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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.

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.

Other subject databases

Public policy intersects with other subjects. Often policy-related articles are published in journals in other areas of research.