POLITICAL SCIENCE
RESEARCH GUIDE FOR TWENTIETH-CENTURY RESEARCH
I. ONLINE NEWSPAPERS
A. Online Search Engines
Citation
and sometimes first paragraph information from various newspapers and magazines
can be found at http://news.google.com/archivesearch.
Citation
and first paragraph information from the New
York Times is found at http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html
B. Library – No access currently back to the
1930s and 1940s at library.
C. Full text
dates as far back as 1980s:
EbscoHost Newspaper
EbscoHost Newspaper source provides cover-to-cover full text for 20 national (
D. Full text
dates as far back as 1980s:
Proquest
E. New York Times (0362-4331)
All articles (payment required for full text) at http://www.nytimes.com/ref/membercenter/nytarchive.html
from 06/01/1980 to present in LexisNexis Academic
from
from
from 07/01/1995 to present in InfoTrac
Custom Newspapers
F.
from
from
from 02/13/2003 to present in Newspaper
Source
II. LIBRARY OWNS: NEWSPAPERS
A. New York Times
The
A&M-Texarkana library has hardbound paper New York Times indexes for most of the twentieth century.
The
A&M-Texarkana library has the New
York Times back to the 1930s and 1940s on microfilm.
B.
The
A&M-Texarkana library has the Texarkana Newspaper back to the 1930s and 1940s
on microfilm, but it is not indexed.
III. ONLINE PERIODICALS & JOURNALS
A. Online Search Engines
Citation
and sometimes first paragraph information from various newspapers and magazines
can be found at http://news.google.com/archivesearch.
B. Library Electronic Databases
Wilson
OmniFile – Full text dates as far back as 1980s
EbscoHost
Academic, Masterfile – Full text dates as far back
as 1975
EbscoHost
World History – Full text dates as far back as 1964
Infotrac OneFile – Full text dates
as far back as 1980s
Research
Library – Indexing starts in the 1971, full text dates as far back as 1980s
C. JSTOR
JSTOR has periodicals – Back to the 1930s and 1940s.
IV. LIBRARY OWNS: PERIODICALS & JOURNALS
A. Bound Periodicals The bound volumes of the Readers Guide to Literature index all of
these and other periodicals.
Harper’s Magazine (back to the 1930s and 1940s) located
in the Bound Volume Area
Life Magazine (late 1930’s--1938 -1939 and 1940s+)
located in the Bound Volume Area
Saturday Evening Post (late 1930’s--1938 -1939 and 1940s+)
located in the Bound Volume Area
National Geographic (back to the 1930’s and 1940s)
located in the Bound Volume Area
B. Microfilm Periodicals The bound volumes of the Readers Guide to Literature index all of
these and other periodicals, except for U.S.
News and World Report.
Good Housekeeping (back to the 1930s and 1940’s) on
microfilm
Ladies Home Journal (back to the 1930s and 1940’s) on
microfilm
The
Nation (back to the 1930s and 1940s) on microfilm
Newsweek (1933+) on microfilm
Time (back to the 1930s and 1940s) on
microfilm
V. ONLINE: CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY WEEKLY
Online Access:
Oct.1983-current.
VI. ONLINE: CONGRESSIONAL DIGEST
Online Access: EbscoHost
All Databases
VII. LIBRARY OWNS: CONGRESSIONAL QUARTERLY WEEKLY
The library has hard copies of the Congressional Quarterly Almanac 1967-Current. This book is equivalent to the CQ weekly for that given year; when the Almanac was received the weekly issues
for that year were discarded.) Each volume has a subject index located in
the back.
VIII. LIBRARY OWNS: CONGRESSIONAL RECORD
Format: Print
J11 .R5
Location: Bound Volume Area
Vol. 109 PT 12: 88th Congress, 1st
Session (Aug 21-Sep 12, 1963) MISS. All Other PTS
Vol. 110 PTS 2-20: 88th Congress, 2nd
Session (Jan 30-Oct 3, 1964) MISS. PT 1 (Jan 1-29)
Vol. 111 PTS 1-23: 89th Congress, 1st
Session (Jan 4-Oct 22, 1965) MISS. PT 22 (Index)
Vol. 112 PTS 1-23: 89th Congress, 2nd
Session (Jan 10-Oct 22, 1966)
Vol. 113 PTS 1-29: 90th Congress, 1st
Session (Jan 10-Dec 15, 1967)
Vol. 114 PTS 1-26: 90th Congress, 2nd
Session (Jan 15-Oct 10, 1968)
Vol. 115 PTS 1-32: 91st Congress, 1st
Session (Jan 3-Dec 23, 1969) MISS. PT 12 (June 10-19)
Vol. 116 PTS 1-35: 91st Congress, 2nd
Session (Jan 19, 1970-Jan 2, 1971)
Vol. 117 PTS 1-38: 92nd Congress, 1st
Session (Jan 21-Dec 17, 1971) MISS. PT 15 (June 10-16), PT 17 (June 24-30), PT
26 (Sep 28-Oct 4)
Vol. 118 PTS 1-30: 92nd Congress, 2nd
Session (Jan 18-Oct 18, 1972)
Vol. 119 PTS 1-35: 93rd Congress, 1st
Session (Jan 3-Dec 22, 1973) MISS. PT 9 (Apr 3-1 1), PT 13 (May 16-29), PTS
15-17 (June 7-29)
Vol. 120 PTS 1-33: 93rd Congress, 2nd
Session (Jan 21-Dec 20, 1974)
Vol. 121 PTS 1-34: 94th Congress, 1st
Session (Jan 14-Dec 19, 1975) MISS. PT 2 (Jan 24-Feb 5)
Vol. 122 PTS 1-29: 94th Congress, 2nd
Session (Jan 19-Oct 1, 1976)
Vols. 123-126 SEE MICROFICHE HOLDINGS
Vol. 127 PTS 25-26: 97th Congress, 1st
Session (Jan 5-Dec 16, 1981) Index & Daily Digest ONLY---SEE MICROFICHE
HOLDINGS
Vol. 128 PTS 2-26: 97th Congress, 2nd
Session (Feb 10-Dec 17, 1982) MISS. PT 1 (Jan-Feb 9)
Vols. 129-141: 98th Congress, 1st
Session to 104th Congress, 1st Session (Jan 1983-Dec 1997) Index & Daily
Digest ONLY---SEE MICROFICHE HOLDINGS
Vol. 142 PTS 20-21:104th Congress 2nd
Session (Jan 3-Oct 21, 1996) Index & Daily Digest ONLY---SEE MICROFICHE
HOLDINGS
Vol. 143 PT 20: 105th Congress 1st
Session (Jan 7, 1997-Jan 24, 1998) Daily Digest ONLY---SEE MICROFICHE HOLDINGS
Vol. 144 PT 21: 105th Congress 2nd
Session (Jan 27, 1998-Jan 19, 1999) Daily Digest ONLY--SEE MICROFICHE HOLDINGS
Vol. 145: ALL PTS MISSING---SEE
MICROFICHE HOLDINGS
Vol. 146 PT 20: 106th Congress 2nd
Session (