POL 446 - Democracy
Professor: Luis Cabrera
Librarian: Lisa Kammerlocher
Librarian's Goal : To provide students online instruction and resources that facilitate effective research on paper topics through magazines, newspapers, books and web sites.
| Background Information | Books | |
| Broadcast Media | Web Resources | |
| Print Media | ||
Background Information
CQ Electronic Library Gateway
- includes CQ Weekly (1983+)
and CQ Researcher (1991+)
What is the Broadcast media saying?
Instructions:
select News, then the News Category News Transcripts, then any or all transcripts
What is the Print media saying?
BEST Databases for Print Media - Try all to gain multiple perspectives.
Academic Search Premier (1990+)
Contains information from a range of academic areas, including business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education, multicultural, and general reference. Covers The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, and The Christian Science Monitor.
Alt-PressWatch
A full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press.
Ethnic NewsWatch (1989+)
Accesses articles, editorials, columns, and reviews from a collection of newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Provides perspectives and viewpoints not seen in the mainstream media.
Lexis-Nexis Academic News
Covers U.S. and international news from newspapers, magazines, journals, wire services, television and radio news broadcasts, reviews, entertainment and sport news, student newspapers and non-English Language news sources.
Periodical Contents Fulltext (1986+)
Covers the contents of thousands of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences from their first issues to 1990/1991. Every article is indexed.
What is the Scholarly Community saying?
Criminal Justice Abstracts (1968+)
Emphasizes criminal justice topics that include juvenile justice, juvenile delinquency, crime prevention and deterrence, police, courts, punishment, and sentencing.
PAIS International (1972+)
Indexes material on international or global social, economic, political and public policy issues published in magazines, journals, government documents, pamphlets, books, yearbooks, directories, and public and private agency reports.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (1975+)
Supplies up-to-date bibliographic information and research within the political science discipline and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. Provides links to web sites on related topics.
Books
OCLC FirstSearch WorldCat
The OCLC Online Union Catalog contains all the records
cataloged by OCLC member libraries. Offers millions of bibliographic records,
indicates owning libraries, and includes records representing 400 languages.
Web Resources
Google Advanced Search
Engine
Create complex searches the easy way. For example you can limit results by a
domain type such as .edu or .org
Politics1.com: The Most Comprehensive
Online Guide to American Politics
This web site includes a list of web links to publications separated by liberal,
conservative and radical. Also includes links on numerous issues including international
trade.
U.S. Government sites
A West Library quick reference page to U.S. government links including GPOAccess, FedWorld, and Thomas.
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