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Databases & Indexes: Politics & Government


Periodical Indexes and Full Text Books

  • International Political Science Abstracts
    •    Abstracts of articles from hundreds of journals worldwide published from 1975 to the present.
     
  • PAIS - Public Affairs Information Services
    •   Index to articles, books with a focus on social, economic, and political policy.
     
  • International Bibliography of the Social Sciences
    •    Index of chapters and articles from 7000 books and 2,700 international journals in economics as well as sociology and political science since 1951.
     
  • Routledge Reference Books on Politics & International relations

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  • Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of science)
    •    Indexes over 1,725 journals in the social sciences since 1998.
     
  • Left Index
    •   1982 to the present. Index to left-wing literature in politics, economics, the social sciences and humanities.
     
  • URBADOC
    •   International databases containing over 700,000 references on urban and regional policy and planning. Many links to full texts are supplied.
     
  • Oxford Scholarship Online: Political Science
    •   Full text of recently published books on political science.
     
  • Books24x7.com   Includes GovEssentials - collection of e-books covering a broad selection of government topics.
     
  • TOPICsearch
    •    Current events as covered in more than 3,000 newspapers and magazines.

    Congress and the Government

  • GovSearch for Libraries
    •   Detailed information about federal, state, county and municipal government in the United States.
     
  • CQ Press Congress A to Z
    •   Explore rich analysis of how the legislative process works and learn about landmark legislation.
     
  • CQ Press Elections A to Z
    •   Research vital aspects of campaigns and elections and learn more about the development of political parties.
     
  • CQ Press Presidency A to Z
    •   Explore the complex operations of the executive branch and learn more about the Presidents and their administrations.
     
  • CQ Press Supreme Court A to Z
    •   Explore comprehensive coverage of landmark cases and the justices who decided them.
     
  • CQ Press Constitution A to Z
    •   Explore how the U.S. Constitution remains a malleable document and learn about significant legal concepts.
     
  • CQ Researcher and CQ Global Researcher
    •   In depth coverage of current issues in government and of global affairs.
     
  • CQ Weekly
    •    Weekly journal of legislative news and analysis.
     
  • CQ Encyclopedia of American Government
    •   A reference work on Congress, the Presidency, the Supreme Court, and the election process.
     
  • CQ Washington Information Directory
    •   A guide to national organizations and government agencies.
     
  • CQ Congress Collection
    •   Legislation, biographies of members, votes, and documents.
     
  • CQ Politics in America
    •   Authoritative resource for information on the members of Congress.
     
  • CQ Supreme Court Collection
    •   Commentary and analysis on Supreme Court decisions, biographies of justices, and history.
     
  • CQ Voting and Elections Collection
    •   Presidential, congressional, and gubernatorial election and campaign informatin. Political parties and demographics are also covered.
     
  • CQ Congress and the Nation
    •   Explanations of the acts of Congress from 1945 to the present.
  • Lexis-Nexis Congressional Universe
    •    Comprehensive, full-text information about Congress, legislation, members, etc..
       
  • Lexis-Nexis Primary Sources in U.S. History
    •   Full text of primary sources in U.S. Presidential history.
     
  • Who's Who in American Politics   Biographies of today's political leaders.
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    Government Documents

  • FirstGov
    •   Starting point for government information including the 2000 census, state and and local government links and much more.
     
  • Government Documents Index   Catalog of U.S. Government publications (online counterpart of the Monthly catalog) with direct links to documents available online.

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  • Europa World Plus
    •    The online version of the Europa World Yearbook and the nine-volume Regional Surveys of the world series.  Political and economic information about 250 countries.
     
  • GPO access   Full text of selected government documents.

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  • CQ Historic Documents
    •   Full text of thousands of U.S. documents since 1972, including presidential speeches, treaties, Supreme Court decisions and various government reports.
     
  • Index to United Nations Documents
    •   Provides access to U.N. documents from 1966 to the present. Recent documents are available in full text.
     
  • Constitutions of the World
    •   Full texts of the constitutions of all of the countries of the world and all of the states of the USA.
     
  • United Nations Documents
    •   Full text of U.N. official documents.
     
  • Code of Federal Regulations
    •   Access the full text of the United States Code of Federal Regulations.
     
  • Federal Depository Library Program Electronic Collection

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  • Lexis-Nexis State Capital Universe
    •    Access to documents from all 50 state capitals, including bills, laws, constitutions, regulations.
     
  • Westchestergov.com
    •   News and information about Westchester County Government.
     
  • Thomas
    •   Complete information about Congress and Congressional bills, committees, etc.
     
  • National Archives
    •   U.K. government records and information management

    Public Policy

  • CQ Public Affairs Collection
    •    Statistical and historical analysis, historic documents, primary source materials and directories of organizations. Covers over 20 subject areas including advocacy, education, energy, environment and transportation.
     
  • PolicyFile
    •    Provides online access to public policy research and analysis from think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and publishers.

     

    International Politics

  • Statesman's Yearbook Online
    •    Information on the history, politics, economics, trade, and infrastructure of all of the countries of the world.
     
  • CQ Global Researcher
    •    Provides in-depth coverage of global affairs.
     
  • CQ Political Handbook of the World
    •    Comprehensive country profiles chronicling national history, government, political parties and other organizations.
     
  • Country Studies
    •    Online versions of books published by Library of Congress for the U.S. Dept of Army between 1988-1998 focusing on 101 lesser known countries.
     
  • Country Watch
    •    Detailed information on each of the recognized countries including maps, names of leaders, etc.
     
  • Columbia International Affairs Online
    •   Full text of books, journals, and documents on international affairs published by Columbia University Press.

    Statistics and Polls

  • Gallup Poll   Gallup polls going back to 1930.
     
  • Polling the Nations
    •   Reports of polls on hundreds of topics.
     
  • Polling Report.com
    •   Results of the latest polls by all the major polling organizations.
     
  • Roper Center
    •   The largest online archive of public opinion.
     
  • iPOLL
    •   A comprehensive database of 500,000 questions and answers asked in the US since 1935.
     
  • Online Catalog of Roper Dataset Studies
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  • Lexis-Nexis Statistical Universe
    •   Access to statistics produced by federal agencies, states, and intergovernmental organizations.
     
  • National Atlas of the United States

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  • ICPSR
    •   Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research provides access to a vast archive of social science data files.
     
  • CQ Vital Statistics on American Politics
    •   Comprehensive coverage of American political statistics from 1788.

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