Pol Sci 210 -- Library Research

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Locating Reference And Circulating Books

Try these L of C Subject Headings:

war and society

 		 

united states--history, military

 		 

political science

 		 

arms race

munitions

national security

nuclear arms control

arms control

 		 

alliances

 		 

war

 		 

political planning

 		 

pressure groups

 		 

lobbyists

 		 

elections

 		 

voting

 		 

public opinion

 		 

 

Try these reference resources (1st Floor Reference):

  • The Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science REF. JA61 .B43 1999

  • The Dictionary of World Politics: A Reference Guide to Concepts, Ideas, and Institutions

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  • REF. JA61 .E85 1990

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  • The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World REF. JA61 .O95 1993

  • American Eras REF. E169.1 .A471979 1997

  • This resource breaks down the history of the United States into "era-based" volumes. It includes both chronological and thematic units, and an INDEX. Volumes include:

  • [1] The colonial era, 1600-

  • [2] The revolutionary era, 1754-1783

  • [3] Development of a nation, 1783-1815

  • [4] The reform era and eastern U.S. development, 1815-1850

  • [5] Civil War and Reconstruction, 1850-1877

  • [6] Development of the industrial United States, 1878-1899

  • [7] Westward expansion, 1800-1860.

  • American Decades REF. E169.12 .A419 1994

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    Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War REF. DS557.7 .E53 1996

     

  • Encyclopedia of the Vietnam War: A Political, Social, and Military History REF. DS557.7 .E53 1998

  • Encyclopedia of the Korean War: A Political, Social, and Military History REF. DS918 .E53 2000

  • War and American Popular Culture: A Historical Encyclopedia REF. E181 .W26 1999

  • U.S. Religious Interest Groups REF. BL2525 .W413 1994

  • Directory of Congressional Voting Scores and Interest Group Ratings REF. JK1051 .S555 1997

  • Public Interest Profiles REF. JK1118 .P79

  • Congressional Voting Guide: A Ten Year Compilation REF. JK1051 .B67 1994

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    Statistical Abstract of the United States REF. HA202 .A4

    Also available on the Internet at: http://www.census.gov/statab/www/

     

     

  • Statistical Portrait of the United States REF. HA214 .S73 1998

  • Includes statistical information on: Population Characteristics; Income; Voting; and more.

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  • In general: **Political Science Reference titles are located in the "J" call number range.

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    **History, including "War" topics, are in the "DS" and "E" call number range.

    **U.S. statistical information is generally in the "HA" range.

    Electronic Databases

    General Magazines via WebPALS

    Expanded Academic Index via WebPALS

    General Reference Center via Gale Infotrac

    Expanded Academic ASAP via Gale Infotrac

    These databases contain journal articles from over 1,500 periodicals, updated monthly. Coverage begins in 1985, and numerous articles appear in full text. (The General Magazine Database is available through WebPALS. Click the circle next to General Magazines on the Select Library and Resource screen). Also available by using the Gale interface at http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/mnamoor

    OCLC Firstsearch

    http://firstsearch.oclc.org/FSIP

    FirstSearch covers 49 databases ranging in subject areas from Arts & Humanities, Business & Economics, Conferences & Proceedings, Consumer Affairs & People, Education, Engineering & Technology, General & Reference, General Science, Life Sciences, Medicine & Health Sciences, News & Current Events, Public Affairs & Law, and Social Sciences.

    JSTOR Full Text Journals

    http://www.jstor.org

     

    JSTOR is an electronic database of full-text back issues of 117 academic journals in the subject areas of African-American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population/Demography, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Sociology, and Statistics.

     

    Project MUSE

     

    http://muse.jhu.edu

    From Johns Hopkins University, Project Muse provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics

    Sociological Abstracts

    Provided in collaboration with NDSU, CSA Sociological Abstracts is a primary resource for accessing the latest research sponsored in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences, and is updated monthly. The database draws information from an international selection of over 2,600 journals and other serials publications, plus conference papers, books, and dissertations. Records added after 1974 contain in-depth and nonevaluative abstracts of journal articles. Major areas of subject coverage include: Community development; Culture and social structure; Demography and human biology; Environmental interactions; Evaluation research; Family and social welfare; History and theory of sociology; Management and complex organizations; Mass phenomena and political interactions; Methodology and research technology; Policy, planning, forecast and speculation; Radical sociology; Rural and urban sociology; Economic development; Social development; Social differentiation; Social psychology and group interaction; Sociology of the arts, business, education; Health and medicine and law; Religion and science; Studies in violence and power; Welfare services; and Women's studies. Published by Sociological Abstracts, a division of Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, and covering the dates of 1963 - current.

    Ingenta

    http://www.ingenta.com

    (Formerly Carl UnCover), Ingenta indexes nearly 17,000 English language multidisciplinary periodicals in its database.

    Selected Internet Resources

    The Almanac of Politics and Government.

    http://www.polisci.com/index.html

    The web site is a central source for actual political and governmental information and includes a list of hypertext links to hundreds of other web sites representing government legislatures, agencies, and parties in the U.S. and around the world.

    Cold War International History Project.

    http://cwihp.si.edu/default.htm

    Vietnam: Yesterday and Today

    http://servercc.oakton.edu/wittman/narrativ.htm

    War, Peace, and Security Guide

    http://www.cfcsc.dnd.ca/links/milhist/index.html

    Vote-Smart Web

    http://www.vote-smart.org/

    Yahoo: Government: Politics

    http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/Politics/

    Includes categories of: Civic Participation; Elections; Organizations; Parties; Political Opinion; Political Theory; and Women.

    National Political Index

    http://www.politicalindex.com/

    Includes access to online political magazines; Voting booths and polls; Hourly political headlines, and more.

    National Security Archive

    http://www.seas.gwu.edu/nsarchive/

    Includes access to declassified security/government documents; along with access to the "Nuclear Nonproliferation Database," Nuclear History; Cuban Missile Crisis, and more

     

     

    Available on the Web at http://web.mnstate.edu/library/instruct/polsci210.htm

     

    Brittney Goodman, goodmanb@mnstate.edu

    Larry Schwartz, schwartz@mnstate.edu

    Updated 9/17/02