Politics and Public Administration Databases

Getting Started:

• Academic Search Elite
  Index to over 8 million articles published in over 3000 periodicals, including 2500 peer-reviewed journals representing all disciplines. Also includes the full-text of the artices from over 1500 peer-reviewed journals and 500 general periodicals.
  
  
• CQ Electronic Library
  Includes the full-text of the CQ Researcher (in-depth overview of political issues from 1991 - present), CQ Weekly Report (detailed coverage of Congress from 1983 - present), the Encyclopedia of the American Government, and the CQ Public Affairs Collection (including primary source documents).

Most Comprehensive:

• Lexis-Nexis: Academic Search
  Full-text of news and legal sources, including local U.S., national, and international newspapers, news magazines, television public affairs talk shows, and legal materials.
  
  
• Public Administration Abstracts (via EBSCO)
  Citations to and abstracts of books, articles, government publications, and research studies on issues in Public Administration from 1998 - present.
  
  

Other Useful Databases:

• Social Sciences Full Text
  Searches the abstracts (descriptions) of 700,000 articles published in 600 leading social science journals from 1984 to the present.
  
  
• ABI/Inform Global
  One of the databases availble through the ProQuest system, includes select full-text from 1800 business periodicals covering topics such as economic conditions, management, human resources, finance, etc. Includes full-text of The Wall Street Journal from 1984 - present.
  
  
• Emerald
  Includes the full-text of management journals, including a dozen relating to public sector management, from 1994 - present.
  
  
• Ethnic NewsWatch
  Full-text of newspapers and other periodicals of the ethnic, minoirty and native press. 1990 - present
  
  
• ICPSR Data Sets
  The Inter-univeristy Consortium for Political and Social Research provides access to research data sets gathered by governments, academic researchers, non-profit organizations and other organizations. Data sets generally include individual responses to surveys, and need to be analyzed using a program like SPSS. [guide]
  
  
• JSTOR
  Includes the full-text of a dozen academic political science journals from 1907 - 1990's.
  
  
• Project Muse
  Full-text of over 100 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities and social sciences, including more than a dozen politics and policy studies journals. Coverage includes the current and previous year; backfiles vary.

• Criminal Justice databases
  
  
• Government Information databases
  
  
• Law and Legal Issues databases
  
  
• Government Information Resources
  
  
• Statistics and Data