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Dictionaries
& Other Reference Items | Journal Indexes In
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This guide is a select listing
of information resources in Political Science, including both Australian
and World sources. For a more comprehensive view of the Library's collection
please consult our online catalogue, Tropicat. A more complete, general
guide to finding information is also available from InfoHelp.
Check out the Social Sciences and Humanities blog regularly to keep up with usefull tips on finding information for your assignments, time saving tips for using MS Word and up coming workshops and other happenings in the Libraries.
The location prefix R
used in the guide designates the Reference Collection. Items are held
in both Townsville (TSV) and Cairns (CNS) unless otherwise
indicated.
Dictionaries
and Other Reference Items
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Bealey, Frank. (1999).
The Blackwell dictionary of political science: a user's guide
to its terms. Malden, Ma.: Blackwell Publishers. |
R 320.03
BEA |
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Kreiger, Joel. (1993).
The Oxford companion to politics of the world. New York:
Oxford University Press. |
R 320.03
OXF |
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Ramirez-Faria, Carlos. (1999). The historical dictionary of
world political geography. London: Macmillan Reference. |
R 320.1203 RAM |
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Corcoran, Robert. (1994). The Collins Australian dictionary
of political terms. North Blackburn, Vic.: Collins Dove. |
R 320.994 COR |
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Lovell, David W. (1998). The Australian political system.
(2nd ed.). Melbourne: Addison Wesley Longman. |
R 320.994 AUS 1998 |
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Commonwealth Government Directory. (1971-current). Canberra:
A.G.P.S. |
R 354.94 P4 |
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Beck, Peter. (2001). The government who's who of Australia.
Sydney: Riddell Information Services. |
R 354.94002 P1 |
Journal Indexes In Print
(Indexes marked * are available online - see below).
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*APAIS: Australian Public Affairs Information Service, 1950 - 2000 |
R 919.40016 P2 |
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Social Sciences Citation Index, 1977-1996 |
R 300.16 P2 (TSV) |
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Social Sciences Index, 1974-1996 |
R 050.16 P5 |
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*Sociological Abstracts, 1976-1992 |
R 301.016 P3 (TSV) |
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*Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin, 1915-1990 |
R 300 PUB (TSV) |
Internet Database Services
Many journal indexing and abstracting services are available via the
Internet. Some services also provide the full text of journal articles.
Certain databases may require passwords, which can be obtained from InfoHelp
on presentation of your student card, or can be sent to your JCU email
address.
Direct
links to the following electronic database services as well as a number
of other services are listed on the Electronic Databases
page.
Some databases
that you may find particularly useful for Political Science are:
- AltPressIndex - Indexes
journals covering cultural, economic, political & social change.
Via FirstSearch and requires a password from Infohelp.
- AHB (Informit Online) - Australian Heritage Information, provides access to information on
Australia's natural and cultural environment.
- AHRR (Informit Online) - A list of paper-based records held in private collections within Australia.
- APAIS (Informit Online) - Australian Public Affairs Information Service indexes current journals
and newspapers in Australia and overseas for material on Australia's
political, economic, legal, social and cultural affairs.
- APAFT (Informit Online) - Australian Public Affairs Full Text, a subset of APAIS
- Auschron (Informit Online) - A chronology of events in Australian history.
- Blackwells Publishing Journals online - Database with coverage in Humanities, Social Sciences and Science with full text access to subscribed journals.
- Current
Contents Connect - Covers most disciplines including arts
and humanities and provides access to tables of contents and bibliographic
data from many journals.
- Expanded
Academic (InfoTrac) - Indexes periodical articles from a broad range
of subject areas and includes the full-text forsubscribed journals.
- JSTOR - Archived social sciences, humanities and science journals, some dating from the late 1800s
to the late 1990s and is full text.
- MIHILIST (Informit Online) - The Australasian Military History database, indexes material on the
pre-1980 military history of Australia, New Zealand and Papua New Guinea.
- Oxford Journals Online - Tables of contents, abstracts and the full text articles for most
of the journals published by the Oxford University Press. Coverage of
about 150 titles in all areas of science, the arts and humanities, will
gradually increase as more OUP titles are published online.
- Project
Muse - Access 40+ scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences
and mathematics (full-text).
Electronic Journals
Most
full text electronic journals subscribed to by the library are listed
in Tropicat. An alphabetical list of
ejournals is also available. Access may be by individual title, or by
service provider, e.g. Infotrac. Please contact InfoHelp if passwords
are required.
Note that the library holds many titles in print; some
are available in both print and electronic versions.
The School Librarian also maintains
links to
Internet Resources for Political Science
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