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Political Science

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Getting Started

Welcome to the Political Science Guide! Here you will find a selection of relevant research resources available at the library.

 

Research Process

Starting

Pick out the main ideas from your topic and generate some keywords.

Finding

Search the main library search to find books, ebooks, articles, videos and more.

Searching Tips:

  • "Quotes" for phrases and titles.
    • "Conservatism in Canada"
  • Asterisk (*) for truncation
    • liberal* = liberals; liberalism; liberalists
  • AND for combining different concepts 
    • liberalism AND Canada AND Trudeau
  • OR for similar concepts / synonyms
    • constituency OR "electoral district" 

Google Search Tips:

  • site:gc.ca plus your search terms  (to limit your search results to the Government of Canada)
  • site:edmonton.ca plus your search terms  (to limit your search results to a particular jurisdiction)
  • site:ca plus your search terms plus your search terms  (to limit your search to Canadian content sites)

will search for the word festivals but only within the edmonton.ca domain. 

 
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