How to find articles in our journal databases
To get to the Lewis University Library political science databases, go to the Lewis University Library webpage, and click on the "Online Database A-Z." From there, click on the first tab on the left hand side that is labeled "All Subjects" and select "Political Science" from the drop-down list.
EBSCO, JSTOR, and Proquest are all good places to start.
Search across all ProQuest databases available through the Lewis University Library.
If there's an article you would like that our library doesn't have, you still have options. First check on Google Scholar to see if it's available for free. If not, you can request the article through ILL. Contact either a research librarian or email circdesk@lewisu.edu for further assistance.
Lewis University Library is a CARLI library, which means we can borrow materials from the other 86 CARLI libraries available in Illinois. If Lewis doesn't have an item you are looking for, you can look to see if any of the other I-Share libraries have it, and you can borrow it through them. Look at our "I-Share" page for more information.
What is a CARLI EBL account?
EBL, which is provided to the Lewis University Library by CARLI (Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois), is an Ebook Library of thousands of ebooks.
Users may view titles for five minutes in a 24-hour period before a prompt appears to request a loan. Ebooks will have a 7 day “loan” period. Users may view content online, download it, or print it. 
EBL log-in accounts can only be created from an 'on-campus' location. Once you create an account, you will then be able to log-in remotely.
Peer review is a process by which scholarly publications try to ensure "quality control," that what they publish is accurate and meets the standards of research and writing in their field.
When a scholar submits a book to a university press, or an article to a scholarly journal, the editor will send it out to two (usually) reputable scholars in the author's field to evaluate whether it meets the standards of historical research and whether it contributes anything new to the field. These are the peer-reviewers--because they are considered the author's peers (or equals) in the field--and if they approve of the manuscript, the published work will be considered "peer-reviewed."
We recommend that the articles you find be peer-reviewed, and therefore check the peer-review box when you do your article research. University press books are normally considered to be peer-reviewed.