Librarian
Sean Leahy
Contact:
4th Libe - Room 465
507-222-5179
smleahy@carleton.edu
507-222-5179
smleahy@carleton.edu
Reference Worksheet
Use this collaborative worksheet to brainstorm likely sources of information and to track the secondary literature that you find.
Note: To use for your group, CREATE A COPY. Go to File-->Make a Copy to create your own copy to share with group and work from.
News and Current Affairs
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New York Times (NYTimes.com)Access to current New York Times. Subscription access provided through a partnership with the Carleton Student Association. First-time users will need to make an account with their Carleton credentials; faculty & staff accounts need to be renewed yearly.
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ProQuest Newsstream(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
A broad collection of newspaper articles published across the U.S.. Covers 1995 - current for most newspapers. An ELM Database. -
Mergent Intellect(Searches through citation information)
Basic company information for over 20 million North American and 70 million global companies (directory information from Hoovers and Dun and Bradstreet) as well as industry profiles. Also includes WhitePages data allowing for people and business search including reverse phone lookup. The Global Corporate Family Tree feature places companies into their full ownership context. Customized reports and lists can be downloaded to Excel, Word and PDF formats.
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Economist in ProQuest Research LibraryProQuest indexes the Economist from 1992 to the current issue. Use one of the search boxes to limit your search to the Economist (type economist and set the drop-down to Publication Type). View a sample search.
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Foreign AffairsPolitics Collections contains issues from 1987 to present.
Scholarship
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts(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. -
PAIS: Public Affairs Information Service(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
Includes information about articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs. Covers publications from 1914 - present. -
Policy File Index(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and abstracts)
Find reports on public policy topics from major think tanks, research organizations, and advocacy groups including the Hoover Institution, International Monetary Fund, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, RAND Corporation, and the World Bank. Covers 1990-current.
Social Sciences
Political Science journals are also indexed here; you will also find your research topic covered in other disciplines.
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EconLitThe main discipline index of journals and over 500 collective volumes, plus books, dissertations, and working papers.
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Historical AbstractsInternational. Indexes many political science and international relations journals.
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Sociological Abstracts(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
Main index to research in sociology, anthropology, and related fields in the social and behavioral sciences. Covers 1963 - current.
Interdisciplinary
Search broad, interdisciplinary databases in order to find articles from areas in which you might not have thought to look.
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Academic Search Premier(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
Contains scholarly journals, trade publications, and magazines from across the disciplines and from popular culture. Much of the content is available in full text. An ELM Database. -
ProQuest Research Library(Searches through citations, subject indexing, and some full text)
A broad, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary search tool. Covers 1973 - current. -
Web of ScienceIndexes 2,700 journals across 50 social science disciplines, as well as selected items from 3,500 of the world's leading scientific and technical journals, from 1956 to present. Features cited reference searching, a process whereby one tracks the number of times a specific work has been cited or referenced in other works.
Working Papers and Dissertations
Turn to these databases and websites to locate pre-published papers.
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BREAD: Data from Developing CountriesA list of data sources specific to developing countries from Duke's Bureau for Research in Economic Analysis of Development (BREAD).
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ProQuest Dissertations and Theses GlobalProvides full-text access to thousands of dissertations and thesis (U.S. only) published since 1997.
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SSRN: Social Science Research NetworkAbstracts of working and forthcoming papers plus hundreds of thousands of downloadable papers.
