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POLI 327 Library WorkshopMichelle Lake
Political Science, Government Publications, SCPA & FPST Librarian
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Discovery Search, searches through the library
catalogue and somejournal article databases
It’s a great place to start if you’re looking for a specific book or
article
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when you’re off campus
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How do I find a book or an article, when I already know
the title?
O’Donnell, Guillermo, Philippe C. Schmitter, and, Laurence Whitehead, eds. 1986. Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Southern Europe. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press.
This is a book review, published in an
academic journal.
This is a book review, published in an
academic journal.
This is a book review, published in an
academic journal.
This is the book!
Munck, Gerardo L. and Carol Skalnik Leff. 1997. “Modes of Transition and Democratization: South America and Eastern Europe in Comparative Perspective,” Comparative Politics 29, no. 3 (April): 343 –362.
The full-text of the article is available
from the JSTOR database
This citation does not match the title we
searched; the article we are looking for is cited by this article and appears in its
reference list
Bermeo, Nancy. 1987. “Redemocratizationand Transition Elections: A Comparison of Spain and Portugal,” Comparative Politics 19, no. 2 (Jan): 213-231.
Article not found in the results.
Bermeo, Nancy. 1987. “Redemocratization and Transition Elections: A Comparison of Spain and Portugal,” Comparative Politics 19, no. 2 (Jan): 213-231.
Bermeo, Nancy. 1987. “Redemocratizationand Transition Elections: A Comparison of Spain and Portugal,” Comparative Politics 19, no. 2 (Jan): 213-231.
Bermeo, Nancy. 1987. “Redemocratizationand Transition Elections: A Comparison of Spain and Portugal,” Comparative Politics 19, no. 2 (Jan): 213-231.
Bermeo, Nancy. 1987. “Redemocratizationand Transition Elections: A Comparison of Spain and Portugal,” Comparative Politics 19, no. 2 (Jan): 213-231.
Linz, Juan J. and Alfred Stephan. 1996. “Actors and Contexts.” In Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe, Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stephan, 66-84. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
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You can go to other university libraries in the city, like McGill and University of Montreal, and borrow books from their collections, in person.
Two types of sources
Non-Academic/Primary Sources: such as news articles, government documents, NGO reports, government agency or international organization websites and publications or data sources (e.g., Freedom House/World Bank)
Academic (Peer reviewed) Publications: refer to peer-reviewed, scholarly articles and books published by university presses. For articles to be peer reviewed, the journal must use the double-blind peer-review process.
Non-Academic Sources
Country Profiles, Government, NGO & IGO reports
Non-peer reviewed
Good background sources
Created by governments or international institutions that monitor governments
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Statesman’s Yearbook (current year in print, in the
Webster reference collection):
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trade, resources and industries and government
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http://library.concordia.ca/find/government/index.php
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* – increases the number of results your search produces, because it adds all the possible endings
Example: democra* finds: democracy, democracies, democratic, democratically, democratization, etc.
Avoid Searching with unnecessary words
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Results
Importance
Significance
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Academic Sources
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tend to be less specific than journal article titles.
How do I know if a book is academic?
University Press
Book includes citations and a bibliography or reference list
Academic author & editor affiliations and biographies
Searching for journal articles
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2. If not, use the library catalogue link to first locate the journal, then the article. You’ll need the year, volume and issue number.
3. If neither option 1 or 2 results in you locating the article, you can request it through COLOMBO.
References, Bibliography &
citations: Academic articles
will have an extensive reference
list or footnotes/endnotes
listing other scholarly sources.
How do I know if an article is academic?
How do I know if an article is
academic and peer reviewed?
Author affiliations
Check the journal title in the Ulrich’s
Database
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Visit the journal website and
read about their peer review
process
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Look for sections ‘About’ the journal or ‘Author instructions’, ‘guide for
authors’, etc.
3. If the journal is Open Access, check the DOAJ
This symbol in Ulrich’s
means Open Access
When you look up the journal title in the DOAJ it will indicate the kind of peer
review process
If a journal is Open Access, you can look it up in the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ) to confirm the
type of peer reiew
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