Articles
When searching for journal articles, a database is usually the best place to begin. Databases collect articles from a large number of journals in one place.
Key Resources
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts (ProQuest) Worldwide Political Science Abstracts provides "citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy."
Unlimited simultaneous users. - Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest) Sociological Abstracts "covers the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behaviorial sciences."
Unlimited simultaneous users.
Additional Resources
- Academic Search Premier (EBSCO) Academic Search Premier is a multidisciplinary resource that "provides journal coverage for most academic areas of studies."
Unlimited simultaneous users. - Scopus Scopus, a multidisciplinary online resource, will be invaluable to students and faculty in various fields of study within the sciences, health sciences and the social sciences. Scopus offers full-text linking, abstracting-and-indexing information including peer-reviewed titles from international publishers, Open Access journals, conference proceedings, trade publications, quality web sources.
Unlimited simultaneous users. - Google Scholar Google Scholar searches a subset of the Web that Google has classified as "scholarly literature". They do not publish a list of chosen sites, and they do not state how often sites are checked. Some important sources are not covered at all. Thus, Google Scholar alone should not be relied on for comprehensive research.
Unlimited simultaneous users. - Criminal Justice Abstracts (EBSCO) Criminal Justice Abstracts is a comprehensive database which indexes and provides summaries of international journal articles, as well as books, dissertations, and reports on virtually any topic in criminal justice.
Unlimited simultaneous users. - LegalTrac Provides references to articles in major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals, and international (including English-language and French-language Canadian) legal journals. Also includes references to selected law-related articles from business and general interest publications.
LegalTrac also provides access to over 100 full-text journals covering the aforementioned fields of study.
Unlimited simultaneous users. - HeinOnline HeinOnline is a comprehensive database of U.S. and international law journals, treatises, yearbooks, reports, cases, treaties, and other legal information resources. Organized into collections called “libraries,” all documents are image-based, full-text searchable PDFs. Most of HeinOnline’s libraries are searchable by citation.
Unlimited simultaneous users. - SocINDEX with Full Text (EBSCO) SocINDEX with Full Text is the world's most comprehensive and highest-quality sociology research database. Its extensive scope and content provide users with a wealth of extremely useful information encompassing the broad spectrum of sociological study. The database features more than 2.1 million records with subject headings from a 20,000+ term sociological thesaurus designed by subject experts and expert lexicographers. SocINDEX with Full Text contains full text for 890 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 850 books and monographs, and full text for over 16,800 conference papers.
Unlimited simultaneous users. - ProQuest Politics Collection This collection allows users to easily conduct in-depth political science research, discovering more of the most relevant full-text and A&I records. It offers consolidated access for the bibliographic records contained in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service), and International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS) and combines these with the full-text articles in ProQuest Political Science.
The collection also contains full-text dissertations, thousands of working papers, country reports, and government documents, offering an international perspective from leading and emerging academics, policy makers, and think tanks.
Unlimited simultaneous users. - ProQuest Political Science ProQuest Political Science gives users access to hundreds of leading political science and international relations journals, providing full-text of many core titles indexed in Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. In addition, over a thousand recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics are included, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country profiles, political news and other sources.
ProQuest Political Science covers the literature of political science and international relations, including such topics as comparative politics, political economy, international development, environmental policy, and hundreds of related topics.
Unlimited simultaneous users.
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Books
Books
UNB WorldCat identifies ebooks and print books, as well as a selection of the millions of articles available at UNB. Items not at UNB may be ordered through our document delivery service.
Citing Sources
UNB WorldCat, Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, and other library databases allow you to automatically cite selected references in APA and other standard formats. This will allow you to simply copy and paste references into your assignment.
You should double-check that this automatic process works correctly, by comparing each reference to an example in the APA Manual at the library (SCI-REF & HIL-REFDSK BF 76.7 .P83 2020).
Or consult Purdue University's OWL APA site. You may also wish to contact the UNB Writing Centre for help.
Remember that the whole point of a reference list is to tell the reader (your prof) what type of source it is (book, article, etc.), and to enable them to find it quickly. Consistency in your reference list is therefore very important.
You may also want to use Zotero and Mendeley, citation management programs that can help you manage your references and produce bibliographies in many different citation styles.
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