Government and Public Policy 

Database and Article Indexes (Access to W and M students and faculty only)

Academic Search Complete Scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,500 full-text periodicals, including more than 4,600 peer-reviewed journals.

ACCESS UN United Nations documents and publications, including official records, masthead documents, draft resolutions, meeting records, sales publications, and the United Nations Treaty Series.

Annual Reviews Online Articles from the Annual Reviews Series includes Political Science, Public Health and Law and Social Science.

Business Source Complete Contains country profile reports from DataMonitor, Global Insight, Background Notes on Countries of the World from NARA, and the Economist Intelligence Unit.

CIAO Columbia International Affairs Online Access to books, journal articles. and policy studies on international relations topics from universities, research institutions, and think tanks.

CQ Researcher Provides access to full-text reports covering a wide variety of significant political issues.

CQ Weekly United States Congress and its issues; summaries and analyses, previous week's news, status of bills in play, committee and floor activity, debates and all roll-call votes.

Declassified Documents International events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond. Over 500,000 pages of previously classified government documents.

GallupBrain Gallup Public Opinion polls, Gallup Poll News Service articles, Gallup Poll Tuesday Briefing articles, and Gallup Management Journal articles that feature in-depth public opinion and management data analyses.

Historical Statistics of the United States Contains more than 37,000 annual time series of quantitative historical information covering population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance in various sectors, governance, and international relations, all from the earliest times to the present.

iPoll Comprehensive database of 500,000 questions and answers asked in the US since 1935. Includes surveys from The Gallup Organization, The Roper Organization, Louis Harris and Associates, the National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago, ABC News, CBS News, NBC News, the Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post and the Associated Press, and more. (Requires campus authentication)

JSTOR Almost 800 multidisciplinary and subject-specific full-text, scholarly journals, including 17 Public Policy journals and 63 Political Science journals.

LexisNexis Academic General interest, current events, politics, economics, religion, entertainment, social, cultural, etc. Newspapers and business, legal, medical, reference publications, and wire services.

LexisNexis Congressional Includes CIS Indexes of Congressional publications, full-text of Congressional bills, bill-tracking, the Congressional record, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, testimony and documents from committees, and information about members of Congress.

LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index

MarciveWeb Catalog records for publications distributed through federal depository libraries from 1976 to the present including some library holdings.

National Journal Group Policy Central includes Congress Daily, National Journal and the Almanac of American Politics.

PAIS Archive Indexes books, journals, magazines, and government documents with articles on political affairs from 1937-1976.

PAIS International Indexes books, articles, and government documents on public policy, banking, demographics, government, international relations, public administration, and related topics.

Sociological Abstracts Includes sociology and related disciplines (a lot of public policy issues).

World Development Indicators Demographic, social, economic, financial, and environmental data on the countries of the world 1960 to the present.