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The Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) contains citations and short abstracts for journal articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, and statistical directories. Subjects include government, international relations, legislation, political science, statistics, and related areas.
Covers: 1972 - present, abstracts start at 1985.
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WPSA provides citations and abstracts for journal articles in political science, international relations, law, and public administration / policy.
Covers: 1000 A.D. - present
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Full-text of 29 journals covering General Political Science, American Government & Politics, Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Policy Studies, Political Communication, Peace / Conflict Studies, Presidential Studies, Political Theory / Philosophy, International Relations, and Area Studies.
Coverage varies, some titles back to 1912.
Citations to working papers, conference proceedings, books, and journal articles in the area of international affairs. Many resources are full-text.
Covers: 1991-present.
Full-text of country profiles provide analysis and forecasts of the political, economic, social, and business environment about more than 180 countries. **Click on "Enterprise Client Access."
Covers: 1996 - present.
Database with references to monographs, journal articles, government documents, reports, and pamphlets from 1937-1976. Historical perspective on public policy, political, economic, and social issues worldwide.
Covers: 1937-1976.
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World development indicators (WDI) is the World Bank's annual compilation of data about development. Provides direct access to development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to 2001.
Covers 1968-present
GPO’s Federal Digital System (FDsys) provides full-text government information available from Federal agencies, the Executive branch, Congress, and the Judicial branch. Includes the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, Congressional Record, as well as Congressional hearings, reports and bills, the U.S. Code and Supreme Court decisions. *Note: For general public access go to http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/
Most databases date back to 1994.
Searchable database that documents the key events and movements in 1960s America. Contains letters, diaries, and oral histories, posters, broadsides, pamphlets, advertisements, and audio and video materials. Also includes analysis and interpretive essays by leading historians.
Covers 1960-1974.
News coverage in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources. Company information. Federal and states court cases back to 1789.
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Full-text database of documents. The previously classified government documents range from correspondence and memoranda to minutes of cabinet meetings, technical studies, national security policy statements and intelligence reports.
Searchable, full text database of House and Senate committee reports, documents, maps, and journals (1817-1980). From READEX. Primary documents ordered printed by Congress such as reports of executive departments, and special investigations of Congress. Covers a wide range of topics such as the Armed Forces, Education, Health, and Economics.
Contains bill tracking services, congressional publications, congressional committee reports and testimony, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, Congressional Record, National Journal.
Covers: 1789 - present
Founded in 1923 as Editorial Research Reports, CQ Researcher provides coverage of health, social trends, criminal justice, international affairs, education, the environment, technology, and the economy. Reports are published ~weekly (44 times a year).
Covers: 1923 - present.
Sponsored by the Cornell University Law School, LII provides free legal information - US Code, state statutes, Supreme Court and NYS cases, & hyperlinked commentary on many diverse legal issues.
Social Sciences Citation Index®, accessed via Web of Science®, provides access to the bibliographic and citation information data from 2,474 of the world's leading social sciences journals across 50 disciplines. Use Cited Reference Search to find articles that cite or are cited by an author. With the addition of Century of Social Sciences, SSCI® delivers comprehensive backfile and cited reference data from 1900.
Covers: 1900-present
Full-text access to The Encyclopedia of Political Science -- Guide to Interest Groups and Lobbying in the United states -- Encyclopedia of U.S. Political History -- Encyclopedia of Religion in America.
Searchable online encyclopedias and handbooks in the social sciences from SAGE Publications -- Encyclopedia of African American Education, Encyclopedia of Perception, Encyclopedia of Case Study Research, Encyclopedia of Drug Policy, 21st Century Political Science: A Reference Handbook ...
Pravda (or “Truth”) was the official voice of Soviet communism and the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1918 and 1991, when Boris Yeltsin signed a decree closing Pravda down. Founded in 1912 in St. Petersburg, Russia, Pravda originated as an underground, daily workers’ newspaper, and soon became the main newspaper of the revolutionary wing of the Russian socialist movement.
Online full-text version of the Europa World Year Book and the Regional Surveys of the World series. Covers political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories.
International Political Science Abstracts is published bimonthly by the International Political Science Association. It provides non-evaluative abstracts of articles in the field of political science published in journals and yearbooks all over the world.
ARPS covers significant developments in the field of Political Science including political theory and philosophy, international relations, political economy, political behavior, American and comparative politics, public administration and policy, and methodology.
1998 - present
Oxford Handbooks series are available online as a collection in four subject modules -- Business & Management, Philosophy, Political Science, and Religion.
OBO: International Relations offers an introduction to the field and peer-reviewed annotated bibliographies. The bibliographies are browseable/keyword searchable and include books, journals, primary documents, multimedia and web resources.
Online source for California and U.S. public policy issues with an emphasis on statistics. RAND California's statistics include the following main categories: Business and Economics, Health and Socioeconomic, Population and Demographics, Government Finance, Education, Census, Community, Politics and Public Opinion.
An online resource that offers authoritative content on the development of emerging green technologies and discusses issues on the environment, sustainability and more. GREENR is a Gale / Cengage Learning product.
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