The Promises and Perils of Electronic Voting Machines - Sneha Narayan
In addition to the core CS literature search tools linked from the main page of this guide, here are some places that might help you build out your knowledge of voting systems and their implications.
- Congress.govDocuments from the Legislative branch of the U.S. government.
- Federal RegisterDocuments published by the Executive branch of the U.S. Government.
- MN Voting EquipmentThis is an example of a Secretary of State website, in this case from Minnesota. Each State has its own laws and guides for voting systems and procedures. In this example, the list of machines in use is in a different area of the website, under How elections work > Voting equipment
- America: History & Life This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
Contains information about scholarly articles on the history and culture of the U. S. and Canada. (For World History, use Historical Abstracts) - Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
This is the core disciplinary index to political science journal articles. Broad coverage of political science along with complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration & policy. Covers 1975 - present.
All Our Data - Winter 2021 - Jeff Ondich
The Business of Data Brokerage
In addition to the core sources used for much CS library research, here are some tools that can help you understand the business of data brokerage.
- Regulations.govA site from the U.S. government that lets you search for regulations from multiple agencies with a single search. A great source for original public comments on proposed policies and rules.
- Business Source Premier This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
One of the best tools for business research, includes scholarly and trade publications, industry profiles, and the like. An ELM Database. - Factiva This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
Access to the full text of major business publications as well as other newspapers and magazines. - Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window(Searches through citations and the full text)
Access to the full text of newspapers (foreign and domestic), as well as business, legal, medical, and reference publications.
Annotated Bibliographies
Evaluative annotations summarize key elements from a document, but also offer a critical evaluation about the quality or importance of the document. Aim for a short paragraph (3-4 sentences) that begin with a brief summary or restatement of the document's main claims and then offers evaluations that touch on things such as....
- The importance of the work’s contribution to the literature of the subject
- The author’s qualifications for writing the work and potential biases
- Comparisons to other works on the topic
- The accuracy of the information in the source
- Limitations of the work
Annotations typically begin with a hanging indent and then continue in a single paragraph following the citation. For example:
K.W. Schaie. "Ageist Language in Psychlogical Research," Am Psychol, vol. 48, pp. 49-51, 1993. DOI:10.1037/0003-066X.48.1.49. An article on avoiding agiest bias in research, discussing objective research design and how to report what the research actually demonstrates without adding value-laden assumptions. Schaie's geneeral emphasis on how to avoid ageist bias does not offer any specific examples of ageism in research, but Schaie's approach to ageist bias provides an alternative perspective to the viewpoints expressed in other items in this bibliography.
Zotero for Bibliography Collection & Creation
I highly recommend Zotero for gathering your sources. Think of it as scholarly bookmarking that also allows you to categorize, take notes, and analyze what you've found. Then you can generate a bibliography of selected works as you prepare your annotated bibliography.
