Articles
Social Sciences Citation Index (Thomson Reuters)Provides access to current bibliographic information and cited references from the journal literature in the physical and social sciences. Search by article title word, journal title, author, cited author or reference, or address word (e.g. author's institution). Coverage begins 1956 to present.
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The PAIS International database contains references to more than 460,000 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed.
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Provides full-text access to a wide range of news (national, international, regional, business, legal, and foreign language), business (company financial news and information, accounting, auditing & tax information, industry and market news), and legal (law reviews, federal case law, state legal research) sources. It also features news transcripts, the U.S. Code, Constitution & Court rules, state and country profiles, medical abstracts, and reference & directory sources.
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Combines many CQ Press resources for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. Access is provided to Congress and the Nation (1945-2004), Historic Documents Series (1972 -), Political Handbook of the World, Supreme Court Yearbook (1989 -), Vital Statistics on American Politics and the Washington Information Directory.
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CQ Researcher report offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Each CQ Researcher report is based on a common structure: overview, background, current situation, pro/con section, special focus, chronology, bibliography and next step.
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A premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects,
Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive. With millions of articles available in both PDF and HTML full-text with no restrictions, researchers are able to find accurate information quickly. Includes full-text coverage of the
New York Times back to 1995.
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Access information on social issues through viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to web sites and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
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A resource that aggregates dispersed content about theory and research in international affairs. CIAO includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, full-text journal articles and policy briefs, and teaching materials including original case studies written by leading international affairs experts, course packs of background readings for history and political science classes, and special features. Advanced searching capability is present and results can be sorted by date and relevance. CIAO also provides links to international affairs Internet sources. All sections of CIAO are updated monthly.
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Searchable full text access to Philadelphia Business Journal and their Book of Lists with a 10 year archive of content. With 39 additional cities covered in the Business Journals, this is a great source for intelligence about local business conditions and trends.
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More than 400 English-language periodicals and yearbooks published in the U.S. and elsewhere. Subjects include administration, teaching methods and curriculum, literacy, government funding, and more. ERIC, the government education file, can be searched simultaneously by clicking Open Database Selection Area and selecting ERIC.
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Covers sociological topics in fields such as anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology. Journals published by sociological associations, groups, faculties and institutes, and periodicals containing the term "sociology" in their titles are abstracted fully.
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Business Source Premier is a full text business database, covering management, economics, finance, accounting, international business.
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Search Harvard Business Review & Cases
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Citations and abstracts of journal articles, books, working papers and dissertations from 1969 to present based on the Journal of Economic Literature's subject classification and supported by the American Economic Association (AEA). This enhanced version of EconLit includes the full text of all AEA journals and roughly 400 other scholarly journals.
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Free web interface for Educational Resources Information Center. Currency may be better than CSA.
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A comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses with over 2.4 million dissertations and theses included from around the world.The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works. 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. Bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637, and more than 65,000 new citations are added to the database every year. Where available, PQDT provides 24 Page Previews of dissertations and theses. In addition, nearly one million are available for download in PDF format. (Digital dissertations and theses are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be Native PDF, some PDF Image).
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Excellent source for learning about non-profits via grant, grantmaker, company and 990 (non-profit tax form) searches.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts covers crime trends, crime prevention and deterrence, juvenile delinquency, juvenile justice, police, courts, punishment and sentencing. The database contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on a wide range of topics in criminal justice.
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A searchable and browsable archive of full-text core journals in the humanities, social sciences and mathematics.
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"World's largest and most comprehensive bibliographic resource on transportation information... produced and maintained by the Transportation Research Board (TRB)." The TRIS Database contains references to books, technical reports, conference proceedings and journal articles in the field of transportation.
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PubMed was developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). It was developed in conjunction with publishers of biomedical literature as a search tool for accessing literature citations and linking to full-text journals at web sites of participating publishers.
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Social Science Research Network (SSRN) is devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences, including the legal research network and political science network.
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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research holdings include several time series and other types of aggregate data, its holdings consist mainly of raw data derived from surveys, censuses, and administrative records. The data holdings contain some 6,000 studies and 450,000 files that cover a wide range of social science areas such as population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, social and political attitudes, history, crime, aging, and substance abuse. Click for searching tips.
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Tutorial for Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research which has holdings that include several time series and other types of aggregate data; its holdings consist mainly of raw data derived from surveys, censuses, and administrative records. The data holdings contain some 6,000 studies and 450,000 files that cover a wide range of social science areas such as population, economics, education, health, social and political behavior, social and political attitudes, history, crime, aging, and substance abuse.
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Journals
Books
WorldCat (OCLC)A catalog of library holdings worldwide. WorldCat will indicate any local library holdings and also offers an inter-library loan request option.
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Use Books in Print to find records for in-print, recently out-of-print and forthcoming books from over 44,000 North American publishers.
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The Library's catalog enables patrons to search & browse Falvey Memorial Library’s collection of books, journals, audio/video materials, electronic resources and more.
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Newspapers
Lexis Nexis AcademicProvides full-text access to a wide range of news (national, international, regional, business, legal, and foreign language), business (company financial news and information, accounting, auditing & tax information, industry and market news), and legal (law reviews, federal case law, state legal research) sources. It also features news transcripts, the U.S. Code, Constitution & Court rules, state and country profiles, medical abstracts, and reference & directory sources.
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Includes coverage of 27 newspapers including The New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, plus other important U.S., international and minority interest papers.
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Vast aggregated full-text database
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New York Times reporters often covered news and happenings between the CIA and various African governments, especially during the Cold War era.
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Contains the complete text of articles covered beginning with 1981. It DOES NOT include advertising, calendar listings, horoscopes, sports statistics, stock tables, weather, weddings, engagements and puzzles.
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Statistics
DataPlanetSearch and browse for datasets on topics ranging from banking to criminal justice to economic indicators to health to labor to natural resources and transportation gleaned from government agencies, private exchanges, and international organizations. Statistical Datasets supports customized graphing, mapping and even has some common statistical functions.
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Provides the index and abstracts to American Statistics Index (U.S. government statistical sources). Contains over 100,000 statistical publications and is searchable by subject, category, title and author.
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Data.gov increases the ability of the public to easily find, download, and use datasets that are generated and held by the Federal Government. Data.gov provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets.
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A search engine that provides access to the population, housing and economic data collected by the Census Bureau. American FactFinder 2 can be used to retrieve data from the 2000 and 2010 Census, American Community
Surveys (ACS), Population Estimates and the Economic Census and Surveys, including 2010 redistricting data, street address and zip code data searches.
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Provides public access to the following collections currently available in FDsys: Compilation of Presidential Documents (1993 to Present), Congressional Bills (103rd Congress to Present), Congressional Documents (104th Congress to Present), Congressional Hearings (105th Congress to Present), Congressional Record (1994 to Present), Congressional Reports (104th Congress to Present), Federal Register (1994 to Present) and Public and Private Laws (104th Congress to Present). FDsys will eventually replace GPOAccess.
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"The gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. federal agencies."
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United States Census Bureau
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Search by U.S. summary or by state geographic areas: nation, region, division, state, county, county subdivision, place, consolidated city, metropolitan area, American Indian Area/Alaska Native Area/Hawaiian Home Land, and congressional districts.
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The Economics and Statistics Administration (ESA) releases 12 monthly and quarterly Principal Federal Economic Indicators collected by its constituent bureaus: the U.S. Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA).
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"The Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) promotes a better understanding of the U.S. economy by providing the most timely, relevant, and accurate economic accounts data in an objective and cost-effective manner."
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Beginning with 101st Congress (1989) through current Congress, provides full text of bills, public laws, Senate and House committee reports, Roll Call votes, and the Congressional Record. Also contains some historical Congressional documents that can be searched by keyword. (Scheduled to be replaced by http://beta.congress.gov/ in 2013).
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Information from state legislatures, often including video, audio, calendars, meetings, bills, house and senate members, some legislative history, etc.
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"Founded in 1920, the National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The NBER is committed to undertaking and disseminating unbiased economic research among public policymakers, business professionals, and the academic community." Excellent source for working papers and datasets.
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Excellent source for learning about non-profits via grant, grantmaker, company and 990 (non-profit tax form) searches.
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Organizations
American Society for Public Administration (APSA)Prominent professional association for public administration dedicated to advancing the art, science, teaching and practice of public and non-profit administration. ASPA’s four core values are Accountability and Performance, Professionalism, Ethics and Social Equity.
Brookings Institution (The)The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC.
Government Accountability ProjectThe Government Accountability Project’s (GAP) mission is to promote corporate and government accountability by protecting whistleblowers, advancing occupational free speech, and empowering citizen activists. GAP is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization.
National Council of State Legislatures (NCSL)A bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of the nation's 50 states, its commonwealths and territories; founded to improve the quality and effectiveness of state legislatures, promote policy innovation and communication among state legislature and ensure state legislatures a strong, cohesive voice in the federal system.
National Education Association (NEA)Professional employee organization committed to advancing the cause of public education. NEA has affiliate organizations in every state and in more than 14,000 communities across the United States.
Project for Excellence in Journalism (PEJ)The Pew Research Center's Project for Excellence in Journalism studies the information revolution and specializes in using empirical methods to evaluate and study the performance of the press, particularly content analysis.
Rand Corporation Research BriefsThe RAND Corporation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decisionmaking through research and analysis, focusing on issues of health, education, national security, international affairs, law and business, the environment, and more.
Urban Institute (the)According to its mission statement, the Urban Institute gathers data, conducts research, evaluates programs, offers technical assistance overseas, and educates Americans on social and economic issues — to foster sound public policy and effective government.
Websites
ED.gov - U.S. Dept. of Educ.ED's mission is to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access. This website includes information on No Child Left Behind, including the Act and policy, and the Obama Administration's blueprint for reauthorizing the Elementary and Secondary Education Act.
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A bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of the nation's 50 states, its commonwealths and territories; founded to improve the quality and effectiveness of state legislatures, promote policy innovation and communication among state legislature and ensure state legislatures a strong, cohesive voice in the federal system.
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Sample research & food for thought
These examples do not endorse any point of view, company or organization.
Guide - A guide to writing policy briefs from The Women's and Children's Health Policy Center at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
Research center -The Maxwell School Center for Policy Research Center for Policy Research (CPR) - policy briefs - The Maxwell School Center for Policy Research (CPR) conducts a broad range of interdisciplinary research and other activities related to public policy, involving graduate students as assistants and junior colleagues.
Database- CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online - policy briefs - CIAO includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, full-text journal articles and policy briefs, and teaching materials including original case studies written by leading international affairs experts, course packs of background readings for history and political science classes, and special features.
Transportation-- Understanding Transit Ridership Demand for a Multi-Destination, Multimodal
Transit Network in an American Metropolitan Area: Lessons for Increasing Choice Ridership While Maintaining Transit Dependent Ridership
Native Americans: - Alaska Native Self-Government and Service Delivery: What Works?
Municipalities:
-- Title: Finances force more small towns to consider dissolution
(2012, Oct 14, 2012). St. Louis Post - Dispatch. Retrieved from http://search.proquest.com/docview/1111786505?accountid=14853
Sports:
--Title: Home run or strikeout: The dynamics of public opinion on new sports facilities
Author(s): Lasley Scott; Turner Joel
Source: SOCIAL SCIENCE JOURNAL Volume: 47 Issue: 4 Pages: 853-864 DOI: 10.1016/j.soscij.2010.07.004 Published: DEC 2010
-- Soccer/ Chester – Is it worth spending millions of public dollars? - Chester stadium: Two views
-- Soccer-Chester- Pa. ponders $45 million bet on soccer
Airports:
-- Airport expansions and property values: the case of Chicago O'Hare Airport
Author(s): McMillen DP
Source: JOURNAL OF URBAN ECONOMICS Volume: 55 Issue: 3 Pages: 627-640 DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2004.01.001 Published: MAY 2004
-- runways – Change for planes, cars - Moving Route 291 so runway can grow
Casinos:
-- Title: The impact of casinos on fatal alcohol-related traffic accidents in the United States
“This paper is the first of which we are aware to show that casinos impact the fatal accident risk posed by drunk drivers.”
Author(s): Cotti Chad D.; Walker Douglas M.
Source: JOURNAL OF HEALTH ECONOMICS Volume: 29 Issue: 6 Pages: 788-796 DOI: 10.1016/j.jhealeco.2010.08.002 Published: DEC 2010
Aging:
Aging Policy & Research - aging research best practices applications from The Council of State Governments
Technology:
Nextgov - Nextgov’s editorial mission is to lead the national discussion about how technology and innovation are transforming the way government agencies serve citizens and perform vital functions. Central to this mission is the exploration of emerging technologies and their potential impact on government.Nextgov is produced by Government Executive Media Group.
Economic policy consultant view:
http://www.aciltasman.com.au/economic-case-studies#government – (This link is only meant to help illustrate public policy issues or examples of case studies and should not be construed as a company endorsement).
Interlibrary Loan
Journal FinderUse this link to locate journals or specific articles that may be available electronically.
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E-ZBorrow and Interlibrary LoanInterlibrary loans are only available for books and journals which are not owned by Falvey. The E-ZBorrow service can be used for books which the library owns, but which are currently checked out. E-ZBorrow books are provided by a local library network and tend to arrive faster than interlibrary loans. [
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RefWorks
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