Produced by the Public Affairs Information Service, this database indexes and abstracts books, journal articles, conference proceedings, reports, pamphlets, and government documents covering topics that are or may become the subject of legislation.  Subject areas include economic, political, and social issues, public administration, law, business, and political science.  Over 1,600 journals published worldwide in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, or Spanish are selectively indexed each year.  (JM)

Note:  As of July 1, 2004, this database moved from the Ovid group of databases to the Cambridge Scientific Abstracts group of databases.  Therefore, the screens and functionality are different.