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PS 300: Research Design

Course help page for the PS 300 literature review assignment.

Useful Databases

Many databases contain articles you can use, but the following are considered to be especially useful in political science.

Citation Management: Zotero

Zotero is a free web-based citation/bibliography manager software that helps researchers organize references, take notes, and create bibliographies and works cited lists. Any OSU student, faculty or staff may access it.  Zotero is free for all users, but if you sign up using your OSU email address you get unlimited storage. You can import sources into Zotero manually, dragging and dropping pdfs into the application, or by using the Zotero browser connector (available on Chrome, Firefox, and Safari). Zotero can also be used in your web browser as well as a stand alone app, and can link with Google Docs and Microsoft Word to cite sources as you're writing. There is also a collaboration feature within Zotero. For more information about the program, visit our Zotero LibGuide.