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Full-text content of world, national, local and regional newspapers from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international sources. Paid advertisements are excluded.

America: History & Life covers the history and culture of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present with indexing for 1,700 journals from 1964 to present. Citations and links to book and media reviews are also included. (EBSCOhost)

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.(CSA)

Provides information about primary source materials from over 5,400 US manuscript repositories of American history and politics literature. ArchivesUSA includes records, complete with detailed indexes, about over 118,000 manuscript and other special collections.

Database of United States appropriations and expenditures.

• CD-ROM: available at the Law Library
• Office of Management and Budget web version

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.

This eight-volume set indexes 531journals of history, political science and sociology from their first volumes to 1974. The first six volumes are arranged by broad topic areas and indexed by subject or keyword. The last two volumes are arranged by author. (Notice in the example that the journal is given as a number. The journal titles are listed on the endpapers in order by assigned number.
 

Indexes a vast amount of information published by and about Congress: hearing transcripts and submitted testimony; committee reports; bills and public laws; selected committee prints; congressional documents; Congressional Record; Federal Register; current Code of Federal Regulations; and current U.S. code. Some full-text. (Lexis-Nexis)

A free, nonpartisan resource for information on pivotal events and issues shaping today's world of government and politics. Contains a selection of full-text documents from the subscription-based CQ Electronic Library (CQEL). These offerings provide critical background information to help unpack and understand an important issue.

Offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of political and social issues, with regular reports on topics in health, international affairs, education, the environment, technology and the U.S. economy. Each report includes a background and chronology; an assessment of the current situation; tables and maps; pro/con statements from representatives of opposing positions; and bibliographies of key sources.

See University of Louisville Electronic Theses and Dissertations or ProQuest Digital Dissertations.

Indexing and abstracts for over 8000 publications with full-text for over half of the publications. (EBSCOhost)

Bibliography of books, journal articles, reviews and theses on Eastern Europe published in Western European countries since 1991.

Index to U.S. government publications.

• FirstSearch
• Catalog of U.S. Government Publications

Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world (excluding the United States and Canada) from 1450 to the present, including world history, military history, women's history, history of education, and more. This database provides indexing of more than 1,700 academic historical journals in over 40 languages back to 1955. (EBSCOhost)

The HSDL collection includes homeland security strategy, policy and research documents published by federal, state and local government agencies, international governments and institutions, and research institutions, universities, and think tanks. Full-text.

Includes full-text reports and research by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies in approximately 500 selected cities in the United States and Canada. (Greenwood Electronic Media)

This series provides summaries of articles appearing in political science journals. Each issue has a subject index and the last issue of the annual volume includes an author index and a cumulative subject index for the year. The indexes and many of the abstracts and titles are in English. Some of the titles are in French, German and Spanish and some abstracts are in French.

The world's largest repository of computer-readable research data for the social sciences and related fields. Requires registration and then the requested dataset can be downloaded. Datasets can be processed with SAS, SPSS, or Stata.

Full-text articles from journals in a variety of disciplines, from the journals' first issues through the late 1990's. (Acrobat Reader needed to print.)

"The Left Index is a[n] ... index to the contents of periodicals of the left. Journals selected for inclusion in the index have a Marxist, radical or left perspective..."

Access to a wide range of full-text material in News (General, U.S., World, News wires & transcripts, Non-english language, Business, Legal, University, Medical, Arts & Sports); Business (Business News, Industry & Market News, Accounting Literature, Company Information [financial reports, profiles, SEC & EDGAR filings & reports], Business Directories); and Legal (Legal News & Reviews, Case Law, Codes & Regulations [U.S. federal and state], Canadian Legislative Materials, European Union Law, Commonwealth & Foreign Nations, Patent Research Tools, and Legal Career Resources)

Derived from two essential reference collections for historical and more contemporary legal studies-the Nineteenth-Century Legal Treatises and Twentieth-Century Legal Treatises microfilm collections, published by Thomson Gale® imprint Primary Source MicrofilmT-The Making of Modern Law features a fully searchable database of approximately 10 million pages and more than 21,000 works. It provides researchers with a logical, interdisciplinary approach to the study of legal history and allows a vast segment of the literature of law to be quickly searched via keyword access by faculty members and students. With full-text search capabilities, researchers can conduct precise searches and comparative research in every area of law. (Thomson Gale)

Catalog of items owned by the seven University of Louisville Libraries.

Over 7500 economic research working papers. (National Bureau of Economic Research)

ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are, however, added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. The system does not contain press releases, UN sales publications, the United Nations Treaty Series or information brochures issued by the Department of Public Information.

Index to journal articles, books, and government publications on public affairs from 1972 to the present. (CSA)

Indexes the contents of older issues (1770-1995) of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. (Chadwyck-Healey)

International index to philosophy-related journal articles and books. Covers 1940-present. (CSA)

Indexes articles from over 300 essential political science journals. (CSA)

Polling the Nations is an online database of public opinion polls containing the full text of 400,000 questions and responses from 14,000 surveys conducted from 1986 through the present in the U.S. and 80 other countries. (ORS Publishing)

Formerly known as Dissertations Abstracts International. Contains 1.6 million citations for dissertations and theses from over 1,000 graduate schools. Provides indexing back to 1861 and full-text availability to titles back to 1997 (full-text availability varies by author's institution). Free full-text downloads can be sent to an email account.

Includes a cross-section of general periodicals, ABI/INFORM business periodicals, and several national newspapers in full-text. (ProQuest)

Index to articles in the social sciences. (H.W. Wilson)

Indexes more than 1,725 journals spanning 50 disciplines in the social sciences. Includes and is searchable by references cited in each article. (ISI's Web of Science)

Provides information about one state, all 50 states, or any combination of states; bills and laws, constitutions, regulations, legislature membership, newspapers of record. Also includes abstracts from the Martindale-Hubell® State Law Digest, as well as public policy analysis from State Capitol Journal and the NCSL Legisbrief published by the National Conference of State Legislatures. (Lexis-Nexis)

Contains statistical data produced by the U.S. government; important international intergovernmental organizations; professional and trade organizations, business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities. (Lexis-Nexis)

An on-going collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under directive of the Congress. Includes: Congressional journals, and administrative reports, directories, manuals, and related internal publications; Congressional reports on public and private legislation considered during each Congress; reports resulting from congressionally commissioned or conducted investigations; annually submitted reports from Federal executive agencies reviewing current problems and activities under agency purview; extended series of survey, research and statistical publications developed by executive agencies; and selected annual or special reports of nongovernmental agencies. Also includes over 50,000 historical maps, and the American State Papers.

Books and other materials in libraries worldwide. (FirstSearch)

A valuable research tool for anyone who needs to monitor non-U.S. media sources, the material in WNC is provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS). Analysts from FBIS domestic and overseas bureaus monitor timely and pertinent open-source materials.