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PL SC 083s -- First Year Seminar in Political Science

 

Contact

Helen Sheehy
Title: Head Social Sciences Library


Subject Specialties:  Political Science, Law, International Relations

Phone: 814-863-1347
email: hms2@psu.edu

 

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Stephen Woods
Title: Social Sciences Librarian Specializing in Data and Government Information


 

Joyce Jiang
Statistical Consultant
Libraries Research Hub
2nd Floor Paterno Library

Office Hours

Wed: 11:30-4:30
Thurs: 4-5
Fri: 11:30-2:30

or by appointment

email: ul-up-statconsult@lists.psu.edu

 

Course Info

Course Name:
  PL SC 083s -- First Year Seminar in Political Science
Semester:
  Fall
Campus:
  University Park (UP)
Instructor:
  Linn

Cite Your Work

KnightCite
(quick citation generator)

Citation Styles
(APA, MLA etc.)

Manage your citations
(collect, organize, format)

Locating Journal and News Articles

Journal Articles and Books

  • LionSearch — a "discovery service" that allows you to cross-search multiple databases at one time. Includes the ability to narrow your search with "facets", link to full text, save, and email your results. One Search box for books and journal articles!

  • Academic Search Complete (Ebsco) — Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database for finding journal articles. The database features PDF content going back as far as 1865.

 

News Sources

  • Access World News — The electronic editions of record for local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources. Best coverage of local and regional newspapers. Easy-to-navigate interface.

  • LexisNexis Academic — provides access to a wide range of news. The largest database of news sources. Particularly good for international news. Includes most major papers.

Analyzing Data

How to Use iPOLL and Roper Data

  • iPOLL Databank — A comprehensive source for US nationwide public opinion data from academic, commercial and media survey organizations such as ABC News, CBS News, Fox News, The Gallup Organization, Los Angeles Times, National Opinion Research Center, NBC News, New York Times, Princeton Survey Research Associates, the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland, USA Today, and The Washington Post. iPOLL is organized at the question-level providing the tools to sift through 350,000 questions asked on national public opinion surveys since 1935.

  • National Election Day Exit Polls — results of polls taken from a sample of voters as they exited polling places on election day.

  • Three short videos on how to find data, download data, do frequencies, and crosstabs with the poll data in SPSS. Pennsylvania Data will be used as an example.