USC Libraries add 4 new Political Science databases

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science, international relations, law, and public administration and policy. Over 1,700 titles are monitored for coverage, and of these, 67% are published outside of the United States.

FBIS Daily Reports, 1941-1974, provides full-text access to English-language broadcasts and news transcripts—translated as needed—from around the world. The database is the United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence. Many of these FBIS translations of foreign broadcasts and firsthand accounts may be all that remain from what vanished into the airways or onto the classified recording disks of various national intelligence services. Content is continuously being added and the database should be complete by Fall 2011.

U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994, contains over 415,000 individual documents in more than 14,000 volumes, presenting every publication from the 15th through the 103rd Congress. The database offers new research opportunities for students and scholars in cultural, economic, ethnic, government, military, political and science history and other fields. The Readex digital edition uses the original volumes to create fine new digital images of every publication, including approximately 56,000 maps. Coverage is currently through 1982 with contents being added continually.

LexisNexis Congressional U.S. Statutes at Large, 1789 – present, is a chronological compilation of federal laws, joint and concurrent resolutions, presidential proclamations, reorganization plans, and constitutional amendments. This database indexes and abstracts a broad spectrum of Congressional publications, including hearings (testimony), committee prints, reports, documents, and full text of bills and public laws. The database provides full-text access to the U.S. Statutes at Large from 1789 to the present.