Research Guides: GOV208: Elections in the Political Order: Find Books & Articles

News Sources & more

Access World News [NewsBank] (Coverage varies by title) This link opens in a new window
Use "Political Science" for pre-populated search strategies for primaries and caucuses, campaign strategy, and limit to longer articles.
The Special Topics section includes U.S. Presidential Campaign 2020
Nexis Uni (Coverage varies by title) This link opens in a new window
news back to the 1970's. Includes text of articles in the Washington Post, many news transcripts and blogs

Libraries' "News" page
Includes Smith access to The New York Times and other papers for historical coverage

PressReader This link opens in a new window
Set up "My Publications" to follow your choice of over 130 U.S. newspapers. Viewable on PCs, smartphones & tablets [note: first-time access with downloaded app requires Smith WiFi connection]

Smith has streaming video

Kanopy This link opens in a new window
Includes PBS proggrams, documentaries including media studies and presidential speeches. Search by keyword (for example: presidential) or candidate's name.

Search for an Article & Books from Five Colleges

Discover This link opens in a new window

Explore thousands of books and catalogs, images and other media, articles, reviews, and more with Smith's cross-database search.

Many EBSCO databases, such as Academic Search Premier, are included in Discover, as are America: History & Life and JSTOR. Discover Advanced Search includes limiting options.

OR Search individual databases:

Academic Search Ultimate [EBSCO] This link opens in a new window
both academic & news, allows limit to peer-reviewed
America: History & Life with Full Text [EBSCO] 1953+ This link opens in a new window
** allows limit by decade researched **
Readers' Guide Retrospective [EBSCO] 1890-1983 This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive index to popular general-interest periodicals, reflecting the history of 20th century America.