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Title: Political Science


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Political Science
  • Source Introduction

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Coverage
  • A general introduction to Political Science
  • Many subcategories that each deserve their own
    source discussion

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Coverage
  • Politics Canadian (Federal and Provincial)
  • United States Politics
  • European Politics
  • International Relations
  • Political Theory

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Definition
  • The theory and practice of politics
  • The description and analysis of political systems
    and political behaviour

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Databases
  • Wide variety of good indexes and databases, from
    a number of vendors
  • Some overlap
  • The following are specifically those available
    through UBC Library

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Databases
  • Most general place to start Academic Search
    Premier (EBSCO)
  • 8000 journals (4700 full text)
  • Familiar to many undergraduates

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Databases
  • International Political Science Abstracts
  • A more specific EBSCO index

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Databases
  • Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
  • CSA (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
  • Index (citations, references)
  • 1500 journal titles
  • 20000 new articles per year

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Databases
  • PAIS and PAIS Archive (Public Affairs Information
    Service)
  • Index
  • Archive contains 850,000 records from literature
    published 1937-1976

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Databases
  • Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
  • Mostly full text, access to a variety of sources
    (papers, conferences, journal articles)

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Databases
  • Web of Science - Social Science Citation Index
  • Indexes 1700 social science journals
  • Helpful for times cited and cited by
    statistics

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Databases
  • JSTOR
  • Broader database
  • Full text, but no coverage of recent publications

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Databases
  • Example of a more specific database, for Canadian
    politics
  • CBCA Canadian Business Current Affairs
  • Broad range, with full text

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Print Sources
  • Many encyclopedias and handbooks
  • International Encyclopedia of the Social
    Behavioral Sciences
  • Good starting point for introductory articles
    with bibliographies
  • Also available online

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Print Sources
  • Many other print sources, widely available in a
    variety of libraries
  • Great starting points, for background and basic
    information

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Print Sources
  • Encyclopedia of politics the left and the right
  • Encyclopedia of Democracy
  • Oxford Companion to Politics of the World
  • Political Handbook of the World

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Online Books
  • Oxford Reference Online
  • Full text reference books including
  • The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics
  • A Dictionary of Political Biography
  • Handbook of the World
  • And more

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Online Books
  • Oxford Scholarship Online
  • Over 1200 full text books, cross indexed and
    searchable

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Online Books
  • Brookings Institution Press
  • Free online access to a growing list of relevant
    books (currently over 30000 pages available)

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Websites
  • CIA The World Fact Book https//www.cia.gov/cia/pu
    blications/factbook/index.html
  • Wonderful source for basic facts and statistics

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Websites
  • Constitution finder
  • http//confinder.richmond.edu/
  • Links to full text constitutions available on the
    web

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Websites
  • Election Guide
  • http//www.electionguide.org/
  • Information on election dates and results from
    all over the world

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Websites
  • Open Democracy http//www.opendemocracy.net/
  • Describes itself as the leading independent
    website on global current affairs

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Primary Sources
  • Legislation, speeches, treaties, resolutions
  • Government Publications course
  • One example the UN website http//www.un.org/

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Reference Questions
  • The president of the UN General Assembly recently
    (at the start of March) made a statement about
    violence against women what was its proper
    title?
  • Im writing a paper about recent elections in
    Afghanistan, and I was wondering where I could
    find a copy of the countrys constitution in
    English?
  • Two countries just joined the European Union this
    year. Which ones were they?
  • What is the population of Australia?
  • What is the capital of Burkina Faso?
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