POLISCI 390WH : The Politics of the End of the World
Prof. Paul Musgrave
Welcome
Welcome to the course guide for POLISCI390WH, The Politics of the End of the World.
Here you will find links to resources to help you with your research and creation of your podcast.
If you have any questions about the guide, or other resources, please contact me (Lisa).
Databases
Interdisciplinary databases
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Discovery SearchSearch the Five College catalog for books, articles, and other media.
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Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new windowScholarly journals from all academic disciplines - an excellent starting point for multidisciplinary research projects. 3,200 full-text journals. Coverage from 1975 to present.
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ProQuest Social Science Database This link opens in a new windowCitations and some full text for a diverse collection of journals, some 1920's-present.
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EBSCOhost Databases This link opens in a new windowA list of links to the EbscoHost databases to which UMass Amherst Libraries subscribes.
Includes the following databases:
- Academic Search Premier
- America: History and Life
- American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals (1691-1877)
- ATLA Religion Database
- Bibliography of Native North Americans
- Biological & Agricultural Index
- CAB Abstracts (environmental studies)
- CINAHL Complete (medicine)
- Environment Index
- GreenFILE
- Historical Abstracts
- Peace Research Abstracts
- Public Administration Abstracts
- Religion and Social Change, 1723-1921
- Social Sciences Abstracts
- Sustainability Watch
Law and public policy
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CQ Researcher This link opens in a new windowComprehensive reporting and analysis on issues in the news, including coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the economy, 1923-present.
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Indigenous Peoples of the Americas: History, Culture and Law This link opens in a new windowArchive of treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence.
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Westlaw Campus Research This link opens in a new windowLegal encyclopedias, law reviews, and legal treatises; case, statutory, and regulatory law; newspapers and magazines; business data, 1980s-present.
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ProQuest Legislative and Executive Publications This link opens in a new windowHearings, bills, laws and legislative histories, committee prints, Congressional Research Service reports, Congressional Record and predecessors, Executive Branch docs to 1939, and the Serial Set.
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State House News Service This link opens in a new windowWire service for Massachusetts state government news.
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PolicyFile This link opens in a new windowFull text policy papers from think tanks, research institutes, and agencies.
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PolicyMap This link opens in a new window
Map-creation tool for visualizing many categories of data: income, housing, quality of life, federal guidelines, and more.
To learn how to use PolicyMap, see their YouTube channel for videos: https://www.youtube.com/@PolicyMap.
Historical Massachusetts
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Internet Archive Partnership This link opens in a new windowDigitized materials from the University of Massachusetts Amherst print collection that are unique, local, and out-of-copyright.
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Special Collections and ArchivesDigital collections of UMass Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA).
Newspapers
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ProQuest Historical Newspapers This link opens in a new windowCombined search of historic Afro-American and ethnic and alternative newspapers, and historical Boston Globe, New York Times, and Washington Post
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Massachusetts NewsBank This link opens in a new windowMassachusetts Daily Newspapers: Amherst Bulletin, Daily Hampshire Gazette, Springfield Republican, Greenfield Recorder, Valley Advocate, and five more Massachusetts city newspapers. 1990's to present.
Statistics and data
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Historical Statistics of the United States This link opens in a new window
Statistics gathered by the Census Bureau, with scholarly editing and essays, from colonial times to near present.
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Proquest Statistical Insight This link opens in a new windowReferences to statistical reports from federal, state and local governments, private organizations, and intergovernmental agencies, 1973-present.
