Politics
Resources for Politics
Politics definitions, facts, figures and overviews
- Dictionaries help you to define your keywords
- Encyclopedias help you to get an overview of your topic and provide more information than a dictionary
- Handbooks and manuals provide figures and facts
Online dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks
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Glossary of Political Economy Terms
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Auburn University (United States)
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Oxford Reference Online
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Includes Companion to the Politics of the World, Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics, Dictionary of Political Biography, Oxford Guide to the United States Government.
UOW staff and students only
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Print dictionaries, encyclopedias and handbooks
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Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science
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320.03/21
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Europe World Year Book
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060.5/2
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International Encyclopedia of Government and Politics
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320/129
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Parliamentary handbook of the Commonwealth of Australia
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328.9406/1
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Statesman's Yearbook
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310.5/5
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To find additional reference items
- Search the Library Catalogue
- Select advanced keyword search
- Combine a broad keyword AND the word dictionar**
politics AND dictionar**
politics AND encyclop**
politics AND handbook**
- To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
e.g. politic** will retrieve politics, political, politician, politicians
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Politics books and more
Search the Library Catalogue to find books and videos
If you know the exact title
- Select title search
- Type in the exact title
- Check the location, call number and status boxes to find the item in the Library collection
If you don't have an exact title OR only have a topic area
- Select advanced keyword search
- Type in keywords from your topic
- Combine your keywords with AND to find catalogue records that contain all of your keywords
e.g. government AND democracy
- To retrieve variations of your keyword use the truncation symbol **
e.g. democra** will retrieve democracy, democracies, democratic
Catalogue search tips:
- Too many hits? Add another keyword e.g. government AND democracy AND australia
OR
Use the limit functions in advanced keyword search e.g. limit by publication date, format, location
- Found a useful title? Click on the subject headings to find similar material
- Studying at a different UOW campus? Use an advanced keyword search and limit by location
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Politics journal articles
Search a database to find journal articles, book chapters, conference papers and newspaper articles
Try these first
Complete list of Arts databases
Found a useful reference?
Some databases do not provide the fulltext of the article. To locate these articles, you will need to search the catalogue to determine if the Library holds the journal title(s) either in print or electronically on another database.
Database search tips:
- Break your topic into keywords and/or phrases. The search strategy worksheet will help you
- Consider alternative keywords or spelling variations
- To narrow your search combine your keywords with AND to find records that contain all your keywords
e.g. australia AND elections
- To broaden your search combine your keywords with OR to find records that contain either of your keywords
e.g. elections OR voting
- Use truncation to retrieve variations of your keyword.
e.g. vot* retrieves vote, votes, voter, voters, voting
- Found a useful reference? Use the subject headings to find similar material
- Use library database tips or the database help screens for tips on how to search
More information: Finding Journal Articles Tutorial
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Politics Internet sites
It is important to critically evaluate all information found on the Web.
Try the following sites as a starting point.
Asian-Pacific politics
American and Latin American politics
Australian politics
Canadian politics
European politics
World politics
Other useful sites
Search engines
Search engines create databases using computer programs called 'spiders', 'robots' or 'crawlers' that trawl the web and other Internet sites and return results to the database.
Try these first:
Directories
Directories organise Internet resources by subject. The information provided in directories is created, arranged and maintained by people rather than machines.
UOW sites
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