Politics

Finding Journal Articles

Databases enable you to search for articles on a particular topic:

Academic Search Complete on Ebscohost A comprehensive scholarly, multidisciplinary full text database, with more the 5,300 full text periodicals.
APA-FT (Australian Public Affairs Full Text) on Informit Current articles on Australian political, economic, legal, social and cultural affairs.
Ejournals Database on Ebscohost Indexes thousands of electronic journal titles. Full text available online for selected titles.
Expanded Academic ASAP on Gale A multidisciplinary database covering 2000 titles (more than half in full text) and a wide range of subject areas.
Humanities & Social Sciences Collection on Informit Provides access to full content from a range of journals, monographs and books, conference proceedings, research papers and reference materials. Covers a broad range of subjects including Arts, Asian Studies, Cultural Studies, Education, Health, History, Indigenous Studies, Law, Media, Political Science and Social Sciences.
Humanities International Complete on Ebscohost Includes the Humanities International Index (indexing and abstracts for more than 2,100 journals) plus unique full text content including over 800 fulltext journals in the humanities, with some politics journals.
Sage Premier Full text access to over 450 journals published by Sage, access is generally from 1999 onwards. Includes political science journals.
Scopus The world’s largest abstract and indexing database. It also includes the journals indexed by ScienceDirect. ScienceDirect is a full text science database with some politics journals.
SpringerLink Full text articles from almost all journals published by Springer. Includes politics titles.
TVNews on Informit Provides online access to news, current affairs and selected documentary programs that have been broadcast on Australian television such as Four Corners, Catalyst and Cutting Edge.

Here's a Four Corners program in which Australian Liberal Party members discuss John Howard's leadership and the 2007 election campaign, Howard's end, 45 min.
Web of Science Provides access to current and retrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,700 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. You can search most disciplines and time spans back to 1982 to uncover information relevant to your research.

Tip: If full text is not provided use the Full Text? button to link to the full text in other databases (if available).

Finding Newspaper Articles

See the Newspapers page to quicksearch across a number of newspaper databases.

Newspaper databases with full text

Factiva Full text articles from hundreds of major newspapers from Australia and around the world.
Australia/New Zealand Reference Centre on Ebscohost Full text articles from selected Australian newspapers.
Elibrary Australia Full text articles from selected Australian newspapers.

eBooks (online books)

Selected titles:

See the eBooks (online books) Subject Starter guide for more the eBook databases.

Australian Government and Politics

australianpolitics.com
Australian political parties Current list of all Australian political parties
Parliament of Australia Parliamentary Document Repository
Political parties and organisations Parliament of Australia website
The Howard years (online video) View this excellent 4 part ABC TV series online and see former ministers of the Howard government discuss the issues and events they faced at the time. Other online videos from ABC programs such as Four Corners, Australian Story, etc are available on the ABC website.

Political Science Resources

New Titles

See the latest new books, ebooks, DVDs and videos the library has acquired:

Author: Annette Steere (asteere@swin.edu.au)