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Depending on your specific topic, you may find
resources listed on the subject pages for:
Communication,
Economics,
Education, Law,
Philosophy, Psychology,
Urban Studies, History, and
Current Events to be
useful in addition to the resources listed below.
The following databases/indexes are designed to provide links to
online resources. To find books, you will need to consult the
Hiram College Library
Catalog and, perhaps, the
OhioLINK catalog.
1. Databases/indexes to find
periodical articles - These databases are designed to
help you identify relevant periodical articles through keyword or
subject searches. In most cases there will be links to either
the online version of the article or a listing of the library's
holdings. If you are not sure, you may check the library's
periodical
holdings list and/or its
list of
online journals. These databases are listed in the order
in which the library recommends them.
NOTE: A number of these databases may be searched at the same time
using the PoliSci/Law/Gov articles option for OhioLINK's
Quick
Search.
| Database Name | Link to access from on-campus | Link to access from off-campus if available | Info about the database |
| International Political Science Abstracts |
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| PAIS International |
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| Academic Search Complete |
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| LexisNexis Academic Universe |
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| America: History and Life |
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| Ethnic Newswatch |
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No |
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| Historical Abstracts |
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2.
Databases/indexes of e-journals - These databases store
runs of complete periodical titles. In most cases the
databases listed above will link to the full-text in these databases
and you do not need to search them, too. If, however, you need
only a couple of good, scholarly articles on a topic, you should
consider searching these databases.
| Database Name | Link to access from on-campus | Link to access from off-campus if available | Info about the database |
| Electronic Journal Center (EJC) |
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| JSTOR |
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| Annual Reviews |
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3. Databases
of e-books - These databases provide the full-text of
selected online books. These books are also available in
print. Since many more books are in print than online, you may
also wish to search the
Hiram College Library Catalog and/or the
OhioLINK catalog.
| Database Name | Link to access from on-campus | Link to access from off-campus if available | Info about the database |
| Oxford Scholarship Online: Political Science |
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No |
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4. Databases
of reference e-books - These specialized reference
materials (encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, guides, etc) are
designed to give you background information, an overview of a topic,
or quick facts.
| Database Name | Link to access from on-campus | Link to access from off-campus if available | Info about the database |
| American Law, Politics, Government: e-reference books |
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| International Issues: e-reference books |
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| Oxford Reference, Law |
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| Oxford Reference, Politics and Social Science |
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5. Other
databases - These databases may be multimedia databases
or provide statistics.
| Database Name | Link to access from on-campus | Link to access from off-campus if available | Info about the database |
| Accunet/AP Multimedia Archives |
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| Stat-USA |
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