Library Instruction for Political Science 2910
Research Methods
31 October 1997

Electronic Resources

Genie - The online card catalog for Northwestern State University. Genie includes 60% of NSU’s book holdings including all books added after May 1995. You may search Genie by author, title, Library of Congress Subject Heading or keyword. In addition, you may search the catalogs of approximately 20 other institutions in Louisiana.

Louis Databases - As part of the Louisiana Online University Information System (LOUIS), Northwestern provides access to a large group of indices to periodical literature. These databases may be searched by author, title, keyword or LC subject heading.

READ
The electronic counterpart to the Reader’s Guide to Periodical Literature. READ indexes over 240 of the most popular general-interest magazines in the United States and Canada.

PAIS
Public Affairs Information Services electronic index to journals concerned with social policy, politics, economics, finance, law, international relations, public administration, and government--with emphasis on issues that are subject to legislation.

IAC - Also known as Searchbank, this group of databases provides indexing to many journals in a wide variety of suject areas and includes backfiles back to 1980 to allow for some historical research. IAC also includes the full text of some articles indexed in it’s databases. General Indexing for popular literature, Expanded Academic Indexing for scholarly literature, Newspapers Indexing for national papers

Internet - If you have never used the Internet before and would like to learn how, you may sign up for an introductory workshop. If you are an experienced Internet user and would like to learn more, you may sign up for an advanced workshop.

Paper Resources

Indices

Title

NYTimes Index
Reader's Guide

 Location

Index Table 5A
Index Table 1B

Books

Title

Political Science Research Methods
The Statesman's Year-Book
World Almanac and Book of Facts
Information Please Almanac
Gallup Poll
Historical Statistics of the South

 Call Number

JA 73 .J64 1991
JA 51 S7 Ref.
AY 67.N5 W7 Ref.
AY 64 I55 Ref.
HN 90.P8 G3 Ref.
HA 218 D63 Ref.

Government Documents

Title

1990 Census of Population and Housing
Statistical Abstracts of the U.S.
County and City Databook
Historical Statistics of the U.S.
Digest of Education Statistics
Condition of Education

 Call Number

Govdocs C's and I's
HA 202 U65 Ref.
HA 202 A36 Ref.
HA 202 .B87 1975 Ref.
L 11 D48 Ref.
L 112 .N377 Ref.

Gail Kwak
357-4466
kwak@alpha.nsula.edu

Back to Gail Kwak's Home Page

This page hosted by Get your own Free Home Page