Political Science 306

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

Finding Books 

Sample Library of Congress Subject Headings:

• World War, 1914-1918--Causes
• India--Military relations--Pakistan
• Great Britain--Colonies--Africa
• Imperialism
• Ballistic Missile Defenses
• United Nations--Peacekeeping forces
• Just War Doctrine
• Hussein, Saddam, 1937-
• International Relations--Moral and Ethical Aspects
• Iraq--Foreign relations--United States
• Japan--Foreign relations--1912-1945
• Persian Gulf War, 1991--Causes
• Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
• European Union

Interlibrary Loan

Selected Reference Resources

• Colonialism: An International, Social, Cultural, and Political Encyclopedia Reference R325.3 C719
• Countries and their Cultures Reference R306.03
• Culturgrams: The Nations Around Us Reference R909.82C968
• Encyclopedia of European Social History Reference R306.09403 E56
• Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East Reference R956.003 E56me
• Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements Reference R341.2303 O83e 2003
• Encyclopedia of U.S. Foreign Relations Reference R327.73 E56F
• Encyclopedia of World Political Systems Reference R320.3 D427e
• An Encyclopedia of War and Ethics Reference R172.42 E56
• The Europa World Year Book Reference R341.184E89 
• WorldMark Encyclopedia of Cultures and Daily Life  4 vols.  Reference R305.8003 W927

Finding Articles 

Journal and Magazine Articles

• Academic Search Elite ~ Full text articles from scholarly and popular sources on a variety of topics
• JSTOR ~ A full text collection of journals that goes back to the beginning of a journal's print run. Current issues of journals are not included
• Lexis-Nexis Academic ~ Accesses articles from newspapers as well as transcripts of NPR programs such as "Morning Edition" and "All Things Considered"
• Military and Government Collection ~ this database covers all branches of the military and the government, and provides accesses to many important political science publications
• PCI Full-Text ~ material in this scholarly database ranges from 1665 to 1995
• Periodical Abstracts ~ this database has several key political science journals available full text.
• Project MUSE ~ Contains full-text articles of over 200 journals published by Johns Hopkins University Press.
  • Use WebFeat to search multiple databases simultaneously
  • Keep in mind that not all databases work with WebFeat

Newspaper Articles

• Lexis-Nexis Academic ~ Accesses articles from newspapers from around the world. Also accesses transcripts to radio and television news shows such as NPR's Morning Edition.
• Newspaper Source ~ full-text articles from over 100 U.S. and international papers, as well as transcripts from shows like Face the Nation
• Chicago Tribune ~ full-text access 1985-present
• New York Times ~ full-text access 1995-present
• Wall Street Journal ~ full-text access 1984-present
• ProQuest Historical Newspapers: New York Times ~ which contains the full text of articles from the first issue printed in 1851 up to 1999
• Check out some of our other databases for articles, if you aren't finding what you're looking for

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