duPont Library: Politics 328: Parties and Interest Groups in the United States: Getting Started

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This guide is intended to direct you to fundamental resources to use when performing research in Politics 328: Parties and Interest Groups in the United States. The resources here are by no means comprehensive, but are intended to help you achieve a sound start to your work.

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Essential Skills Guides for POLS 328

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How to Write a Literature Review

Choosing and Using Library Databases

Credo Reference Search Box

Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
A collection of over 3,000,000 reference entries on topics from all the major
academic subject areas serving as a great starting point for research. Full text articles plus images, audio files, and videos. Credo Reference also includes cross-references to other full text titles containing related information.
Includes more than 450 encyclopedias, dictionaries, handbooks, guides, and atlases in all fields. Sources are selected from 100 major publishers, such as ABC Clio, Bloomsbury, Cambridge University Press, Elsevier, Greenwood, Penguin, Routledge, Sage, Thames and Hudson, Wiley, and more.

Online Reference Collections

Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
A collection of encyclopedias and specialized reference sources for multidisciplinary research.
Oxford Reference Online This link opens in a new window
Contains 187 fully-indexed, cross-searchable reference works published by Oxford University Press. The collection includes subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, and reference works in more than 20 subject areas.
We have the Premium Collection and the Western Civilization Collection.

Oxford Bibliographies Online

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A library of discipline-based subject modules created by leading scholars. Each guide includes the most important and significant sources in a specific area of study, with unique editorial commentary to show how the cited sources are interrelated. We have these subjects: Anthropology, Biblical Studies, Buddhism, and International Relations. Click on Browse by Subject to view these subjects.

Other Helpful Skills

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Additional Research Skills

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Politics 328: Parties and Interest Groups in the United States

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