Scholarly articles in public policy and public affairs, as well as in the related fields of political science, government, international relations, economics, finance, law, environment, demography, sociology and business.
Search the full text of scholarly journals and magazines related to anthropology, communication, demography, economics, human services, political science, policy studies, psychology, and sociology.
While this database focuses on business, it is also has a strong collection on management and law, covering areas such as nonprofit management, accounting and finance.
Scholarly Articles: Additional Databases & Related Fields
Search across many Helmke Library databases to find both primary sources and scholarly materials. After searching, try the filters at the left hand side. This is also a good place to look for items found in footnotes or a bibliography. If you don't find the full text of the item you're looking for, make a Document Delivery request. The "Everything" search is also the default search on the Library's homepage.
Search the full text of journals in many disciplines, including over 37 journals in public policy and administration. You can narrow by date and you can also scroll down to narrow by discipline. Also includes book reviews.
Scholarly articles from the field of medicine, including public health issues. Produced by the National Library of Medicine with coverage back to 1936.
Scholarly articles, magazines and dissertations from the fields of sociology and related disciplines such as anthropology, community development, demography, political science, social psychology, welfare services and women's studies.
Explore and analyze the General Social Survey (GSS) data, create visualizations, and generate custom extracts for analysis. From NORC at the University of Chicago.
Includes downloadable datasets and basic polling results from several hundred thousand public opinion surveys from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at Cornell University. Polling questions are full text searchable.
Provides full-text access to a broad range of social science statistical data produced by U.S. federal agencies, state governments, and international intergovernmental organizations. It also contains the recent version of the Statistical Abstract of the United States.
Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States.
Datasets generated and held by the Federal Government. Data.gov provides descriptions of the Federal datasets (metadata), information about how to access the datasets, and tools that leverage government datasets.
OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) iLibrary provides statistics and analysis on topics such as economic development, employment, living standards and world trade. Also useful for cross-country comparisons.
To find CRS reports, do a Google search for CRS and a policy issue, e.g. Google for: CRS immigration. These non-partisan reports are created by the Library of Congress' Congressional Research Service for members of Congress.
Full text searching and PDFs of core U.S. official documents, including the Pentagon Papers, U.S. Statutes at Large, Presidential Library, Supreme Court Library, Treaties and Agreements Library, Women and the Law, Legal Classics and World Constitutions Illustrated, among others.
The U.S. Government Publishing Office's digital portal, with U.S. bills, laws, Congressional reports, presidential papers, Supreme Court documents, regulatory information and more. See also the Govinfo.gov Guide and the Catalog of U.S. Government Publications.
Access opinion articles and public policy reports from think tanks, research institutes and advocacy organizations, including groups such as RAND, the International Monetary Fund, the Brookings Institution and the Heritage Foundation.
Provides access to full-text articles in the Christian Science Monitor (1990 to present), Los Angeles Times (1985 to present), New York Times (Late ed. East Coast 1980 to present), New York Times Book Review (1997 to present), New York Times Magazine (1997 to present), Wall Street Journal (Eastern ed.) (1984 to present), and Washington Post (1996 to present).
Provides full-text access to nearly 6,000 information resources including newspapers, news magazines, wire services, and transcripts of major radio and TV broadcasts.
See also Academic Search Premier.
Nonprofit Management: Organizations, Financials & Tax Info (Form 990)
Create a free account to find Form 990 tax and other information and on over one million tax-exempt organizations, as well as thousands of faith-based nonprofits not required to register with the IRS.
Tax information, tools, and resources for charities and other tax-exempt organizations.Also includes recent tax filing, as well as instructions for requesting historical data.
Includes links to state entities (attorneys general, secretaries of state, etc) that regulate charitable organizations and may also provide data and other information.
A centralized portal for finding and applying for over 900 grant programs from 26 U.S. federal grant-making agencies, including a link to new grant 'opportunities this week.'
This is a subscription-based tool made available by the PFW Office of Sponsored Programs. It is one of the most comprehensive database of funding opportunities.
A membership organization that offers both free and fee-based grantsmanship training, including an index of funding sources (private foundations, community foundations, corporate giving, etc.) at local, federal and international levels.
Investigates "hot" topics in the news and presents concise and well-balanced information from all sides of the issue. Each report is written by an experienced journalist and includes a "Pro/Con" segment, a chronology, and a bibliography. US focus with some coverage of international affairs.
Provides information from all sides of current event issues including statistics, links to Web sites, and full-text articles from more than 30 major magazines and newspapers, utilizing the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources.
