Research Guides: POLS 023: Slavery and its Legacy for US Politics (SC): Finding Research Articles + Books

Tools for Finding Social Science Research

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Web of Science
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Find articles from scholarly journals. Lets you narrow results by subject area and type of article (e.g. review articles, book reviews).

Web of Science vs. JSTOR: Web of Science includes more recent research than JSTOR. Web of Science tends to give you results that are more relevant to your keywords since it only searches in the abstracts of articles (not in the full paper).

Also useful for finding research:

ProQuest Politics Collection
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Use this database to search for research published in political science journals

JSTOR
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Provides full-text and page images from many of the top journals in most academic disciplines. Coverage is from the inception of the journal through three to five years ago.

Tripod Library Search
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Search Tripod Books & Media to find scholarly books on your topic. (Use filters on the left side of results to narrow down by Date, Region, and other criteria.)

ProQuest Social Sciences
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Database focused on social sciences research specifically.
HeinOnline
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Provides searchable database of full text legal periodicals and primary documents. Subscribed libraries include: Law Journal Library, U.S. Congressional Documents, U.S. Federal Legislative History Library, U.S. Presidential Library, U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Supreme Court Library, and many others. Coverage for each periodical is from the beginning issue to the most current allowed under contract. Navigate to Help --> Knowledge Base to find helpful how-to articles and short training videos.
Google Scholar
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Search for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports in all disciplines.

Individual Journals

Use Tripod Journal Search to check if Swarthmore has access to a specific publication. You can look through Browzine to see most of the journals we subscribe to, organized by subject. (example: political science journals)

Studies in American Political Development
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American Political Science Review
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POLS 023: Slavery and its Legacy for US Politics (SC)

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Tools for Finding Social Science Research

Individual Journals