Making a Difference
Policies and Strategies for Social Change
Public Policy and Administration Databases
Databases index the contents of journals and are the first place you want to look for articles.
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PAIS International This link opens in a new windowArticles, government documents, reports in the fields of political science, public and social policy, international relations 1915-.
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Public Administration Abstracts This link opens in a new windowCitations and abstracts for journals covering essential areas related to public administration, including public administration theory, 1974 - present.
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International Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new windowCitations to articles from international political science periodicals, 1951-present.
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts This link opens in a new windowThe international scholarly literature of political science, including articles, books, chapters, and reports, 1975-present.
Law journals
Law journals, also known as law reviews, are collections of peer-reviewed scholarly articles about the law. Law journals can be general in scope, or focused on a particular area of law or geographical region. Law journal articles can be helpful to consult in the first stages of research, because they will often summarize the law on a subject up to that point.
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HeinOnline Law Journal LibrarySelect Law Journal Library for a list of the journals available from HeinOnline. The full text of articles can be searched, and the Advanced Search option will allow you to narrow down your query.
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Westlaw Campus Research This link opens in a new windowLegal encyclopedias, law reviews, and legal treatises; case, statutory, and regulatory law; newspapers and magazines; business data, 1980s-present.
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LegalTrac This link opens in a new windowIndexing for more than 1,500 major law reviews, legal newspapers, Bar Association journals and international legal journals, including more than 250 titles in full text.
Other subject databases
Public policy intersects with other subjects. Often policy-related articles are published in journals in other areas of research.
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Business and managementIncludes accounting, finance, hospitality & tourism, marketing, operations & information management, and sport management.
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EngineeringIncludes chemical, civil & environmental, electrical & computer, and mechanical & industrial engineering.
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Humanities and fine artsIncludes Afro-American studies, architecture, art & art history, classics, dance, English, film studies, history, Judaic & Near Eastern studies, languages & cultures, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, theater, and women's, gender & sexuality studies.
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Natural sciencesIncludes agriculture, astronomy, biochemistry & molecular biology, biology, chemistry, computer science, environmental conservation, food science, geosciences, mathematics & statistics, microbiology, physics, polymer science & engineering, psychological & brain sciences, and veterinary & animal studies.
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Public health and health sciencesIncludes communication disorders, kinesiology, nutrition, and public health.
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Social and behavioral sciencesIncludes anthropology, communication, economics, journalism, labor studies, landscape architecture & regional planning, legal studies, political science, public policy & administration, resource economics, social thought and political economy, and sociology.
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JournalTOCsJournalTOCs is a current awareness service, notifying a user when new journal articles are published.
