This is a list of the most useful databases to use to get scholarly articles, policy briefs, magazine articles, and  federal legislation for your Political Science assignments:

Academic Search Complete

PAIS International

CQ Researcher

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

CIAO

Sage Premier Collection

Social Sciences Abstracts Full Text

Backwell Publishing Journals

CQ Weekly

JSTOR

From the Library Home Page > select Articles > Select POLITICAL SCIENCE as subject from "Choose Databases by SUBJECT" menu > click "Get Database List". This will lead to the Subject Databases page for POLITICAL SCIENCE.

Start with Academic Search Premier or  PAIS International databases, as well as other databases to research your question.

Select the Advanced Search feature. Remember, database interfaces might look different from each other, but they have many of the same features (e.g. Advanced Search, Subject Headings, Full-text, Save, Print, Email, Cite, Export, etc.)

Starting a search:   

• Enter keywords that describes your topic. Remember to connect keywords with "AND". 
• Look at your results to see if any of your hits look useful/relevant to what you need.
• Click on one hit that looks useful/relevant.
• Look at the subject headings that describe the article.
• Click on one of the subject headings to get a list of more articles on that subject.