Articles - Political Science - Fall 2022: Prof. Blanchard - Research Guides at Monterey Peninsula College

Research Databases

You can use the links below to search for articles in magazines, newspapers and journals about your topic.

For academic/scholarly articles, use the Academic Search Complete, Political Science Complete, and JSTOR databases for accessing academic/scholarly journals.

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Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive collection of academic journal, magazine, and newspaper articles.
Political Science Complete This link opens in a new window
Full-text political science journals, reference books, and conference papers with a worldwide focus. A great source for academic/scholarly articles.
US Major Dailies This link opens in a new window
Up to date full-text of the New York Times, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, and Chicago Tribune
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
News, Business, & Legal Research. Includes newspapers, magazines, wire services, federal and state court opinions, federal and state statutes, federal regulations, SEC filings, business analysis, and reports.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context This link opens in a new window
Covers current controversial topics, and includes full-text articles, statistics, viewpoint essays (pro and con), etc.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
In-depth articles on current major and controversial topics. Includes pro-con arguments, background, and more.
JSTOR This link opens in a new window
Collection of core journals in economics, history, political science, and sociology, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences. A great source for academic/scholarly articles.
MasterFILE Complete This link opens in a new window
Full-text magazines across a broad range of subject areas.
Statista This link opens in a new window
Direct access to qualitative and quantitative data on media, business, finance, politics, and current events. Information from government and other resources.
RAND State Statistics This link opens in a new window
Detailed U.S. statistics on demographics, health, economics, crime, education, and more.
Statistical Abstract of the United States This link opens in a new window
The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.

Academic Search Complete Video Tutorial

This video tutorial shows you how to search for articles in the Academic Search Complete database. You can access Academic Search Complete directly via the link on the left (instead of going to the library homepage to access it like what is shown at the beginning of this tutorial). We covered this in the class but if you have any questions or run into any problems please feel free to email me.

US Major Dailies Tutorial Video

This is a video tutorial that will help you with the basics to navigate and search the US Major Dailies database. This is a video tutorial that will help you with the basics to navigate and search the US Major Dailies database from the MPC Library.

Opposing Viewpoints Tutorial Video

How to use the Opposing Viewpoints in Context database from the MPC Library

Boolean Operators/Combination Searching

Boolean operators help you with searching in our database. I have 3 of them below with examples. Remember to keep your search terms simple to just the keywords that relate to the subject of your research and you should be able to find good articles for your assignment.

Quotation Marks: To search multiple worded search terms together.
"Monterey Peninsula College"
"executive privilege"
"international relations"

AND: To tell the database that these search terms must appear in your results and to help you narrow your search.
Trump AND "executive privilege"
communism AND China
"domino theory" AND Vietnam

OR: When you want to search for either term and help expand your search.
(Johnson OR Nixon) and "civil rights"
"municipal government" OR "city government"
Portland AND (Antifa OR "Proud Boys")

Accessing Databases from MPC Library Homepage

This is a short 2 minute video that shows you how to access the databases from the MPC Library Homepage. You do not have to do this as there are direct links to the recommended databases to the left but if you want to explore more databases,this will take you to our master list of databases available from the MPC Library.

Statista Tutorial Video

This is a basic tutorial on how to use the Statista statistical database. It is from another college so ignore the contact information at the very end.

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