PSC 270
Introduction to Political Theory
Librarian for Political Science : Lynda Kellam
Phone: 336-334-5251
- Background Information
- Finding Scholarly Articles
- Finding Books
- Citing Your Sources
Background Information
Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy Online
- Contains over 2,000 articles covering important people and concepts in philosophy.
- Updated regularly.
Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2nd ed.
- A 10-volume set covering covering 2,100 entries.
Finding Scholarly Articles
Finding Scholarly Journal Articles (or What are scholarly articles?!)
These are some great databases to search for scholarly articles on your topic! Search using the search connectors AND and OR.
JSTOR
- Includes many core political science and philosophy scholarly journals.
- Great source for interdisciplinary topics.
- KEEP IN MIND: The most recent 3-5 years of any journal will not be available from JSTOR.
Project MUSE
- Another great source for searching interdisciplinary topics.
- Full text of scholarly journals covering the humanities and social sciences.
- Some journals are archive only (older issues), but many include the most current issue.
Philosopher's Index
- Indexes journal articles, books, contributions to anthologies, and book reviews.
- Covers aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic, metaphysics, etc., and philosophy of related interdisciplinary fields such as education, history, law and religion.
Additional Political Science databases
Finding Books
Library Catalog
KEYWORD Anywhere is the simplest way to search the Library Catalog, but not the most effective.
KEYWORD in Subject searches the subject headings in the catalog records.
- Keyword search using the search connectors AND and OR (example: Locke, John and criticism)
- Search using the truncation symbol $ (example: critic& finds critic, criticism, criticisms)
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
