Research Guides: POL 241: Contemporary India: Background, Books and Journals

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Video Resources

Filmakers Library Online This link opens in a new window
Streaming video collection of award-winning documentaries with relevance across the curriculum--race and gender studies, human rights, globalization and global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, environment, bioethics, health, political science and current events, psychology, arts, literature, and more. Coverage: Details not available
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17,000+ videos in business & economics, health & medicine, humanities & social sciences, and science & mathematics. Includes Oscar, Emmy and Peabody award winning documentaries, interviews, instructional and vocational training videos, historical speeches and newsreels.
Kanopy Video This link opens in a new window
Kanopy is a distributor of educational videos for online viewing. Content is available across multiple subject areas.
Swank Digital Campus This link opens in a new window
Swank Digital Campus provides a customizable academic streaming library of feature films, documentaries and foreign films from the largest movie studios, including Walt Disney, Warner Bros., Paramount, NBCUniversal, Columbia Pictures, Lions Gate, MGM, Miramax and many more.

Best Bets and Starting Points

If you need somewhere to begin your research, here are some of the best bets for finding context for your research topic!

Political Handbook of the World (Individual Country Information)

Routledge Handbooks Online This link opens in a new window
Overviews of research and trends in the Social Sciences and Humanities. WFU access includes the following subject collections: Asian Studies; Communication, Journalism, Media & Culture; Environment & Sustainability; Law; Philosophy; Politics; Religion; Security Studies; and Sociology.
Oxford Handbooks Online: Political Science This link opens in a new window
Online access to the Oxford Handbooks series in Political Science. Each handbook takes an aspect of its discipline, explains the key issues, the classic and contemporary debates on those issues, and describes how those debates might evolve. The handbooks offer authoritative and trustworthy guides to the scholarship that defines the field.
Gale eBooks This link opens in a new window
Searchable full text of reference books in many subjects. Books can be searched together or individually. Coverage: varies
Credo Reference This link opens in a new window
Credo Reference includes over 650 titles with particular emphasis on subject encyclopedias, dictionaries, atlases, and reference handbooks. Also included are over 1,100 short reference videos, nearly 450,000 high-resolution art images, photographs and maps across all subject areas.
Europa World Plus This link opens in a new window
Europa World Plus is the online version of the Europa World Year Book and the nine-volume Europa Regional Surveys of the World series. Covers political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories. Coverage: Details not available

Finding Books

Use the library's online catalog to locate books, films, and other materials in the library.

India* AND politic*
Democracy AND India*
India* AND pakistan*
India* AND wom*n

LC Call Number Ranges for Contemporary India

DS401-(486.8) India - History
JQ200-620: Political Institutions and Public Administration India
KNS1-KNU: Law - India
Other call numbers may be relevant depending on your topic....

Finding Scholarly Journal Articles

The databases below are the ones most frequently used by students doing political science research. The list starts with the politics-specific databases but also lists the many databases we have in related disciplines that often contain relevant sources. Politics is a very interdisciplinary thing, so looking at other databases is often very useful!

Databases for General International Politics and Government

ProQuest Political Science Database This link opens in a new window
This link cross searches ProQuest Political Science Database, PAIS Index, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. Users can access hundreds of leading political science and international relations journals with full-text of many core titles. In addition, over a thousand recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics are included, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country profiles, political news and other sources. Coverage: 1985-
HeinOnline Law Journal Library This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 2,000 law and law-related periodicals including international law and policy.
Historical Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Historical Abstracts provides indexing and abstracts for journal articles, books, and dissertations covering the history of the world from 1450-- except the U.S. and Canada. For similar coverage of the U.S. and Canada, use America History and Life. Coverage: 1954-

Databases for International Military and Security Issues

ProQuest Military Database This link opens in a new window
The Military Collection provides full-text titles from around the world, including scholarly journals, trade and industry journals, magazines, technical reports, conference proceedings, government publications, and more.
Military and Government Collection This link opens in a new window
Provides full text from military and general interest publications. Designed to bring current news to all branches of the military. Includes full text country reports from CountryWatch Coverage: 1985-
Homeland Security Digital Library This link opens in a new window
A compendium of materials available for scholarly research in the area of Homeland Security. The digital library collection is focused on strategy and policy in the various subject areas of Homeland Security Research. Sources of information include governmental departments and agencies, academic institutions, think tanks, conference sites, non-governmental organizations, institutes and organizations, and other entities. Coverage: Details not available

Databases for International Policy and Issues

Communication and Mass Media Complete This link opens in a new window
For political communication, Internet and/or Social Media, news, rhetoric and more.
Contemporary Women's Issues (Gale OneFile) This link opens in a new window
Covers women s issues from 190 countries, with information available in full-text. Disciplines include sociology, psychology, health, education, business administration and political science. Coverage: 1992-
Criminal Justice Database This link opens in a new window
For criminal justice, incarceration, international criminal justice, etc.
EconLit This link opens in a new window
For international economic research, political economy, foreign aid and development, etc.
Environment Complete This link opens in a new window
Environmental policy, climate change, climate refugees, climate treaties, climate and trade, etc.
ERIC (via EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
Education policy, educational systems, etc.
ProQuest Sociology Database This link opens in a new window

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