Background Information on Issues
- CQ Press Library This link opens in a new window
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Resources on American government, current affairs, history, politics, public policy, and data analysis for the social sciences.
- Roper Center Public Opinion Archives (with iPOLL) This link opens in a new window
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Thousands of U.S. and international survey datasets. Sign-in to download data sets and do analyses.
News Source Databases
- Newspaper Source This link opens in a new window
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Full text for regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, and newspaper columns. Television & radio news transcripts are also provided.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
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Nexis Uni features news, business, government, and legal sources from LexisNexis, dating back to 1790. It includes articles, broadcasts, newswires, and newspapers archives from the local to international level.
Candidate Information
- ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window
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Congressional publications and legislative histories. Publications include bills, public laws, and statutes, Daily record, hearings, reports, and executive documents.
- Congressional DemographicsDemographics information about Congress. Links take users to lists of the state delegations to the U.S. Congress, and to various slices of data - the democrats in the House of Representative or Senate, the republicans in the House of Representative or Senate, male and female members of the chambers etc.
