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Academic Search Premier	Description: Indexing and abstracts are provided for 8,035 journals in nearly every area of academic study. Updated: daily Coverage: 1985 - present
America: History & Life	Description: Provides abstracts of scholarly literature on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present. Covers approximately 1800 journals in many languages. Most journal articles abstracted are written in the English language. Updated: yearly Coverage: 1964 - present
American Women’s History (Lexis-Nexis)	Description: The complete text of all major federal legislation pertaining to women and gender from 1855 to the present. Complete U.S. Supreme Court decisions on gender and women from 1809 to the present. Includes state laws and court cases concerning women and gender. Over 500 reference articles provide detailed descriptions of persons, events, organizations, and issues in American women's history. Updated: daily Coverage: 1809 - present
ArticleFirst	Description: Over 15,000 sources covering a variety of subject areas and topics including business, science, humanities, social science, medicine, technology and popular culture. Updated: daily Coverage: 1990 - present
Chicago Tribune	Description: Complete full-text content of local and regional news, including community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded. Updated: daily Coverage: 1985 - present
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe	Description: News, business, medical and legal information, with full text and abstracts. Includes foreign news sources, national and regional newspapers, (not the Chicago Tribune) regional U.S. news services, radio and television transcripts, federal and state case law, medical, legislative and industry news, annual reports from SEC and many other sources. Newspapers are updated several times daily, and wire services hourly. Updated: daily Coverage: past ten years - present
PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service)	Description: Provides global coverage of public affairs and world issues, with an emphasis on issues in the public debate. It includes references to more than 530,000 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, gray literature, research reports, policy papers, Internet documents, conference reports and other sources from more than 120 countries. Topics covered include: affirmative action, AIDS, climate change, ethnicity, environmental degradation, political persecution, women's rights, war and conflict, etc. Updated: daily Coverage: 1972 - present
Social Science Full-text (From OmnniFile Full-text Mega)	Description: A bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts from English-language periodicals published in the United States and elsewhere. Coverage includes a wide range of interdisciplinary fields covered in a broad array of social sciences journals. Abstracting coverage begins with periodicals published in January 1994. Abstracts range from 50 to 300 words and describe the content and scope of the source articles. Full text coverage begins in January 1995. Updated: monthly Coverage: 1994 - present
Websites
CIA – The World Factbook	Description: Provides national-level information on countries, territories, and dependencies. Only the current edition is available online. Updated annually.
Congressional record Periodicals Print Holdings	Description: The official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress. It is published daily when Congress is in session. GPO Access contains Congressional Record volumes from 140 (1994) to the present. The Congressional Record is updated daily.
Federal Judiciary	Description: Maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on behalf of the U.S. Courts and offers information from and about the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government. Includes the U.S. Supreme Court, Court of Appeals, District Courts and Bankruptcy Courts.
NATO	Description: Public documents available online on the NATO website include basic texts, communiqués, speeches, articles and opinions, the NATO Handbook and standardization agreements.
State Department Background Notes	Description: The State Department Background Notes are factual publications that contain information on all the countries of the world with which the United States has relations. They include facts on the country's land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and its relations with other countries and the United States.
THOMAS--Congress Online	Description: THOMAS includes searchable indexed access to Bill Text, Congressional Record Text, Bill Summary & Status, the Congressional Record Index, and the Constitution Enhancements in the types of legislative data available are constantly being added and improved.
United Nations	Description: A variety of topics disseminated from the United Nations Headquarters included in this site. Includes News Centre, Conference and Events, Daily Briefings, Publications, Stamps, and Databases
United States House of Representatives	Description: General information about ongoing and current events in the House of Representatives
United States Senate	Description: General information about ongoing and current events in the Senate.
The White House	Description: Comprehensive site to the White House includes Your Government, President, Vice President, First Lady, History & Tours, and News & Policies.
Print Resources
	Congressional index Reference: J69 .C6 Gov. Docs. J69 .C6 The Congressional Index is designed to aid research on the status and history of legislation and other matters in congress. It provides current reporting and historical referencing on the activities of each Congress. Includes a subject index, author index, committees and hearings, bills and resolutions, voting records and more. Congressional Quarterly's Guide to U.S. elections Reference: JK 1967 .C622 1994 Includes a wide range of election information ranging from tables of popular vote returns from Presidential elections, the politics and issues from 1945-1992 for national and state elections, voter registration and turnout rates, and a narrative chronology of presidential elections from 1789-1992. Congressional quarterly almanac Reference: JK1 .C66 Chronicles the course of major legislation and national politics. Major elements include: Inside Congress, Legislative Chapters, Appropriations, Political Report, Appendices, Glossary, Congress and its Members, Vote Studies, Texts, Public Laws, and Roll Call Votes. Encyclopedia of American foreign policy : studies of the principal movements and ideas Reference: JX 1407 .E53 2002 Offers in-depth, original, interpretive essays of American foreign policy in the form of essays written by distinguished scholars who are experts in their field. Topics include a Chronology, Anti-Imperialism, Arms control and disarmament, Cold War, Doctrines, Globalization, Immigration, Isolationism, NATO, Propaganda, and Treaties. Encyclopedia of the American presidency Reference: JK511 .E53 1994 Contains 1,011 articles by 335 contributors. Arranged alphabetically by Topic and Name the Encyclopedia includes Presidents, Vice-Presidents, selected First Ladies, also-rans, executive officials, and members of the judiciary as well as variety of topics like appointments and removals, war power, impeachments and scandals, and foreign affairs. Guide to the presidency Reference: JK516 .C57 1996 The guide explains in two volumes the origins, evolution and contemporary workings of the office of the President. There are 37 chapters broken down into seven sections that each focus on a particular subject. These subjects include: Origins and Development of the Presidency, Powers of the Presidency, The White House and the Executive Branch, and Biographies of the Presidents and Vice Presidents. A historical guide to the U.S. government Reference: JK9 .H57 1998 Presents a composite profile of the U.S. government through a history of various departments and agencies that constitute it. It is arranged by entry term alphabetically. Following most of the entries is a selected bibliography for further reading. Includes an appendix of important documents in public administration as well as a back of the book index.

Written by: Molly Beestrum, Instruction / Reference Librarian
Subject Bibliographer: Molly Beestrum

Last update: Friday, November 3, 2006