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Recommended Databases

Databases useful for research into general public policy, as well as some specific databases for social policy issues and environmental policy.

Homeland Security Digital Library
Provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies. The resources are reviewed and selected by a team of homeland security researchers and organized in a unique homeland security taxonomy. HSDL content includes state-of-the-art multi-media offerings and other valuable assets identified by CHDS master's degree participants and instructors.
Coverage Dates: - present
Environmental Studies and Policy (Gale OneFile)
Answers environmentally-related inquiries with coverage of more than 3.3 million articles from more than 700 journals and reference content from Delmar, Cengage Learning. Robust coverage of environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.
Coverage Dates: 1980 - present
Politics Collection (ProQuest)
This collection, which includes PAIS Index, Policy File Index, Political Science Database, and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts, provides abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, country reports, dissertations, think-tank reports, working papers, government documents and more, including full-text from many leading political science and international relations journals.
Environmental Issues Online (Alexander Street)
A collection of multimedia materials (text, archival primary sources, video and audio) around key environmental challenges, including climate change, pollution, biodiversity, conservation, deforestation and more. The database is curated around specific environmental issues and events from the 20th and 21st centuries.
Congressional (ProQuest)
ProQuest Congressional is a comprehensive online collection of primary source congressional publications and legislative research materials covering all topics, including government, current events, politics, economics, business, science and technology, international relations, social issues, finance, insurance, and medicine. Finding aid for congressional hearings (published and unpublished), committee prints, committee reports and documents from 1824-present, and the daily Congressional Record from 1985-present. Compiled legislative histories from 1969-present. Full text access to the U.S. Statutes at Large, which is the official compilation of all public and private laws and resolutions passed by Congress, listed in order by date of enactment from 1789-present.

Environmental Studies (Gale In Context)
Environmental Studies (Gale In Context) [formerly GREENR] focuses on the physical, social, and economic aspects of environmental issues. Topic, organization, and country portals form research centers around issues covering energy systems, health care, agriculture, climate change, population, and economic development. Portals include authoritative analysis, academic journals, news, case studies, legislation, conference proceedings, primary source documents, statistics, and rich multimedia. Use Browse Issues and Topics, World Map, Basic Search or Advanced Search to explore the database.
Coverage Dates: 1982 - present

Multidisciplinary Databases

These are two general, multidisciplinary databases that may have information related to public policy.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCOhost)
A full text database for scholarly publications and peer-reviewed journals. Coverage spans virtually every area of academic study.
Web of Science
A multidisciplinary collection of records for scholarly research articles included in the Arts & Humanities Citation Index, the Emerging Sources Citation Index, the Science Citation Index, and the Social Sciences Citation Index. Because the information stored about each article includes the article's cited reference list (often called its bibliography), you can also search for articles that cite a known author or work. Arts & Humanities Citation Index 2003-present; Emerging Sources Citation Index 2005-present; Science Citation Index 1965-present; Social Science Citation Index 1965-present

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Agricultural & Environmental Science Database (ProQuest)
Scholarly literature on environmental science topics from disciplines such as atmospheric science, biology, biotechnology, ecology, engineering, and microbiology; as well as agricultural research topics including agricultural economics, animal and veterinary sciences, aquaculture and fisheries, farming and farming systems, food and human nutrition, forestry, and plant sciences. It includes U.S. government environmental impact statements.
Sociological Abstracts (ProQuest)
Index to articles from journals in sociology, social work and other social sciences.
Abstracts and index: 1963-present
CAB Abstracts
Includes journal articles, conference proceedings and selected books from US and international agricultural literature. Topics include veterinary medicine, human and animal nutrition, forestry, rural development, as well as other related areas such as tourism and human ecology.
Environmental Studies and Policy (Gale OneFile)
Discover robust coverage of environmental issues and policies, including diverse perspectives from the scientific community, governmental policy makers, as well as corporate interests.

Newspapers

Oregon Index Online
The Oregon Index is a selective index to Oregon newspapers, and to Oregon items in selected other publications. The database does not contain full-text information.
Ethnic NewsWatch (ProQuest)
Features newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. More than 300 publications offering both national and regional coverage with the voices of the Asian-American, Jewish, African-American, Native-American, Arab-American, Eastern-European, and multi-ethnic communities. 1959-1989.
Newspaper Source (EBSCOhost)
Selected full text for U.S. and international newspapers back to 1984. Database is updated daily on EBSCOhost.

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Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center pulls together background information and pro & con viewpoints about current social issues. The database includes: Nearly 7,000 viewpoint articles, 41 complete titles from the Information Plus reference program, more than 275 primary documents, 300 biographies of social activists and reformers,nearly 5,000 statistical tables, charts and graphs Nearly 4,600 topic overviews that provide context for the issues, more than 775 court-case overviews, 334 profiles of federal agencies and special interest groups, 2,000 links to reviewed and subject-indexed Web sites, more than 1,300 images, all hand-selected to support the topics covered, more than 135 full-text periodicals and newspapers, podcasts from the Weekly Presidential Radio Address.
Coverage Dates: 1981 -
Social Trends & Indicators USA
This 4-volume set extends the successful "USA" statistical series by providing in-depth statistics on social issues paired with expert analyses. Statistical data is gathered from respected sources including the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of the Census, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Social Security Administration; data is also gathered from The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and the stock exchanges.
Coverage Dates: 2003 - present

Online Resources

WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources
A frequently-updated, cost-free website directory that is part of the WWW Virtual Library System, with over 2000 carefully selected, annotated links in 35 international affairs categories

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