Simon Elichko • they/them •
Social Sciences & Data Librarian
Search tip: Put "On Liberty" inside quotation marks to find articles with those exact words right next to each other. This can help make your search results more accurate.
Caveat: If you search "John Stuart Mill" you won't find articles with his name written as JS Mill or John S Mill.
How to filter:
Scroll down to Subject, then type Political Science. Check the box to apply the filter.
What this means:
If you choose Political Science, you'll only see articles* that are published in journals or books that JSTOR's editors have tagged as Political Science.
*Some book chapters too.
Cited reference searching is another option.
Go to: scholar.google.com
Try this search: Souls of Black Folk author:Du Bois
Select Cited by 27851 to view citing articles and books
* This number is incorrect, but Google Scholar citation searching can be valuable anyway.
You can use Google Scholar to search within articles and books that cite Du Bois' Souls of Black Folk.
Check the "Search within" box before you search.
Try these searches:
Journals & Publishers
Books and journal articles in JSTOR are limited to scholarly journals and university presses. Relatively high-quality, curated selection.
Can find articles from journals in the subjects you specify
Narrower selection of content, but vetted. Citations will be accurate.
Journals & Publishers
Books and journal articles in Google Scholar are often scholarly, but there's no guarantee. Not a curated selection. You'll find high and low-quality materials here.
Can search within articles that cite a certain article/book
Wider selection of content than JSTOR, but full of errors (example).
Find more databases for
Political Science research here:
Online: You can limit Oxford Handbooks to the Political Theory category, and then search within for an author (e.g. Foucault).
Paper copies: There are print copies of many Oxford Handbooks at McCabe Library. You can usually borrow them for the semester. (Search Tripod for more info.)
Examples of annotated bibliographies:
Interactive story from Financial Times
(how to set up your FT account through Swat)
LLMs are not search engines looking up facts; they are pattern-spotting engines that guess the next best option in a sequence.
Starts from a file or a link. Finds related articles and book chapters that are in JSTOR.
Go to jstor.org/analyze
(or use link at the bottom of JSTOR).
Not generative AI
Example of topic modeling
Meet with Simon
Schedule at bit.ly/selichk1
Email them at selichk1@swarthmore.edu
(including if you need to meet at a different time)
Use the chat in Tripod to get help from librarians and Research & Information Associates (RIAs).
You can email librarian@swarthmore.edu