Government and Politics Databases
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Law,
News,
Terrorism and Homeland Security, and
General)
[Indexes]
[Online Books]
[Also of Interest]
- Indexes to Journals and Books:
- International
Political Science Abstracts (Ebsco)
 
- Produced by the International Political Science Association, this includes current indexing
and abstracts of the world's leading journals in political science. Contains
over 110,000 records from nearly 900 journals published from 1989 to the present.
Approximately 8,000 new records are added to the database each year.
- GPO
Monthly Catalog (FirstSearch)
- Covers all types of U.S. government documents,
including Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records;
judiciary materials; and documents on all subject areas issued by
executive departments (Defense, State, Labor, etc.)
- Congressional
Universe (Lexis-Nexis)
- Congressional Information Service (CIS) indexing and
abstracting of congressional
publications and the CIS Legislative Histories from 1970-present;
indexing from 1789-1969. Full text of congressional reports, documents,
prints, bills, testamony, prepared statements, selected
transcripts, bills, US Code, Code of Federal Regulations, and
Congressional Record. Congressional personnel and committee information,
bill tracking, hot topics, and web links.
- Military
and Government Collection (Ebsco)
- Provides current news pertaining to all branches of the military and government.
Includes the full text of nearly 300 government periodicals, general magazines, academic journals,
and other content along with indexing for an additional 400.
- DTIC Online
(Defense Technical Information Center)
- Formerly Public STINET: Scientific & Technical Information Network, this provides
citations to and full text of unclassified technical documents and research
reports generated for and by the
U.S. Department of Defense that broadly cover all areas
associated with defense research, such as military, security, international politics, technology, sciences,
biology, medicine, environment, pollution, psychology, social sciences, patents,
conference proceedings, and more. Includes citations from the Air University
Library Index to Military Periodicals, Staff College Automated Military Periodical
Index, DoD Index to Specifications and Standards, and Research and
Development Descriptive Summaries. Produced by the
Defense Technical Information Center.
- EIS:
Digests of Environmental Impact Statements (Cambridge Scientific Abstracts)
- Indexes and abstracts environmental impact
statements issued by the federal government. Each
entry includes a clear description of the project, sections on positive
impact and negative consequences, and legal mandates.
Covers air transportation, defense programs, energy, hazardous substances,
land use, parks, refuges, forests, roads, railroads, programs, and water.
Covers 1985 to the present.
- Electronic Library for Government
Information
- Government information is a tremendous
resource for research on
a broad range of topics including business and economics, criminal
justice, education, environment, geology, health and nutrition, and
population to name just a few. Much of this information is available
from the Internet, and the C.W. Post Government Information Department
has compiled an extensive list of resources.
- LIUCat
on the Web:
- The online public access catalog of Long Island University's
six campuses. This can be searched from any computer. No password is needed.
- Online Encyclopedias and Books:
General -
United States -
International
- General:
- Alcohol
and Temperance in Modern History: An International Encyclopedia (Credo/xrefer)
- Provides multidisciplinary coverage of all aspects of the production, consumption,
regulation, and social impact of alcohol. Covers: global consumption patterns - research
and treatment institutions - traditional drinking occasions and rituals - attitudes toward
alcohol in various countries and religions - principal alcoholic beverages and major
producers and retailers - temperance, prohibition, and antiprohibitionist efforts worldwide -
images of drinking and temperance in art, painting, literature and drama - international
treaties and organizations related to alcohol production and distribution. Includes a
chronology of major events since the 18th century.
- Blackwell
Dictionary of Political Science (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Dictionary
of Diplomacy (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Dictionary
of Politics and Government (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- ebrary (ebrary)
- Currently
offers over 25,000 full-text books, sheet music titles, maps, reports, and other authoritative documents from more
than 180 leading academic, trade, and professional publishers. The collections are particularly strong in
business, economics, education, computers, technology, science, medicine, history,
language, literature, humanities, politics, and social sciences. Publishers include The McGraw-Hill Companies,
Random House, Penguin Classics, Taylor
& Francis, Yale University Press, John Wiley & Sons, Greenwood, and more.
- Note: to use ebrary, you must first download and install the
ebrary Reader on your computer (more information).
- Encyclopedia
of Espionage, Intelligence, and Security (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Comprehensive, subject specific guide to the history, uses,
scientific principles, and technologies of espionage, intelligence, and security,
with special emphasis placed on the current ethical, legal, and social issues.
- Encyclopedia
of Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Explains the issues behind genocide, crimes against humanity, and human
rights abuses both in individual countries and the world at large, tracing the history of events,
profiling perpetrators and heroes, and explaining international laws and legal proceedings aimed
at ending them. Also covers depictions and manifestations of the phenomenon, such as propaganda,
literature, film, and sociological & philosophical explanations.
- Encyclopedia
of Nationalism: Fundamental Themes (Credo/xrefer)
- Examines the tremendous local and international force that people's sense
of national or group identity has become since the end of the Cold War. Covers
historical overviews of nationalism by regions of the world, its relationship to key
social science concepts, and investigations as to how various disciplines have
dealt - and currently deal - with it.
- Encyclopedia
of Nationalism: Leaders, Movements, and Concepts (Credo/xrefer)
- Examines the tremendous local and international force that people's
sense of national or group identity has become since the end of the Cold War.
Covers the aims and scope of this force through a wide-ranging examination of
concepts, people, places, movements, events, and ideas related to nations and
nationalism.
- Encyclopedia
of Politics: The Left and The Right (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Makes the distinction between "left" and "right"
clearer through over 450 articles by academics and scholars from all over the world on
individuals, movements, political parties, and ideological principles, with an analysis
of where they fit on the spectrum that attempts to achieve a tone of balance, presenting
the information with objectivity rather than advocacy. Although emphasis is on the
modern era, it includes many movements, political leaders, and thinkers from the
19th and early 20th centuries.
- FIRST: Facts on International Relations and Security
Trends (SIPRI)
- Provides statistics and reports, organized by country, that
cover: armed forces, conventional weapon holdings, and military
activities - arms production, trade, embargoes and export
controls - conflicts and peace keeping activities, landmines, and failed state
indicators - general country indicators, population and economic
statistics, global peace index, and political terror scale - form of
government, elections, membership in international organizations,
treaties and agreements - military expenditure and research -
nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles - security news, links to
related websites, chronology of security related events, and
disease outbreaks - energy security and coal - human rights and
freedom - and more. Produced by the International Relations
& Security Network and the Stockholm International Peace
Research Institute with information from thirty international
partner organizations.
- Immigration
and Asylum from 1900 to Present (Credo/xrefer)
- Introduction to the key concepts, issues, terms, personalities, history, chronology,
movements, trends, and current status of immigrants and refugees from the beginning
of the 20th century to the present, focusing on the United States but also reflecting a
truly global perspective. Covers: politics of migration - immigration and asylum -
major migrating groups around the world - and expulsions and other forced
population movements. Primary sources include legislation, treaties, speeches,
and United Nations documents.
- International
Encyclopedia of Environmental Politics (Credo/xrefer)
- Covers issues in international environmental politics and other related topics,
including normative and ethical dimensions, along with both local and
international environmental movements, organizations, and struggles, as
well as both historical and current prominent individuals. Country entries
provide a concise overview of the history, main actors, issues, and policies
related to its environmental politics.
- Political
Theories for Students
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Propaganda
and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present (Credo/xrefer)
- Provides a comprehensive introduction to propaganda - the art of mass
political persuasion - its changing nature, its practitioners, and its impact on the
past five centuries of world history from the era of printed handbills to computer
fakery. Covers its use in both wartime and peacetime, including key moments,
techniques, concepts, and some of the most influential propagandists in history.
- Public
Opinion, Polling, and Democracy Around the World: A Historical Encyclopedia (Credo/xrefer)
- Explores how public opinion works and how it has been measured and assessed
from polling's roots in colonial America to its role in today's emerging democracies
along with the unique problems encountered within them. Entries cover: methodologies,
how people form opinions, key individuals who created polling systems, how citizens'
views are translated into governmental action, and an analysis of theories that compares
schools of thought from the fields of psychology, sociology, and economics. Includes the
results of current polls on many key issues and hot topics.
- United States:
- American
Economy: A Historical Encyclopedia (Credo/xrefer)
- Provides detailed information on the issues, trends, events, people, key ideas,
initiatives, and government actions that have shaped the American economy from colonial
times to the present, paying special attention to the interdependence of economics with
political, social, and cultural forces throughout history up through impact of globalization
and the internet. Includes charts and primary documents such as legislation,
speeches, treaties, and reports.
- Americans
at War (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Explains how mobilization for war and how wars themselves have altered
the fabric of everyday life by placing major American conflicts - from the Colonial Wars
through the War on Terrorism - in the context of cultural and social events and conditions
on the homefront, covering the fields of history, literature, arts, sociology, law, political
science, and psychology. Articles include biographies and topics such as civil liberties,
media, politics, popular culture, religion, memory, national identity, civic celebrations,
monumental art, literature, veterans, science and technology, humor, music, and the
roles of women & minorities.
- Community
Resource Database of Long Island (Middle Country Public Library)
- Directory of community
services and resources with information on more
than 11,000 health, human service, and
education agencies and programs
such as parenting education,
child care and camps, services for persons with
disabilities, education and training
opportunities, support groups, health facilities, individual and
family counseling, food pantries,
hotlines, AIDS/HIV treatment, child abuse and domestic violence
programs, financial management, library
programs, housing and much more serving
citizens in Suffolk and Nassau Counties. (No password needed)
- Encyclopedia
of War and American Society
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Encyclopedia
of American Foreign Policy (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Essays by subject experts treat concepts, doctrines, policymaking,
commerce, science, human rights, arms control, anti-imperialism, environmental
diplomacy, refugee policies, terrorism, countermeasures, and more. Includes a
chronology.
- Encyclopedia
of the American Constitution (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Spanning the disciplines of law, political science, and history,
this covers doctrinal concepts of constitutional law, judicial decisions, public acts, statutes,
treaties, executive orders, and historical periods. Includes chronologies and a
glossary of legal terms.
- Guns
in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law (Credo/xrefer)
- Comprehensive, unbiased look at the issue of guns and gun violence
in the United States that sifts through the latest thinking and research
in the fields of criminology, history, law, medicine, politics, and sociology.
- Major
Acts of Congress (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- An illustrated encyclopedia of congressional acts from the earliest
days of the American republic up through recent years. Broadly applicable to students
as well as general readers, this reference work is suitable for high school
and college students, public library patrons, and professionals seeking comprehensive
information on the legal statutes that affect all of us.
- Presidents:
A Reference History (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Discusses the biography, activities, and policies of each president, as well
as the historical perspective that reviews each individual presidency as part of the larger stream
of American history, with all of its drama and pageantry. Includes the history of the presidency,
the White House, and the role of the first ladies.
- Reader's
Companion to the American Presidency (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- United
States Government Internet Manual (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- A guidebook for official U.S. government resources on the Web.
This manual contains more than 2,000 site records that provide descriptions and
URL's for each site. Evaluations are given for the most important and frequently sought sites.
- International:
- Canadian
Parliamentary Guide (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Biographical sketches of current parliamentarians, including those serving in
the Privy Council, Senate, and House of Commons. Includes results of all federal general and
by-elections since 1867, current and historical data on provincial and territorial governments
(with statistical information), listings for provincial and territorial legislative assemblies
(with general by-election results), and more.
- Columbia
International Affairs Online (CIAO)
- 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. CIAO is also widely-recognized source for teaching materials including original case studies written
by leading international affairs experts, course packs of background readings for history and political
science classes, and special features.
- Countries of the World and Their Leaders Yearbook (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- 2005 edition,
2006 edition.
(See database page for description)
- Dictionary
of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Provides clear definitions and comprehensive explanations
of the history, geography, religion, and demographics of the conflict, from the
birth of Zionism at the end of the 19th century to the five Arab-Israeli wars and
biographies of political personnel in Syria, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon, Jordan and
the occupied territories.
- Governments
of the World: A Global Guide to Citizen's Rights and Responsibilities (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Provides multidisciplinary background information on the governments,
political issues, and citizen politics in every independent nation of the world (and several
non-independent territories), covering both their structure and how they affect citizens in the
daily exercise of their rights and responsibilities. Includes historical surveys on different
types of political systems; sidebars that explore key people, themes, & events;
biographical sketches; a selection of primary documents; the intricacies of international
relationships in a global environment; and the roles of international courts &
supranational institutions such as the United Nations & the European Union.
- History
Behind the Headlines: The Origins of Conflicts Worldwide (GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- Presents in-depth information on conflicts appearing in today's
headlines. Users are provided with historical background and analysis to
events to give a greater understanding of the politics, players, and
layers of current affairs.
- Keesing's
World News Archives: 1931-current (Keesing's)
- Combines the over 95,000 articles from
Keesing's Contemporary Archives and Keesing's Record of World Events
to provide the full text from 2003 onward (and excerpts of the text from 1931-2002),
adding about 150 articles per month. Drawing from a wide
range of press and other sources in a variety of languages, it provides an overview
of the political news of the world with a commitment to internationalism, accuracy,
objectivity, and permanence. Covers, with their historical context, such topics as
elections, changes of government, wars, treaties, appointments, diplomacy,
terrorism, security issues, legislation, budgets, economic developments,
international agreements, actions by the UN & other international
organizations, natural disasters, environmental issues, and scientific
discoveries.
- Macquarie
Dictionary of Australian Politics (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Also of Interest:
- Chambers
Classic Speeches (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Dictionary
of Conflict Resolution, Wiley (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Encyclopedia
of Ethical, Legal and Policy Issues in Biotechnology
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Encyclopedia
of Public Health
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Encyclopedia
of Social Welfare History in North America
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Encyclopedia
of the European Union (Credo/xrefer)
- (See database page for description)
- Encyclopedia
of Women Social Reformers (Credo/xrefer)
- Documents the visions, struggles, and lives of women around the world
who have lead movements for social change from the 18th century to the present,
covering such topics as abolition, prison reform, peace, property rights, environmental
protection, animal rights, and more. Includes a timeline and biographical entries that
cover the childhood, education, achievements, and challenges of each woman.
- Worldmark
Encyclopedia of National Economies
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
- Worldmark
Encyclopedia of the Nations
(GVRL) (InfoTrac/Gale Group)
- (See database page for description)
Database descriptions are adapted from each database's website.
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