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Politics and Government

This guide is meant to point researchers in the direction of commonly-used politics & government resources available at Illinois State University. There are also descriptions of general search strategies to use those resources.

How To Find Politics & Government Resources

This section will help you find different types of resources relating to topics in Politics and Government. Each page includes resource lists and/or a discussion of how to access certain types of materials.

  • Find Articles with PAIS and WWPSA: two commonly-used Politics & Government databases, PAIS Index and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
  • Find News with Nexis Uni: a commonly-used law database to find newspaper and law journal and review articles
  • Find Federal Legislation: a variety of sources - Proquest Congressional, The United States Congressional site, Congress.gov, and other sources from the open web.
  • Find Congressional News: commonly-used resources for news articles on Congress and federal legislation that supplement other academic resources.
  • Evaluate Articles: This page lists suggestions for evaluating a resource in order to determine relevance and credibility.

If you have questions about anything in this section, or need more assistance finding what you need, please don't hesitate to reach out. You can find my contact information on the right side of the page.

Data and Social Sciences Librarian

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