Political Science and Research Resources
University of Washington Resources
Political Science Mega-Sites
Political Science Research
Declassified Documents
University of Washington Resources
Political Science and Public Affairs Reference and Web Resources Maintained by Al Fritz, UW Libraries Political Science and Public Affairs Librarian.University of Washington Libraries Gateway: Political Science and Public Affairs
UW Political Science Department
Daniel J. Evans Graduate School of Public Affairs
Political Science Mega-Sites
The American Political Science
Association
Political Resources on the Web (From the U of Michigan Library Documents Center)
Political Science Page (Paul R. Hensel, Florida State University)
Richard Kimber's Political Science Resources
The Ultimate Political Science Links Page
Political Science Research
The Inter-University
Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR)
"...the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
(ICPSR) is a membership-based organization providing access to the world's
largest archive of computer-based research and instructional data for the
social sciences. ICPSR further serves social scientists around the world
by offering training facilities in basic and advanced techniques
of quantitative social analysis and other resources that facilitate
secondary analysis."
Center for American Women
and Politics
"The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP) is a
university-based research, education and public service center. Its
mission is to promote greater understanding and knowledge about women's
relationship to politics and government and to enhance women's
influence and leadership in public life. CAWP is a unit of the Eagleton
Institute of Politics at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey."
Internet Data Resources for Social Scientists (From the Cornell Institute for Social and Economic Research)
The Institute for Research in Social Science (The Odum Institute, University of North Carolina)
The International Society of Political Psychology
The Society for Political Methodology
Declassified Documents
The National Security
Archive
"The National Security Archive combines a unique range of functions in one non-governmental,
non-profit institution. The Archive is simultaneously a research institute on
international affairs, a library and archive of declassified U.S. documents obtained
through the Freedom of Information Act, a public interest law firm defending and
expanding public access to government information through the FOIA, and an indexer
and publisher of the documents in books, microfiche, and electronic formats."
A CD-ROM index available through the UW
Libraries Databases & Catalogs corresponds to the UW Libraries holdings
in microfiche.
JFK Assassination
Records Review Board
Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board, which reviewed
records relating to the assassination of President John F. Kenedy.
Describes the establishment, nature, and work of the Assassination records
Review Board. Includes the Board's conclusions and recommendations. All
files in PDF format.
FBI Freedom of Information Act
Reading Room
The Electronic Reading Room displays frequently-requested documents
released under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). Categories include
Espionage, Famous Persons, the Gangster Era, Historical Interest, Unusual
Phenonema and Violent Crime
Classification and
Declassification News
Part of the Project on Government Secrecy of the Federation of American
Scientists.
Declassified Documents Reference Service (DDRS). The UW Libraries has a collection of declassified documents on microfiche (in GovPub Microforms); the materials were declassified between 1975-1999. The Declassified Documents Reference Service (DDRS) is the corresponding CD-ROM index; ask for assistance at the Government Publications Reference Desk. The printed index is the Declassified Documents Quarterly Catalog (GovPub Stacks Z 1223 Z7 D4).
See the U.S. Dept. of Justice's page on the Freedom of Information Act for more on the Freedom of Information and Privacy Acts.
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Contact: Cass Hartnett (cass@u.washington.edu)Last modified: Tuesday February 26, 2008