General POSC Sources: Home
Individual Reference Sources
Individual Political Science Reference Sources for background information on your topic.
- 21st Century Political Science: A Reference HandbookOrganised around 99 topical "mini-chapters"
Oxford Reference Collections
Other reference collections
- ABC-CLIO E-Book Collection This link opens in a new window
- Credo This link opens in a new window
Reference Universe
Reference Universe searches across specialized research encyclopedias. Results may be online OR in print at one of our libraries.
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Economist Intelligence Unit
Identifying Peer Reviewed and Scholarly Journals
- Identifying Peer-Reviewed JournalsUse UlrichsWeb to confirm whether a journal is peer-reviewed. Search the exact title of the journal (in quotation marks), and look for the word "Refereed" (a synonym for "peer-reviewed"). Note that this does not mean that ALL the content inside the journal is refereed - editorials, letters to the editor, book reviews, and brief research updates are not usually peer-reviewed.
- Check the journal masthead or homepageAnother method of determining peer-review is to look at the masthead or homepage of the journal to see if it is peer-reviewed. You can also see their article submission guidelines. See the example above, from the Canadian Political Science Review.
Scholarly vs. Popular periodicals
- Research Minutes: How to Identify Scholarly Journal Articles (video)Watch the youtube video to learn more about what makes a journal scholarly.
- Scholarly vs Popular tableUse this table to identify common characteristics and differences of scholarly, trade and popular sources.
Find articles using Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Article search: CBCA Complete
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Sage Research Methods--Cases
- Sage CasesWant to know how researchers carry out their work? Interested in the practicalities and challenges of doing a research project? Sage Cases contextualize methods material through demonstrating the real life obstacles and choices researchers face when their project moves from paper to the often messy real world of data collection. Cases are selected from a broad variety of sources across the spectrum of academic disciplines, from Business to Sociology, and Anthropology to Political Science.
News Resources
- Hill Times and EmbassyWeekly Ottawa-based newspaper. An important source for Canadian Federal political news, public policy briefings, surveys, feature columns, political analysis and more.
Library Guides
- Finding citation guides APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, and more
- How to evaluate information resources Tips for identifying scholalry research
- How to Evaluate Websites How do you know if a website is good for research? Look here for more.
Citation management
Use a citation manager to store your citations and format your bibliographies.
Picking tour topic IS research
Europa World Plus
- Europa World Plus This link opens in a new window
Economic, political, historical, and geographic profiles of 250+ countries and global regions.