PO 362 - Senior Seminar in Public Policy and Law: Databases

Click the red star to watch a short video that will demonstrate how to search for eBooks in in eBook Central Academic Complete. Search for and read full-text e-books online. For Fall 2020 we now offer over 208,000 titles.

HeinOnline Academic includes more than 100 million pages of multidisciplinary content in more than 100 subject areas, including history, political science, criminal justice, religious studies, international relations, women’s studies, pre-law, and many more. With more historical content than any other database, HeinOnline provides access to 300+ years of information on political development and the complete history of the creation of government and legal systems around the world. Among the many databases included, HeinOnline’s journal collection features nearly 2,800 periodicals relating to a variety of subject areas, with all coverage dating from inception to the most currently published issues in most cases.

Click the red star to search and find articles in JSTOR. Expanded Collection for a Limited Time: In addition to our currently subscribed full text collection of over 900 journals (from the start of each journal within one to five years of the present time), JSTOR is providing full access to all JSTOR Archive and Primary Source collections along with more than 35,000 books.

Click the red star for a a short video that will address using boolean connectors and filtering options when conducting a search in Nexis Uni. Nexis Uni, the successor of LexisNexis Academic, provides full-text access to over 15,000 news, business, and legal sources. The news coverage includes deep archives and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language news services. Use the Company Dossier module to retrieve detailed company information and financial performance measures or identify and compare companies matching specific criteria. This product also provides access to the renowned Shepard's Citations service for all federal and state court cases 1789-present.

The SAGE Journals platform includes full text of scholarly journals from SAGE publications in many disciplines, such as ,health sciences, education, religion, social sciences, criminal justice and business.

Click the red star for a tutorial on using the Wall Street Journal Database. This database provides full text of the Wall Street Journal. Articles are published one day after they appear in the print or online version of the newspaper. Detailed indexing will help you quickly find the news information you need. Each issue is indexed thoroughly, so you have access to not only top news stories but also the information contained on the various sections of the paper. The indexing covers not only complete bibliographic information but also companies, people, products, etc.

WestlawNext Campus Research is a comprehensive legal research database, providing access to:

*The complete laws and statutes of the federal government and all 50 states, as published in the United States Code Annotated
*All federal regulations published in the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations
*All precedent-setting court decisions of the federal and state courts, as presented in the National Reporter System
*KeyCite, an integrated tool that shows whether any case, statute, or regulation is still good law
*American Law Reports, a unique research tool that collects and analyzes every court case decided on a particular point of law
*American Jurisprudence, a comprehensive encyclopedia of state and federal law
*Current and archived articles from hundreds of leading law reviews and journals

The Worlds most comprehensive bibliography with more than 49 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages.