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Database BEST BETS

Looking for a few excellent starting points when researching in public administration? Try these databases (be sure to visit this guide's More PA Databases page, and buttons on this guide's menu bar, for additional options):

Public Administration Abstracts (Ebsco)

ProQuest

PAIS International (Proquest)

JSTOR (Ithaka)

Scopus (Elsevier)

Sage Journals Online

Taylor & Francis Online Journals

ForeignAffairs.com

Social Sciences Full Text

Oxford Scholarship Online (eBook collection)

Sage Knowledge (eBook collection)

iPOLL Databank (Roper Center for Public Opinion Research)

Econlit (Proquest)

eBook Collection (Ebsco)

Business Expert Press (eBook collection)

U.S. Political Stats (Sage)

Mergent Archives
Includes Moody's/Mergent Corporate Manuals (business descriptions & histories and information on properties, subsidiaries, officers, and financials going back to 1909); Moody's/Mergent Municipal Manuals (information on issuers of government securities and bonds going back to 1918); D&B Key Business Ratios (based on private and public financial statements from U.S. corporations, partnerships and proprietorships going back to 1979); Mergent Historical SEC Collection (historical 10-K U.S. public filings in fully word searchable PDF format going back to 1970).
Oxford Handbooks Online
Oxford Handbooks Online is a collection of multi-disciplinary handbooks. The series contain in-depth, high-level articles by scholars in the respective fields. Each handbook offers thorough introductions to topics and a critical survey of the current state of scholarship in a particular field.

U.S. Federal Government Publications & Social Media

VoxGov
Social media for all three U.S. federal government branches. Access documents like the Congressional Record, hearing transcripts, or press releases, alongside YouTube uploads, Twitter and Facebook posts from agencies and individual officials. Filter search results by date, political party, government branch, committee name, U.S. state, gender, or policy topic.

Scholarly Encyclopedia

International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences by James D. Wright (Editor-In-Chief)
ISBN: 9780080970868
Publication Date: 2015-03-26

Fully revised and updated, the second edition of the International Encyclopedia of the Social and Behavioral Sciences, first published in 2001, offers a source of social and behavioral sciences reference material that is broader and deeper than any other. Available as an online edition, it comprises 26 volumes, over 3,900 articles, commissioned by 71 Section Editors, and includes 90,000 bibliographic references as well as comprehensive name and subject indexes. Provides authoritative, foundational, interdisciplinary knowledge across the wide range of behavioral and social sciences fields Discusses history, current trends and future directions Topics are cross-referenced with related topics and each article highlights further reading

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