Political Science

Covers the fields of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, and arts and humanities. Comprised of 21,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers. Exporting data to Reference Managers such as Mendeley, RefWorks and EndNote, tracking citations with Citation Overview/Tracker, analyzing journal performance with Journal Analyzer and alternative journal impact metrics SNIP and SJR are some of its unique features.

One Mail information:

On August 7, 2025 optional Elsevier user accounts with @indiana.edu email addresses were updated to @iu.edu email addresses. No further action is needed.

Researchers can search the citation data (the footnotes of each article), taking a known, relevant paper and finding other, more recent papers that cite it. In addition, the Keywords Plus feature provides additional search terms and phrases drawn from an article's bibliography (cited references).

oogle Scholar enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

Connecting to Google Scholar from off-campus? The IUB Libraries already provide access to many of the journal articles indexed in Google Scholar. Look for IU-Link, which will lead you to information about full-text content you can access via the Libraries' subscriptions.

IUCAT, Indiana University's online library catalog, provides comprehensive access to millions of items held by the IU Libraries statewide, including books, recordings, US government publications, periodicals, and other types of material. Users can access IUCAT from any Internet-connected computer or device, whether in the libraries, on campus, or off campus.

AI Research Tool

The Libraries' subscription includes access to the Discovery Assistant AI research tool. This tool is in beta, and may be removed from the Oxford Academic site without advance notice.

Sage Research Methods focuses on methodology rather than disciplines. It can be used across the social sciences, health sciences, and other areas of research.

One Mail instructions:

If you created a personal account for Sage Research Methods using your indiana.edu email address, you will need to update your account to use your iu.edu email account before December 31, 2025.

1. Go to Sage Research Methods
2. Click on "My profile" and "Sign in," and then log in to your profile
3. Once you have logged in, click on "My profile" (where you should see your name displayed) and then click on “View My Profile.”
4. In the "Email Address" field enter your new email address and then click "Save" to save your changes.
    

One Mail instructions:

If you created a personal account for Sage Research Methods using your indiana.edu email address, you will need to update your account to use your iu.edu email account before December 31, 2025.

1. Go to Sage Research Methods
2. Click on "My profile" and "Sign in," and then log in to your profile
3. Once you have logged in, click on "My profile" (where you should see your name displayed) and then click on “View My Profile.”
4. In the "Email Address" field enter your new email address and then click "Save" to save your changes.

One Mail instructions:

If you created a personal account for Sage Research Methods using your indiana.edu email address, you will need to update your account to use your iu.edu email account before December 31, 2025.

1. Go to Sage Research Methods
2. Click on "My profile" and "Sign in," and then log in to your profile
3. Once you have logged in, click on "My profile" (where you should see your name displayed) and then click on “View My Profile.”
4. In the "Email Address" field enter your new email address and then click "Save" to save your changes.