POL 301: Comparative European Politics
Spring, 2002

The following are selected resources available in the library and on the Internet.

A Few Tips on Searching for Books and Articles-

*Try each of the terms England, Britain, United Kingdom and Great Britain. Different databases use different geographic terms.
*If the American spelling of a term is not productive, try the British spelling. For example, labour instead of labor.

Finding Books

• Use Illinet Online to find books held in the Elmhurst College library as well as books owned by 44 other Illinois academic libraries.
  
  
• Subject word searching offers a good way to start looking for books in Illinet Online. Use the main words describing your topic. To find books on hostile takeovers, try house of parliament or winston churchill.
  
  
• Use an advanced query to combine two subject terms or concepts into one search such as great britain and political parties.
  
  
• Inter-Library Loan ~ Illinet Online allows you to request books held by 44 academic libraries in Illinois.

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Finding Articles

Journals

The library has many electronic databases which may be helpful for your assignments.

PAIS International is a bibliographic index with abstracts covering the full range of political, social, and
      public policy issues.

WilsonSelectPlus is a full-text article database covering the social sciences and current issues.

• Once you've identified your articles, use Illinet Online to determine if the library owns the journal in print or in microfilm or use the list of Electronic Journals to determine if the article is available electronically.
  
  
• Distinguishing Scholarly/Professional Journals from Other Periodicals
  
  
• Inter-Library Loan ~ You can request a copy of an article provided that it is unavailable at the library.

Newspapers

• The library offers many full-text newspaper databases.

                  Academic Universe (Lexis-Nexis) ~ clicking the News link accesses a variety of US and World
                  newspapers.

                  Newspaper Source - full-text from 100 US and International newspapers

                  Free International Newspapers - available online

Citation and Research Assistance

Documenting the information you use in your assignments is very important. Please check with your professors regarding the preferred citation style for your class. The librarians can help you locate a citation style guide at the library. Further writing assistance is available from the Writing Center located in the Learning Center.

• Five Criteria for Evaluating Web Sites
• Writing and Citing Assistance

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Created 4 February, 2002 by Jennifer C. Paliatka, Assistant Reference Librarian
A.C. Buehler Library, Elmhurst College