Introduction to Political Behavior
| Professor: Richard Skinner Librarian: Ginny Hopcroft Spring 2005 |
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The purpose of this guide is to help you locate the library resources most useful for research in this class. If you have questions about your research, please contact Ginny Hopcroft (x3298 or ghopcrof@bowdoin.edu) or call the Library Reference Desk at x3227.
Catalogs for Books
- Bowdoin College Library Catalog
- Access to our holdings of books, videos, government documents, etc.
- Maine InfoNet
- Includes the holdings of most Maine libraries. It has an online request button requests from Colby and Bates take 1-2 days.
- WorldCat
- Combined database of library catalogs nationwide.
In the catalogs above, you can start your search for your topic with a keyword search or a subject search. For a subject search, here are examples of subject headings for interest groups:
Political Culture
Political Sociology
Political Participation
Political Psychology
Indexes/Databases for Articles
Once you have identified some relevant journal articles, use either the "check availability" link in the index or the Find Journals tool in the library catalog to see if Bowdoin subscribes to the journal in electronic full text or paper. If we do not, then place a request with the Interlibrary Loan service.
- Academic Search Premier
Online in Library Indexes & Databases
- Indexes scholarly and general interest periodicals in social sciences, humanities and sciences. About 60% in full text. Dates of coverage vary. Searching the Washington Post as a single title will be useful for this class; also ranking search results by relevance.
- J-Stor
Online in Library Indexes & Databases
- Archiving service providing full text articles from several scholarly journals in several disciplines.
- LexisNexis Academic
Online in Library Indexes & Databases - Full text database of news and legal information. Includes national and regional newspaper articles, transcripts of television and radio interviews, among other sources. Dates of coverage vary back to 1980.
- PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service)
Online in Library Indexes & Databases - Index to articles, documents and reports which bear on the making of public policy.1972 - present.
- PsychArticles
Online in Library Indexes & Databases - Full text articles from APA journals. 1988 - present.
- Sociology Abstracts
Online in Library Indexes & Databases - Indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences. 1963 - present.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Online in Library Indexes & Databases - Indexes scholarly journals of U.S. and international political science. 1975 - present.
Journals
To locate specific articles in the journals below, use the indexes in the previous section.
American Journal of Political Science
American Political Science Review
The American Behavioral Scientist
Journal of Politics
Political Behavior
Political Science Quarterly
Public Opinion Quarterly
Social Science Quarterly
Western Political Quarterly or Political Research Quarterly
Public Opinion Polls
- Polling the Nations
- Online from Library Indexes & Databases
- Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
- http://people-press.org/
- Gallup Poll
- Main Ref HN90.P8 G35
- Roper Center for Public Opinion Research (Part of LexisNexis Academic)
- Online from Library Indexes & Databases
Web Sites
- National Election Studies (University of Michigan)
http://www.umich.edu/~nes/index.htm - Data on voting, public opinion and political participation.
- The Brookings Institution
http://www.brookings.org/ - Relevant reports can be located under "Research - U.S. Politics - Voting Behavior" or by using the search engine.
- Political Science Resources (University of Michigan Library)
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/polisci.html - Comprehensive, organized list of political science links.
