Use Boolean and Other Limiters
Link search terms together with "AND" to focus/narrow results
Link search terms together with "OR" to expand/broaden results
Use limiters to further designate exactly what you want!
- By date range
- By source type
The following databases have peer-reviewed [or a process where articles are reviewed by *other* scholar specialists (the author's peers) and suggestions are made for improvement before publishing] articles about political science and other related topics. These article databases are not freely available via the Web. To access the database, click on the title. For off campus access, use your Canvas login first.
A few tips for searching in an academic database:
- Use keywords and phrases like democracy, election, etc.
- Connect words using AND, OR, NOT
- Use "most different" and "most similar" with keywords to find comparative studies like Paraguay AND ("most similar" OR MSSD OR MDSD OR "most different")
- OneSearch
Locate books, articles and more in the Glendale College Libraries.
- ProQuest
Peer-reviewed/academic articles in addition to newspaper, magazine, and trade journals from all subject areas.
- Academic Search Complete
Multidisciplinary resource. Includes peer-reviewed (refereed) journals, magazines and newspapers.
- EBSCOhostMultidisciplinary database including articles from journals, newspapers and magazines, and ebooks.
- JSTOR
Includes full-text articles from academic journals, open research reports, Artstor images, and primary sources, supporting research and teaching across the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences.
Starting Fall 2023: Access has been expanded through the JSTOR Archival Journals and Primary Sources Collection; all Artstor content has been migrated to the JSTOR platform.
Limiting Results to Peer-Reviewed Articles
Most databases have an option to limit search results to peer-reviewed articles only.
In the ProQuest database, that limiters is on the left-hand side:
In OneSearch, the limiters is also on the left-hand side:
Not Sure if it's Peer-Reviewed?
If you're still not sure if an article is peer-reviewed, do a search for the title of the journal. The journal will usually have an "About" page that will indicate if it's peer-reviewed.
Example: Search the title in Google
To find the About page: