• International Encyclopedia of Political Science
  This encyclopaedia contains review articles from leading international scholars as well as a detailed index and extensive bibliographical references. It covers every field of politics, from political theory and methodology (i.e. quantitative and qualitative research methods within political science) to political sociology, comparative politics, public policies, and international relations.
• Dictionary of the Social Sciences
  Here you can find concise and clearly written definitions of more than 1,500 important terms within different social science disciplines such as anthropology, sociology, political science, economics, human geography, cultural studies, and Marxism.
• Encyclopedia of Social Measurement
  A reference work with more than 300 articles about method and empirical analysis within the social sciences. You can find quantitative and qualitative research methods, analytical techniques, sampling designs and statistical methods, as well as examples of data sets etc.
• International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences - IESS
  An academic reference work within social sciences that contains short review articles with comprehensive bibliographic references. The work covers, among others, the fields of anthropology, ethnology, demography, economics, political science, sociology etc.
• Keesing's Record of World Events (until 1987 Keesings Contemporary Archives)
  Monthly overview over the most important world events based on newspapers. It has been published since 1931. There are detailed annual person and subject indexes as well as an annual country overview. At AU Library it can be found in a printed edition from 2002-2016.
• Lex.dk (in Danish)
  Portal with access to 11 Danish reference works including Den Store Danske, Danmarkshistorien, glossaries from Den Danske Ordbog and more.
• Oxford Handbooks Online
  A collection of high-quality reference works written by leading researchers in the individual disciplines eg. Political Science. The articles are updated regularly. Please note that there is only partial full-text access.
• Oxford Reference Online
  Oxford Reference Online is a joint access to 100 reference works from Oxford University Press within many fields such as economics, medicine, history, politics etc.
• Oxford Research Encyclopedias
  Review articles written, peer-reviewed and edited by leading researchers. Each of the 25 different encyclopedias covers both basic and groundbreaking topics across several academic areas e.g. politics.
• The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Interest Groups, Lobbying and Public Affairs  
  A transnational encyclopaedia on interest groups, lobbying and public affairs designed to satisfy a growing global need for knowledge and in depth understanding of these key political and corporate activities for the researcher, student, policy maker and modern manager  
• Sage Knowledge
  This is an electronic reference works within arts and social science.
• Wikipedia (in many languages)
  An encyclopaedia with openly editable content. It can be accessed in many different languages and in different versions.

• Politica (in Danish)
  Denmark’s leading journal for political science. Through tidsskrift.dk there is access to all volumes. See also PhD-theses at the Department of Political Science published by Politica.
• Administrativ debat (only in Danish)
  This is the members’ journal for the Danish department of the organisation NAF, Nordiska administrativa förbundet). The journal features current problems for the Danish national and municipal administration. The journal can be found at AU Library in a printed edition from 1990 and onwards.
• Idunn.no (only in Norwegian)
  This a Norwegian database for Norwegian specialist journals. Articles published after 2004 can all be found in the database. There is full text access to all journals unless otherwise specified at the introduction site for the individual journal.
• Mandag Morgen (only in Danish)
  This is a journal with in-depth journalistic analyses of current political and economic events that can change the society. The journal published articles, reports and special issues where new opportunities and solutions to current risks and challenges are pointed out. The journal can be found at AU Library in a printed edition from 1990 and onwards.
• Nordisk administrativt tidsskrift (only in Nordic/Scandinavian languages)
  The journal is published by Nordisk Administrativt Forbund. The journal has been published since 1920 and is thereby the oldest multidisciplinary journal in the Nordic countries. The journal can be found at AU Library in a printed edition from 1920 and onwards. From 2011 and onwards there is electronic access.
• Politik (only in Danish)
  This is a multidisciplinary social science journal that communicates academic arguments about politics in the widest sense. Previous titel: Politologiske studier. The journal can be found at AU Library in a printed edition from 1998-2015. From 2010 and onwards available as an e-journal.
• Politologisk årbog (only in Danish)
  A yearbook with the best reseach contributions from the past year within the field of political science across the Danish universities. It can be found at AU Library in a printed edition from 2012/2013 and onwards.
• RÆSON (only in Danish)
  An independent journal about Danish and international politics, which is written by experts, journalists and politicians. 
  The journal is available at AU Library as a printed journal from 2007-. Selected articles and podcasts can be accessed from RÆSON's website.
• Samfundsøkonomen (only in Danish)
  The journal deals broadly with social studies and it uses analytical approaches from all the social sciences. The journal can be found at AU Library in a printed edition, and from 1997- it is also available as an e-journal through AU Library’s database.
• Scandinavian Political Studies
  This journal is published by The Nordic Political Science Association (NoPSA), which is the Nordic extension of the national associations of political science in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden.
• Tidsskrift.dk (only in Danish)
  This is the national portal for retro-digitised Danish specialist and scientific journals.
• Udenrigs (mostly in Danish)
  The Danish Foreign Policy Society’s journal about international politics. It is the only one of its kind in Denmark that solely addresses foreign politics. The journal can be found at AU Library in a printed edition. From 2005-2018 it is also available as an e-journal.
• Ugebrevet A4 (only in Danish)
  One of Denmark’s most agenda-setting media. It contributes to the debate about the job market, the welfare state and those values and trends that characterise Denmark in the present and the future.
• Økonomi & Politik (only in Danish)
  This is a social science journal with articles, book reviews and features in the borderline between the economic and the political field. It can be found at AU Library in a printed edition from 1927 and onwards. From 2005 and onwards it is also available as an e-journal.

• Elections and political parties in Denmark

  • Political parties
  • Elections and voters
  • Election books (Valgbøger) – analyses of the Danish Parliament elections
• Folketinget.dk (in Danish and English – more detailed in Danish)
  Here you can find information about Folketinget, the Danish Parliament, and its work. You can find information about, e.g. the members, the political parties, and numbers and facts about the parliamentary elections. There is also access to laws and proposals for resolutions as well as information about the committees and delegations and their work, but most of this is published in Danish. Coverage of parliamentary years see the web-archive.
• Retsinformation.dk (only in Danish)
  This is a website with access to the joint Danish state legal information system. It is possible to search in all laws and regulations that are published by ministries and central state administrations, in documents from Folketinget, the Danish Parliament, and in reports from the Danish Parliamentary Ombudsman.
• Folketingstidende (Report of  plenary proceedings in the Danish Parliament) (only in Danish)
  The Office of the Folketing Hansard writes and publishes the official report of the plenary proceedings in the Folketing and has been doing so since the abolishment of the absolute monarchy in 1850. Up until 2009 the report was published in a printed version, but today it is completely digital and published solely on the internet.
  You can search Folketingstidende from 1953 to the present at folketingstidende.dk.
  Access to the complete editions of the Rigsdagstidende and Folketingstidende from 1849/50 to 2008/09 on e-Folketingstidende.  
• Betænkninger (commission reports, only in Danish)
  The Royal Danish Library's service for the central administration in Denmark is the central library and documentation centre for civil servants within the Danish central government. There is access to all numbered commission reports online.
  See also: The bibliography ”Danske Kommissionsbetænkning” contains around 9,700 references covering literature from 1850 till 1994. The references of the bibliography can be found in AU Library’s database.
• Altinget (only in Danish)
  This is an online newspaper and a portal about Danish politics. Here you can find news, background information, analyses and profiles. In addition, the site features opinion polls, press releases from the political parties and news from Folketinget, the Danish Parliament. There is access to theme portals within special areas of politics.

See also the subject guide for Law.

• Stortinget.no
  Information about "Stortinget" (the Norwegian Parliament) and its work, the government, legislative work, etc. At Stortinget.no there is an entrance to historical proposals for resolutions and digitized editions of the 1814-2005 parliamentary negotiations (in Norwegian).
• Lovdata Pro (in Norwegian)
  Norwegian laws, decrees, regulations, judgments, statutes, treaties, journals, etc.
• Regjeringen.no
  Norwegian proposals for resolutions and commission reports (NOU).
• Norwegian election surveys (in Danish and Norwegian)
  Analyses of Norwegian Parliament elections (Stortinget) from the research program on elections in Norway.
• Data on the polital system (PolSys) (in Norwegian or English)
  Contains data about Norway's political system, i.a. about the Parliament, the government and the political parties.
  Access to Party Data - a collection of Norwegian party documents from 1884 to the present day and to the Archive of voting data (Voteringsarkivet) 1979-2015.
  See also: Norske spørreundersøkelser (questionnaire surveys) and Valgundersøgelser (election surveys).

• Europa.eu (in all official languages)
  The official website of the European Union. It is a good place to start if you are looking for information from the EU’s information and services provided by the EU, and you are not familiar with the numerous websites that EU has.
• EU Information Centre (in Danish and English – most comprehensive in Danish)
  Denmark’s largest website about the EU. The objective of the website is to answer questions from citizens concerning the European Union. You can find materials about the EU in general as well as the most important documents concerning the EU decision-making process.
• European Sources Online
  An online database and information service which provides access to information on the institutions and activities of the European Union, the countries, regions and other international organisations of Europe.
• Eurostat (in English, French and German)
  The statistical office of the European Union is situated in Luxembourg. Its task is to provide the European Union with statistics at European level that enable comparisons between countries and regions.
• Eurobarometer
  The Eurobarometer contains opinion polls that have been conducted regularly on behalf of the European Commission and other EU institutions since 1973. The reports cover a wide range of topics and there are fact sheets with key indicators for each country. Datasets can be downloaded from the EU Open Data Portal.
• ParlGov.org 
  ParlGov contains information about votes, government compositions and other parliamentary matters in all of the EU and most of the OECD democracies (37 countries) from 1945 until today. The database combines approximately 1,500 parties, 910 elections and 1,400 cabinets.
• VoteWatch.eu 
  An independent organisation created to promote better debates and a larger transparency in the decision-making of the EU by giving easy access to and analysing the political decisions and activities in the European Parliament and the EU Council of Ministers. 
• Agence Europe
  Independent news organization with daily information on the EU cooperation in the Commission, Council and Parliament. Europe Daily Bulletin (news), European Library (references to books and journals about EU) and Europe Documents (studies, speeches, reports etc.). 
  Print 1960-94, CD-ROM 1995-.
• EUobserver
  Independent online newspaper with daily reports and in-depth coverage of international relations related to the European Union.
  Full text access via AU Library from 2000-.
• POLITICO
  A global news organization focused on policy. The European version of POLITICO covers EU policy and personalities.
  Full text access via AU Library from 2007-.
• Find-eR (in English, French and German)
  The European Commission Library collections where you can find references to books, journal articles, EU publications and documents from the EU countries’ governments concerning the EU and European integration.
• EU Bookshop (in all official EU languages)
  EU Bookshop serves as an online bookshop, a library and an archive for publications from 1952 and onwards.
• EU publications (in all official EU languages)
  This is the entry portal to publications from the EU, that are published by the Publications Office.
• EUR-Lex (in all official EU languages)
  EUR-Lex provides free access to European Union law in 23 official EU-languages (24, when Irish is demanded). It is also possible to follow the legislations procedures. The database is updated daily and it contains more than 3 million posts with texts that date back to 1951.
• Center for Europæisk Politik (in Danish and English)
  This is the Centre for European Politics at Department of Political Science at Copenhagen University. It is a research centre and works with research within the field of European politics, especially research on the European Union.

• AsiaPortal
  A Nordic information portal for researchers, students, government officers and journalists with an interest in Asia. Its content is primarily based on the social sciences and humanities.
• Comparative Constitutions Project
  The aim of this project is to examine sources and the consequences of constitutional choices. The researchers collect and analyse data about the formal characteristics for written constitutions, both current and historical, for most independent states since 1789.
• DiVA Portal (in English, Norwegian and Swedish)
  Here you can find Swedish and Norwegian research publications and student theses.
• Freedom House (in English and Spanish)
  Freedom House is widely acknowledged as the ultimate source of information about the status of freedom all over the world.
• Gender studies
  Subject guide from Copenhagen University Library with overviews and links to some of the most important introductions to gender research theories and methods, to core journals and databases. In addition, there are links to source material and stories about the Danish and Nordic women's movements and links to international gender statistics and gender equality policy.
• Political Science Resources
  This site addresses politics and government mainly in the UK and the USA, including election data.
• Statesman's yearbook
  The yearbook includes information on all countries in the world. The archive covers the period from 1864 to the present. It can be found at AU Library in a printed version.
• V-Dem (in English, French, Spanish and more)
  Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem) is a new approach to conceptualising and measuring democracy. It covers all countries (and some independent territories) from 1900 to the present, whenever possible.
• World Constitutions Illustrated
  World Constitutions Illustrated contains the current constitution for every country in its original language format and an English translation. 
• World factbook
  This website provides information on the history, people, government, economy, energy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities. Access to full text 1981-2017 via Hein Online.
• World leaders
  Here you can find the names of ministers and leading government officials, ambassadors to the US, representatives to the UN as well as governors of national banks in all countries.
• WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources
  An Internet directory of over 2000 annotated links to high-quality English-language sources of information and analysis in many international and global studies topics.