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POLI 346: Seminar on the U.S. Courts and Legal System

Resources for Peer-Reviewed Articles, Reports & Policy, and More

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Politics, international relations, government, public policy.
JSTOR
Provides full text online access to back issues of selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, architecture and art history and other fields. Consult the online tables of contents for holdings, as coverage varies for each title, but usually ends several years before the current year.
PAIS
Index to journals, books, government publications, etc., on global public policy and social issues.
Web of Science

Index of articles from scholarly journals spanning the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Provides cited reference searching capability.

The Web of Science “Core Collection” includes the following:
Arts & Humanities Citation Index (AHCI)
Book Citation Index - Science (BCKI-S)
Book Citation Index - Social Sciences & Humanities (BCKI-SSH)
Current Chemical Reactions (CCR-EXPANDED)
Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI)
Index Chemicus (IC)
Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)

PAIS
Index to journals, books, government publications, etc., on global public policy and social issues.
Think Tank Search
Think Tank Search is a custom Google search of more than 470 think tank websites. For the purposes of this search, think tanks are defined as institutions affiliated with universities, governments, advocacy groups, foundations, non-governmental organizations, and businesses that generate public policy research, analysis, and activity. Inclusion is based upon the relevancy of subject area to HKS coursework and scholarship, the availability of the think tank’s research in full-text on the website, and the think tank’s reputation and influence upon policy making. The list represents a mixture of partisan and non-partisan think tanks.
Global Think Tanks
Public policy reports, working papers, briefs, datasets, and media produced by IGOs, NGOs, think tanks, and research centers. Date range: 1920-present

Google Scholar: search engine that crawls the internet to index scholarly sources from databases, journals, institutional repositories, other academic sources & platforms.

Google Scholar Advanced Search offers more control around how your search terms are interpreted.

Benefits

MASSIVE
Natural language searching
Easy citation functionality
Great forward citation searching, “cited by”
Best way to find scholarly articles for free on legal platforms
Helpful at the beginning or end of your search; when you are struggling

Disadvantages

MASSIVE
- Easy to find articles… outside of your discipline
Close to zero filters for refining results
Advanced search isn’t very advanced
Severe lack of quality control
- Now includes ChatGPT generated articles
Paywalls for items we have at Vassar (print and online)

Core Political Science Journals

AJPS American Journal of Political Science
APSR American Political Science Review
JOP: Journal of Politics
APR American Politics Research
Previously titled APQ American Politics Quarterly
PRQ Political Research Quarterly
Annual Review of Political Science
The Annual Review of Political Science, in publication since 1998, covers significant developments in the field of Political Science.

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Subjects: Political Science