LibGuides: Debate Topic: Puerto Rico's Political Status: Articles

Polls

Public Opinion Polls

A good poll can show general public opinion on a particular topic or issue.

Pew Research Center
freely accessible source
Gallup Polls
You'll need to access this through the database NexisUni

Databases

Best Bets

Newspapers: The best place for Newspapers will be the following: Factiva, Newspaper Source, and Nexis Uni. Keep in mind, that newspapers can be exclusive to specific databases. Wall Street Journal is only in Factiva, for example.

Political Science & Law Articles: These will be the best sources for scholarly articles on the topic. Nexis Uni will be your best place for law reviews.

Political Science Complete This link opens in a new window
Political Science Complete (PSC) provides full text for more than 520 journals, and indexing and abstracts for over 2,900 titles, (including top-ranked scholarly journals), many of which are unique to the product. The database also features over 340 full-text reference books and monographs, and over 36,000 full-text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
Nexis Uni™ features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis®—including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790—with an intuitive interface that offers quick discovery across all content types, personalization features such as Alerts and saved searches and a collaborative workspace with shared folders and annotated documents.
International Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new window
Index and abstracts of articles from political science journals.

JSTOR
Archival resource of scholarly journals that includes public policy and education.

Use the A-Z Journal List!

A-Z Journal List

When you are looking for a particular journal or magazine, always check the Otterbein A-Z list to see if we have it.

If we don't have the journal you need, remember that you can always do Interlibrary Loan to get the article.

Interlibrary Loan