Title: Library of Social Sciences introduction for Political Sciences
1Library of Social Sciencesintroduction for
Political Sciences
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dissertations, journal titles, newspapers - Specific databases for political sciences
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23Theres more then LIMO?
- LIMO is a discovery service for hundreds of
millions of books, articles e.o. publications. - Use special databases to search for specific
info Communication and Mass Media Complete,
International Political Science Abstracts,
Sociological Abstracts, OECD (statistics)
24Most important databases political science
- Ebsco-databases Academic Search and Business
Source Premier / International Political Science
Abstracts (IPSA) - Full text archives JSTOR / PAO
- Bibliographic Francis / Intern. Bibliography of
the Social Sciences/ PsycInfo/ Sociological
Abstr. - Citation Index Web of Science SSCI
- Statistics OECD iLibrary
- Specific Agence Europe Europe Daily Bulletin
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31Full text collections in Leuven
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first issues onwards till about 2006 - PAO references and FT of journal articles from
the first issues onwards till about 2006 - Publishers journal collections
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- Taylor Francis
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32Statistics OECD iLibrary
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37 Dont forget
- To look for synonyms
- To use an encyclopedia or dictionary
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- Britannica Online
- Van Dale (dictionaries)