Library of Social Sciences introduction for Political Sciences

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Library of Social Sciencesintroduction for
Political Sciences

• Library homepage
• Discovery service LIMO books, articles,
  dissertations, journal titles, newspapers
• Specific databases for political sciences

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www.kuleuven.be/sbib/english
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Practical info group work, wifi
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No full text ? gt link to print edition
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Theres more then LIMO?

• LIMO is a discovery service for hundreds of
  millions of books, articles e.o. publications.
• Use special databases to search for specific
  info Communication and Mass Media Complete,
  International Political Science Abstracts,
  Sociological Abstracts, OECD (statistics)

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Most important databases political science

• Ebsco-databases Academic Search and Business
  Source Premier / International Political Science
  Abstracts (IPSA)
• Full text archives JSTOR / PAO
• Bibliographic Francis / Intern. Bibliography of
  the Social Sciences/ PsycInfo/ Sociological
  Abstr.
• Citation Index Web of Science SSCI
• Statistics OECD iLibrary
• Specific Agence Europe Europe Daily Bulletin

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Example IPSA
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access to FT or print
copy?
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Full text collections in Leuven

• Archives
• JSTOR FT archive of journal articles from the
  first issues onwards till about 2006
• PAO references and FT of journal articles from
  the first issues onwards till about 2006
• Publishers journal collections
• Elsevier
• Emmerald
• Sage (also backfiles)
• Springer
• Taylor Francis
• Wiley-Blackwell

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Statistics OECD iLibrary
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Homepage gt choose tab statistics
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export
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Other statistics via homepage SBIB
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Dont forget

• To look for synonyms
• To use an encyclopedia or dictionary
• Blackwell Online encyclopedia of Sociology
• Britannica Online
• Van Dale (dictionaries)