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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.
American Jurisprudence, 2d Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Included in Westlaw Campus Research. Covers state and federal law. To search American Jurisprudence, go to the "Law" section of Westlaw Campus Research. Note: you will need to accept the terms of the Westlaw "Agreement" before you can search Westlaw Campus Research.
Background Notes Off-Campus access available; no password required.	(Current edition) Provides concise political, demographic, economic, and social information about more than 170 countries, geographic entities, and international organizations. From the U.S. Department of State.
CIA World Factbook Off-Campus access available; no password required.	(Current edition) Provides concise information, including geographic, demographic, and economic data, for over 250 countries. Prepared by the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Some earlier editions are also archived online from the US GPO.
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- ).
Credo Reference: Social Sciences Resources Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the full text of a dozen reference books, including The Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science, The Blackwell Dictionary of Sociology, Dictionary of Politics & Government, Dictionary of Human Geography, Reader's Guide to the Social Sciences, U.S. Census Bureau State and County QuickFacts, and more. You can also search the entire Credo Reference collection, which covers many disciplines and subject areas.
Europa World Year Book Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of the current edition of the Europa World Year Book, which provides information about over 250 countries and territories and over 1650 international organizations. Includes basic statistical data (which can be used for country-to-country comparisons) as well as information about economic affairs, education, defense, government, and recent history. Also includes directories. Note: The Little Library also has print copies of the Europa World Year Book from 1959 to the present (Reference R 341.1 E89).
Gale Virtual Reference Library: Political Science Resources Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of the Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, the Encyclopedia of Politics, Political Parties of the World, Revolutionary and Dissident Movements of the World, and other electronic, Political Science-related titles in the Davidson College Library's Gale Virtual Reference Library collection. You can also search the entire Gale Virtual Reference Library collection, which covers many disciplines and subject areas.
Reference Universe Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Try this first! Search Reference Universe to find out which reference works contain information on your topic. Reference Universe indexes many of the library's reference books and e-books.
Statistical Abstract of the United States Off-Campus access available; no password required.	(Volumes for the years 1995 to present) Provides the full text of this important title, which includes economic and social statistics on the United States. The Statistical Abstracts of the United States is particularly useful as a guide to statistical data generated and published by U.S. Government agencies and non-governmental organizations. Use the index to locate relevant data in each volume.
Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the fully-searchable text of Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations (11th ed.; 6 vols; Detroit, MI: Gale, 2004). Provides background information and data on the nations, territories, and dependencies of the world; also covers regional, national, and international governmental and nongovernmental organizations.

Other Resources
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.
Annenberg/Pew Archive of Presidential Discourse. CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk..	(1952-1996) Contains transcripts of speeches, television advertisements, and debates from twelve United States general Presidential campaigns from 1952 through 1996. Includes all of the major party nominees' spoken records, with the exception of Barry Goldwater, from September 1 of each election year through the election. Also includes some third-party candidates' materials.
Annual Reviews Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1932 to present) Contains the full text of review and overview articles on important topics in the Biomedical, Life, Physical, and Social Sciences. Includes the Annual Review of Political Science and the Annual Review of Law and Social Science.
AP Images (formerly AccuNet/AP Multimedia Archive) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1826 to present [photographs]; 1920 to present [audio clips]; 1990 to present [charts and maps]; 1997 to present [text]) A collection of over 2 million photographs, 1 million audio clips, 48,000 diagrams, charts, maps, and timelines, and 2.8 million news briefs from the Associated Press (AP). Updated daily. Note: Only one person can search this database at any one time; if you are unable to login because this limit has been reached, please wait a few minutes and try again. Photographs and graphics from the Archive cannot be sold, syndicated, loaned or used for advertising or for trade without the written consent of AP. In addition, users cannot republish any of the photographs on a Web page.
ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1987 to present) Indexes articles on topics related to health, economics, education, psychology, race relations, social services, and sociology. International in scope.
Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS) Online Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1971 to present) Indexes articles, essays in edited collections, conference proceedings, and other materials on all subjects related to East, Southeast, and South Asia. Also lists books published between 1971 and 1992. International in scope; most citations are to works written in Western languages.
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1991 to present) A collection of resources on international affairs. Includes citations to journal articles and books; also includes the full text of over 400 working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, policy briefs, and economic indicators. A small selection of journals and books are also available full text. The collection is updated regularly.
Contemporary Women's Issues Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1992 to present) Provides the full text of articles from over 130 periodicals, as well as the text of newsletters, reports, pamphlets, fact sheets, and guides on a wide range of gender-related issues.
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- ).
Digital National Security Archive Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains over 63,000 declassified U.S. government foreign policy documents dating from the mid to the late twentieth century. These documents were obtained through the Freedom of Information Act and are drawn from the collections of the National Security Archive at George Washington University.
ebrary Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains over 38,000 e-books published by over 220 academic, trade, and professional publishers; covers all subject areas. Also includes tools that allow you to create your own virtual bookshelf, bookmark pages, and add and save notes and highlights. Note: To read ebrary books, you need the ebrary Reader. This plugin is loaded on all library computers, but if you are using your own computer, you can download it by clicking on the "ebrary Reader" button within ebrary. See also the system requirements for ebrary.
Environment Abstracts Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1975 to present) Indexes articles on topics related to environmental issues, impacts, laws, policies, and technologies, including biodiversity, energy, land use, pollution, population studies, resource management, sustainable development, and more. Covers over 950 journals.
Essay and General Literature Index Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1900 to present) Indexes essays published in books and edited collections. Covers the fields of art, economics, education, history, law, linguistics, literature, music, philosophy, political science, and religion, among others. Particularly strong in the humanities and social sciences.
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.
Handbook of Latin American Studies (HLAS) Off-Campus access available; no password required.	(1935 to present) Indexes journal articles, books, book chapters, and conference papers on topics related to Latin America. Fields covered include anthropology, archaeology, art, economics, geography, history, international relations, language and literature, music, philosophy, political science, and sociology. Produced by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress. Note that printed volumes of HLAS are available in Little Library’s Reference collection, and volumes 1–53 (1953-1994) are also available on CD-ROM.
HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1970 to present) An important source for information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border, and Hispanics in the United States. Indexes articles, book reviews, and original literary works published in over 400 journals; covers the fields of anthropology, archaeology, banking and finance, business, drama, economics, ethnography, folklore, geography, history, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, and women's studies. HAPI cites articles published in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
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.
Index Islamicus Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1906 to present) Indexes articles from over 3,000 journals as well as books, conference proceedings, and book reviews. Covers a wide variety of subjects and topics related to Islam, the Middle East, and the Muslim world including art, economics, history, law, literature, philosophy, political science, and religion.
JSTOR Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	A searchable archive of the back issues of major scholarly journals.
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 Congressional Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1789 to present) Indexes congressional documents. Includes the full text of: The Congressional Record (1789 to present) Published and unpublished committee hearings (1824-2003), with selected transcripts from 2004 to present Committee reports (1990 to present) Selected committee prints (1993-2004) House & Senate documents (1995 to present) Bill texts and tracking (1989 to present) Public laws (1988 to present) U.S. Code Code of Federal Regulations (1981 to present) Federal Register (1980 to present) Biographical information & voting records (1988 to present) Roll Call (1989 to present) Only available to Davidson College faculty, staff, and students.
LexisNexis Country Analysis Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Provides economic, business, and political risk information for over 190 countries; includes data and analysis from sources such as BMI International News, Edimax Market Newsletters, Euromonitor, Interfax International News, PRS Group Country Reports and International Country Risk Guide, World Market Research Centre News, and reports from 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.
Parliamentary Debates (Hansard) Off-Campus access available; no password required.	(1988 to present) Provides the full-text of the edited, verbatim reports of proceedings in the House of Commons and House of Lords in the U.K. Standing committee reports are also included. Updated daily.
Periodicals Index Online (formerly PCI: Periodicals Contents Index) Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1665 to 1995) Indexes articles from humanities and social sciences periodicals from their first issues to 1995. Particularly useful for locating references to articles from the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. International in scope.
PROceedings (Political Science Research Online) Off-Campus access available; no password required.	(2003 to present) Provides access to the full text of papers from the annual meetings of the American Political Science Association.
Project Muse Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(c. mid-1990s to present) A searchable collection of full-text articles from journals published by university and scholarly presses.
ResearchNow from the bepress Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	Contains the full text of 36 peer-reviewed journals published by the Berkeley Electronic Press (bepress) as well as working papers, preprints, and other "grey literature" from a number of institutional repositories. Bepress publishes journals in the fields of Business, Economics, Law, Marketing, Medicine, Political Science, and Public Affairs.
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(c. 1935 to present) A collection of U.S. public opinion data. Includes: iPOLL, a database of 500,000 questions and answers from surveys conducted by over 150 commercial and media survey organizations, including the Gallup Organization, Harris Interactive, Pew Research Associates, and more. RoperExpress, a collection of data sets for bivariate and multivariate analyses Use is restricted to current faculty and staff and currently-enrolled students of Davidson College only.
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.
Social Sciences Abstracts Full Text & Social Sciences Index Retrospective Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1907 to present) Indexes articles in over 500 English-language periodicals in the fields of anthropology, communication, corrections, economics, environmental studies, ethics, gender studies, geography, international relations, law, political science, psychology, sociology, and related subjects. Includes the full text of selected articles from 1995 to the present.
Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet Off-Campus access available; no password required.	From the Library of Congress. Provides the full text of major legislation, including bills (1989/90 to present), public laws (1973 to present), the Annals of Congress, Congressional Record and Congressional Record Index (1989/90 to present), roll call votes, and Congressional Committee reports (1995/96 to present). Also provides bill summary and status information from 1973 to the present and the full text of important historical documents.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	(1817-1980) Contains the fully-searchable text of the Serial Set, a rich collection of primary source materials on all aspects of U.S. history, including cultural, economic, ethnic, military, political, and social history. Includes U.S. Senate and House of Representatives reports, documents, and journals. This collection is part of the Archive of Americana. Note: this digital collection is not yet complete; if you need documents from twentieth-century volumes that have not yet been digitized, please ask a librarian for assistance. The Davidson College Library has print and microfiche versions of many Serial Set volumes.
U.S. Supreme Court Reports. CD-ROM; ask at Circulation Desk..	Contains the full text of U.S. Supreme Court decisions, 1754 to the present, as well as numerous legal and political documents.
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.
WorldCat Off-Campus access available through proxy server to current Davidson College students, faculty, and staff.	A union catalogue of books, videos, musical scores, archival resources, maps, periodicals, and other materials held by U.S. and international libraries.