Research - Assignment | Political Typology Beyond Red vs. Blue (Plank) - Research Guides at Lone Star College

Internet Aggregators

These sites, designed to help voters explore political candidates, provide a nice starting point for determining candidates' positions with cited (mostly) statements they've made on various issues.

OnTheIssues.org
Catalogs politicians' statements on various issues with references to the original statement source. As the quote tend to be concise, try tracking them back to the original for full context.
VoteSmart.org
Look up politicians by name or zip code to find their biography, stances, speeches, ratings, votes, and funding contributors.
Fact Checker
A Washington Post blog by Glenn Kessler.

Google Smarter

Politicians are likely to have both a personally-managed website as well as an official government profile page. For example, Ted Cruz has TedCruz.org, his campaign site, as well as a Senate page.

You can limit results to certain domains by adding site: to your search terms, e.g.: Ted Cruz site:.gov.

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Databases

These are particularly helpful if you keep running into paywalls online.

US Major Dailies (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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US Major Dailies provides access to The New York Times, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. The content is available by 8 a.m. each day and provides archives stretching as far back as 1985.
New York Times: Create an Account This link opens in a new window
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Find both news and reviews as well as access to historical NY Times issues dating back to 1851.

First time user: To get access, you need to first register for an NYT account.
1. Click the link. You will have to enter your LSC library barcode.
2. Select Create Account and complete registration fields. Use your LSC email address!
3. Once you have an account, you may access NYTimes.com and NYT mobile apps like any subscriber, or go through this link but select "log in."

Note: Site passes will expire after 365 days. To renew, you will have to activate a new pass by repeating this process.

If Google Chrome shows a warning about this link, hit Ignore. You must use the proxy to get the special access.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Multi-disciplinary database; full text of articles from over 5,300 journals, magazines and newspapers, plus image collections.
Biography (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
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Comprehensive biographical resource of over 350,000 people from throughout history and around the world.
Search all Gale databases at once with Gale PowerSearch.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
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Full-text, balanced, comprehensive journalistic reports and analysis of current and controversial issues of the day.

Accessing the Databases

Access online library materials through the library databases!

To access the databases from off-campus, you will be prompted to enter your LSC email/password or your 14-digit library barcode.

Discovery Search Search (nearly) all the library collections from one place, including articles, books and e-books, videos, and more.
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You can search without signing in, but once you click to access something, you'll be prompted to use your library barcode number or your LSC username/password.
A-Z Database List Sort & filter by subject and content types to find the specific collection you need.

Assignment | Political Typology Beyond Red vs. Blue (Plank): Research

Internet Aggregators

Google Smarter

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Databases

Accessing the Databases