Find Articles - Politics 109 - Intro to U.S. Politics

Search Strategies

For both Sherlock and any of the databases you might search, there are ways you can construct your searches to get more specific results:

"Abortion access" AND Washington -- Use AND to connect words that must appear in a document.
Washington OR Oregon -- Use OR if only one word must appear in a document.
Washington NOT "Washington, D.C." -- Use NOT to exclude words or terms from a search
disenfranchis* -- Use an asterisk to truncate a word and allow for different endings. For example, disenfranchise, disenfranchisement, disenfranchising, etc.
"Voting Rights Act" -- Use quotation marks to enclose a phrase or words that must appear together in a document.

America: History and Life This link opens in a new window
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Index of peer-reviewed articles on the history and culture of the United States and Canada
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly books and journals in all disciplines.
National Criminal Justice Reference Services (NCJRS) This link opens in a new window
NCJRS is a federally funded resource offering justice and substance abuse information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide.
PAIS International This link opens in a new window
Social and public policy literature from periodicals, government documents, books, and other sources.
Proquest Social Science Premium Collection This link opens in a new window
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International academic literature in the social sciences, including politics, sociology, social services, anthropology, criminology and education.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
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International literature of political science and international relations, along with complementary fields, including international law and public administration/policy.

This searches across Sherlock and most of our disciplinary databases.

Congressional Research Services Reports
Congress recently passed a bill requiring the release of all the Congressional Research Service reports created by the Library of Congress. These reports, closed since their inception in 1914, were non-partisan research reports created upon Congressional request by researchers at the LOC. They can be a wealth of information on nearly any topic you can image. LOC announced recently that they've now made all of their CRS active reports available online, and will soon have their archive digitized. This includes an appropriations status table which tracks current bills.

Annual Reviews This link opens in a new window
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Literature reviews for many different disciplines in biomedical/life sciences, physical sciences, and social sciences.