EIU ViewsWire [Economist Intelligence Unit].
LOCATION: Library Databases

A Web-based intelligence service from the Economist Intelligence Unit, offering analysis on key economic, political, and business developments around the world. Each day, it supplies 100-150 analytical articles on any of 195 countries. Provides full-text information from newspapers, the legal literature, and other sources on a variety of topics.

EIU Country Profiles [Economist Intelligence Unit].
LOCATION: Library Databases

Country Profiles provides background and historical context of current economic and political events for each country. Each profile analyzes the infrastructure and major industrial sectors of each economy and includes maps and tables of key economic data for the past 5 years.

EIU Country Reports [Economist Intelligence Unit].
LOCATION: Library Databases

Country Reports analyzes political and economic trends. Each report examines and explains the issues shaping the country: the political science, economic policy, the domestic economy, and foreign trade and payments. The reports include quarterly and annual statistics of at least 150 data points picked from the most reliable sources and reviewed by EIU analysts to provide consistent, objective and impartial coverage.

Expanded Academic ASAP Plus.
LOCATION: Library Databases

Provides bibliographic references, abstracts, or full text for articles from more than 2,300 scholarly journals and general interest magazines. It has full text of more than 1,300 titles. Covers the humanities, social sciences, non-technical general sciences and current events. Covers 1980 to present; updated daily.

LexisNexis Academic.
LOCATION: Library Databases

One of the best sources for current information, especially from newspapers or wire services. Most of the citations have full text of the article. Also includes full text articles from selected magazines and journals.

American: History and Life.
LOCATION: Library Databases

Bibliographic database covering in history, including article abstracts and bibliographical citations of reviews and dissertations on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistoric times to the present.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO).
LOCATION: Library Databases

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It includes a wide range of scholarship, such as working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.

Ethnic NewsWatch.
LOCATION: Library Databases

Ethnic NewsWatch is a comprehensive full-text database of over 200 newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic, minority, and native press. Searchable in both English and Spanish, Ethnic NewsWatch provides a rich collection of articles, editorials, and reviews with a broad diversity of perspectives often at variance with the mainstream media.

Historical Abstracts.
LOCATION: Library Databases

A database (1955 to the present) covering scholarly journal articles, book reviews, and dissertations in world history (excluding the United States and Canada).

JSTOR.
LOCATION: Library Databases

A database of back issues of core journals in the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Among the major journals included are American Journal of Political Science, Political Research Quarterly and World Politics.

LexisNexis Congressional
LOCATION: Library Databases

Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information. Includes information on members of Congress and Congressional committees, a hot topics list, and full text of bills and laws.

LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index
LOCATION: Library Databases

Provides detailed subject and author indexing to access approximately 170 magazines and newsletters with substantial research value published by the U.S. government.

LexisNexis State Capital
LOCATION: Library Databases

Comprehensive access to state bills and statutes, constitutions, proposed and enacted regulations, newspapers of record, articles about legislative issues affecting all 50 states, and information about legislators. Provides detailed subject and author indexing to access approximately 170 magazines and newsletters with substantial research value published by the U.S. government.

Opposiong Viewpoints Resource Center
LOCATION: Library Databases

Provides a complete one-stop source for information on social issues with access to viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to Web sites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

PAIS International.
LOCATION: Library Databases

An electronic index (1972 to the present) to books, periodicals, and government documents on issues concerning public affairs.

Sage Public Administration Abstracts. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref JA1 .S27)

A quarterly abstracting service that indexes journals, books and government publications in the area of public policy and public administration.

Sage Urban Affairs Abstracts. Beverly Hills, Calif.: Sage Publications
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HT51 .S24)

A quarterly publication that indexes and abstracts selective books, articles, pamphlets, and government publications on subjects such as housing and public services.

Sociological Abstracts.
LOCATION: Library Databases

Indexes journals in sociology, criminal justice, social work, and related social science disciplines.

Web of Science.
LOCATION: Library Databases

A huge, multidisciplinary database corresponding to Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index, published by the Institute for Scientific Information. Provides access to a wealth of scholarly journal literature from more than 8,000 scholarly journals. Cited references may also be searched. Abstracts are included. Updated weekly.

Women's Studies International.
LOCATION: Library Databases

An interdisciplinary combination of nine important files, containing over 204,000 records drawn from a variety of essential women's studies databases. Included is the Women Studies Abstracts, which indexes women's studies journals from 1984 to the present.

Center on Budget and Policy Priorities.
LOCATION: Internet (http://www.cbpp.org/)

A nonpartisan research organization and policy institute that conducts research and analysis on a range of federal and state government policies and programs.

FirstGov.
LOCATION: Internet (http://www.firstgov.gov)

A general search engine providing centralized access to locate online local, state and U.S. government resources.

GPO Access.
LOCATION: Internet (http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html)

GPO Access contains the full text of some of the most frequenlty used government information sources. Among the growing list of titles available are: Bills, Public Laws, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, Congressional Record, Congressional reports, Congressional documents, United States Code, Economic Indicators, Budget of the United States, Economic Report of the President, Supreme Court Decisions (1937-1975), and GAO Reports.

Internet Resources for U.S. Government Information.

LOCATION: Internet (http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/godc/internet/)

A collection of government sites organized and maintained by the University of Delaware Library.

Moving Ideas Network.
LOCATION: Internet (http://www.movingideas.org/)

A site dedicated to explaining and popularizing complex policy ideas to a broader audience, improving collaboration and dialogue between policy and grassroots organizations.

Urban Institute.
LOCATION: Internet (http://www.urban.org/)

A site dedicated to measuring effects, revealing trends, and making costs, benefits, and risks available to policymakers, program administrators, other researchers and university students, the media, and nonprofit advocacy organizations.

LexisNexis Academic.
LOCATION: Library Databases

Provides full-text information on a variety of topics from newspapers, magazines, legal literature, and other sources. Several subfiles are available that may be searched individually, including: General News Topics, Country Profiles, Foreign Language News, Government & Political News.

New York Times.
LOCATION: Library Databases

Provides full page and article images with searchable full text of the New York Times back to 1851. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue up to 1999.

Area Handbook Series. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Government Printing Office.
LOCATION: Internet (http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html)
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference

Published by the United States Department of the Army, books in this series present an overview of the history, politics, culture and economy of a given country. A bibliography of additional resources is included. To locate a printed handbook in DELCAT, do a title keyword search. Example: [ (area handbook series) and kenya ]

Biographical Dictionary of Public Administration. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 2001.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref JA61 .W54 2001)

Biography Resource Center.
LOCATION: Library Databases

A comprehensive database of biographical information on more than one million people from throughout history, around the world, and across all disciplines and subject areas.

Blackwell Guide to Social and Political Philosophy. Malden, Mass.: Blackwell, 2002.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref JA71 .B53x 2002)

Britannica Online.
LOCATION: Library Databases

The contents of the Encyclopedia Britannica are available in this database, as are articles not found in the print Britannica. Also included are the Britannica Book of the Year, which provides annually updated information on current political events, and links to quality Internet sites.

Book of the States. Lexington, KY: Council of State Governments.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref JK2403 .B6)

Dictionary of Government and Politics. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 1998.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref JA61 .D53x 1998)

Encyclopedia of Associations. Detroit: Gale Research Co.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HS17 .G3)

Encyclopedia of Housing. Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1998.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HD7287 .E53 1998)

Encyclopedia of Policy Studies. New York: Marcel Dekker, 1994.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref H97 .E6 1994)

Handbook of Comparative and Development Public Administration. New York: Marcel Dekker, 2001.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref JF1351 .H267 2001)

Handbook of State Government and Administration. New York: Marcel Dekker, 2000.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref JK2443 .H35 2000)

Information-finding and the Research Process. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press, 1993.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref JF1351 .S56x 1993)

Information Sources in Urban and Regional Planning. New Brunswick, N.J.: Center for Urban Policy Research, 1994.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HT165.5 .D84x 1994)

International Encyclopedia of Government and Politics. Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 1996.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref JA61 .I58x 1996)

International Encyclopedia of Public Policy and Administration. Boulder: Westview Press, 1998.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref H97 .I574 1998)

Municipal Year Book. Washington, D.C.: International City Management Association.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref JS344 .C5 A24)

Yearbook of International Organizations. Bussels : Union of International Associations.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref JX 1904 .Y42)

County and City Database.
LOCATION: Internet (http://www.census.gov/statab/www/ccdb.html)

Demographic, econonomic, and governmental data from both federal government and private agencies.

LexisNexis Statistical.
LOCATION: Library Databases

An index to statistical publications issued by the federal government, state governments, private publishers, and international and intergovernmental organizations. It includes links to agency web sites and to the full text of a publication, if the agency has made it available.

OECD Index.
LOCATION: Library Databases

A database of publications and documents released to the general public by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) and several other related organizations. Many of the publications deal with development, education, energy and transportation.

OECD Statistics.
LOCATION: Internet (http://www.oecd.org/home/)

A site maintined by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) containing statistical information on trade, education, development, ecnomomic and social issues.

PopNet.
LOCATION: Internet (http://www.popnet.org)

A resource for population information where you can browse a comprehensive directory of population-related websites available either by organization, by region and country, or by topic within countries. PopNet is produced and maintained by the Population Reference Bureau with funding assistance from the U.S. Agency for International Development.

State and Metropolitan Date Book.

LOCATION: Internet (http://www.census.gov/statab/www/smadb.html)

A collection of statistics on social and economic conditions in the United States at the State and metropolitan area levels.

Statistical Abstracts of the United States.
LOCATION: Internet (http://www.census.gov/statab/www/)

Provides statistical tables and charts covering various aspects of social, political, and economic life. Emphasis is on the United States, but some tables cover regions, states, cities, and comparative international statistics. Information gathered from all agencies of the federal government and from private, commercial, and professional sources.

UNESCO Institute of Statistics.
LOCATION: Internet (http://www.uis.unesco.org)

A site maintained by the United Nations Organization for Education, Science and Culture (UNESCO) to gather, interpret and report on the global situation with regard to education, science and technology, culture and communication.

United Nations. Demographic Yearbook. New York: Dept. of Economic and Social Affairs, Statistical Office, United Nations. Annual.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HA17 .D45)

United Nations Statistic Division.
LOCATION: Internet (http://www.un.org/Depts/unsd)

Statistics and methods in the fields of international merchandise trade, demography, gender, industry, energy, and more.

U.S. Government Information: Statistics.
LOCATION: Internet (http://www2.lib.udel.edu/subj/godc/internet/stat.htm)

A collection of government statistical sites organized and maintained by the University of Delaware Library.

Historical

Historical Statistics of the United States: Colonial Times to 1970. Washington, D.C.: U.S. GPO, 1975.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (HA202 .A385 1975)
LOCATION: Morris Library - Census Area (C 3.134/2:H62/789-970/pt.1-2)

International Historical Statistics : Africa, Asia & Oceania, 1750-1993. 3rd ed. New York: Stockton Press, 1998.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HA4675 .M58x 1998)

International Historical Statistics : Europe, 1750-2000. 5th ed. New York: Stockton Press, 2003.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HA1107 .M5 2003)

International historical statistics : the Americas, 1750-2000. 5th ed. New York : Stockton Press, 2003.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HA175 .M58x 2003)

World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators. 3d ed. 2 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1983.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref HN25 .T39 1983)

Institute for Public Administration (IPA).
LOCATION: Internet (http://www.ipa.udel.edu/)

The Institute for Public Administration (IPA) links the research and resources of the University of Delaware with the management and information needs of the local, state, and regional governments in the Delaware Valley. IPA provides assistance to agencies and local governments through direct staff assistance and research projects as well as training programs and policy forums.

Research Center Directory. Detroit, Mich. : Gale Research Co.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref AS25 .R47)

Research Methods for Public Administration. Westport, Conn.: Quorum Books, 2002.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref JF1338 .A2 J64 2002)

Research Methods in Public Administration and Nonprofit Management. Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, 2002.
LOCATION: Morris Library - Reference (Ref JF1338 .A2 M38 2002)

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