Subject page for political science

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Ragnhild Sundsbak

Subject specialist for political science
Humanities and Social Sciences Library

Selected resources

IPSA
International Political Science Abstracts, produced by the International Political Science Association. Indexing and abstracts of the world's leading journals in political science.

IBSS
The International Bibliography of the Social Sciences is an online resource for social science and interdisciplinary research. IBSS includes bibliographic references to journal articles, books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951.

JSTOR
JSTOR provides a wide range of content in a digital archive of academic journals and other scholarly content.

ISI Web of Knowledge
Web of Science provides quick, powerful access to the world's leading citation databases.

Sociological Abstracts
CSA Sociological Abstracts abstracts and indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

News and mediadatabases

Atekst – Norske aviser/ medier
Economic and political Weekly – The Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) is a weekly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all social sciences, and is published by the Sameeksha Trust. (New to the list, try this!!)
The Economist – Enter via Oria – Log on to Oria - Log on to the Economist as recommended in Oria
Factiva – en stor internasjonal nyhetsdatabase
Financial Times, The - The Financial Times is one of the world’s leading news organisations, recognised internationally for its authority, integrity and accuracy.
Pravda Digital Archive Pravda i fulltekst fra 1912 til 2009.
Keesing`s World News Archives – "40 years of fulltext international news reports", globale nyheter fra verdenspressen. Fulltekst
New York Times - As one of the longest-running newspapers in the United States, the Times serves as one of the country's newspapers of record.
Westlaw Classic – Contains legal sources from the United States, Canada and other jurisdictions.
Westlaw UK - Anglo-American legal information system with a focus on the UK, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

Norway and the Norwegian political system

National library – Digitization of historical material. Historical newspapers etc.
Scandinavian University Press – Nordic journals online
Archive of the norwegian parlament.

Statistics

Source OECD
UNdata
World Bank eLibrary
Statistical data, data sets etc form Department of Political Science (University of Oslo)
Statistics Norway
Political science data (University of Michigan)
Harvard Dataverse: Find data across research fields, preview metadata, and download files
Data from Sikt – Norwegian Agency for Shared Services in Education and Research

Book search

Oria – The Library Database includes books, journals, articles, sound recordings, printed music etc. held by the norwegian research libraries.

How do I find books using the Dewey Classification Scheme?

The Depot Library: magazines, books, microfilms and more. The collection is made up of transferred, compulsorily delivered and purchased material, where UB has transferred material for many years.

Text mining and data management

Text mining – Info from the Oslo University Library

Digital Scholarship Center – at the University Library

DH- NB – Resources from the National library

Recommended e-resources

Europa world yearbook: – Europa regional surveys of the world
International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences
Oxford handbooks online
Oxford Reference
SpringerLink
SAGE research methods: gives access to Quantitative applications in the social sciences,/ "Little Green Books"
Svenske Valforskningsprogrammet: Research on swedish elections

Library Courses

Library Course evaluation

Norsk evalueringsskjema

English Evaluation form