Welcome to the Course Guide for PLSC 210N: Rights in America!

I'm Jacob Gordon, a librarian at PSU Altoona. My contact information is below my photo, please feel free to message me for research assistance, tips and strategies for navigating the library resources or to request an appointment. 

To find relevant results in LionSearch, a database, or Google:

Try using Boolean operators (and, or, not):

AND narrows your search results

• Affordable Care Act AND Obamacare

OR expands and broadens your search results

• marriage OR civil unions

NOT excludes and narrows your search results

• Health Care NOT preventive medicine 

Try using quote marks around phrases (words naturally spoken together and names of laws or people):

• "Civil Rights"
• "Affordable Care Act"
• "Ida B Wells"

Try using site:. to limit your web domain (.edu - .org - .gov. - .mil):

• site:govinfo.gov  civil rights