Course Basics
FS 102: South Asian Politics Through Literature and Film
Professor: Jolie Wood
Librarian: Cynthia Burton, x2982
Doing Background Research
Use this collection of online encyclopedias for background information and definitions.
Shortcut: List of suggested databases for journal articles
- JSTORFull text journal articles from academic sources. There is a 3-5 year lag, so use a second database to get the more recent scholarship.
Limit by journal subject areas in the advanced search - Academic OneFileSubjects: All disciplines.
Contains: Citations, abstracts or full text to journal articles from academic, popular, trade, and news sources. Includes many full text articles in both PDF and HTML formats. Updated daily. - Historical AbstractsThis database covers history journals about South Asia which contain peer reviewed articles and book reviews. Use country name(s) for best results.
- MLA International BibliographyLook here for scholarly articles about films and literature. Use the film title and director or the novel title and author for a precise search.
Improving your Search Results
Trunctation
Use * (truncation symbol) to retrieve variant word endings
politic*---> politic, politics, political, etc
Using and
India and democra*
Using or (remember Or is MORE)
economic* or financ*
Using and with or
India and (middle class or bourgeois)
How to search for an exact phrase:
"economic condition*"
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