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Geog 276: Introduction to Political Geography - Winter 2023: Scholarly Articles
Find Scholarly Articles
- Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
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Scholarly and general interest sources in business, medicine, humanities, social sciences, and science and technology. Find full-text articles
- PAIS International
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Scholarly article database covering international social and public policy literature
- Web of Science This link opens in a new window
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Access scholarly literature in the sciences, social sciences, arts, and humanities. Science 1955-present; Arts/Social Sciences 1975-present. Offers unique option to search by Cited Reference.
- Global Health / CAB Direct
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Article database on public health topics, with a focus on international health - Journal of Political Geography
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- Journal of Geopolitics
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Other Scholarly Content
- The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology
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Contains more than 1,000 entries offering accessible introductions to basic concepts and explanations of complex topics, such as imperialism and geopolitics. - UW Libraries SearchSearch for scholarly books, e-books, articles, and more...
About Scholarly Sources for Hometown Research
Scholarly sources (academic books and journal articles) enable you to examine an issue on a larger, theoretical level. Thus, you may not find an article talking about economic restructuring in Federal Way, WA but you'll find plenty of books and articles about the growth of American suburbia in the last half of the 20th century.
To find articles that are applicable to your own geography of home, stay away from the very concrete (Federal Way, WA) and focus on broader issues and themes, like suburbs; post-industrialism; or a particular industry.
Why Use Scholarly Sources?
- Scholarly sources provide historical/broader context for a topic. For example, if you are researching Seattle's International District, you may want to use a secondary source to get information on how our ID compares with Chinatowns and Japantowns that developed in other citiies.
- Scholarly sources are usually written by expert scholars. Before publication academic books and articles are vetted by other scholars in a process known as peer review.