PSC 260
Introduction to Comparative Politics
(Lehoucq)
Basic Library Services
Finding Articles
Finding Scholarly Journal Articles
Academic Search Premier
- Our largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database.
- Good starting point for finding journal articles.
- Remember to limit your search to Scholarly (Peer-Reviewed) Journals.
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.
Additional Political Science Databases
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)
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.
Page Author: Lynda Kellam
Data Services & Government Information Librarian
