Political Science

Welcome to the political science research guide! This guide will connect you to resources available through the IU Libraries and open access resources on the web. While this guide is primarily intended for undergraduate and graduate students in political science, other students and early-career researchers in the social sciences may also find it useful.

If you are a graduate student or early-career researcher in political science, you may want to consider registering for ORCID and creating a Google Scholar Profile. Both of these steps will help you establish your online presence as a researcher and connect people to the important work you do!

ORCID

ORCID is a persistent identifier that is unique to you. It helps connect you to all your scholarly works and distinguishes you from other researchers with the same name. It is increasingly being used by institutions, publishers, and funders to identify researchers. Visit the ORCID @ Indiana University guide to learn more about how to sign up for ORCID.

Google Scholar Profile

Setting up a Google Scholar Profile is an easy way to share a list of your publications and track citations to those publications over time. If you make your profile public, it will appear in Google Scholar when people search your name. Check out this page for guidance on how to set up your Google Scholar profile.

When you are not on the IU Network or using a computer on campus in Bloomington, you can still access online resources subscribed to by IU Bloomington Libraries. This page has instructions for how to access library resources off campus.