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Research Guide for: Political Science and Planning

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Guide for POLS 4302

Background Information

In the Reference Area:

Title Call Number
Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court KF 8742 .A35 E53 2001
Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court KF8742 .W567 1997
The Evolving Constitution : How the Supreme Court has Ruled on Issues from Abortion to Zoning KF4548 .L54 1992
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States KF8742 .A35 O93 1992
The Guide to American Law : Everyone's Legal Encyclopedia KF156 .G77 1983
West's Encyclopedia of American Law KF154.W47 1998

The Decisions

Title Call Number
United States Supreme Court Decisions : An Index to Excerpts, Reprints, and Discussions KF101.6 .G83 1983 (REF)
United States Supreme Court Decisions : An Index to their Locations KF101.6 .A5 (REF)
United States Reports JU6.8: (DOC)
United States Supreme Court Reports, Lawyers' Edition
(especially the Quick Case Table)
KF101 .U7X L.ED.2D. (REF)
U.S. Supreme Court Digest Annotated, Lawyers' Edition KF101.2 .D5X (REF)

Other Sources to Check:

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LexisNexis Academic (formerly LexisNexis Academic Universe)GALILEO Funding
Full text news and newspapers, business, legal, medical, and reference information.

CQ Supreme Court CollectionUWG Funding
CQ Supreme Court Collection blends historical analysis with timely updates and expert commentary of Supreme Court decisions, biographies of Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court institutional history, and the U.S. Constitution.

Academic Search Complete at EBSCOhostGALILEO Funding
Scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. Indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

ProQuest DatabasesUWG Funding
Multiple databases with articles on most topics can be searched as one.

JSTORUWG Funding
Full-text Journal Backfiles covering Business, Language, Literature, Mathematics, Statistics, Music, Science, Biology, Ecology, Botany and other fields. Includes literary criticism of short stories, plays, poems, poetry, and novels.

Project MuseUWG Funding
Full-text access to over 300 high quality humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from 60 scholarly publishers.. Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and others.

New York Times (1851-2001)UWG Funding
The New York Times (1851-2001) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue. Newspapers.

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Politics and International Relations: A SAGE Full-Text CollectionUWG Funding
Full-text of 19 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back twenty years, encompassing over 6,700 articles. It covers such subjects as General Political Science, American Government & Politics, Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Policy Studies, Political Communication, Peace / Conflict Studies, Presidential Studies, Political Theory / Philosophy, International Relations, and Area Studies.

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