V160: National & International Policy
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This page focuses on resources that will be helpful for the policy brief/papers in V160. Keep in mind that the topics in this course are interdisiplinary with literature available in a variety of areas such as environmental science, geography, public administration, and sociology. Consult our subject guides for additional resources in these and other fields. |
| Writing Research Papers |
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IU's Writing Tutorial Services provides a series of pamphlets to assist with your writing. Topics include "How to Write a Thesis Statement," "Plagiarism: What It Is and How to Avoid It," and "Using Evidence," among others. Additional writing assistance can be found at Purdue's Online Writing Lab for Academic Writing and Writing a Research Paper. |
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This is only a partial list of library resources related to policy research. Consult our Public Affairs and Policy Research Guide for additional suggestions.
Overviews/Background: Opposing Viewpoints in Context Opposing viewpoints provides information on social issues, including viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles. There are also featured news and featured videos.
Provides resources on public policy issues in a variety of areas. The site also contains chronologies, bibliographies and an image library.
Country Resources: It has been a tradition in our Library to collect information about individual countries in green boxes, making it easy to access what we have selected as the best current information. These are our virtual Green boxes.
Article & News Databases: More than 2,965 full-text titles covering business and economic conditions, corporate strategies, management techniques, and public administration.
Provides fulltext coverage of magazine, newspaper, and scholarly journals for almost every academic discipline.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CAIO) Provides the full-texts of working papers from research organizations such as the Cato Institute, the Center for Studies of Social Change, the Brookings Institution, the University of California Center for German and European Studies, the Oxford University Centre for International Studies. Also abstracts of articles from foreign policy journals; conference proceedings; and some full-text online books from Columbia University Press.
JSTOR, a not-for-profit organization established with the assistance of The Mellon Foundation, provides complete runs of hundreds of important journal titles in more than 30 arts, humanities, and social science disciplines.
Public Affairs Information Service is an index to articles, books, studies, selected official documents and other resources on public policy issues, public administration, law, politics, and government.
Government Information: The CQ Almanac Online Edition covers people, elections, legislative initiatives, and controversies in the U.S. Congress from 1945-2006. It also reviews and analyzes legislation and public policy issues and records roll call votes for major legislation.
Includes the searchable full text of Congressional Quarterly's products: The CQ Almanac, Congress and the Nation, Guide to Congress, Guide to Political Campaigns in America, Guide to the Presidency, Guide to U.S. Elections, Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court, Historic Documents Series, Political Handbook of the World, Political History of America's Wars, Politics in America, The Supreme Court Compendium, Supreme Court Yearbook, Vital Statistics on American Politics, Washington Information Directory, Elections A to Z, The Presidency A to Z, The Supreme Court A to Z and The U.S. Constitution A to Z.
CQ Press Public Affairs Collection features in-depth coverage of public policy issues, statistical and historical analyses, and full-text historical documents and primary source materials.
Provides easy access to congressional publications since 1789 and some full-text of reports, bills, resolutions, and laws from 1968 to the present.
Research Institutes and Think Tanks: NIRA's World Directory of Think Tanks From the National Institute for Research Advancement
A comprehensive digital library of public policy research containing over 30,000 documents.
From the Harvard Kennedy School Library & Knowledge Services. American FactFinder lets you search, browse, retrieve, view, map, print, and download U.S. Census data.
Searchable database of Gallup Poll data from 1935 to the present. It also includes analytical articles on the what the results mean, as well as online access to Gallup Poll Tuesday Briefing and Gallup Management Journal.
International Financial Statistics (IFS) IFS is a monthly publication providing international and domestic finance for most countries of the world. IFS Online is cumulative and interactive.
Online portal U.S. Government data covering: aging, crime, economics, education, energy, health, labor and more.
Research reports and data on development and poverty in countries across the globe.
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