MLD718M: Intensive Writing for Policy and Politics
General Resources
Journal Articles and Working Papers
Academic Search Premier
A multidisciplinary database that includes abstracts and full-text for over 9,000 journals and magazines.
Google Scholar
Searches scholarly journal articles and policy papers across a myriad of disciplines from a wide variety of publishers and research institutions.
ISI Web of Knowledge
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the social sciences, sciences, and humanities.
JSTOR
Includes archives of scholarly journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. The most recently published issues (past 2-5 years) are not available
PAIS International
Includes journal articles and research papers from over 120 countries in the areas of public policy and public administration.
News Sources
Factiva.com
A database of business and news publications including the Wall Street Journal and the BBC Monitoring Service.
LexisNexis Academic
LexisNexis includes the full-text of thousands of newspapers, magazines, wire service reports, and transcripts of radio and television news.
Proquest Historical Newspapers Online
Digital archives of major newspapers (WP, NYT, LAT, WSJ ...) in full text, full image forms, including illustrations, editorial matter, and advertising. Coverage varies by newspaper beginning in the 1840's.
World News Connection (FBIS & JPRS)
Provides full text English translations of news stories from non-U.S. media sources.
International Development
Global Competitiveness Report REF HF1414.G559 
Published annually by the World Economic Forum, this report ranks 131 major and developing economies.
Human Development Report (UNDP)
Presents an annual Human Development Index with the goal of putting people back at the center of the development process.
SourceOECD
Provides electronic access to the publications of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. (OECD).
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
UNDP is the UN's global development network.
Statistical Data, International
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) Country Databases
This suite of databases from EIU provides data and analysis on demographics, commerce, finance, market indicators, investment risk and product pricing information.
International Financial Statistics
Time series data from 1948 on international and domestic finance. Also available in print at the HKS Library.
United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database
Every year the UNSD receives international trade statistics from over 130 countries. This annual data is by commodity and partner country.
World Development Indicators (WDI) Ref HC59.69.W67
Statistical data from the World Bank for almost 600 development indicators and time-series data from 1960 for over 200 countries and eighteen country groups.
World Factbook (CIA)
Provides brief factual and graphical surveys of the economic, geographic and political conditions of some 267 countries.
Statistical Data, U.S.
Fedstats
Statistics from more than 100 U.S. federal agencies.
Google: U.S. Government Search
Simple to use and highly effective. Searches U.S. federal, state and local government web sites.
Statistical Abstract of the United States
The single most comprehensive source of statistical data on the United States.
U.S. Census Bureau
Demographic and economic data from the U.S. Census. The data is updated at regular intervals througout the decade.
Legislative Resources, U.S.
CQ Weekly
Reports on the activities of the United States Congress. Included is a summary of the previous week's news, the status of bills, committee and floor activity, debates and roll-call votes.
LexisNexis Congressional
Provides access to hearings, legislative histories, House & Senate reports, CRS reports, committee prints, the Congressional Record, and more.
Thomas (Library of Congress)
Includes the full-text of Bills, Laws, the Congressional Record, Committee Reports, and much more.
Public Opinion
Polling the Nations
More than 350,000 questions and responses from 14,000 surveys conducted by 700 polling organizations from 1986 to the present in the United States and more than 80 other countries.
Roper Center for Public Opinion
Provides access to summary-level (question & answer) and micro-level (raw) public opinion data. Also includes U.S. exit poll data and demographic breakdowns of voting in U.S. elections.
World Public Opinion.org
Information and analysis on public opinion from around the world on international issues. Managed by the Program on International Policy Attitudes at the University of Maryland.
Science and Health Policy
ISI Web of Science
A multidisciplinary database covering the journal literature of the sciences.
PubMed with full-text (Medline)
Produced by the National Library of Medicine, PubMed provides indexing and links to full-text for thousands of journals in the medical and health sciences. Health policy topics are well represented.
Science.gov
Links to authoritative scientific documents, reports and position papers from a variety of U.S. Federal agencies.
World Health Organization (WHO)
The WHO website provides world health data and statistics as well as access to hundreds of policy papers.
