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Access
UN [Newsbank]
The Readex United Nations Index provides access to current
and retrospective United Nations documents and publications. Covers 1961-present.
Access World News [Newsbank]
Full-text content of local and regional newspapers. Each newspaper has its own distinctive focus offering a variety of viewpoints on local and world issues. Paid advertisements are excluded.
Alt-Press
Watch [Proquest]
Full-text database of selected newspapers, magazines, and journals of the alternative and independent press.
Alternative Press Index [FirstSearch]
Indexes almost 300 alternative, radical, and left periodicals, newspapers, and magazines. It is interdisciplinary and international in scope. Other features include selected abstracts, journal record information, and hot links to publisher Web sites. Fulltext Coverage from 1991 - Present
The Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science [Xreferplus]
Provides an introduction to the terminology of political science. Has definitions and explanations of around 1000 key terms and includes short biographies of the most eminent writers in the discipline..
CIAO: Columbia
International Affairs Online
A comprehensive source for theory and research
in international affairs, CIAO includes working papers, conference proceedings,
books, journal tables of contents, and WWW links. Covers 1991 to the present.
Updated on a regular schedule.
CQ Global Researcher [Congressional Quarterly]
Offers in-depth reports on current international crises and events (e.g., climate change, world peacekeeping). Each report focuses on a single topic and features concise background discussion and chronologies, overviews of the current situation, pro and con commentary, as well as online links to relevant organizations, and a lengthy bibliography of related books and articles. Covers 2007-
CQ
Researcher [Congressional Quarterly]
Offers in-depth reports on public policy issues. Each report focuses on a single topic and features concise background discussion and chronologies, overviews of the current situation, pro and con commentary, as well as online links to relevant organizations, and a lengthy bibliography of related books and articles. Covers 1923 - present.
CQ Weekly [Congressional Quarterly]
week by week non-partisan report on activity within
the United States Congress. Discusses issues about to be addressed by Congress,
summaries of the previous week's legislative events, status of bills pending before
the House and Senate, committee and floor activity, and outcomes of roll call
votes. Searchable by date, topic, latest votes.
Dictionary of Government and Politics [Xreferplus]
Covers terms commonly used in the United States and Great Britain.
A Dictionary of Political Biography [Oxford Reference Online]
Covers the major figures in world politics of the twentieth century
Digital
National Security Archive [Chadwyck-Healey]
Contains more than 35,000
of the most important, declassified documents that led to US policy decisions.
E.I.U. Client Access [Economist Intelligence Unit]
Analysis and forecasts of the political, economic and business environment for almost 200 countries. Includes reports on certain strategic industries and on the latest management thinking.
Ethnic
NewsWatch [Proquest]
A collection of full-text articles from 200 publications
covering the ethnic, minority and native press in America with international coverage.
ENW provides news, culture and history from a broad diversity of perspectives
and viewpoints. Covers 1985 - present; updated monthly.
Europa World
[Taylor & Francis]
Full text online version of Europa World Year Book, reference book for political and economic information in over 250 countries and territories. Also covers numerous international organizations and features a search engine for generating comparative multinational statistics.
Federal Register [freeweb resource
- via GPO Access]
Provides the full text of the Federal Register, a daily
publication of the United States
Government that serves as the medium for
notifying the public of official agency actions. Covers 1988 - present; updated
daily.
GenderWatch
[Proquest]
Provides full-text, international coverage of women's and gender
issues, including family, childbirth, childcare, sexual harassment, aging, body
image, eating disorders, and social roles. It also includes content on the impact
of gender and gender roles on areas such as the arts, popular culture and media,
business and work, crime, education, research and scholarship, family, health
care, politics, religion, and sports. Covers 1974 to the present; updated quarterly.
GPO
Monthly Catalog [FirstSearch]
Index of documents produced by US Government
Printing Office. Contains records of reports, studies, fact sheets, maps, handbooks,
conference proceedings, etc., issued by all US federal government agencies, including
the US Congress. Also included are records of all of the Senate and House hearings
on private and public bills and laws. Contains a wealth of information on a wide
range of topics including agriculture, economics, energy research, public policy,
tax reform, business law, health, and many other subjects. 1976 - present; updated
monthly.
Greenwire
[E & E Publishing]
An environmental news service covering national and
international environmental politics and policy.
Historical Statistics [Cambridge University Press]
Online version of standard reference for quantitative data about American history. Statistics can be downloaded to Excel or CSV, printed and graphed.
ICPSR
[Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research]
ICPSR is a
membership-based organization providing access to the world's largest archive
of computer-based research and instructional data for the social sciences. The
data archive includes a broad range of disciplines, including political science,
sociology, demography, economics, history, education, gerontology, criminal justice,
public health, foreign policy, and law. ICPSR's entire collection is online and
available for downloading. However, many of the studies in the ICPSR archive are
restricted to faculty, staff, and students at member institutions. Syracuse University
Library is a member.
International
Index to Black Periodicals [Chadwyck-Healey]
IIBP Full Text includes
content from over 150 international scholarly and popular periodicals in Black
studies. It covers a wide array of humanities and social science disciplines including
art, cultural criticism, conomics, education, health, history, language and literature,
law, philosophy, politics, religion, and sociology among others.
Lexis/Nexis
{package of news, legal and statistical databases}
Academic
[Lexis-Nexis]
Hundreds of full text files focusing on legal news (federal,
state, international), journalism (newspapers, newswires, transcripts),
business and industry journals.
Congressional
[Lexis-Nexis]
Comprehensive access to US legislative information.
Statistical [Lexis-Nexis]
Comprehensive access to US statistical information.
Major Acts of Congress [Gale]
An illustrated encyclopedia of congressional acts from the earliest days of the American republic up through recent years.
MIPT Terrorism Knowledge Base
[free web resource from The Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism (MIPT)]
Provides detailed information on terrorist incidents, groups, and trials.
NCJRS [National Criminal Justice Reference Service
- free web resource]
Covers all aspects of law enforcement and criminal justice,
including: police, courts, corrections, juvenile justice, community crime
prevention, criminal justice system, fraud, waste, and abuse in government
programs. 1972 - present; updated monthly.
The Oxford Companion to American Law [Oxford Reference Online]
Entries cover the law's role, state and local law and legal institutions, American law in a comparative international perspective, etc.
The Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World [Oxford Reference Online]
Includes essays on critical issues as well as entries on people, concepts, and events.
The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States [Oxford Reference Online]
Offers entries on key cases and areas of constitutional law such as abortion, freedom of religion, school desegregation, freedom of speech, voting rights, military tribunals, and the rights of the accused.
The Oxford Guide to the United States Government [Oxford Reference Online]
Contains a wealth of information on the American Presidency, Congress, and Supreme Court.
PAIS
International [Cambridge Scientific Abstracts]
Index with abstracts to
articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters,
and statistical directories about public affairs. Covers from 1972 to the present
with abstracts from 1985; updated monthly.
Parliament Rolls of Medieval England [Scholarly Digital Editions]
Contains the full text and translation of the meetings of the English parliament from Edward I to Henry VII, covering the years from 1272 to 1504. All surviving records of the parliaments, including many texts never before published, are given in full, with new scholarly introductions to each parliament. The parliament rolls themselves are freshly transcribed from the original documents, while the transcripts incorporate precise information about the text in the documents (e.g., deleted and unreadable text) never before available.
Political Database of the Americas [free web resource from Georgetown University]
A non-governmental project of the Center for Latin American Studies (CLAS) at Georgetown University in collaboration with institutions like the Secretariat for Political Affairs of the Organization of American States and FLACSO-Chile, and also with the support of other organizations and entities in the region.
Offers information about institutions and political processes, national constitutions, branches of government, elections, political constitutional studies and other subjects related to the strengthening of democracy in the region.
Political Graveyard [free web resource
maintained by Lawrence Kestenbaum, of Ann Arbor, Michigan]
"A database of historic cemeteries." Good source of basic biographical information on U.S. politicians, judges, and diplomats.
Political Reference Suite [Congressional Quarterly]
Enables searching multiple political sources at once. It includes Congress and the Nation (1945-present), Historic Documents (1972-present), Supreme Court Yearbook (1990-present), Political Handbook of the World, Politics in America, Vital Statistics on American Politics, and Washington Information Directory.
Political Risk Yearbook [PRSGroup]
Country Reports on 106 countries including political and economic risk analysis. Each Country Report focuses specifically on vital political and business information: finding developing markets, determining currency movements, preparing for capital investments, or making judgments about corporate security.
Polling
the Nations [ORS Publishing]
A database of polls taken on a variety of
subjects all over the world. Each record in the database consists of one poll
question and the participants' responses. Records are indexed by subject matter,
publication year, general and specific location, and survey method. Other information
provided includes: source name and contact information, sample size, and notes
on the sample population. The data are gathered from professional polling organizations,
television networks, universities, newspapers, businesses and associations.
POPLINE
[Johns Hopkins]
Index with abstracts of the worldwide literature on population,
family planning, and related health issues. POPLINE is maintained by the Population
Information Program at the Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health.
Contains over 290,000 records.
RAND Voices of Jihad [free web resource from RAND
"... a compilation of speeches, interviews, statements, and publications of jihadist leaders, foot soldiers, and sympathizers. Nearly all content is in English translation, and has been collected from publicly-accessible websites. Original links are provided, along with excerpts and full-text content when available."
Social
Sciences Full Text [WilsonWeb]
Index with abstracts to more than 400 international, English-language periodicals. Indexing from February 1983 to the present. Abstracts from January 1994. Updated monthly.
Transitions
Online [Transitions - Czech Republic]
A gateway to media outlets not readily
accessible in the west (e.g., examples of publications: Novoe Vremea (Moldova);
Kapital (Macedonia). Transitions Online compiles these into coherent web-accessible
collections (e.g., by country name). In addition to daily journalism-the site
allows users to locate, by country, a variety of links to that nation's political
parties, government agencies, and think tanks. It also offers job listings, opinion
pieces, essays, article packages focusing on common themes and year-in review
annual surveys for each country. It does not limit its coverage to economic or
political subject matter-but also links to news of the arts, culture and the humanities.
It includes a searchable archive with content reaching back to the mid 1990s.
Worldwide
Political Science Abstracts [Cambridge Scientific Abstracts]
Citations,
abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science
and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public
administration / policy. The serials list of the new database is actively under
construction, with a focus on expanding international coverage. As of February
2003 approximately 1,304 titles are being monitored for coverage.
