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Michelle Lake
Political Science, Government Publications, School of Community and Public Affairs & First Peoples Studies Librarian
Concordia University
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Canadian Newsstream - Canadian English daily newspapers, including the Globe & Mail, Montreal Gazette, Toronto Star, National Post and many regional and local papers.
Eureka.cc - Canadian/Quebec newspapers and magazines in French and English, includes La Presse, Le Devoir, and L'Actualité.
US Newsstream - Major US daily newspapers, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall street journal, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, Boston Globe, LA Times, USA Today and many more regional and local newspapers.
International Newsstream - news content from outside the U.S. and Canada, in multiple languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Danish, See the Title List.
Factiva - Access to the full-text of international newspapers (Times London, New York Times, Washington Post, Guardian UK, Le Monde, Le Figaro, Globe and Mail, Winnipeg Free Press, etc.) including 500 newswires (Reuters, Associated Press), broadcast transcripts (BBC, NPR, CNN etc), magazines.
Historical Newspapers - Canada, US and international
The Hill Times - weekly newspaper that covers Canadian federal politics.
Governmental, political, legal information
Government Information Subject Guide - start here to locate government publications, reports, commissions, etc.
Concordia Citation Guides (APA, MLA, Turabian, Chicago)
Government Information Citation Guides (Canadian, American, Legal)
Winter 2022
Grad Library Orientation Slides - Click here to download (ppt)
Grad Library Orientation Handout - Click here to view handout (PDF)
Services and Spaces
Services for graduate students include borrowing privileges (up to 100 items), article delivery, help & how-to guides, dissertation support, consultations, and workshops.
Zotero - manage and organize the bibliographic references you find in library Sophia Discovery tool, databases, and on the web
Research Data Management Guide - how to organize and store your data
Bibliometrics and Research Imapct Guide - tools to measure your research impact
Spectrum - Concordia's Open Access Research Repository, includes theses and dissertations
Check out the GradProSkills Library Workshops
Review Journals
Annual Reviews of Political Science - literature reviews on poli sci topics
Annual Reviews of Law and Social Science - literature reviews on legal and social science topics
Databases
Political Science Complete - full-text article database, excellent journal coverage in political science, useful subject thesaurus
International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA) - full-text and citation databases, good international coverage
HeinOnline Law Journal Library - law school journals, peer reviewed content, contains Canadian, American and some international law
ProQuest Combined Canadian - search for articles in Canadian politics and government, Canadian public policy and public administration, Quebec politics, Canadian federalism and parliament
JSTOR - archive of multidisciplinary journals, search for articles in Classical political theory and philosophy, Hellenistic, Roman, Medieval political philosophy
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses Global - search for theses and dissertations worldwide
Article Finder - a search tool for known-item article searches
Sage Research Methods Online - encyclopedias, dictionaries, books, journal articles and videos dealing with research methods in both theoretical and practical terms. It also includes Methods Map, a visualization tool that tries to map relationships between methods.
The Sage handbook of qualitative data collection (2018) - ebook
Research Methodologies and Handbooks
Use the following keyword searches for lists of print books and ebooks on methodology and research in Political Science, Public Administration, and the social sciences more broadly. Each link will bring you to page of results.
"Comparative government -- Research -- Methodology"
"Democratization -- Research -- Methodology"
"International relations -- Methodology"
"International relations -- Research -- Methodology"
"International relations -- Study and teaching"
"Public administration -- Handbooks, manuals, etc"
"Public administration -- Research -- Methodology"
"Policy sciences -- Handbooks, manuals, etc"
"Political science -- Methodology"
"Political science -- Methodology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc"
"Political science -- Research"
"Political science -- Research -- Handbooks, manuals, etc"
"Political science -- Research -- Methodology"
"Political science -- Study and teaching"
Canadian Newsstream - Canadian English daily newspapers, including the Globe & Mail, Montreal Gazette, Toronto Star, National Post and many regional and local papers.
Eureka.cc - Canadian/Quebec newspapers and magazines in French and English, includes La Presse, Le Devoir, and L'Actualité.
US Newsstream - Major US daily newspapers, including The New York Times, Washington Post, Wall street journal, Chicago Tribune, Chicago Sun Times, Boston Globe, LA Times, USA Today and many more regional and local newspapers.
International Newsstream - news content from outside the U.S. and Canada, in multiple languages including English, Spanish, French, German, Portuguese, and Danish, See the Title List.
Historical Newspapers - Canada, US and international
The Hill Times - weekly newspaper that covers Canadian federal politics.
CPI.Q - Canadian magazines and journals
Concordia Library Special Collections - an array of rare books, archival materials, maps, photographs, and other materials
Government Infromation Guide - custom search through government websites and catalogues, find digitized government publication databases
Law & Criminal Justice Guide - online resources for law, legal studies, criminology
Opinion polls - databases polling data and surveys
Statistics & Data (DLI) - tools for locating statistics, agreggate and microdata
How do you know if your journal is peer reviewed? - tools to help you determine the journal's status
Open Access Publishing - What is Open Access? What are the different types of Open Access? How do you assess good Open Access publications?
Predatory Publishers
Predatory publishers tend to campaign aggressively for academics to submit articles, charge authors high fees (often hidden at first) but do not offer sufficient quality control or thorough editorial process.
Many of them accept papers without an appropriate editorial board or peer review process, often including works with poor writing and low-quality content.
Choosing the right journal for your research: predatory publishers & open access - workshop slides (March 29, 2017) with tools and strategies
UBC Library Guide: Publishing a Journal Article & Avoiding Predatory Publishers
POLI 204/E - Introduction to Canadian Politics N. Ruderman (Winter 2022)
POLI 203-B - Introduction to Comparative Politics - C. Nikolenyi (Fall 2021)
POLI 205 - Introduction to International Relations - M. Lipson (Fall 2021)
POLI 204 - Introduction to Canadian Politics - N. Ruderman (Fall 2021)
POLI 353 - Principles of Public Policy (Fall 2021)
POLI 815/648 - Feminist Critiques of Public Policy - (Fall 2021)
POLI 331 - Comparative Party Systems - (Winter 2021)
POLI 327 - Comparative Democratization - (Winter 2021)
POLI 203 - Introduction to Comparative Politics - (Fall 2020)
POLI 204 - Introduction to Canadian Politics - (Fall 2020)
POLI 205 - Introduction to International Relations (Fall 2020)
POLI 322 - Israeli Political System (Fall 2020)
POLI 366 - Politics of Africa (Fall 2020)
Michelle Lake
Political Science, Government Publications, School of Community and Public Affairs & First Peoples Studies Librarian
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