Impeachment trials and President's Commissions.
Social Science Research Network
The SSRN includes social science abstracts and over 193,000 full-text items.
ProQuest Full Text
ProQuest has 8,000 magazines and newspapers, 30,000 theses and 4,500 market reports in full text. Other content includes Hoover’s Company Records and 25,000 working papers from the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
Gale Databases Full Text
These cover the arts and humanities, social sciences, science and technology. Includes peer-reviewed articles, ebooks and online encyclopedias.
Wiley InterScience Full Text
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Web of Science
Access scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Includes cited reference searching.
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Worth a look
Family & Society PLUS Selected Full Text
Covers research, policy and practice issues about Australian families including child abuse and child protection issues.
INTAN MAS
Indexes the literature on East Timor and Eastern Indonesia, on Australia's relations with South-East Asia, and with ASEAN and its member nations.
Newsbank Full Text 
Newsbank has the full-text of more than 100 newspapers from Australia and overseas.
Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Cold War Reference Library
Encyclopedia of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity
Encyclopedia of Terrorism
Handbook of Human Rights Law
International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences
Oxford Reference Online
Search Oxford dictionaries and encyclopedias listed by subject.
Useful titles are the Oxford Companion to Australian Politics, Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics, Guide to the Countries of the World, World Encyclopedia, Dictionary of Contemporary World History, Dictionary of World History, Dictionary of Political Biography, Who's Who in the Twentieth Century, and Oxford Guide to the United States Government.
Political Parties of the World
SAGE eReference
SAGE eReference is a database of multidisciplinary encyclopedias.
Check the Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice, Encyclopedia of the Environment and Society, Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change, International Encyclopedia of Organization Studies, Encyclopedia of Law & Society: American and Global Perspectives, Encyclopedia of Political Communication, Encyclopedia of Social Problems, and the Encyclopedia of US Campaigns, Elections and Electoral Behavior.
High impact journals
The following Politics journals are held at UNE and have a high ranking in Journal Citation Reports and ERA's listings for Political Science and Policy and Administration:
American Journal of Political Science 1973-2006
American Political Science Review 1906-2004, 1998-
British Journal of Political Science 1971-2002
Comparative Politics 1968-2004 and in print at Call Number P320.3/C737
European Journal of International Relations 2003- (1 year delay for most current issue)
European Journal of Political Research 1997-
History of Political Thought 1994- and in print at Call Number P320.01/H673
International Organization 1947-2004
International Security 1976-2002
Journal of Conflict Resolution 1957-2004, 1995- (1 year delay for most current issue)
Nations and Nationalism 2006- and in print at Call Number P320.44/N277
Pacific Affairs 1928-2002, 1994- and in print at Call Number P327.05/PAC
Patterns of Prejudice 1999-
Political Analysis 2003- (1 year delay for most current issue)
Political Studies 1997- and in print at Call Number P320/P767
Political Theory 1973-2004
Public Administration is in print at Call Number P350/P976
Public Administration Review 1940-2002, 1988-
Public Opinion Quarterly 1937-2002, 1995-
World Politics 1948-1995, 2002- (1 year delay for most current issue)
Web sites and Internet resources
Australia.gov.au for links to Australian government websites and services.
Australian Development Gateway is a Government website suporting sustainable development in the Asia-Pacific region.
Australian Government Directory including Business Australia.
Australian Government publications search
Australian Policy Online developed by the Institute for Social Research at Swinburne University of Technology.
Intute: Politics for papers, reports, articles and websites, including on international relations.
IPSAportal Top political websites chosen by the International Political Science Association.
Key politics links from the Parliamentary Library in Canberra, including resources for Australia, Canada, New Zealand, UK, Ireland, the US and other countries.
Marxists Internet Archive Library of biographies, works, images and audios of around 600 Marxist and non-Marxist authors.
Parliament of Australia, its ParlInfo search and publications.
Parliament of New South Wales and its legislation.
Political Studies Association (UK) database of conference proceedings 1994-
PROL (Political Research Online) A pre-print showcase of emerging scholarship, developed by the American Political Science Association and other political associations.
Republicanism (the Republic Referendum) articles collated by Charles Darwin University.
Thomas Library of Congress' US legislative information
University of Michigan Documents Center for US and international government information.