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About This Guide
This guide provide links and information about resources for the POLS 290 Media Assignment. The assignment lists examples of sources to be consulted in completing the assignment, the guide shows where and how to access them as well as other relevant sources.
Journals and Magazines
Articles found in these databases will not only provide access to the sources listed in the assignment but will also help answer many of the questions for your team media report.
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new windowThe full text for articles from many of the magazines listed as sources for this assignment can be found in this database.
- JSTOR This link opens in a new windowCovers more than 175 journals in the field of political science. Does not cover the most recent years of many of the titles. All journal titles include the text for the articles. Scroll down the page and select "Political Science" to limit your search to just these sources.
- Military & Government Collection This link opens in a new windowContains the full text for several foreign policy magazines and journals.
- PAIS International This link opens in a new windowIndexes journals related to public policy. Essential database for researching political science topics.
Books
- OneSearch This link opens in a new windowFinds all sorts of things in our collection, including books. If you are looking for books in our collection, you might follow the advice given above and then select "book/ e-book" under "content type" in the left column of the results list.
- WorldCat This link opens in a new windowHelp you locate book in other libraries. It tells you what libraries own the book and allows you submit an interlibrary loan request for the book. The same search terms you use in OneSearch will work here too.
Tip: You will want to change the sort order to "relevance." At the bottom of the search page you will see a drop down box next to "rank by," change that from "number of libraries" to "relevance."