POLS 331: Introduction to Political Inquiry

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Government Sources

USA.gov
The federal government's homepage. Search their site to find online government documents.

LexisNexis Congressional
Search for federal legislation and related documents.

California Legislature
Search for California legislation and related documents.

Data

Statistical Abstract of the US

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics

Vital Statistics on American Politics

Other statistics...

Primary Documents

Historic Documents in US History

Search for Scholarly Books

Search the Library Catalog for Books

Prof. Ruddell's book (image) What does a scholarly book look like?

Search for Scholarly Articles

Scholarly Journal Example: Journal of Politics Scholarly Journal Example: Criminal Justice Policy Review See an example for polisci and cj

How can you tell it's scholarly? See this: pdf html

Academic Search
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SocIndex
Search for criminal justice and social issues topics. Link to full text articles.

International Political Science Abstracts
Search for scholarly political science articles. Links to full text articles in other databases.

JSTOR
Search for scholarly journal articles. All full text. Most recent two years usually not available.

Sage Journals Online
Search for scholarly articles in political science and criminal justice. All articles published by Sage. All articles published since 1999 are full text.