Research Guides: POL 317: Urban Politics: Articles

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SocIndex with Full Text
Articles, book chapters, and ebooks covering sociology, including gender studies, criminal justice, social psychology, racial studies, religion, and social work.
ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
Indexes Education journals as well as conference papers, research reports, government documents, curriculum and teaching guides, dissertations and books.

ERIC accession numbers beginning with EJ are journal articles, some of which may be found in the SJU Library collection. Look up the journal title in the Library Catalog for location and format.
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Items beginning with ED are ERIC documents. Those from 1993 to the present usually link directly to the full text. Older documents may be found on microfiche in the SJU Library.

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Academic Search Premier
Articles from academic and popular publications.
JSTOR
Content of academic journals and university press ebooks.
Project Muse
Discover articles published in humanities, arts, and social sciences journals from scholarly publishers. Full-text is available from a curated pool of journals.
ProQuest Research Library
Content from journals, magazines, and newspapers, covering a broad range of subjects.

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