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British Parliamentary Papers    
1990-present; CD-ROM index to the sessional papers of the House of Commons and House of Lords, Hansard's Parliamentary Debates, and the Journal of the House of Commons. (Available on Computer 2 in the Rockefeller computing cluster) (Rockefeller Library)

GPO Access      * * *
Current; online access to the Federal Register, Congressional Record, U.S. Code, and other federal government sources. [This resource is publicly available.]      

Index to Legal Periodicals and Books                
August 1981-present; indexes articles from legal journals, yearbooks, institutes, bar association organs, law reviews, and government publications. Covers the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand.      

International Political Science Abstracts      * * *                
1989-present; abstracts information from major journals in political science, including public law, and international relations.    

LexisNexis Congressional      * * *          
1789-1969 and 1970-present; index to U.S. Congressional reports, documents, hearings, and other publications with links to full-text sources.      

PAIS International      * * *                
1972-present; includes periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, and Internet resources. Subjects include politics, public policy, government, international relations, law and ethics, human rights, economics, business, finance, and other social sciences. SEARCH PAIS International and the PAIS Archive(1937-1976) simultaneously.

Policy File      * * *          
Current; indexes research and publications on public policy. Includes links to web resources.      

Social Sciences Citation Index                
1973-present; source for information in all major social sciences disciplines. Useful for retrieving recent articles which cite a known earlier article.      

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AccessUN      * * *          
1944-present; provides access to current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications.      

American FactFinder      * * *
Current; a new data access and dissemination system that provides useful facts and information about your community, your economy, and your society.      

CQ Researcher      * * *          
1991-present; explores a single "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. Topics range from the environment, health, education and science, technology and social issues.

CQ Weekly          
1983-present; pre-eminent resource for Congress-watchers who need non-partisan information on Capitol Hill.   

Declassified Documents Reference System          
1979-present; provides an index and abstracts to nearly 75,000 declassified documents from the CIA, FBI, Department of State, Department of Defense, National Security Council, and other agencies.

GPO Access      * * *
Current; online access to the Federal Register, Congressional Record, U.S. Code, and other federal government sources. [This resource is publicly available.]      

LexisNexis Academic      * * *          
Current; said to be the world's largest full-text, online database, containing more than a billion full-text articles, citation abstracts, and documents. Emphasis is on current news and legal and business information. Link to A-Z list of resources on LexisNexis Academic.      

Polling the Nations          
1986-present; Polling the Nations is a compilation of more than 14,000 surveys conducted by more than 700 polling organizations in the United States and more than 80 other countries. Each of the records reports a question asked and the responses given, the polling organization responsible for the work, the date the information was released, the sample size, and the universe, i.e., the groups or areas included in the interview.

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National Journal Group's Policy Central          
Current; comprehensive resource on politics and policy for the academic community. Policy Central helps to track American politics and campaigns, to follow the key players and legislative process on Capitol Hill, and to provide analysis and data on every member of Congress. It also monitors important news and trends in information technology politics and policy, provides a database of public opinion surveys, and tracks the status of specific legislation with coverage of every congressional markup session.

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