POLS 2113: Introduction to Comparative Politics: Home
Starting Points
Primary Databases for Political Science
- JSTORFull-text journal articles. Journals cover many disciplines, including African American Studies, Anthropology, Art & Architecture, Asian Studies, Biology, Botany, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, General Science, History, Humanities, Irish Studies, Language & Literature, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, Mathematics, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Slavic Studies, Sociology, and Statistics. Coverage generally ranges from 1900 to 2000, most journals have a moving wall of 3-5 years.
- Project MuseFull text access for 41 Political Science journals
Secondary
- PsycINFOAn index to psychology, behavior, personality, child development, family relations, homelessness, criminology and prisons Abstracts available with many links to full-text
- Sociological AbstractsIndexes 3000 periodicals related to sociology, social work and other social sciences Indexing from 1952 - present; abstracts from 1963 - present Cited References available for all journal articles Direct links to full-text articles available for hundreds of journals
- ERICERIC stands for Education Resource Information Center, and it is our major resource for research on education and related areas.
- America: History and LifeBibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Published since 1964, the database comprises almost 400,000 bibliographic entries, covering over 2,000 US and foreign journals.
- Opinion ArchivesOpinionArchives provides searchable full-text access to several major periodicals known for their commentaries and opinion pieces on topics related to politics, culture, and the arts. These titles include American Spectator, Commentary, Commonweal, Dissent, Harpers Magazine, NACLA, The New Leader, The Nation, The National Review, The New Republic, The New York Review of Books, and The New Yorker. Coverage extends as far back as 1850.
- Military and Government CollectionThe Military & Government Collection provides current news pertaining to all branches of the military. The database contains indexing and abstracts for nearly 400 journals and periodicals and cover-to-cover full text content for nearly 300 of these titles
- Proquest CongressionalProQuest Congressional is the only site anywhere that offers a comprehensive collection of congressional documents from 1789 to the present.
Multidisciplinary
- Proquest Research LibraryProquest is a multidisciplinary database covering magazines, journals and newspapers. Coverage begins in 1986. You'll find far better research in the primary databases listed elsewhere on this page, but you might find some more popular periodical titles here. Make sure to select 'Scholarly Journals' when you are searching.
- Academic Search PremierAcademic Search Premier is a general subject index, similar to Proquest. It does not specialize in any given discipline, it attempts to cover them all.
OSU Library
- BOSS (Big Orange Search System)The OSU Stillwater Library, the Edmon Low Library, has a collection of over three million books. To identify a book, use BOSS.
Books Available Elsewhere
- WorldCatSearches major library catalogs worldwide. Search for and request items from other collections, e.g. Stillwater Public Library.
RefME
RefME is a free, easy to use, online tool built to help undergraduates create, save, and share citations and build great works-cited lists and bibliographies
Style Sheet - Print Sources
- Style Manual for Political Science byCall Number: EbookISBN: 1878147331Publication Date: 2001-11-01In addition to providing guidance on grammar, the mechanics of writing, and APSA style, this manual offers an authoritative reference and citation system. It also covers the treatment of numbers, statistical and mathematical data, tables and figures.