PSC 240
The International System
Librarian for Political Science : Lynda Kellam
Phone: 336-334-5251
- Finding Scholarly Articles
- Finding Government, IGO, NGO Research Reports
- Finding Newspaper Articles
- Finding Books
- Citing Your Sources
Finding Scholarly Articles
Search using the search connectors AND and OR
Finding Scholarly Journal Articles
EBSCO Premier Databases
- Includes Academic Search Premier and Business Source Premier.
- Business Source Premier covers over 8,800 business journals.
- Academic Search Premier indexes and abstracts over 6,000 scholarly journals in a variety of subject areas.
Full text available for over 3,600 journals.
Academic OneFile (InfoTrac)
- Provides some full text
- Indexes and abstracts over 9,000 general periodical and scholarly journals
- 1980-present
- More info
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
- Covers journals in politics, international relations, government, and public policy.
- Strongest with scholarly journals and books.
More Political Science Databases
Finding Government, IGO, NGO Research Reports
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
- Covers foreign policy and international affairs, including global issues, world politics and political science, religions, nationalism, terrorism, diplomacy, security, and the world economy.
- Provides full texts and/or abstracts of books, journals, conference proceedings, research reports, working papers, and teaching materials.
Northwestern University’s List of International Government Organizations
- Alphabetical list of IGO's plus a Google Custom Search of all 355 International Organizations. Look for the major organizations such WTO, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank (IADB), IMF.
PAIS International
- Indexes periodicals, books, government documents, reports, and internet sites on public affairs, policy, law, political science, government, and social sciences
- 1972 - present. Abstracts are included since 1985. Also see PAIS Archive (1915-1976).
Finding Newspaper Articles
Lexis-Nexis Academic
- Full text articles, especially current information, from over 7500 journals, magazines, television and radio news transcripts, U.S. and foreign newspapers, newsletters, etc.
- Hundreds of magazines and newspapers including the The Economist, New York Times, the Washington Post, the Manchester Guardian, and the Times (London)
- Dates of coverage: early 1980s to date
ProQuest Direct
- Provides full text articles from thousands of journals, magazines, and newspapers.
- Includes Research Library, Ethnic NewsWatch, The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and more.
Finding Books
Library Catalog
Citing Your Sources
Style Manual for Political Science (American Political Science Association)
ref JA86 .A4860 2001
Quick Guide to citation format of the American Political Science Association (PDF)
Page Author: Lynda Kellam
Data Services & Government Information Librarian
