Y317: Voting, Elections and Public Opinion

Selected Reference Works

CQ American Government A-Z Series: Elections:  Encyclopedia of elections in America

 

CQ Voting and Elections Collection:  A research and reference tool for voting and elections at the state and federal level, including demographic data, bibliographies, and encyclopedia entries.  Coverage: 1800-present; primarily 1968-present 

 

Guide to Political Campaigns in America:  Resource for information about political campaigns and campaiging in America 

 

Guide to U.S. Elections:  A Guide to American elections, presidential, congressional, gubernatorial 
 

Encyclopaedia of European elections / edited by Yves Déloye and Michael Bruter. Basingstoke ; New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.
Wells Library - Research Coll. - Stacks:  JN36 .E53 2007

Encyclopedia of U.S. campaigns, elections, and electoral behavior [electronic resource] / Kenneth F. Warren, general editor. Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage, 2008.

 

Polling America : an encyclopedia of public opinion / edited by Samuel J. Best and Benjamin Radcliff.  Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005.
Wells Library - Research Coll. - Reference Dept.  HN90.P8 P645 2005 v.1-2

 

Public opinion and polling around the world : a historical encyclopedia / John G. Geer, editor. Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, c2004.
Wells Library - Research Coll. - Reference Dept.  HM1236 .P83 2004 v.1-2

 

Polling Data:

Gallup Brain:  Public opinion data and analysis of trends on hundreds of topics.  Coverage: 1935 to present 

Polling the Nations:  Public opinion surveys conducted by polling organizations in the United States and other countries.  Coverage: 1986 to the present

 

Finding Books

Search IUCAT to find out what books, government publications, journals, videos, etc. the library owns.
Hint: Limit your search to: "Blmgtn - All Bloomington Libraries" to only find items that are on this campus.
Hint: Use Boolean Operators (AND, OR, NOT), and Truncation Symbols ($) to construct your searches.
Hint: When you find a really good title, look at the Subject Headings for that book. Use these in a new search.

WorldCat
Thousands of libraries are represented and searchable in this one catalog. Interlibrary Loan requests can be made from within the catalog.

Finding Articles: Databases

More relevant databases can be found at the Political Science Databases page: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1000146
The online path to these databases is: Library Homepage -› Resources by Subject -›  Political Science
 

General & Interdisciplinary Databases

Academic Search (EBSCO)
Provides fulltext coverage of magazine, newspaper, and scholarly journals for almost every academic discipline.

JSTOR
Provides searchable full-text of historical runs of important scholarly journals in the humanities, arts, sciences, ecology, and business. Coverage: From the first issue of each journal up to 3-5 years ago.

Core Databases

PAIS International
Index to articles, books, studies, selected official documents and other resources on public policy issues, public administration, law, politics and government.  Coverage: 1972-present

 

*** Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Abstracts and indexes journals in political science, international relations, law, public administration and policy. Coverage: 1975-

 

Finding Newspaper Articles: Databases

*** Lexis-Nexis Academic
NEXIS includes full text of many newspapers (including the NYT 1980-today), magazines, transcripts and more. LEXIS includes laws, statutes and legal articles. Coverage: varies

 

Factiva
General news and business information. International newswires and pictures, TV and radio transcripts. Company search for competitors, comparisons, SEC documents.  Coverage: 1985-current

 

World News Connection
Translations of foreign news and information sources from the Foreign Broadcast Information Service. Coverage: 1995-

 

Access World News: Full-text access to local, regional, and international newspapers.

 

Ethnic NewsWatch:  Articles from newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press in America on news, culture and history. searchable in English and Spanish.Coverage: 1960-

 

Citing Your Sources

No matter where your information comes from, you always need to cite your sources. The most frequently used citations have been compiled by the reference librarians on a webpage and handout (APA, MLA and Chicago). These can be found by visiting: http://www.indiana.edu/~libinstr/cite/.

APA: Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th ed. Washington, DC: APA, 2010.
BF76.7 .P83 2010 Research Coll. - Reference Desk, and Undergraduate Services - Reference

MLA: Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 7th ed. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2009
LB2369 .G53 2009 Research Coll. - Reference Desk, and Undergraduate Services - Reference

Chicago: The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010
Z253 .U69 2010 Research Coll. - Reference Desk, and Undergraduate Services - Reference
Chicago Manual of Style Online: The electronic version of the classic guide to documentary style.

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Last modified on 30 March 2011