CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. The database is building on the merged backfiles of Political Science Abstracts, published by IFI/Plenum, 1975-2000, and ABC POL SCI, published by ABC-CLIO, 1984-2000. Since 2000, development of the serials list has focused on expanding international coverage. As of June 2007 approximately 1,600+ titles are being monitored for coverage; of these, 67% are published outside the United States.
At launch, CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts with ProQuest Full-Text provides full-text access to 120 full-text titles.
• ONLY 15 embargoed titles; only one for longer than one year.
• 80% (97) are refereed.
• Includes 52 of the 95 ISI rated journals in political science
• Deep archive dating as far back as the 1920s for some titles.
Bibliographic metadata of ProQuest content that predates CSA Worldwide Political Science Abstracts coverage of the title has been incorporated into the database. These records and the corresponding full-text are available at launch and will be indexed with vocabulary from the Thesaurus of Political Science Indexing Terms by early spring 2007. Additional content and titles will also be made available within this time period.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts with ProQuest Full-Text
