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The core databases for this discipline are Worldwide Political Science Abstracts and ProQuest Political Science.
For assistance, contact research specialist Beth Patterson, epatters@drew.edu, x3480.

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The core databases for this discipline are Worldwide Political Science Abstracts and ProQuest Political Science.
For assistance, contact research specialist Beth Patterson, epatters@drew.edu, x3480.

• 2010 Census: Department of Labor and Workforce Development
  

  2010 Census data for New Jersey.

• A New Nation Votes
  

  Election results from early elections.

• AAAS Scientific Responsibility, Human Rights and Law Program
  
• AfricaPortal
  
• American Founders Online: An Annotated Guide to Their Papers and Publications
  

  Online access to many of the founding Fathers’ writings, from the Library of Congress.

• American Memory Project from the Library of Congress
  

  Links to numerous primary documents, audio recordings, images and more. Browse by topic of search by keyword.

• American National Election Studies
  

  “The American National Election Studies (ANES) produces high quality data on voting, public opinion, and political participation to serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists….” Also links to other election studies from other countries.

• American Presidency Project
  
• American President: Resource on the U.S. Presidents
  

  From the Miller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia, an excellent reference source for US presidents, with biographical and professional information and loads of links to more resources.

• Angus Reid Public Opinion
  

  International polling data.

• Annotated Constitution
  
• Arab spring: an interactive timeline of Middle East protests
  

  News
  World news
  Arab and Middle East unrest

  Arab spring: an interactive timeline of Middle East protests

  Ever since a man in Tunisia burned himself to death in December 2010 in protest at his treatment by police, pro-democracy rebellions have erupted across the Middle East: interactive timeline traces key events.

• Arabic Network For Human Rights Informations
  
• Avalon Project
  

  “The Avalon Project will mount digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We do not intend to mount only static text but rather to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text. “

• BBC News | Inside Europe
  

  Historical/organizational overview of the European Union. By BBC News. Offers time line of formation of the EU. Provides information on EU agencies, defines EU terminology, and features up to date discussions on relevant events and issues.

• BEA – State Bearfacts
  

  Quick economic and demographic data for states, from the Bureau of Economic Analysis.

• Bracero History Archive
  
• BRB Free Public Records
  

  The “most comprehensive directory of free public record sites, reference material, and public record vendors available.”

• Brennan Center for Justice
  
• Brookings Institution
  

  “The Brookings Institution is a nonprofit public policy organization based in Washington, DC. Our mission is to conduct high-quality, independent research and, based on that research, to provide innovative, practical recommendations that advance three broad goals: Strengthen American democracy; Foster the economic and social welfare, security and opportunity of all Americans; and Secure a more open, safe, prosperous and cooperative international system.”

• Business & Human Rights
  
• C-SPAN Video Library
  
• CensusScope
  

  CensusScope is an easy-to-use tool for investigating U.S. demographic trends, brought to you by the Social Science Data Analysis Network (SSDAN) at the University of Michigan.

• Center for the Study of the Public Domain
  
• City Mayors – Mayors Running the World’s Cities
  
• Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse
  
• Columbia Journalism Review : The News Frontier Database
  
• Commission on Presidential Debates
  

  The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) was established in 1987 to ensure that debates, as a permanent part of every general election, provide the best possible information to viewers and listeners. Its primary purpose is to sponsor and produce debates for the United States presidential and vice presidential candidates and to undertake research and educational activities relating to the debates. The organization, which is a nonprofit, nonpartisan , 501(c)(3) corporation, sponsored all the presidential debates in 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008.

• Comparative Constitutions Project
  
• Congress Votes database
  

  Excellent resource for voting records of Congressmen/women from the Washington Post.

• Constitution Finder
  

  Provides links to constitutions, charters, amendments and other legal documents for countries worldwide. University of Richmond.

• Countries (EIA) with Country Analysis Briefs
  

  From the Energy Information Administration, specialized country and regional energy-related information and data

• County and City Data Books
  

  This resource provides access to the 1944 through 2000 County and City Data Books. This service provides the opportunity to create custom printouts and/or customized data subsets (subsets only available for 1988-2000).

• Court Listener
  

  This site was created by Michael Lissner as part of a masters thesis at the University of California, Berkeley School of Information. Michael was advised by Assistant Professor, Brian Carver. The goal of the site is to create a free and competitive real time alert tool for the U.S. judicial system.
  “At present, the site has daily information regarding all precedential opinions issued by the 13 federal circuit courts and the Supreme Court of the United States. Each day, we also have the non-precedential opinions from all of the Circuit courts except the D.C. Circuit. “

• COW: Correlates of War
  
• CQ RollCall: Politics
  

  Politics from the people at Congressional Quarterly.

• Crime Solutions
  

  The Office of Justice Programs’ CrimeSolutions.gov uses rigorous research to determine what works in criminal justice, juvenile justice, and crime victim services.

• CRIN – Child Rights Information Network
  
• Data.gov
  
• Digitized Afghanistan Materials in English from the Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection
  
• Directory of development organizations.
  

  Comprehensive directory of development organizations: “(1) international organizations; (2) government institutions; (3) private sector support organizations (including fairtrade); (4) finance institutions; (5) training and research centres; (6) civil society organizations; (7) development consulting firms (including references to job opportunities and vacancy announcements); (8) information providers (development newsletters/journals); and, (9) grantmakers.

• Disability.gov
  

  Disability.gov is the federal government website for comprehensive information on disability programs and services in communities nationwide. The site links to more than 14,000 resources from federal, state and local government agencies; academic institutions; and nonprofit organizations.

• Economic Policy Institute
  

  Nonpartisan think tank, focusing on needs of the American worker.

• Encyclo: An Encyclopedia of the Future of News – from the Neiman Journalism Lab
  

  The Nieman Journalism Lab is an attempt to help journalism figure out its future in an Internet age….We aim to tell you about the most important drivers of journalism’s evolution.

• EuroNews: The European News Channel
  
• Europa: Gateway to the European Union
  
• European Commission Public Opinion
  

  Public opinion of the European Union.

• European Union Delegation to the USA
  

  Contains information on the European Union for those in the US.

• European Union Internet Resources – Berkeley Library
  
• EuroStat
  

  All sorts of statistics about and from the European Union. Make your own data reports using their statistics database.

• Everything International
  

  Global business and country resources.

• FactCheck.org
  

  Aims to “Hold politicians accountable” by checking the facts cited by and about politicicans. A project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.

• Faith, Ethics and Public Life
  

  From Georgetown University’s Berkley Center for Religion, Peace, and World Affairs, provides information and links on relation between world religions and international affairs

• FBI Records – The Vault
  

  The Vault is our new electronic reading room, containing more than 3,000 documents that have been scanned from paper into digital copies so you can read them in the comfort of your home or office.

• FDTF Government Information
  

  GODORT’s list of Frequently Used Sites Related to U.S. Federal Government Information.

• Federal Judicial Center
  
• Federal Register
  

  “The Daily Journal of the US Government.”

• FedFlix : Free Movies : Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
  

  Welcome to FedFlix, Joint Venture NTIS-1832 between the National Technical Information Service and Public.Resource.Org. Here we feature the best movies of the United States Government, from training films to history, from our national parks to the U.S. Fire Academy and the Postal Inspectors, all of these fine flix are available for reuse without any restrictions whatsoever.

• Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Report
  
• FindLaw: US Supreme Court Center
  

  Provides access to briefs, opinions, docket, rules and schedule, history and case summaries for the Supreme Court of the United States.

• Follow The Money: National Institute on Money In State Politics
  

  “”Resource for Information on Money in State Politics”

• Foreign Consular Offices in the United States
  

  Foreign Consular Offices in the United States – From the Department of State. Also provides a list of national holidays for foreign countries, by date.

• Freedom in the 50 States
  

  “This study comprehensively ranks the American states on their public policies that affect individual freedoms in the economic, social, and personal spheres.” From the George Mason MERCATUS Center

• Freedom Summer digital collection
  
• FRUS, 1961-63: Cuban Missile Crisis and Aftermath
  

  FOREIGN RELATIONS OF THE UNITED STATES, 1961-1963, Volume XI

• G. Robert Vincent Voice Library
  

  The Voice Library began as the private collection of G. Robert Vincent. Vincent, who was born in 1900, was a noted sound engineer and pioneer in the field of recorded sound….At the time of his retirement in 1973, the collection had grown to include recordings of the voices of over 30,000 persons from all walks of life.

• Gapminder: Unveiling the beauty of statistics for a fact based world view.
  
• Geo.Data.Gov
  

  Single gateway to local, federal and state online geospatial data. Great site!

• Gerald R. Ford Presidential Library and Museum
  
• Global Post
  

  News from Around the World

• GlobaLex
  

  From the Hauser Global Law School at NYU’s School of Law. An excellent research tool for international and foreign law.

• Glossary of Terms for Conflict Management and Peacebuilding
  
• Governing Magazine Online: state and local government
  

  State and local news, plus statistics and information organized by states, regions and metropolitan areas.

• Governments on the WWW
  
• GovPulse
  

  “To the average US citizen it can often seem that their government works in leaps and bounds, with new legislation or debates on legislation leaping to the fore. Yet every day the thousands of employees of the U.S Government go to work for the people of the country. Each day agencies release hundreds of proposed rules and regulations, meeting notices, final rules, and changes to existing rules in the form of the Federal Register. However in their current format they are difficult to find and to process in meaningful ways.

  GovPulse was built to address this problem and open the doors of government to the people they work for. By making such documents as the Federal Register searchable, more accessible and easier to digest, GovPulse seeks to encourage every citizen to become more involved in the workings of their government and make their voice heard on the things that matter to them, from the smallest to the largest issues.”

• Great American Business Leaders of the Twentieth Century
  
• HaithiTrust
  

  HathiTrust is a partnership of major research institutions and libraries working to ensure that the cultural record is preserved and accessible long into the future. There are more than sixty partners in HathiTrust, and membership is open to institutions worldwide.

• Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System Online
  
• Historical Census Browser
  

  “In addition to basic counts of population and housing units, all decades contain information on race, gender, and some measure of household size and composition. Beginning with 1840, some economic characteristics such as education and occupation are included. Later decades have many variables, including ancestry, literacy, and income variables. In a few cases, the census data were augmented with information from the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the National Council of Churches of Christ.”

• HistoryMakers Digital Media Archive
  

  310 African American video oral history interviews. Requires free registration. A Collaboration between The HistoryMakers and Carnegie Mellon University Informedia Project.

• Hoover Institution: Policy Review
  
• How to Cite United Nations Documents and Publications
  

  Suggestions for citing United Nations Documents. See also The Blue Book, in the library’s reference collection.

• HUD User
  

  Reports and data compiled by the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

• HUMAN SECURITY GATEWAY
  

  Human rights information.

• Human Security Report Project
  
• HURIDOCS: Human Rights Information and Documentation Systems, International
  

  Human rights documents database

• HuriSearch
  

  Human rights search engine.

• ICON: International Coalition on Newspapers
  

  “The International Coalition on Newspapers is a coordinated multi-institutional effort to increase the availability of international newspaper collections by improving both bibliographic and physical access to global newspaper collections.” Links to Digitized collections under “Digitization”.

• Index. NYCdata
  

  Through the Weissman Center for International Business, Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College/CUNY.

• Industry Snapshots from the Economic Census
  
• International Data Base – U.S. Census Bureau
  

  “The International Data Base (IDB) offers a variety of demographic indicators for countries and areas of the world with a population of 5,000 or more. “

• International IDEA
  

  Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance

• Internet Archive
  

  3 million out of copyright texts, music, video and more!

• Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists
  

  “The Jack Rabin Collection on Alabama Civil Rights and Southern Activists is a compact but highly complex, multi-layered compilation of documents, sound recordings, and visual images.”

• Jamestown Foundation
  
• John Locke Resources
  

  Essential for scholars on John Locke.

• Journal of Domestic and Foreign Affairs, Fall 07
  

  Drew University Smith Political Science Club and Gibbons Pre-Law Society’s “Journal of Domestic and Foreign Affairs” written, edited and published by Drew students.

• JuriGlobe – World Legal Systems Research Group
  
• JURIST
  
• JURIST – The Chicago Seven
  

  1969-70 trial of seven radicals accused of conspiring to incite a riot at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.

• Justia Regulation Tracker
  

  Search and Track the Federal Register.

• Kaiser Health Reform Gateway
  
• Library – Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
  

  Provides full text access to a selection of intelligence documents. The Historical Collection and Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room contain historical documents.

• Making the History of 1989
  

  Documents the Fall of Communism in Eastern Europe.

• Mapping the Measure of America
  
• MetaLib Search
  

  Search across multiple government databases.

• MetroTrends | Urban Institute’s report card on social and economic trends in urban America
  
• Minority Rights Group International
  
• NAACP: A Century in the Fight for Freedom
  

  Library of Congress Exhibition

• National Center for PTSD
  

  From the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.

• National Conference of State Legislatures
  
• National League of Cities
  

  “The National League of Cities (NLC) is dedicated to helping city leaders build better communities. Working in partnership with the 49 state municipal leagues, NLC serves as a resource to and an advocate for the more than 19,000 cities, villages and towns it represents.”

• National Security Archive
  

  “An independent non-governmental research institute and library located at The George Washington University, the Archive collects and publishes declassified documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. “

• Native American Rights Fund, National Indian Law Library
  
• Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government
  
• New Jersey by the Numbers
  

  Get crime data, property taxes information, School Report Card for schools in NJ, public payroll data, home sales, demographics and more.

• NGO Database
  

  A Duke University Libguide.

• NixonTapes.org
  

  The site is a comprehensive and user-friendly collection of the secretly-recorded tapes made by President Richard Nixon between 1971 and 1973. The site currently offers all of the recordings that have been de-classified and released by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). Transcriptions for many of the tapes are available, enabling the user to both listen and read the conversations at the same time.

• Nonprofit and Philanthropy Good Practice
  
• Nuclear Vault: Resources from the Nuclear Weapons Documentation Project
  
• Nuremberg Trial Project – A Digital Document Collection
  

  The Harvard Law School Library has approximately one million pages of documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany before the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and to the twelve trials of other accused war criminals before the United States Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT).

  The documents, which include trial transcripts, briefs, document books, evidence files, and other papers, have been studied by lawyers, scholars, and other researchers in the areas of history, ethics, genocide, and war crimes, and are of particular interest to officials and students of current international tribunals involving war crimes and crimes against humanity.

• Office of the Historian
  

  Historical documents and history of the Department of State.

• Official Documents of the United Nations
  

  ODS covers all types of official UN documentation published since 1993, resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic & Social Council and Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. Before using this source, try a subject search in UNBISNET.

• OFFSTATS – The University of Auckland Library
  
• Online Dictionary of the Social Sciences
  

  Provides definitions for terms used in sociology, criminology, political science, and women’s studies. Product of Athabasca U., Canada, and the Intl. Consortium for the Advancement of Academic Publication (ICAAP).

• Online Encyclopedia of Mass Violence
  
• OnlineNewspapers.com
  

  Links to online newspapers by country.

• Open Jurist
  

  OpenJurist’s mission is to provide access to published court opinions without charge. Our collection includes approximately 647,000 opinions from the United States Supreme Court published in the United States Reports, and from the lower federal courts, particularly the United States Courts of Appeals, as published in the First, Second and Third series of Federal Reporter.

• OpenCongress
  
• OpenCRS
  

  Open CRS: Congressional Research Service Reports for the People

• OpenSecrets.org Money in Politics
  

  “The Center for Responsive Politics is a non-partisan, non-profit research group based in Washington, D.C. that tracks money in politics, and its effect on elections and public policy.”

• Oyez Project
  

  “A Multimedia Archive of the Supreme Court of the United States;” IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law

• Papers of the War Department
  

  Early War Department papers lost due to fire have been reassembled by the Center for History and New Media at George Mason University. Invaluable source materials for research.

• Peace Corps Digital Library
  
• Pew Research Center
  

  Pew Institute survey and polling information.

• Political Graveyard: Search
  

  “A database of political history and cemeteries, with brief biographical entries for 224,230 U.S. political figures, living and dead, from the 1700s to the present.”

• Poly-Cy: Internet Resources for Political Science
  

  A nicely organized guide with links to Political Science resources such as academic departments, publications, political organizations, education, research, and more.

• Population Index on the Web
  

  “primary reference tool to the world’s population literature” from Princeton University.

• Population Reference Bureau
  

  Population Reference Bureau informs people around the world about population, health, and the environment.

• ProCon.org: Pros and Cons of Controversial Issues
  

  “We promote critical thinking, education, and informed citizenship. Our sites present controversial issues in a straightforward, nonpartisan, primarily pro-con format. “

• Project VoteSmart: Current Officials
  

  Information on the backgrounds and records of thousands of political candidates and elected officials to discover their voting records, campaign contributions, public statements, biographical data (including their work history) and evaluations of them generated by over 100 competing special interest groups

• Public Agenda
  
• Public Health : Health Care Reform
  

  Health Care Reform legislation, blogs and news, from a librarian at Temple University.

• Regional Economic Conditions RECON
  

  40,000+ charts, maps and tables of data at the state, MSA (Metropolitan Statistical Area) and county level economic data.

• Regulations.gov
  
• Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive
  

  The Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive’s collection focuses on American politics and history with special attention paid to the American presidency.

• Show@USA
  
• SIPRI – Stockholm International Peace Research Institute
  
• Society at a Glance – OECD Social Indicators
  
• State Blue Books
  

  “SLDTF’s wiki for State blue books. Information for each state includes the following: State, “Blue Book” Title, URL (If available), and Notes (if any).”

• State Fact Sheets – USDA Economic Research Service
  
• State Government Information Index
  
• State of the Cities Data Systems (SOCDS)
  
• State of the News Media
  
• States Perform
  

  “States Perform provides users with access to interactive, customizable and up-to-date comparative performance measurement data for 50 states in six key areas: fiscal and economic, public safety and justice, energy and environment, transportation, health and human services, and education. “

• Statistics for Specific Industries | SBA.gov
  
• Sunlight Foundation
  

  “The Sunlight Foundation is a non-profit, nonpartisan organization that uses the power of the Internet to catalyze greater government openness and transparency, and provides new tools and resources for media and citizens, alike. “

• Tax Policy Center
  
• The Constitution Project
  

  “The Constitution Project (TCP) brings together unlikely allies—experts and practitioners from across the political spectrum—in order to promote and safeguard America’s founding charter. TCP is working to reform the nation’s broken criminal justice system and to strengthen the rule of law through scholarship, consensus policy reforms, advocacy, and public education.”

• The King Center
  

  “Established in 1968 by Mrs. Coretta Scott King, The Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change (“The King Center”) has been a global destination, resource center and community institution for over a quarter century. “

• Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University
  

  “The Theodore Roosevelt Center is dedicated to preserving the legacy of America’s 26th president. The Center has undertaken the monumental task of creating a presidential digital library that will serve as a repository for all Roosevelt-related documents, photographs, and ephemera, providing instant access via the internet in a well-organized, comprehensible manner. “

• Torture Archive
  

  From George Washington University.

• U.S. Congressional Serial Set Inventory
  
• U.S. Government Printing Office Style Manual
  

  Cite Government Documents correctly.

• UCB Libraries | GovInfo | Foreign Information by Country
  
• UChannel – Access to a World of Ideas
  

  A collection of public affairs lectures, panels and events from academic institutions all over the world — for you to view, listen to, stream or download.

• Ulysses S. Grant Digital Collection
  

  “The digital collection consists of 31 volumes of The Papers of Ulysses S. Grant, political cartoons, and sheet music from the larger collection. Other materials will be added to the digital collection as processing continues.” Provided by the Mississippi State University Libraries.

• UNBISnet: United Nations Bibliographic Information System
  
• UNdata
  
• United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
  
• United States Courts
  

  Loads of information about the U.S. Federal Court System.

• University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
  

  The most comprehensive collection of materials available on the subject of Human Rights.

• USAspending.gov
  

  “Have you ever wondered where Federal contracting dollars and grant awards go? Or perhaps you would just like to know, as a citizen, what the Government is really doing with your money.”

• Vietnam Center and Archive, Texas Tech University
  

  Not all documents in the collection have been digitized, but many have.

• VOX
  

  “VoxEU.org is a policy portal set up by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (www.CEPR.org) in conjunction with a consortium of national sites. Vox aims to promote research-based policy analysis and commentary by leading scholars. The intended audience is economists in governments, international organisations, academia and the private sector as well as journalists specializing in economics, finance and business.”

• VOX
  

  “VoxEU.org is a policy portal set up by the Centre for Economic Policy Research (www.CEPR.org) in conjunction with a consortium of national sites. Vox aims to promote research-based policy analysis and commentary by leading scholars. The intended audience is economists in governments, international organisations, academia and the private sector as well as journalists specializing in economics, finance and business.”

• Wage Determinations OnLine
  
• War Powers – Law Library of Congress
  

  Excellent site for legislative and legal resources on the War Powers Act, from the Law Library of the Library of Congress.

• West Coast Poverty Center
  
• Wilson Center Programs
  

  Find analysis and primary sources on a variety of topics, including the Cold War, Congress, Urban Studies, North Korea, Global Health and Energy, and more.

• World Bank – Open Knowledge Repository
  
• World Bank eAtlas of Global Development
  

  The World Bank eAtlas of Global Development maps and graphs more than 175 thematically organized indicators for over 200 countries, letting you visualize and compare progress on the most important development challenges facing our world. Most indicators cover several decades, so you can see, for example, how “life expectancy at birth” has improved from 1960 up through the latest year.

• World Criminal Justice Library Electronic Network
  

  THE MISSION OF WCJLN
  1. To develop specific ways of sharing services and criminal justice information on a global scale.
  2. To enhance communication among WCJLN members
  .

• World Development Report Online
  

  From the World Bank.

• World Development Report: Development and Climate Change
  

  Full text of the 2010 World Development Report: Development and Climate Change from the World Bank

• World News
  
• Writing in College – A Short Guide to College Writing
  

  From the University of Chicago

• WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs Resources
  

  Presents over 2000 annotated links in a range of international affairs topics. Categories include media sources, organizations, regions and countries, and topics.

• Yearbook of the United Nations
  

  Also called the UN Yearbook.