PSC 300: Post-Conflict Politics
Basic Library Services
Background Information
Encyclopedia of Modern Ethnic Conflicts, 2003.
- Provides case studies of major conflicts, including detailed timelines and sections on the background and management of the conflict.
- Includes references and suggested readings for each conflict.
- Serves as a starting point for understanding the background of specific conflicts.
Encyclopedia of Conflicts since World War II, 2007.
- Find on 8th floor of the library tower (D843 .E46 2007).
- Covers conflicts in the second half of the 20th century.
- Includes references for further reading.
- Serves as a starting point for understanding the background of specific conflicts.
Evaluating Sources
Source Evaluation Exercise
Finding Scholarly Journal Articles
- Compares characteristics of scholarly and popular articles.
Guidelines for Evaluating Web Resources
- Suggestions for how to make sure the stuff you get off the web is quality material.
Finding Journal Articles
Academic Search Premier
- Our largest scholarly, multi-disciplinary, full-text database.
- Good starting point for finding journal articles.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
- Covers journals in politics, international relations, government, and public policy.
- Strongest with scholarly journals and books.
- 1975 - present.
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).
Academic OneFile (InfoTrac)
- Indexes and abstracts over 9,000 general periodicals and scholarly journals
- 1980-present
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
- A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.
- Full text of a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward, including working papers, occasional papers, research project publications, conference proceedings, and some entire books.
- Includes 45 full text journals. Check Journal Finder for full text options for indexed journal in CIAO.
LexisNexis Academic
- Provides newspaper articles from a variety of international newspapers.
Search newspapers using the main search page.
- Provides the full text of many law review journals, including international law journals. Law reviews may be searched under the Legal Section.
Finding Books
KEYWORD Anywhere is the simplest way to search the Library Catalog, but not the most effective.
- Try using KEYWORD in SUBJECT to find more specific sources.
- Search using the search connectors AND and OR.
- Search for multiple forms of a word using the truncation symbol $
(example: Geneva Convention$ will find Geneva Conventions and Geneva Convention)
Websites
Citation Styles
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