POLS 038: Designing and Doing Political Science Research (SC)

Databases like the ones listed here let you search for articles published in academic journals (and sometimes in academic books as well). They can be a useful alternative to searching Google Scholar when you need scholarly research.

Great database for finding articles in political science:

Also useful for finding research:

If research from law reviews (legal journals) may be helpful for your topic:

To find books by topic, choose Tripod Books + Media from the search options.

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)