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Almanac of American Politics Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1998 to present) Provides the full-text version of this important reference tool, which includes overviews of U.S. states and congressional districts as well as political profiles for each of the incumbent Senators, Representatives, and Governors. The Almanac also provides interest group ratings, U.S. Census data, key votes, campaign expenditures, election results, and other information. Part of The National Journal Group's Policy Central.
CQ Electronic Library Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Provides background information, current and historical coverage, and statistical data related to U.S. government, legislative history, politics, public policy, and current affairs. Includes: CQ Almanac (1945- ), CQ Congress Collection (1945- ), CQ Press Political Reference Suite (Congress and the Nation, Politics in America, The Political Handbook of the World, and more), CQ Researcher (1991- ), CQ Voting and Elections Collection (1789- ), and CQ Weekly (Oct. 1983- ).

Other Resources
19th Century Masterfile - Poole's Plus Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains two sets of indexes. The periodical indexes include Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1907), Stead's Index to Periodicals (1890-1902), and Richardson's Index to Periodical Articles in Religion (1890-1899). The government documents indexes include the Subject Index to U.S. Patents (1790-1873), Descriptive Catalogue of Government Publications of the U.S. (1774-1881), and Hansard's Index to the Debates of the House of Commons and House of Lords (1803-1830). The E. H. Little Library has print equivalents for Poole's Index and the Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the U. S..
American State Papers Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1789-1838) Contains the fully-searchable text of early American Congressional and Executive Department documents. This collection is part of the Archive of Americana. Note: The Davidson College Library also has a complete set of the American State Papers in print form.
CQ Electronic Library Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Provides background information, current and historical coverage, and statistical data related to U.S. government, legislative history, politics, public policy, and current affairs. Includes: CQ Almanac (1945- ), CQ Congress Collection (1945- ), CQ Press Political Reference Suite (Congress and the Nation, Politics in America, The Political Handbook of the World, and more), CQ Researcher (1991- ), CQ Voting and Elections Collection (1789- ), and CQ Weekly (Oct. 1983- ).
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1974-1996) Contains the full text of the U.S. Government's FBIS Daily Reports, the English-language translations of foreign news broadcasts, including clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories, used by U.S. intelligence services, policy makers, and analysts. A valuable primary source collection for historical and political science research. FBIS regions currently included: Africa (Sub-Sahara), Asia & Pacific, China, East Asia, East Europe, Latin America, Middle East & Africa, Middle East & North Africa, Near East & South Asia, People's Republic of China, South Asia, Soviet Union and Central Eurasia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and West (and Western) Europe. This collection is still being digitized. More regions will be added. For FBIS reports from 1996 to the present, search World News Connection.
House & Senate Journals, Series I, 1789-1817 Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of U.S. House of Representative and Senate journals from the first fourteen Congresses. This collection is part of the Archive of Americana.
Legal Information Institute Off-Campus access available; no password required.	From the Cornell Law School. Provides the full text of U.S. Supreme Court Opinions (1990 to present) as well as other federal and state court decisions. Also includes the text of the current U.S. Code, the U.S. Constitution, and state constitutions and codes and provides background information on a variety of legal topics.
LexisNexis Academic Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Provides a wide variety of legal documents, including articles from law reviews and journals, federal and state case law, federal and state codes and regulations, U.S., European, and Japanese patents from 1790 to the present, the Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory, and directories of law schools. Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only.
LexisNexis Statistical Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Provides indexing and some full text for the statistical publications of the U.S. Government. Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only.
National Journal Group's Policy Central Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Provides access to online versions of the National Journal Group's political magazines as well as a collection of resources on U.S. political and public policy issues. Includes the full text of The National Journal (1977 to present) and The Almanac of American Politics (1998 to present) as well as up-to-date coverage of U.S. government activities and policies through Congress Daily (updated twice daily), The Hotline (updated daily), which highlights media coverage of political affairs, Technology Daily (updated twice daily), Markup Reports for every Congressional committee and subcommittee, Ad Spotlight, which tracks political campaign television advertisements, and Daybook, which provides a daily calendar of Capital Hill events and activities. Also includes Poll Track, a collection of local and national public opinion surveys.
PAIS International Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1915 to present) Contains citations, with brief abstracts, to articles in over 800 English-language journals in public affairs. Also indexes government documents, pamphlets, directories, agency reports, and some books. Covers government, public administration, public policy, court decisions, political science, and international relations.
Senate Executive Journals, Series I, 1789-1866 Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of Proceedings of the Senate's executive sessions. Includes material on treaties, the confirmation of presidential nominees, and other topics. This collection is part of the Archive of Americana.
U.S. Government Periodicals Index. CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk..	(Oct. 1993 to present) An index to the contents of periodicals produced by agencies of the U.S. Government.
U.S. Patent & Trademark Office Patent Databases Off-Campus access available; no password required.	(1790 to present) Provides page images for all U.S. patents from 1790 onwards as well as the full text of U.S. patents issued from 1976 to the present and the full-text of U.S. patent applications from 15 March 2001 to the present. For patents before 1976, you can only search by patent number or patent classification. Note: When you have located a patent and want to view the actual page images, click on the "Images" button that appears at the top of the screen. You may need to download a free plug-in to view the page images.
Westlaw Campus Research Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains full text news and legal materials. The "News & Information" section contains articles from magazines, national and international newspapers, and business, professional, and trade journals as well as newswires, newsletters, and transcripts of television broadcasts. The "Law" section contains important primary law sources as well as analytical sources, including state statutes, federal statutes published in the U.S. Code Annotated, federal and state cases, including Supreme Court cases, federal regulations published in the Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations, European Union law, American Law Reports, American Jurisprudence, 2nd, an important encyclopedia covering state and federal law, and over 800 law reviews and journals. Note: you will need to accept the terms of the Westlaw "Agreement" before you can search Westlaw Campus Research.
World News Connection Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1995 to present) Contains full-text, English-language summaries and translations of foreign news reports, conference proceedings, radio and television broadcasts, periodicals, non-classified technical reports, and other local media sources from around the world. Covers political, scientific, socioeconomic, technical, and environmental issues and events. These materials are provided by the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Earlier years of the FBIS Reports are available on microfiche and CD-ROM.