Politics: electronic resources

• Contact the Subject Librarian for Politics: Sally Houston 
• For resources within the Library, look at  Politics subject guide

Online databases

• ISI Web of Science Citation Databases - in particular the Social Sciences Citation Indexes.
• JSTOR - full text archival collection of journals. Goldsmiths subscribes to Collections 1 and 3.
• Science Direct Online - full text Social Sciences journal articles, provided by Elsevier.
• Social Theory - full text database (in English and German language texts) particularly strong in German political theorists.
• Project Muse - full text articles on social sciences topics. We subscribe to the Standard Collection.
  
• IBSS - International bibliography of the Social Sciences
• Sociological Abstracts
• British Humanities Index
• Sage full text articles. Can limit your search to only those we subscribe to.
• Ethnographic Video Online
• Box of Broadcasts (BOB)
  

These services require a Goldsmiths IT username and password and may not be available for non-Goldsmiths users. Please see library staff for more details about these. See also E-resources A-Z list.

Please remember that once you have registered with Senate House Library, you have access to all their e-resources and can borrow books from them.

Politics resources on the Internet

• Internet Politician - A "teach yourself" tutorial on Internet information skills for politicians.
• Intute A major resource. It is an extensive online catalogue of internet resources relevant to social science and humanities education and research.
• Social Research Update quarterly journal.
• Society for the study of labour history a guide to British Labour history archives, on-line research sources and web sites.
• SWAP LTSN - Social Policy and Social Work Learning & Teaching Support Network.

UK Government, Local Government and official sites

• DCMS: Department for Media, Culture and Sport
• Greater London Authority
• Hansard - House of Commons debates
• Hansard - House of Lords debates full uncorrected texts from 10th June 96 to yesterday.
• Home Office - provides access to the full text of many of their publications.
• The National Archives - (formerly Public Records Office)
• Office for National Statistics - the official UK statistics site, includes economic indicators, population estimates and a comprehensive range of statistics and information about statistics.
• Office for Public Sector Information -  (formerly Her Majesty's Stationery Office) includes Inforoute, which gives access to the government's IAR (Information Assets Register) of mainly unpublished resources from many government departments.
• Official Documents homepage- a service being developed by HMSO to assist users to locate official documents. It provides access to material published by the Stationery Office and other authorities.
• The Stationery Office's commercial branch
• The UK Government's Web server