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Political Science Organizations:

The American Political Science Association is the official national organization of political scientists. Some of the more important regional organizations are: the Midwest Political Science Association, the Northeastern Political Science Association, the Southern Political Science Association, the New England Political Science Association, and the Western Political Science Association. Also, check out the Association for Support of Graduate Students, which provides lots of help and services for graduate students.

Libraries:

Check out the other Maryland library resources, including MdUSA, which gives you access to a plethora of databases. You can also search Library of Congress catalog if there's something you can't find in the UM system.

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Articles:

There are many search engines to help you find articles: Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe, ArticleFirst, EBSCOhost, JSTOR, Muse, or the Alternative Press Index. All of these cover slightly different areas and journals, and they are available for free if you're hooked up to the internet via the University of Maryland (including WAM dial-up).

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Online texts:

There are some meta-sites which link to a wide range of texts that are available online. The best of these is probably the Online Books Page, although Project Gutenberg is also pretty extensive. Some more specific sites are Perseus and Classics Online, which have a wide selection of Greek and Roman texts. And then there's the Marxist Internet Archive, which is just plain exhaustive.

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Databases:

You can get a lot of data, statistical or otherwise, online. The UMD libraries have pages for both Social Science and Multidisciplinary databases (including Digital Dissertations).
Other useful resources for finding data are: Fedstats, ICPSR, the Census Bureau, the University of Michigan Documents Center, the Roper Center, Survey Documentation & Analysis, the IR data site, the CID-World Bank DataMart, and the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics.

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Grants:

There are lots of grants available to graduate students; the problem is finding out about them. The National Science Foundation offers dissertation grants for political science, and the Social Science Research Council is also a major source of grant money.
Other places you can look for grants are the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Institute for Humane Studies, the Southern Regional Education Board, and the International Research and Exchanges Board.
There is a much more comprehensive list of fellowships at Cornell's website; BSOS has its own grant site, both for political science and via the Research Service Center.

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Political Science Resources:

One of the most useful resources on all things political science is Poly-Cy. If you're looking for a specific political science department, UConn and Virginia Tech have links to departments both in the U.S. and abroad.
If you want information about the U.S. government, FirstGov is a good place to start. Thomas has all the information you need about the legislative branch.
If you're looking for information about elections or election data, try the Lijphart Election Archive.
Check out the World Maps Collection at UT for a comprehensive selection of maps.
More general political science sites are the Ultimate Political Science Links page, Political Science Research Resources, and Political Science Resources.

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Miscellaneous:

Arts and Letters Daily: Great clearinghouse for interesting articles from everything including the New York Review of Books to Snopes.

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