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Political Science: Finding Books and Articles

A guide to library resources in political science

Key Resource: Political Science Complete

Political Science Complete

An EBSCOhost database with full text access to over 500 publications, and cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 800 journals. The database also features more than 340 full-text reference books and monographs, and over 36,000 full text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association.

Key Resource: Academic Search Complete

Academic Search Complete

A comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 8,500 full-text periodicals, plus indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals.

Key Resource: Knox College Library/I-Share Catalogs

 

 

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Additional Article Databases

Databases are resources that provide citations and abstracts of journal articles and other scholarly materials. The listing below represents the subject-specific and general databases most relevant to Political Science available at Knox. 

Depending on your topic, you may consider searching other subject-specific databases as well. To find other databases, use the library's Databases by Subject list.

RefWorks

RefWorks is web-based tool that allows you to:

♦ systematically organize citations
easily include citations in your paper
build a bibliography using specific styles (Chicago, MLA, etc.)
import references from many databases and library catalogs

Login to Refworks

For more on learning RefWorks, check out the library's Refworks Guide.