Political Science 331: World Political Systems

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Political Science 331 World Political Systems

• Library Presentation by
• Hua Yi
• Spring, 2005

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Objectives

• For your Research
• Find books
• Find scholarly articles
• Find Internet sources

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Minimum Sources (10)

• Two books
• Three scholarly journal articles (within 10
  years)
• Two scholarly internet sources
• One foreign/international source

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Country Background Information

• Country information put your research
  perspectives. There are several sources of
  information on countries.
• Portals to the world information about difference
  countries, including  general resources,
  business, economy, culture, etc.
• Country Watch -- up-to-date information on
  countries of the world, including a key set of
  political and economic information.
• Country Studies online version of books by
  Federal Reserve Divisions
• Kidon Media-Link (online newspapers and media
  sources for a variety of countries)

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Reference Sources

• Worldmark encyclopedia of the nations REF    
  G63 .W67 2001 
• Great debates at the United Nations REF
  KZ4968 .G67 2001    
• Human rights bibliography United Nations
  documents and publications, 1980-1990 REF   
  K3236 .H863 1993    
• Countries of the world and their leaders yearbook
  REF G1 .C88   
• The Oxford companion to politics of the world
  REF JA61 .O95 2001  

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Book searchDatabases Available

• CSUSM Library Catalog  (our library)
• The Circuit   (4 academic libraries in San Diego
  area)
• Melvyl (UC system)

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Book Search Searches subject field of a record

• Economic development a country/region/aspect
  e.g. Economic development political
  aspects
• Political Stability a country/region/aspect
         e.g. Political Stability --Econometric
  Models
• aspect Country
• e.g. peacekeeping forces United
  Nations

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Book SearchKeyword searches different fields of
a record

• globalization and inequalit
• (securit or stab) and (human rights or
  democray)
• Will discuss in detail in article search

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Article Search Steps

• 1 Write your topic statement clearly define
  what you are looking for.
• 2 Break the topic down into concepts and choose
  the terms to express the concepts.
• 3 Connect the terms with the operators "and"
  "or". Use truncation and parenthesis when needed.
• 4 Select the best database for your topic.
• 5 Review your results select the articles for
  your topic.
• 6 Get your hand on the article you want

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Three techniques for effective searchessteps 2
and 3

• truncation i.e. "sex" will get "sex, sexual,
  sexism" etc. --gt more discussion
• synonyms i.e. women, woman, female, girl  --gt
  more discussion
• Boolean operators and parentheses i.e. (women
  or female) and  (pictur or  portrait) and (mass
  media not tv) --gt more discussion and
  illustration.

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Political Science Step 4

• Academic Search Elite --SFX Enabled
  interdisciplinary and full-text access.
• ProQuest Newspapers Includes coverage of over 300
  major U.S. and international newspapers, such as
  The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Chicago
  Tribune
• Lexis Nexis Academic provides access to a wide
  range of news, business, legal, and reference
  information.

• PAISSFX Enabled An important index to
  political, economic, and social issues in current
  debate.
• Sociological Abstracts --SFX Enabled,
  comprehensive for sociology and related fields,
  abstracts.
• Womens Resources International (1972-present) --
  comprehensive for women's studies, abstracts
  only.

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How to get full-text articleStep 6

• If full text get it
• If you see , click on it
• Link to online full-text article
• Give you location for print journal in our
  library
• Give you an interlibrary loan form to fill
• If you dont see the above two choices, go to the
  library catalog and type the journal title in
  title search to see if our library has it.
• If library has it, get the call number
• If library doesn't have it, use InterLibrary Loan
  

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Example

• Topic the role of political factors in economic
  development in developing countries
• Concept - 1. political factor 2.economic
  development 3. developing countries
• Search Statement - (political system or
  government) and economic and (third world or
  developing countr)
• Database - PAIS
• Review results and  select an articleRoll, R.
  and. Talbott, J. R. (2003) "Political freedom,
  economic liberty, and prosperity " , Journal of
  Democracy, 14 (3)75-89
• Click  , a link leads you to a online
  article at Project Muse.

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Conduct Research on the Web

• Use Subject Gateway
• Political Science Resources
• Yahoo politics by region
• Follow Professional sites (departments,
  professors, librarians)
• Center for International Development (Harvard
  University)
• Third World Academic of Science
• Search Engine (when you have particular names and
  phrases)
• UNESCO
• Some Database
• PAIS

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Library Guides in Political Science

• To find more political science resources, please
  go to

Library Class Guides for political science
Library Subject Guides for political science
hyi_at_csusm.edu