DATABASES AND INDEXES

• Academic Search Premier -- Designed specifically for academic institutions, this collection offers information in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities, including newspapers, magazines, and scholarly journals. It contains full text for many of the publications. A good starting point for research, but other subject specific resources should be also consulted.

• CQ Electronic Library - Search all our CQ (Congressional Quarterly) subscriptions from a single search box or choose an individual title:
  • CQ Global Researcher – CQ Global Researcher offers researchers international perspectives on the most vital world issues with original, single-topic reports.
  • CQ Politics in America -- Contains profiles of the members of Congress, and information on states and districts, committees, and campaign finance.
  •  CQ Researcher -- Single-themed reports offer in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues.  Reports include background and chronology, assessment of current situation, tables and maps, pro/con statements from highly qualified representatives of opposing positions, and list of sources for further reading.
  •  CQ Supreme Court Collection -- Contains all Supreme Court decisions full-text, biographies of Supreme Court justices, and the U. S. Constitution. The system also has useful "Cases in Context" for interesting public policy topics such as Capital Punishment, Federalism and Abortion.
  •  CQ Weekly -- Non-partisan source for comprehensive coverage of the U.S. Congress, status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, background maneuvering, debates and roll-call votes.

• GalleryWatch -- This is an index to the research materials produced by the Congressional Research Service (CRS). These materials cover a variety of topics that are used by Congress to gain insight into proposed legislation.

• iPOLL (Roper Center) -- The Roper Center at the University of Connecticut is the largest archive of public opinion data. To access the database, click on the iPOLL icon. The user is then presented with a brief registration page and will need to agree to user terms - all this happens the first time a user logs in to iPOLL. Subsequently, the user only needs to enter his or her email address.

• JSTOR -- Full-text archive of scholarly journals.

• LexisNexis Academic -- Provides full-text access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information.

• LexisNexis Congressional -- Provides full-text access to US legislative information from the Congressional Information Service, Inc.

• National Journal Group's Policy Central -- Provides full-text access to several political and policy databases, including The Hotline, Congress Daily, Technology Daily, The Almanac of American Politics, Polltrack. and Campaigns.

• National Newspapers -- Provides recent full-text access to 5 major newspapers, which may be searched simultaneously or individually:    
  • Christian Science Monitor, since 1990
  • New York Times, since 1980
  • Sun (Baltimore), since 1990
  • Wall Street Journal, since 1984
  • Washington Post, since 1987

• New York Times Historical File -- A full-text index to the New York Times from 1851 through December 2004.

• PressDisplay -- Read newspapers from around the world the day they are published.

• Project Muse - Full-text access to journals published by various associations and university presses. These titles cover a variety of subjects but mostly related to literature, political science, history and culture.

• Social Sciences Full Text -- Provides access to social sciences magazines and journals covering a broad range of fields.

• Worldwide Political Science Abstracts -- This index provides access to research in journals in political science and related fields.

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Last updated: 13 August 2008