Publisher: Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1995.
Location: Firestone Library (F)
Call Number: PN4871 .B57 1995

Publisher: Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishers, 1999.
Location: Firestone Library (F)
Call Number: JA61 .B43 1999

Publisher: New Providence, NJ : R.R. Bowker, annual.
Location: General and Humanities Ready Reference (SSRC). Firestone
Call Number: Z6951 .xW62 Current volume only. Earlier volumes held in AnnexA.

Publisher: New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1996.
Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC). Firestone
Call Number: JA61 .C665 1996

Publisher: New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. 
Location: Social Science Ready Reference (SSRC). Firestone 
Call Number: P87.5 .W38 2003 

Publisher: Detroit: Gale Research, annual. 
Location: General and Humanities Ready Reference (SSRC). Firestone 
Call Number: Z6951 .A97 Current volume only. Earlier volumes held in RECAP.

Publisher: New York: Scribner, 1984.
Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC). Firestone
Location: General and Humanities Reference (DR). Firestone
Call Number: E183 .E5 1984

Publisher: Westport, CT; London: Greenwood Press, 1999.
Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC). Firestone
Call Number: JA85.2.U6 H57 1999

Publisher: Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-Clio, 1984.
Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC). Firestone
Call Number: JK9 .E4 1984

Publisher: London; New York: Routledge, 1996.
Location: Firestone Library (F)
Call Number: PN4728 .W55 1996

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Politics Databases:

Compiled by the British Library of Political & Economic Science of the London School of Economics & Political Science, this database provides bibliographic information from an international selection of publications (including over 2,600 journals) in the fields of economics, political science, sociology, and anthropology. Indexing covers material published from 1951 to present.

Provides abstracts in English or French to articles selected from over 1,000 international journals. Topics covered include political science method and theory, political thinkers and ideas, governmental and administrative institutions, political process, international relations, and national and area studies. Index covers material published from 1989 to present.

This database by the Public Affairs Information Service provides citations to articles, books, reports, and select government documents on public and foreign policy issues from 1972 forward. PAIS is generally considered to be a comprehensive index to policy literature. The print version of PAIS goes back to 1915, and is located in the Social Science Reference Center Index Shelves under call number 0487.739.

Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science, including international relations, law and public policy. Indexing covers material from 1975 to present. Also provides references to reliable web resources.

Related Databases:

This international and interdisciplinary database indexes journals covering cultural, economic, political and social change in the humanities and social sciences. Covers nearly 300 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines with selected abstracts from research journals from 1991 to present.

Interdisciplinary full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press. Indexes over 170 titles from 1970 to present, providing viewpoints and perspectives that complement and challenge the coverage of the mainstream media.

This database is a comprehensive bibliography of articles published from 1955 to present on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to today.

Provides full text access to news, culture, and history from over 240 publications of ethnic, minority and native press from 1960 to present offering additional viewpoints from those proffered by the mainstream press.

OmniFile is a multi-disciplinary database that provides indexing, abstracts, and select full text of articles in a wide variety of areas, including art, education, the humanities, the social sciences, science and technology, popular periodicals, business, legal periodicals, and library and information science. Indexing begins in 1982, abstracts in 1984, and full-text coverage in 1994.

Provides indexing and abstracts of research publications addressing the complete range of public policy research. PolicyFile draws its content from public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations, and trade publishers. The database consists of over 50,000 abstracts dating from 1990 to present, with some full text where available and links to organizational home pages.

Provides access to the world's literature in sociology and related disciplines, both theoretical and applied. The database includes abstracts of journal articles selected from over 2,500 journals, as well as books, conference papers, dissertations, and book reviews. Coverage of this database goes back to 1963.

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Provides full text access to news from across the U.S. and around the world. Coverage of most newspapers goes back to the mid 1980s, but varies widely. Also provides access to business, legal, and medical journals, as well as corporate financial information.

Database from Dow Jones & Reuters that provides full text access to newspapers and wires.

Provides indexing and full text of the Wall Street Journal (1984- ) and Barron's (1988- ), and abstracts only of the New York Times and USA Today (1989- ). After you click on the link above, pull down the database menu and select "News- ProQuest Newspapers" to search these titles.

Provides retrospective coverage of the New York Times going back to the first issue (1851-2001) in full text. Search by keywords and date.

Provides retrospective coverage of the Wall Street Journal going back to the first issue (1889-1986) in full text. Search by keywords and date.

Provides retrospective coverage of the Washington Post going back to the first issue (1877-1987) in full text. Search by keywords and date.

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Publisher: Washington, DC: Election Research Center, Congressional Quarterly, Inc., 1956- .
Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC). Firestone
Call Number: JK1967 .A8 (1956- )
Current Volume: Social Science Ready Reference
Arranged by state, each entry gives post-World War II state-wide votes for President, Governor and Senator, as well as Congressional district data for recent Congressional elections. Also includes county level figures for the most recent elections.

Also called Lexis-Nexis Congressional. An extensive database that indexes publications of the U.S. Congress such as hearings, committee reports, documents and prints. Coverage in this database goes back to 1789 and much of the material is available in microfiche with some in paper. This is an essential tool for doing legislative history research.

Publisher: Washington, DC: Congressional Quarterly, Inc., 2000.
Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC). Firestone
Call Number: JK2255 .N376 1995

Publisher: Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1978.
Location: Social Science Reference Center (SSRC). Firestone
Call Number: JK2255 .J64 1978

URL: http://www.opensecrets.org/
Web site of the Center for Responsive Politics. Explore the world of Federal campaign contributions by industry, by candidate or by geographic area. For historical data consult Open Secrets: The Encyclopedia of Congressional Money & Politics, published by Congressional Quarterly, located in the Public Administration Collection (SF), under call number: JK1991 .M26 1996

URL: http://www.vote-smart.org/
Includes information on members of Congress (as well as other candidates and officials) in five basic categories: backgrounds, issue positions, voting records, campaign finances and performance evaluations.

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URL: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/
Located in Ann Arbor, Michigan, the ICPSR provides member colleges and universities with access to an extensive data archive, as well as training facilities for social scientists conducting quantitative analysis. Search their data holdings by keyword or browse by thematic categories.

This component allows you to search a file maintained by the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research, which contains survey data going back to 1935 from sources such as Gallup, Harris, Roper, ABC, CBS, CNN, NBC, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal. Click on Reference, then click on Polls & Surveys.

This database consists of polls taken on a variety of subjects all over the world. It contains more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries from 1986 to the present. Each record provides one poll question and the responses. Search by subject, publication year, and universe of respondents. Other information provided includes source name and contact information, sample size and notes on the sample population.

Provides indexing and abstracts to federal, state, and international statistical publications as well as selected business and professional publications containing statistics. Many statistical tables are available in full text, and direct links to many web-accessible statistical sources are also provided. Statistical Universe is the web equivalent of the print American Statistics Index, Statistical Reference Index, and Index to International Statistics; and provides indexing for the corresponding ASI, SRI and IIS microfiche sets located on the C-Floor of Firestone.

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URL: http://www.democraticmedia.org/
The Center for Digital Democracy is a nonprofit organization working to ensure that the digital media systems serve the public interest.

URL: http://www.cmpa.com/
CMPA is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research and educational organization that conducts scientific studies of the news and entertainment media.

URL: http://www.fair.org/
FAIR, the national media watch group, has been offering well-documented criticism of media bias and censorship since 1986.

URL: http://npc.press.org/
The National Press Club is a private association of members of the journalism and public relations community.

URL: http://www.newswatch.org/
Provides an extensive list of links related to factors that help shape the news.

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