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Political Science

Search for books and articles

• Dalarna University Library catalogue  
  Search for printed books, printed journals, e-books and other types of material in the university library catalogue.
• Databases for political studies 
  Search for articles and other resources in different databases. 
• DART-Europe
  Find full-text dissertations from a number of universities in Europe.
• Ebrary  [video tutorial]
  Search for e-books.
• Google Books
  The search service includes free full-text books and magazines as well as snippets of texts. 
• Internet Archive
  Free full-text books, among other things.
• Journals
  Search for journals in the library's collection of printed journals and electronic journals.
• LIBRIS  [video tutorial  - in Swedish]
  A national search service providing information on titles held by Swedish university and research libraries, as well as some public libraries. Items that you find in the catalogue, which the Dalarna University library does not own, can in most cases be ordered using the Interlibrary loan service.
• WorldCat
  A search service providing information on titles held by more than 10,000 libraries worldwide.  Items that you find in the catalogue, which the Dalarna University library does not own, can in most cases be ordered using the Interlibrary loan service.

Finding facts

• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics
• The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World
• Encyclopaedia Britannica Online 
  The database includes Encyclopaedia Britannica Online and the Merriam-Webster Dictionary & Thesaurus. It also contains World Data Analyst, which consists of statistics for different countries.
• A Guide to the Countries of the World
  Provides a wealth of information for every country in the world.
• Oxford English Dictionary
  An unsurpassed guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of more than 600,000 words.
• Statistics Sweden
  Contains Swedish statistics, among other things.
• UNdata
  International statistics.

Student theses  

• Essays.se
  Search for full-text theses submitted at Swedish universities.
• DALEA
  Find full-text theses and other scholarly works submitted at Högskolan Dalarna.

Other resources 

• Archive of European Integration
  Archive for research materials on the topic of European integration and unification.
• Intute: Politics
  Source for finding web resources for political studies.
• Political Resources on the Net 
  Links to parties, organisations, governments, mass media etc. arranged according to country.
• Refworld 
  Contains a vast collection of reports relating to refugee issues in different countries.