PSC 260
Introduction to Comparative Politics
(Crowther)
Librarian for Political Science : Lynda Kellam
Email: lmkellam@uncg.edu
Phone: 336-334-5251
Finding Background Information
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
- Great source for an overview of your country's political system and history.
The World Fact Book (Central Intelligence Agency)
- Provides basic facts and figures for each country.
Use these as starting points! These are not your main sources.
Evaluating Sources
Finding Scholarly Journal Articles
Guidelines for Evaluating Web Resources
- Suggestions for how to make sure the stuff you get off the web is quality material.
Finding 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.
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.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
- Covers journals in politics, international relations, government, and public policy.
- Strongest with scholarly journals and books.
Political Science Databases List
Finding Statistics
World Development Indicators Online
- Provides statistics on countries.
- Covers 550 indicators for over 200 countries and 18 county groups, from 1960 to one year ago.
- Includes social, economic, financial, natural resource, and environmental data.
- Results can be exported to a spreadsheet.
You can cite World Development Indicators using APSR as shown below:
World Bank. 2009. Data retrieved Feb. 2, 2009, from World Development Indicators Online (WDI) database.
Finding Books
Library Catalog
- Use to help find books in the library
- Search using the search connectors AND and OR
- More about Search Connectors from our Research Tutorial Finding It!
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
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