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ABI/INFORM Complete.
1971- . ProQuest. In-library and remote access.
Updated daily. Indexes and abstracts more than 2,500
journals and trade publications in all areas of business and management, many with an
international focus. Full text is available for nearly 2,000 of the periodicals in
page image (PDF) or text. Examples of areas covered are accounting and taxation,
banking and finance, economics, government, health care, human resources, labor relations,
marketing, public administration, real estate, etc.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO). 1991- . Columbia University Press. In-library and remote access.
CIAO is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals, and policy briefs.
Gale Virtual Reference Library. Thomson Gale. In-library and remote access.
A collection of almost 400 reference books (February 2007) that are searchable together or title by title. Subjects covered include, but are not limited to history, literature, law, technology, and biography.
Gallup Brain. 1935- . Gallup Organization. In-library and remote access.
Public opinion database which provides a searchable record of the "136,000 questions and responses from more than 3.5 million people interviewed by The Gallup Poll since 1935." In addition, access is provided to "Gallup Poll News Service articles, Gallup Poll Tuesday Briefing articles, and Gallup Management Journal articles."
HeinOnline. William S. Hein & Co., Inc. In-library and remote access
A comprehensive collection of U.S. law journals and other legal materials that are completely searchable. Currently contains "four major library collections: the Law Journal Library, the Federal Register Library, the Treaties and Agreements Library, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library.
Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL). In-library access.
The HSDL collection 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.
ICPSR. In-library and remote access.
A vast repository of social science data sets for research and instruction. Disciplines represented include political science, sociology, economics, history, education, gerontology, criminal justice, public health, foreign policy, and law.
Index to Legal Periodicals. 1981- . H.W. Wilson. In-library and remote access.
This database provides citations to scholarly articles from over 600 legal periodicals in addition to symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, and book review.
JSTOR. John Hopkins. In-library and remote access.
Access to the full-text of nearly 600 selected journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences; three to five year delay in publication; an excellent source for scholarly material and theoretical background. Includes 41 political science journals.
Lexis-Nexis Academic. In-library and remote access.
Provides online access to full-text of current and historical court cases, law journals, current codes and bill tracking for states and the United States, news sources, transcripts, business information, and international news and company information. Includes full-text coverage of the New York Times and the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Lexis-Nexis Congressional. In-library and remote access.
Access to U.S. legislative information including legislative histories from 1970, full text of the Congressional Record from 1985, National Journal from 1977, Congress Daily from 1991. In addition, there is a bill tracking file, full text for bills, selected committee prints, congressional testimony, committee reports, and voting records in Congress.
Military & Government Collection. 1963 - . In-library and remote access.
Provides indexing and abstracting for over 450 military and general interest magazines in addition to 245 full-text pamphlets and full-text country reports from CountryWatch. Full text is available for approximately 300 of these publications.
Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. In-library and remote access.
Reference books from Oxford University Press including 180 reference titles such as the Oxford Companion to Politics of the World, subject dictionaries, foreign language dictionaries, and illustrations from the Visual English Dictionary.
PAIS International.
1972- . CSA. In-library and remote access.
Updated monthly. 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. More than 1,600 journals published
worldwide in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese or Spanish are selectively indexed
each year.
Project Muse. John Hopkins University Press. In-library and remote access.
Full-text access to over 250 scholarly journals published by John Hopkins University Press and over 20 other not-for-profit presses in the areas of humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set with American State Papers. Readex. In-library and remote access.
This digital version of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set contains U.S. Senate and House of Representatives reports, documents, and journals. Content is multidisciplinary covering political, social, cultural, and military history, international relations, and business and industrial development.
Web of Science. 1995- . ISI. In-library and remote access.
Includes thousands of research journals from hundreds of disciplines. You can perform a cited reference search by cited author, cited journal title, or cited year or do a general search by author, journal title, or address such as institution name, city, country, or even zip code.
World Political Science Abstracts. 1975- . CSA. In-library and remote access.
Indexes and abstracts "the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy."
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America at the Polls 1920-2000
Ref JK 524 .A73 2001
America Votes
Ref JK 1967 .A8
Congressional Quarterly's Guide to Congress
Ref JK 1021 .C565 2000
Demographic Yearbook
Ref HA 17 .D45 (Current edition at Reference Desk)
Information Sources of Political Science
Ref JA 71 .I546 2005
International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia, & Oceania, 1750-1998
Ref HA 4675 .M55
International Historical Statistics: Europe, 1750-1998
Ref HA 1107 .M5 1992
Introduction to United States Government Information Sources
Ref J 83 .M665 1999
Measures of Political Attitudes
Ref JA 74.5 .M44 1999
Statistical Abstract of the United States
Ready Ref HA 202 .A3
Statistical Abstract of the World
Ref HA 154 .S83 1996
Uniform statistics, covering labor, production, manufacturing, finance, economics and trade of 185 countries in the world.
Statistical Resources on the Web
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/stats.html
A comprehensive source of national and international data set and statistics, compiled by the Documents Center of the University of Michigan.
Statistical Yearbook
Ref HA 12.5 .U63
Based on data compiled from more than 40 sources, this book provides demographic, social and economic statistics for more than 200 countries at world, regional and national levels.
UNESCO Statistical Yearbook
Ref AZ 361 .U45 1997 (Current edition at Reference Desk)
A collection of statistical information relating to educational, scientific, and cultural activities of more than 200 countries and territories.
The United States Government Manual
Ready Ref JK 421 .A3
Vital Statistics on American Politics
Ref JK 274 .S74
Vital Statistics on the Presidency: Washington to Clinton
Ref JK 518 .R34 1998
World Development Indicators CD-ROM. In-library access
Updated annually. Produced by the World Bank, this database provides more than 500 time series for approximately 207 countries spanning various time periods from 1960 to 1998. Statistical series cover social, environment, economic, market and global indicators as well as population projections. This is a companion to World Development Indicators (Ref HC 59.15 .W656).
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American Jurisprudence. 2nd Edition
Law Library KF 154 .A4
Standard legal encyclopedia, multi-volume.
Biskupic, Joan. The Supreme Court Yearbook. Annual
Ref KF 8742 .W5672
Compilation of the detailed activities of the Court for each term. Contains excerpts from major decisions and brief biographies of the justices.
Black, Henry Campbell. Black's Law Dictionary. 8th edition.
Ref KF 156. B53 2004
The standard legal dictionary.
Corpus Juris Secundum
Law Library KF 154 .C55
Standard legal encyclopedia, multi-volume.
Dickson, Del. The Supreme Court in Conference (1940-1985) the Private Discussions Behind Nearly 300 Supreme Court Decisions.
KF 8742 .S917 2001
Detailed background on the inner workings of the "conference," includes extensive bibliography and informative introductory chapters.
Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
Ref KF 154 .E53 2000
Contains scholarly articles on various aspects of constitutional law, includes articles published in the earlier edition.
Encyclopedia of the U.S. Supreme Court.
Ref KF 8742 .A35 E53 2000
Three volume general encyclopedia of the court with short articles written by academics. Includes biographical information and essays on important and representative decisions.
Epstein, Lee. The Supreme Court Compendium: Data, Decisions, and Developments.
Ref KF 8742 .S914 2007
Comprehensive collection of data and information about the decision making process of the court, a unique publication.
Great American Court Cases.
Ref KF 385 .A4 G68 1999
A general collection of commentaries and explanations of major cases.
Greene, Thurston. The Language of the Constitution.
Ref KF 4548.5 .G74 1991
Subject compilation of basic readings of the "American founding fathers," including citations to fundamental law, tracts, essays, articles, etc.
Hall, Kermit L. The Oxford Companion to American Law.
Ref KF 154 .O96 2002
One volume collection of scholarly essays, includes case index.
Hall, Kermit L. Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions.
Ref KF 4548 .O97 1999
Contains brief interpretative scholarly essays on more than 400 historic cases.
Jacobstein, J. Myron. Fundamentals of Legal Research.
Ref KF 240 .J32 1998
Standard guide to legal research.
Janosik, Robert J. Encyclopedia of the American Judicial System.
Ref KF 154 .E53 1987
Signed scholarly essays on American legal precepts, includes major topics of constitutional law.
Liberman, Jethro K. The Evolving Constitution.
Ref KF 4548 .L54 1992
Brief entries, extensively cross-referenced, on constitutional issues. Includes concordance to the constitution, table of cases, and biographical notes on justices.
Martin, Fenton S. How to Research the Supreme Court.
Ref KF 8741 .A1 M36 1992
Legal research techniques specific to the court.
The Supreme Court A to Z
Ref KF 8742 .A35 S8 2003
On volume dictionary of the court.
United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court
Gov Docs JU 6.8
The official record of the courts' decisions.
Witt, Elder. Congressional Quarterly's Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court. 3rd Edition.
Ref KF 8742 .W567 1997
Comprehensive description, history, and commentary on the Supreme Court. Includes extensive background on the court's effect on the politics and society. Two volumes.
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