Article & Information Databases

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Almanac of American Politics: This Web edition keeps you up to date with key votes of the 107th Congress, results from special and interim elections, important committee changes, election forecasts, primary results and more.
American Periodical Series (APS) Online: Over 1,100 periodicals that first began publishing between 1740 and 1900, including special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically-significant periodicals.
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts: An indexing and abstracting tool covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics,race relations and education. Updated monthly, ASSIA provides a comprehensive source of social science and health information for the practical and academic professional.
Black Thought and Culture: This resource provides access to the published works of numerous historically important black leaders. Along with well-known works, the collection features approximately 5,000 pages of unique, fugitive, and never-before-published materials. Subjects indexed include colonialism, socialism, Marxism, democracy, capitalism, the Labor movement, segregation, poverty, education, religion, sharecropping, Jim Crow laws, the New Deal, the World Wars, the Black Liberation movement, the South, the Scottsboro and Herndon trials, black nationalism, miscegenation, the black athlete, civil rights, apartheid, the Black Panther party, the Negritude movement, the NAACP, birth control, the vote, urban ghettoes vs. the rural South, strategies of protest and demonstration, and hundreds more.
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online): Designed to be the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. This resource provides access to 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.
CountryWatch: Up-to-date information and news on the countries of the world.
CQ Public Affairs Collection: Provides in-depth reports on vital issues, statistical and historical analyses, historic documents and primary source materials, as well as a directory of key government, non-profit, and private organizations in each of the major policy areas. Organized by 22 key public affairs subject headings, such as Advocacy and Public Service, Education, Energy, the Environment, Health, and Transportation.
CQ Researcher: The 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. There are 44 reports produced each year including four expanded reports.
CQ Voting and Elections: CQ Voting & Elections integrates a wealth of data, authoritative analyses, concise explanations, and historical material to provide a powerful research and reference tool on the American voter, major and minor political parties, campaigns and elections, and historical and modern races for Congress, the presidency, and governorships.
CQ Weekly: Coverage of the U.S. Congress: including status of bills, votes and amendments, and floor and committee activity.
Elsevier Science Direct: Over 1,800 scholarly journals in engineering, science, and social science disciplines.
Expanded Academic ASAP: Includes scholarly journals, news magazines and newspaper articles regarding arts and humanities, social sciences and science and technology disciplines.
FAU Government Documents: Catalog link. Under the LOCATION drop-down, select BR GovtDocs, and enter your search terms.
Gallup Brain: The Gallup Brain is a searchable, living record of more than 70 years of public opinion. Inside, you'll find answers to hundreds of thousands of questions, and responses from millions of people interviewed by The Gallup Poll since 1935.
Historical Statistics of the United States: Provides quantitative facts about American history. This resource provides access to data on social, behavioral, humanistic, and natural sciences including history, economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion, international migration, and trade.
Humanities & Social Sciences Retrospective 1907 - 1984: This resource is a bibliographic database that cites articles from English-language periodicals. Subjects include Addiction Studies, Anthropology, Archaeology, Area Studies, Art, Classical Studies, Communications, Community Health & Medical Care, Corrections, Criminal Justice, Criminology, Dance, Economics, Environmental Studies, Ethics, Family Studies, Film, Folklore, Gender Studies, Geography, Gerontology, History, International Relations, Journalism, Law, Linguistics, Literary & Social Criticism Literature, Minority Studies, Music, Performing Arts, Philosophy, Planning & Public Administration, Policy Sciences, Political Science, Psychiatry, Psychology, Public Welfare, Religion and Theology, Social Work, Sociology, and Urban Studies.
Ingenta: Ingenta Select provides access to more than 5,000 electronic publications from leading scholarly, academic and business publishers.
Inter-University Consortium: An archive of computer-based research and instructional data for the social sciences administered by the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan.

International Relations and Security Network (ISN): The International Relations and Security Network (ISN) is the world’s leading open access information service for International Relations and security professionals.
JSTOR: JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible. JSTOR offers researchers the ability to retrieve high-resolution, scanned images of journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated. The journals archived in JSTOR span many disciplines.
Kluwer Online Journals: Provides access to scholarly journals in business, law, medicine, humanities, science, and social science disciplines.
Lexis-Nexis Academic: Accesses over a billion full text news, magazine, legal, and business articles and reports, including newspapers, magazines and government documents, state and federal laws and regulations, case law, newsletters, company and industry information.
LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Digital Collection: Public policy starts and ends with Congressional committee hearings. In these hearings, committees assess, amend, approve or kill legislation, as well as oversee the implementation and effectiveness of previously enacted legislation falling under their jurisdiction. Giving researchers access to the content of both published and unpublished hearings, the NEW LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Digital Collection forms an unparalleled documentary record of events and public policy issues faced by America, as well as the objectives and actions of Congress in dealing with these events and issues.
LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Digital Collection: Public policy starts and ends with Congressional committee hearings. In these hearings, committees assess, amend, approve or kill legislation, as well as oversee the implementation and effectiveness of previously enacted legislation falling under their jurisdiction. Giving researchers access to the content of both published and unpublished hearings, the NEW LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Digital Collection forms an unparalleled documentary record of events and public policy issues faced by America, as well as the objectives and actions of Congress in dealing with these events and issues.
LexisNexis U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection: This resource is an ongoing collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under the directive of Congress, captures every aspect of American life from the early 19th century onward, from farming, to westward expansion, scientific exploration, politics, international relations, business, and manufacturing. It includes Congressional reports and documents as well as executive agency and departmental reports ordered to be printed by Congress. [To access this database, click on "Historical Full Text" from the menu choices.]
OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition: Wilson OmniFile Full Text, Mega Edition is a multi-disciplinary database providing the complete content - indexing, abstracts, and full text - from six of Wilson's full-text databases: Education Full Text, General Science Full Text, Humanities Full Text, Readers' Guide Full Text, Social Sciences Full Text, and Wilson Business Full Text. Full-text articles from five additional periodical databases are also included when available: Applied Science & Technology Full Text, Art Full Text, Biological & Agricultural Index, Index to Legal Periodicals & Books, and Library Literature & Information Science Full Text. Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994. Each database has its own start dates for indexing, abstracting, and full text; start dates for full-text rights to individual journals vary within a database.
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center: Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.
Original Sources: This site includes original source documents, critical selections, and acclaimed works across U.S. and World History, Literature, Social Sciences, Political Science, Law, Science, Mathematics, Religion, Philosophy, and Language. It comprises more than 350,000 documents and more than 5,000 complete books.
Oxford Journals Online: Online fulltext access to journals published by the Oxford University Press.
Oxford Reference Online: A comprehensive resource that contains over 100 dictionaries and reference titles covering general reference, language, science, medicine, humanities, the social sciences, business and professional.
Oxford Scholarship Online: Oxford Scholarship Online currently has four subject modules: Philosophy, Religion, Economics and Finance, and Political Science. This resource offers over 700 complete and fully searchable books, with at least 200 titles to be added each year.
Periodicals Archive Online: Periodicals Archive Online is an online periodical archive which makes the full page image of periodical articles, from 1770 to 1995, available in digital form.
Periodicals Index Online: Periodicals Index Online is a major online periodical index from 1770 to 1995.
Political Risk Yearbook Online: Offers Country Reports on 106 countries providing political and economic risk analysis.
Political Science: A SAGE Full-Text Collection: Includes the full-text of 19 journals published by SAGE and participating societies, some journals going back twenty years, encompassing over 6,700 articles. It covers such subjects as General Political Science, American Government & Politics, Political Sociology, Comparative Politics, Policy Studies, Political Communication, Peace / Conflict Studies, Presidential Studies, Political Theory / Philosophy, International Relations, and Area Studies.
Project Muse: Project MUSE offers full text, affordable access to current content from prestigious humanities and social sciences journals. MUSE is the most reliable source of titles from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies, journals with critically acclaimed articles by the most respected scholars in their fields.
Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS International): Consists of articles, books, conference proceedings, government documents, book chapters, and statistical directories about public affairs.
SIRS Knowledge Source: A reference source which includes access to SIRS Researcher, SIRS Government Reporter, SIRS Renaissance, SIRS NetSelect and SIRS Interactive Citizenship.
Web of Science: Three unique citation databases which allow searching cited references as well as traditional searches independently or in combination: the Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
Westlaw Campus: A web-based legal research tool for undergraduate and graduate students who need to research law-related issues. This resource includes access to the complete laws and statutes of the federal government and all 50 states, federal regulations, precedent-setting court decisions, KeyCite, American Law Reports, American Jurisprudence, and current and archived articles from hundreds of leading law reviews and journals.
Wiley InterScience: Wiley InterScience is one of the largest archives of its kind with content dating back to 1799 and over 1.5 million articles of scientific and scholarly research.
WorldCat: WorldCat is the world's largest network of library content and services. WorldCat libraries are dedicated to providing access to their resources on the Web, where most people start their search for information.; For a complete list of all available databases, visit our Electronic Collection.


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