Research Guides: Public Policy Formation (34:833:510): Policy Analysis

Journal Articles

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Social Sciences Preminum Collection (ProQuest)
This resource abstracts and indexes over 10,000 titles in the social sciences, while also providing access to over 1,800 scholarly journals. Includes both PAIS INDEX and Worldwide Political Science Abstracts.
PAIS Index
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
HeinOnline
A legal research collection that features full-text searching of scholarly legal and criminal justice periodicals and related materials such as the Code of Federal Regulations, a Federal Register Library, U.S. Attorney General Opinions, a U.S. Federal Legislative History Library, and U.S. Statutes at Large.
EconLit
America History & Life
Academic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database.
Web of Science
Multidisciplinary-Indexes major journals in the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
Scopus
A citation and abstract database of peer-reviewed literature in the areas of science, technology, medicine, social sciences, arts, and humanities.
Google Scholar
Searches peer-reviewed papers, dissertations, books, preprints, reports from academic publishers, professional societies, universities and other scholarly organizations.

To Search:

Use AND to combine your concepts, e.g., railroad station AND subway station (AND must be in caps)
Use OR to combine synonyms, related terms, e.g., transportation OR highway (OR must be in caps)
Complex/nested search: china AND (urbanization OR urban development)
Use the * (asterik) to search for the root word and any ending, e.g.,transport* will retrieve transport, transports, transportation, etc.
To search for an exact phrase, place the phrase in quotation marks, e.g., "energy policy act of 2005"

To Refine Your Result List:

For Books: on the results list page, from the facets on the left-hand side under "Limit to" select 'Held by Library"
To specifically find E-books, on the results list page on the left, under "Limit to" select "Available Online", and under "Resource Type" choose "Books"
For Articles: on the results list page, under "Limit to" select "peer-reviewed journals" and under "Resource Type" choose "Articles"
See also Refining Results
Use Advanced Search to limit your search to specific fields, like title, author, or subject and resource type, e.g., books, articles.

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
The GAO supports the work of Congress by performing audits and evaluations of government programs and activities. See the Reports and Testimonies tab.
Congressional Budget Office
The CBO provides objective, nonpartisan economic analyses of pending legislation. Under Publications, you can browse by subject.
CRS Reports
Congressional Research Service via Congress.gov
HeinOnline
Under Browse Databases by Name, select Congressional Documents, then CRS reports
Homeland Security Digital Library
On landing page, enter your search terms, and select CRS reports from pulldown menu on the right.
Every CRS Report
CRS-Federation of American Scientists
Searchable source of CRS reports-Enter "crs and your topic." Also, many relevant reports will be listed on the "Miscellaneous Topics" page.
CRS-University of North Texas Libraries
Another searchable collection of Congressional Research Service Reports. We also have a microfilm collection of CRS reports-in the Library Catalog, enter the terms "congressional research service and your topic."
Catalog of Government Publications
"This official source is the online counterpart to the Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications. It covers electronic and print publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government beginning with 1976." Useful for finding reports produced by federal departments and agencies charged with implementing a policy.

New York Times-Digital
Wall Street Journal-Digital
Access World News
NJ Star Ledger and other local papers, as well as national and global publications.
Westlaw Campus Research
Current New York Times and Washington Post can be searched in this database, as well as many other news publications.

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To search for a specific title inWestlaw:
pr("new york times") and your additional keywords
pr("washington post") and your keywords

Example: pr("new york times") and flu pandemic
Factiva
The current Wall Street Journal is available through this database. New York Times and Washington Post are also accessible via Factiva.See this guide to using Factiva: https://libguides.rutgers.edu/factiva

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To search, enter rst=(code for the newspaper) and your search terms.
Codes: Washington Post-wp; Times-nytf; Wall Street Journal-j
Examples:
rst=wp and flu epidemic
rst=nytf and flu epidemic
rst=j and flu epidemic
New York Times-Digital
Wall Street Journal-Current
New York Times (Proquest Historical Newspapers)
Washington Post (Proquest Historical Newspapers)
Wall Street Journal (ProQuest Historical Newspapers)

A sampling...

Think Tanks Directory
Harvard Kennedy School Library & Knowledge Services
Brookings Institution
Cato Institute
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Center for American Progress: Immigration
"The Center for American Progress is an independent nonpartisan educational institute dedicated to improving the lives of Americans through progressive ideas and action."
Economic Policy Institute
PolicyArchive-Center for Governmental Studies
"a comprehensive digital library
of public policy research containing
over 30,000 documents."
Urban Institute
Rand Corporation

iPoll Databank
The Roper Center iPOLL is a compilation of over 500,000 questions from public opinion polls on a broad range of topics, 1935 to present.
Gallup Poll Briefing
Weekly summary/analysis of latest Gallup Poll findings. 2002+
Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
"The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press is an independent, non-partisan public opinion research organization that studies attitudes toward politics, the press and public policy issues." Public opinion surveys back to 1997. See Topics tab.
Polling the Nations
Polling the Nations is a compilation of the full-text of the questions and responses from over 14,000 national, state, and local surveys conducted since 1986 by more than 1,400 polling organizations in the United States and more than 100 other countries.