POLI 327 Library WorkshopMichelle Lake

Political Science, Government Publications, SCPA & FPST Librarian

Library Course webpage

http://bit.ly/POLI327

Vanier Library – Loyola Campus

24/7 access, with student card, after 11pm

1st, 2nd, and 3rd floor VL – “Vanier Library”

Computers/Printers/Photocopiers/Scanners

Group Study Rooms & Course Reserves: Textbooks

Print Journal Archive

Webster Library – SGW Campus

24/7 access, with student card, after 11pm

2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th floor of LB - “Library Building”

Computers/Printers/Photocopiers/Scanners

Group Study Rooms & Course Reserves: Textbooks

Current Print Journals

Grey Nuns Reading Room – SGW Campus

1190 Guy St.

Access 9am-9pm, with student card

Group Study Rooms & Quiet Study

Outlets/Wifi

Bring your own device

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

Here is where you login to the library,

when you’re off campus

This is the section for undergrads, click

‘More…’ to see all services available

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.

What if we don’t have the book or article at Concordia ?

Interlibrary loans/COLOMBO

Request print books and e-journal articles from other libraries.

Print books are delivered to Concordia for you to borrow.

E-journal articles are emailed directly to you.

What if we don’t have the book at Concordia ?

BCI Card

Go the Loans/Circulation desk at Webster library with your student ID card and request a BCI card.

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

http://bit.ly/POLI327

Statesman’s Yearbook (current year in print, in the

Webster reference collection):

Gives a recent overview of social institutions, religion,

trade, resources and industries and government

Government Information SearchSearches Intergovernmental Organization websites

Use the drop-down menu to select the region

Use keywords and a country name to search for reports

http://library.concordia.ca/find/government/index.php

Google Advanced

Search

google.ca/advanced_search

China – Domain: .gov.cn

Cuba – Domain: .gob.cu

Israel – Domain: .gov.il

Philippines – Domain: .gov.ph

Russia – Domain: .gov.ru

Singapore – Domain: .gov.sg

Wayback Machine: looking at websites over time

February 2018 October 2014

Newspapers

Searching

Topics and Keywords

AND – limits how many results your search produces

Example: Cuba AND sanctions

OR – increases the number of results your search produces

Example: china AND (capitalism OR “free trade”)

Topics and Keywords

“exact phrase” – limits how many results your search produces

Example: “ethnic conflict”

* – 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

Effects

Impact

Consequences

Influence

Results

Importance

Significance

Each author may use different linking words when discussing similar topics.

You don’t want your search to be limited to those books and articles that only contain the word “effect” or “consequence”

Academic Sources

Searching for books

We’re searching directly in the Library Catalogue and we are using big, broad search terms, because book titles, subjects and tables of contents,

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

Find it @ Concordia: access to journal articles

1. Links under the green banner should take you directly to the article.

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

1. Check the journal titles in the Ulrich’s database

Visit the journal website and

read about their peer review

process

2. Check the Journal’s website for the peer review process

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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online

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help.