PSC 350
Democratic Political Systems
Basic Library Services
Getting Started
The Economist Intelligence Unit's Index of Democracy
Lijphart's Thirty-Six Democracies in Patterns of Democracy (PDF)
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations
- Great source for an overview of your country's political system and history.
Europa World Plus
- Full text of political, social, and business information, as well as statistics, for all the countries of the world.
- For each country, provides descriptions of recent political and economic affairs; a statistical survey subdivided by subject; and a directory covering government and politics, society and media, and business and commerce.
Finding Articles
Finding Scholarly Journal Articles
Academic Search Premier
- Use to find articles from magazines and journals
- Offers full text for over 1,200 academic journals on all subjects.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
PAIS International
- Indexes periodicals, books, government documents, reports, and internet sites on public affairs, policy, law, political science, government, and social sciences
- More info
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!
Finding Materials at Other Schools
WorldCat
- Union catalog for libraries all over the world.
- Lists books, titles of journals and newspapers, manuscripts, internet resources, and maps.
- Indexed subject headings
Interlibrary Loan
- Form for requesting materials from other libraries.
- You only need bibliographic information, such as author and title! You don't need to know the location of the material.
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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