Bridget Welsh, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Political Science
School of Social Sciences,
Singapore Management University


GENERAL RECOMMENDED RESOURCES FOR POLITICAL SCIENCE

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Following are some library databases of relevance for research. Please be sure to speak with one of the SMU Library reference librarians for advice, search tips, and any other help in using these and other library resources.  Reference librarians can be contacted by phone at 68280355, via e-mail, or by using the Ask The Library form on the Library’s home page. Alternatively you can look for them at the at the Information Services Centre located on level 3 of the library on weekdays (Mon to Fri) from 12:00pm - 6:00pm.

Be sure to see theResearch Guides section of the Library’s home page for additional area and subject-specific research guides. For a political science-focused research guide, refer to the Political Science Section.

ONLINE REFERENCE RESOURCES:

International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences is the online version of a 26-volume encyclopedia with 3,842 signed articles covering the social and behavioral sciences.

DATABASES FOR IDENTIFYING BOOKS:

SMU Pyxis
Use the SMU Pyxis search engine to find out what books on your topic are available in the SMU Collection. Please ask a reference librarian for help if you are having trouble identifying appropriate subject terms.

DATABASES FOR IDENTIFYING JOURNAL ARTICLES

Academic Search Premier  contains full text for nearly 4,000 publications, including more than 2,700 peer-reviewed (i.e., scholarly) publications. In addition to the full text, the database offers indexing and abstracts for 5,000 journals and PDF backfiles for more than 100 top academic journals, dating back as far as 1965 or the first issue published (whichever is more recent).

International Political Science Abstracts  provides citations and abstracts for journal and yearbook articles in the fields of international relations, political science, and public administration. Coverage is from1989 to present. 

JStor reproduces the full image of 600+ scholarly journals, starting in each case with volume 1, and ending 3-5 years prior to the current issue. Because the goal of JStor is to provide an archival, searchable collection of core scholarly journals in electronic format, it is not a source for very current periodical literature.

PAIS International is a selective listing, with abstracts, of journal articles, books and documents. Subject coverage includes economics, business, political science, sociology, demography, and international law and relations, with an emphasis on public-policy oriented literature. Coverage is from 1972 to present. For 1937 – 1976, use PAIS Archive.

DATABASES FOR IDENTIFYING NEWSPAPER ARTICLES

LexisNexis Academic contains the full text of hundreds of newspapers and wire services.  For search tips, be sure to speak with a reference librarian, or see the LexisNexis Search Tips on the Library's Research Guides for Specific Periodicals and Newspapers page.

For more news sources, see the Library's Research Guides for Specific Periodicals and Newspapers page.



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