Maintained by Simon Elichko, Social Sciences Librarian at Swarthmore College. Send comments and suggestions to selichk1@swarthmore.edu.
Scholarly Research Summarized for a Wider Audience
These resources are great tools for identifying scholars who write about topics that interest you.
Note for students: If you're writing a paper where you need to cite scholarly articles or books, an article from The Conversation, Knowable Magazine, and other general audience-focused sites won't count as a scholarly source. You'll need to find the original research article or book. A librarian can help you do this!
Knowable Magazine explores the real-world significance of scholarly work through a journalistic lens. Publishes articles, infographics, and comics covering research across many fields. Focuses particularly on the sciences and social sciences.
Launched by Oxford University Press in 1995, Very Short Introductions offer concise introductions to a diverse range of subject areas from Climate to Consciousness, Game Theory to Ancient Warfare, Privacy to Islamic History, Economics to Literary Theory.
Complete searchable texts of the Oxford handbooks in political science. Oxford Handbooks in Political Science bring together the world's leading scholars to discuss research and the latest thinking in a range of major topics in political science.
Includes introductions to each topic area, guides to introductory works, textbooks, guidebooks, journals, reference works etc., and links to useful websites. Bibliographies are browseable by subject area and keyword searchable.
A searchable collection of critical review articles capturing the current understanding of a topic, including what is well supported, what is controversial, and where further research is needed.