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The following guides have been produced by other librarians at USC that can also help you develop and organize a quality research paper.

Help with Research

• Political Science -- a research guide that lists and describes databases and scholarly web sites that support the study of political science and its related sub-disciplines.

• Primary Sources -- selective guide to finding databases and directories of archival primary source materials at USC or freely available online.

• Public Diplomacy -- a research guide for locating newspaper and journal articles, research reports, and links to online resources that support research about diplomacy.

• Spatial Sciences and GIS -- a resource guide that provides access to resources supporting academic scholarship in the spatial sciences and data visualization.

• Statistics and Data -- guide to numeric sources in the social sciences available through the USC Libraries and on the Internet.

• USC Libraries Search, Users' Guide -- guide for using the main search function used to access the USC Libraries' print and online collections.

Help with Writing

• Citation Guide -- a brief guide to citation rules covering a variety of commonly used styles.

• Organizing Your Social Sciences Research Paper -- comprehensive overview on how to write a college-level research paper in the social and behavioral sciences.

• RefWorks -- a guide to using RefWorks in the USC Libraries environment, a Web-based citation manager similar to EndNote.