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POLS 366: Advanced Research in Global Governance (HC)

Political Science 366: Advanced Research in Global Governance (Borowiak) Fall 2024

Identifying Relevant Books

Use the Tripod catalog for your home institution  Icon    Icon    to look for all books (print and digital) owned by your college as well as the print titles at the other two schools.  

The following searches are a sampling of possibilities.  To find materials on a topic, try doing a keyword search in the Tripod Catalog to find relevant materials and then use the subject headings assigned to those titles to find more books.  Note that all these searches are in the Books+Media channel.  In examples #1, 3 and 4 below, using keywords [Any Field] (rather than subjects) will pick up results from chapter titles.

  • ("environmental protection agency") AND (lobby* OR partisan* OR polariz* OR judge* OR politic*) [Any Field]    Icon   Icon   

  • "investments, foreign" AND (asia* OR  japan* OR china OR chinese) [Subjects]  AND (politic* OR policy)  [Any Field]   Icon   Icon   

  • ("food security" OR "food insecurity") AND (protest OR protests OR violence OR strike* OR riot*)  [Any Field]    Icon   Icon   

  • "residential school*" AND (canada OR canadian*)  AND (reconciliation OR law OR reparat* OR government) [Any Field]   Icon   Icon   

  • (politic* OR race) AND "united states" [Subjects] AND ("racial priming" OR "racial appeal*" OR "identity politics")  [Any Field]   Icon   Icon   

**  Try opening a search above and replace one of the topics with your research interest.

Beyond the Tri-College Collections

An important place to look for many materials not owned by the Tricollege Libraries. This combined library catalog contains more than 500 million records for material owned by libraries around the world. Many of these items are available to you though interlibrary loan.  Use the  button to place requests.  Also note that older books, reports and dissertations are often listed with open access URLs.