PSC 260
Introduction to Comparative Politics
(Crowther)
Basic Library Services
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
Academic Search Premier
- Use to find articles from magazines and journals
- Offers full text for over 1,200 academic journals on all subjects.
Academic OneFile (InfoTrac)
- Provides some full text
- Indexes and abstracts over 9,000 general periodical and scholarly journals
- 1980-present
- More info
PAIS International
- Indexes periodicals, books, government documents, reports, and internet sites on public affairs, policy, law, political science, government, and social sciences.
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.
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.
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
Library Guide to APA Reference Lists
Library Guide to Turabian Reference Lists
Page Author: Lynda Kellam
Data Services & Government Information Librarian
