Information Resources for Policy Research
Journal
Literature
General Indexes
- Academic
Search Premier
- Provides full text for nearly 3,180 scholarly publications covering
academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education,
computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts &
literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.
- InfoTrac OneSource
- Index of articles from 2300 periodicals (arts, humanities, science,
social sciences and general news).
- JSTOR
- Includes the complete backfile for over 200 scholarly journals,
including major titles from all subject disciplines.
- PAIS
- Bibliographic index with abstracts covering the full range of political,
social, and public policy issues. Covers selected journal articles, books,
statistics, yearbooks, directories, conference proceedings, pamphlets,
reports, government documents, and microfiche. More than 1,600 journals and
over 8,000 monographs are indexed each year. Includes documents published
worldwide in any of six languages.
- Web of Science
- Covers more than 8,400 journals in all subject area.
Economic Policy
- EconLit
- Includes subject indexing and abstracts to over 620 journals in
economics. Also has books, dissertations, and working papers in economics.
Provides comprehensive information on accounting, capital markets,
econometrics, economic forecasting, government regulations, labor economics,
monetary theory, urban economics and much more.
- Business
Source Complete
- Provides abstracts and indexing for over 2,680 (with 2,260 full text)
scholarly business journals covering management, economics, finance,
accounting and international business.
Education Policy
- Education-Line
- A freely accessible database of the full text of conference papers, working papers and electronic
literature which supports educational research, policy and practice.
- ERIC
- Contains over 700,000 citations covering research documents, journal
articles, technical reports, program descriptions and evaluations, and
curricular materials in the field of education.
- Education
Full Text
- Provides comprehensive coverage of an international range of
English-language of over 650 periodicals, monographs and yearbooks.
Environmental Policy
- BIOSIS Previews
- Covers original research reports and reviews from approximately 6,000 journals in biological and biomedical areas.
Coverage includes traditional areas of biology such as botany, zoology, and microbiology, as well as related fields such as
biomedical, agriculture, pharmacology, and ecology. Also included are interdisciplinary fields such as medicine, biochemistry,
biophysics, bioengineering, and biotechnology
- Environmental
Issues and Policy Index
- Provides abstracting and indexing information for over 1000 titles in
the area of environmental policy and studies.
- NEPIS (National Environmental Publications Information System)
- Provides full text access from a collection of over 7,000 archival and current documents published by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Allows searching, viewing, and printing, including full images of all original pages and full-text. Includes documents that are no longer
available in print form.
Health Policy
- Health
Reference Center
- Provides over 160 full-text journals in medicine, nursing, allied and
consumer health. Includes full-text reference books, pamphlets, overviews of
clinical topics, and indexing and abstracts for over 1500 additional titles
covering patient and consumer health information.
- NLM
Gateway
- A Web-based system that lets users search simultaneously in multiple
retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It allows
users of NLM services to initiate searches from one Web interface, providing
"one-stop searching" for many of NLM's information resources or databases.
Includes content from AIDSLINE (focuses on research, clinical aspects, and
health policy issues related to AIDS or Acquired Immune Deficiency
Syndrome), (BIOETHICSLINE (covering ethics and related public policy issues
in health care and biomedical research), and HealthSTAR (covering the
published literature on health services, technology, administration, and
research).
Legal Indexes
- LegalTrac
- Index of articles from 800 legal reviews and journals and law-related
articles from 1000 other periodicals. Full-text articles (some with
graphics), 1989-present, from 40 periodicals.
- LexisNexis
Academic - Legal Research Library
- Provides both full-text and abstracts for a wide range of
general-interest wire services, newspapers and magazines from around the
world, including full text of the New York Times. Also provides access to
company profiles and financial reports, government transcripts, trade
journals and academic and legal databases.
Government Information
- Catalog of GPO Publications
- Congressional Budget Office Reports
- Fed in Print
- Provides an index to Federal Reserve economic research and publications.
Articles cover all aspects of the economy.
- Declassified Documents Reference System
- A full-text collection of declassified U. S. government documents. Includes correspondence and memoranda,
minutes of cabinet meetings, technical studies, national security policy statements and intelligence reports.
Coverage is from the years immediately following World War II through the 1970s. The major domestic and international
events of the post-World War II world are covered in information by and for presidents, senators, and congress members.
- GAO Reports
- LexisNexis Congressional
- Provides access to information, including Congressional Indexes from 1789 to the present,
produced by or pertaining to the United States Congress. Provides full text for many titles,
generally from the early 1990's to the present. Includes legislation and public policy,
statistical information (including projections and analyses), legislative history, and
federal regulations. Provides information about the members of Congress and their
legislative activities, including voting and financial records as well as members of
various congressional committees.
- LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection
- Provides full text access to the Congressional Research Service reports (2004-present)
and to Congressional Committee Prints (1830-present). This content is offered as part of the
LexisNexis Congressional database.
Book and Union Catalogs
- Gale
Virtual Reference
- A database of encyclopedias, almanacs, and specialized reference
sources. .
- NetLibrary
- Provides access to full-text scholarly, reference and professional
eBooks (electronic books) from leading university, academic and professional
publishers. eBooks may be viewed online or "checked out". To check out a
title you must Create an Account.
- SourceOECD
- The online publications portal of the Organisation for Economic
Co-operation and Development (OECD). Comprises 20 Studies by Themes for
monographs and reports; 24 periodicals online; some reference titles online;
and the OECD statistical databases online.
- RLIN
- A comprehensive database that serves as a major union catalog of records
describing books, serials, archival collections, manuscripts, maps, musical
scores, sound recordings, films, photographs, posters, computer files,
electronic resources and more.
- World Bank e-Library
- Updated daily. An online collection of over 3,000 World Bank documents. Consists of over
1,400 World Bank publications and over 2,000 Policy Research Working Papers.
- WorldCat
- 60,000,000+ bibliographic records for audio-visual materials, books,
maps, musical scores, newspapers, periodicals and more.
Statistics
News
- Factiva
- A global information resource, providing full-text access to top
national and international newspapers (including full text of the Wall
Street Journal), newswires, business journals, market research reports,
analysts reports and web sites. Contains over 8000 publications with content
from 118 countries in 22 languages.
- LexisNexis
Academic - News Library
- See above for description.
- Los Angeles Times
- Provides comprehensive coverage for Southern California's largest daily newspaper.
Each issue is fully indexed and each article receives an abstract of up to 75 words.
Thousands of full text articles are available in the ASCII format.
- New York
Times (1851 – 2003)
- Includes all the articles published since the first issue of the paper
in 1851. Provides full text and full image articles with digital
reproductions of every page, every article and every issue in PDF format.
- TexShare
Custom Newspapers
- Provides full-text access to over 100 newspapers,
including titles of local interest like the Austin-American Stateman and the
Houston Chronicle.
- World News Connection
- Contains materials provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). The reports are full text,
English translations of foreign news sources and information. Many of the materials
are copyrighted. Particularly effective in its coverage of local media sources.
Compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources.
Dissertations
- Dissertation
Abstratcts International / Digital Dissertations
- Contains more than 2 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses.
Provides full text for many dissertations and theses, including most done
after 1997. All subject areas are covered. The database includes more than
90 percent of the doctoral dissertations accepted each year in North America
with selective coverage for other parts of the world. Each dissertation
published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the
author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts.
Gray Literature
- CIAO -
Columbia International Affairs Online
- Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is designed to be a
comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.
Includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional
papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and
proceedings from conferences.
- CQ
Researcher
- Explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics
range from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and
science and technology. Every report is written by an experienced journalist
and features comments from experts, lawmakers and citizens on all sides of
every issue with numerous charts, graphs and sidebar articles.
- PolicyFile
- An electronic database indexing research and publication abstracts in
the field of public policy research and analysis. Includes public policy
think tanks, university research programs, research organizations and
publishers. Where available, access to home pages, electronic mail addresses
and fulltext are made available within individual abstracts.
- Index to
Current Urban Documents
Index to reports and research generated by local government agencies,
civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public
libraries, school districts, and metropolitan and regional planning
agencies from more than 500 major U.S. and Canadian cities. Reports
available full text in PDF format. Paper indexes and microfiche of reports
dating to 1972 are available at the Public Affairs Library.