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The Butler University Libraries use the Library of Congress classification system. Most political science books are found in the J and K areas.

Political Profiles
REF E 840.6 .P64
Contains biographical data on important players in U.S. politics from 1945-1976

Alternative Press Index (1987-2009)
ANNEX AI 3 .A47

Social Sciences Index (1974-2006)
ANNEX AI 3 .S611

Almanac of American Politics (Latest 5 editions)
REF Desk JK 1012 .A44

American Political Dictionary REF JK9 .P55 2002

Encyclopedia of American Political History
REF E 183 .E5 2001

Encyclopedia of Interest Groups and Lobbyists in the United States
REF JK 1118 .N47 2000 (v.1-2)

The Gallup Poll (1935-present)
REF HN 90 .P8 G35

Public Interest Group Profiles
REF JK 1118 .P78 2006

Academic Search Premier (EBSCO)
Provides citations and abstracts from over 8,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers covering the humanities, social sciences, business, education, and the natural and applied sciences, including more than 3,500 full-text, peer-reviewed journals.
Alternative Press Index (AltPressIndex)
Biography Resource Center (Gale)
CQ Researcher
Offers in-depth coverage of political and social issues. Reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy appear routinely.
Credo Reference
A digital reference library that places a world of factual information at your fingertips, offering access to over 1.7 million individual entries.
Ethnic NewsWatch
"... journals, magazines, and newspapers from ethnic and minority presses, providing ... access to essential, often overlooked perspectives"
GenderWatch
"... database of diverse publications that focus on how gender impacts a broad spectrum of subject areas ... dating back to 1970 in some cases"
JSTOR
Opposing Viewpoints in Context
Site includes full-text journals, reference sources, statistics and more on a wide variety of social issues
Project MUSE
Provides full-text of many scholarly journals in the social sciences.
21st Century Political Science: A Reference Handbook
In Credo Reference

American Presidency Project
created by University of California-Santa Barbara to provide extensive historical and current information on U.S. presidents
American President : An Online Reference Resource
site sponsored by the Miller Center of Public Affairs, University of Virginia contains a broad range of scholarly information
C-SPAN Video Library
Archive of all C-SPAN programming from 1987 to date in an easily searchable database
Directory of Open Access Repositories
Authoritative directory of over 2000 academic open access repositories searchable by repository or content
Electoral Geography 2.0
Latest election results from around the world broken out by county, party, etc.
Government Information
On Politics
from Washingtonpost.com and Congressional Quarterly
ProPublica: Journalism in the Public Interest
"... an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest"
Serve.gov
created by the U.S. government and managed by the Corporation for National and Community Service as an online resource for finding volunteer opportunities in communities and creating new ones
Spotlight on Poverty and Opportunity
"The Source for News, Ideas, and Action" created as a nonpartisan inititiative.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Thomas
legislative information on the Internet maintained by the Library of Congress
U.S. Census Bureau
USA.Gov
U.S. Government information portal