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Journal Guides: Political Science

Chat with a Xavier LibrarianDigital Journals

JOURNALS @ XU (Electronic Journal Locator & more!) (the Electronic Journal Locator and more!) contains all of the electronic, full-text journals in most of the library's research databases and full-text journal collections. Search for a particular journal title using title begins with, title equals (exact title) or title contains all words. Browse for a journal using the alphabetical display or search for a journal by subject category. Results provide links to the research database(s) or electronic journal collection(s) that index the journal and include the years covered. If full-text is not available, it provides links to XPLORE for print and microform holdings and to the Document Delivery/Annex Article Request Form - both are automatically populated with journal and article information. Instructions are available for accessing articles within databases and from bibliographies. It is compiled by and the user interface is provided by Serials Solutions.

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Print Journals

Search Print & Microform Journals in XPLORE by title if you do not see the journal you need below.

  • Adelphi papers. v.189 (1984) -  
  • African affairs; journal of the Royal African Society. v.90 (1991)-  
  • The American enterprise. v.1 (1990) -  
  • The American journal of international law. Remote Stacks v.44-63; McDonald v.64 (1970) -  
  • American journal of political science. v.17 (1973) -  
  • The American journal of sociology. v.44 (1938/39) -  
  • The American political science review. Remote Stacks v.1-53; McDonald v.54 (1960) -  
  • American sociological review. v.11 (1946) -  
  • Anthropological quarterly. Remote Stacks v.26-42; McDonald v.43 (1970) -  
  • British journal of political science. v.14 (1984) -  
  • British journal of politics & international relations. v.3 (2001) -  
  • Canadian journal of political science. v.1 (1968) -  
  • The China quarterly. no.61 (1975) -  
  • The Columbia journal of transnational law. v.37 (1998) -  
  • Comparative politics. v.5 (1972/73) -  
  • European journal of international law. v.14 (2003) -  
  • Fellowship. v.71:3/4 (2005) -  
  • Foreign affairs. Remote Stacks v.1-47; McDonald v.48 (1969/70) -  
  • Foreign policy. no.38 (1980) -  
  • The Georgia journal of international and comparative law. v.29 (2001) -  
  • German history : the journal of the German History Society. v.9 (1991) -  
  • Government and opposition. v.8 (1973) -  
  • Harvard international law journal. v.42 (2001)-  
  • History of political thought. v.1 (1980) -  
  • Human organization : journal of the Society for Applied Anthropology. v.34 (1975) -  
  • Human relations. Remote Stacks v.7-22; McDonald v.23 (1970) -  
  • International affairs. v.45 (1969) -  
  • The International and comparative law quarterly. v.24 (1975) -  
  • International legal materials. v.23 (1984) -  
  • International security. v.8 (1983/84) -  
  • Internationale Politik. v.4 (2003) -  
  • Interpretation (1970). v.7 (1978) -  
  • Issues & studies. v.41 (2005) -  
  • The journal of developing areas. v.25 (1990/91) -  
  • Journal of marriage and family. v.63 (2001)-  
  • Journal of Palestine studies. v.33 (2003/04) -  
  • The Journal of political economy. v.48 (1940) -  
  • The Journal of politics. Remote Stacks v.1-31; McDonald v.32 (1970) -  
  • The Journal of sex research. v.10 (1974) -  
  • The Journal of social, political, and economic studies. v.9, no.4 (Winter 1984) -  
  • Latin American politics and society. v.43 (2001)-  
  • Latin American research review. v.26 (1991) -  
  • Liberty. Current year only.   Marriage & family review. v.1 (1978) -  
  • The Middle East journal. v.32 (1978) -  
  • Middle East policy. v.1 (1992) -
  • Modern age. Remote Stacks v.1-13; McDonald v.14-27; v.33 (1990/91) -  
  • The National interest. no.23 (Spring 1991) -  
  • Other voices. No. 39 (2004) -  
  • Perspectives on political science. v.19 (1990) -  
  • Perspectives on politics v.1 (2003) -  
  • Political research quarterly. v.46 (1993) -  
  • The Political science reviewer. v.20 (1991) -  
  • Political studies. v.13 (1965) -  
  • Politics v.17 (1997) -  
  • Polity. v.1 (1968) -  
  • Presidential studies quarterly. v.21 (1991) -  
  • Proceedings of the annual meeting - American Society of International Law. v.56 (1962) -  
  • PS, political science & politics. v.21 (1988) -  
  • Public opinion quarterly. v.33 (1969) -  
  • Review of international studies v.26 (2000) -  
  • The Review of politics. Remote Stacks v.1-31; McDonald v.32 (1970) -  
  • Signs. v.1 (1975) -  
  • Social forces. Remote Stacks v.25-47; McDonald v.48 (1969/70) -  
  • Social problems. v.25 (1977/78) -  
  • Social research. v.32 (1965) -  
  • Social science quarterly. v.65 (1984) -  
  • Sociological theory. v.1(1983)-v.2(1984); v.8 (1990) -  
  • Sociology of religion. v.54 (1993) -  
  • Survival. v.26 (1984) -  
  • Third world quarterly. v.13 (1992) -  
  • The Tocqueville review. La revue Tocqueville. 25:2 (2004) -  
  • UN chronicle. v.12 , no.4 (April 1975) -  
  • Vierteljahrshefte fur Zeitgeschichte. v.24 (1976) ; v.29 (1981)-  
  • The Washington monthly. v.5 (1973/74) -  
  • The Washington report on Middle East affairs. v.21 (2002) -  
  • The weekly standard. Current year only.  
  • West European politics. v.7 (1984) -  
  • World policy journal. v.1, no.2 (Winter,1983) -  
  • World politics. v.25 (1972/73) -  
  • The World today. v.40 (1984) -
Journals Not at Xavier

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Resources for Evaluating Journals

Journal Citation Reports (2006) permits users to evaluate and compare journals using 2006 citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals form more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. The science edition contains data from over 5,900 journals and the social science edition over 1,700 journals. It can show you the most frequently cited journals in a field, the highest impact journals in a field and the largest journals in a field. Citation and article counts are important indicators of how frequently current researchers are using individual journals. It is produced by the Institute of Scientific Information (ISI) and the user interface is provided by Thomson. Click the Additional Resources tab to access this database.

Ulrich's Periodicals Directory (full-text directory information) contains information on currently published as well as discontinued periodicals. It includes magazines, journals, newletters, newspapers, conference proceedings, and electronic publications. Each entry includes a description, publisher, country of publication, ISSN, start year, status (active or inactive), price, frequency, ending issue, if refereed, format (print or electronic), if abstracted or indexed, where abstracted or indexed, language, editor, URL, and reviews. It is produced by and the user interface is provided by R.R. Bowker.

Criteria for Evaluating Scholarly vs. Popular Journals

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