National Journal is one of CofC's newest resources for political science. You won't find peer-reviewed content here, but it is a great place for current coverage of elections, including campaign finance reports, news, analysis, and infographics. You can also use it to find similar coverage of past elections.
Provides data, content, and resources, including award-winning journalism, presentations, infographics and analysis to stay on top of key moments in politics and policy. Access includes the Research, RaceTracker, Almanac, Daybook, and Events modules. Access to these modules is available through the buttons at the top of page.
For off-campus access, sign in using your MyPortal username and password.
"Grey literature" refers to stuff that is rigorous and well-researched, but doesn't neatly fit into the major categories of peer-reviewed articles and scholarly books.
Examples of grey literature:
Whether or not grey literature will be useful and appropriate depends on your information need and where the information is coming from.
The US government (as well as many governments around the world and international governing bodies, such as the United Nations) produces a vast amount of information. Some examples of government information include: legislation, case law, research and policy papers, census data, consumer publications, and much, much more.
Unless it is classified, most government information is freely available on the web. You can find much of it through the GovInfo portal.
GPO's official system for Federal information from all three branches of the U.S. Government. Provides free online access to official Federal Government publications.
