Tutt Library

PS470: Tutorial in International Political Economy; part 1

Online suggestions and help

Political Science Subject Guide
Economics & Business Subject Guide

Colorado College student describes the research process.

Finding Books: TIGER

1. Start with — TIGER with links to Google Books to identify books by words in the text.

• TIGER Tips
• Saving records in TIGER
• Finding Primary Sources in TIGER

2. If we don’t have what you want try Prospector next – items arrice in 3-4 days avg.

3. Last resort is Worldcat (is Library home page for link) for what you can’t find above, covers US and International libraries; can take weeks to get an item!

Quick reference online

Gale Virtual Reference Library

Coverage: varies

Includes hundreds of specialized reference books on a variety of subjects. The contents are all available full text. Covers a wide variety of subject areas in the humanities, social sciences and sciences.

Article Databases

• Scholarly vs Popular — Vodka ad
• >100 databases, use Databases by Subject categories to find excellent ones for your topic

Academic Search Complete

Coverage: 1865 - current

Large database with extensive full text access to journals, in addition to abstracts and indexing. Subject coverage is general and broad.

JSTOR

Coverage: late 1800's - most recent 0-5 years

Archival access to many scholarly periodicals. Some titles include current issues while others have a moving wall imposed on them.

Subject Database links

Economic & Buisness

Political Science – note CIAO and PAIS

Special note

Google Scholar

Coverage: N/A

Retrieves citations to a wide variety of research papers, thesis, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports. Check for possible full text by using Colorado College Links or Colorado College e-texts buttons next to the citations.

Gaining access

Pawprints

• use when the fulltext isn’t right there
• for citations – which databases has the journal
• Journal Finder

ILLIAD

• Interlibrary loan software – how Tutt handles requests (except Prospector)
• if you don’t find your article via Journal Finder and want it, you will have to use Interlibrary loan to request the article; this is also how you request books not in Prospector.
• ILLIAD

Online

About search engines — use more than 1! and evaluating tips from I found it on the web

CC subject pages Uncle Sam Wiki and US Government Search

Other

Interviews with last year’s thesis students

Citing Your Sources

• How to Cite Sources?

Managing Your Bibliography

• RefWorks training Wednesdays @1 p.m. weeks 1, 2 and 3 of every block in Tutt Library.

Additional Assistance

Contact Reference Desk, 9 a.m. – 10 p.m., x6662, IM tuttlibrarian

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