Subject Guides: Library Resources for Public, Nonprofit and Health Administration: Policy

Library Resources for Public, Nonprofit and Health Administration: Policy

A guide to library resources and websites.

Where to do Policy/Issue Research

Some of these databases are also accessible from the Database link on the library's homepage.

Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy at University of Michigan
The Center for Local, State, and Urban Policy (CLOSUP) conducts, supports and fosters applied academic research to inform local, state, and urban policy issues.

CQ Press Political Reference Suite This link opens in a new window
Includes many resources, including Congress and the Nation and Supreme Court Yearbook, both of which are searchable and browsable by topic.
Contains:
-Washington Information Directory- includes listing of NGOs
-Congress and the Nation Series 1945-2004
-Historic Documents Series 1972-2005
-Political Handbook of the World 2005-2006
-CQ's Politics in America 2006
-Supreme Court Yearbook Series 1989-2005
-Vital Statistics on American Politics 2005-2006
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
Provides information on various current events & hot topics, including pros/cons, backgrounds, outlook for the future of the issue, maps and graphs, and a bibliography. This is a great place to start.
HeinOnline Government, Politics, and Law This link opens in a new window
HeinOnline’s Government, Politics, and Law provides comprehensive coverage of more than 2,000 periodicals. In addition the journals, the database also contains the Congressional Record, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, constitutions for every country in the world, classic books from the 18th & 19th centuries, all United States Treaties, the Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations and more.
iPOLL This link opens in a new window
Academic, commercial, and media polls in the U.S. with search tools designed specifically for survey questions.
Newsbank This link opens in a new window
Two major Michigan newspapers are available through this database. This is useful for issues specific to Michigan.
PAIS International This link opens in a new window
One of the library's top international relations and foreign affairs databases. This database covers scholarly and trade journals, books and publications from governments and NGOs.
Public affairs publications from over 120 countries.
ProQuest Congressional This link opens in a new window
Useful for finding texts of bills, laws, and legislative histories.

Pew Research Center
Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan, neutral source of data and analysis. It is a subsidiary of The Pew Charitable Trusts.
RAND Corporation
The RAND Corporation is a nonprofit institution that helps improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
U.S. GAO (General Accountability Office)
GAO investigates how the federal government spends taxpayer dollars
Bills from Gov Info
Congress.gov
U.S. federal legislation.

Current Newspapers

Access World News This link opens in a new window
This comprehensive news collection is ideal for exploring issues and events at the local, regional, national and international level. Its diverse source types include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, broadcast transcripts and videos. Use it to explore a specific event or to compare a wide variety of viewpoints on topics such as politics, business, health, sports, cultural activities and people. Includes archival access to the Houston Chronicle, Muskegon Chronicle, San Francisco Chronicle, Miami Herald, Atlanta Journal, Dallas Morning News, and more.
Global Newsstream This link opens in a new window
Global Newsstream enables users to search the most recent global news content, as well as archives which stretch back into the 1980s featuring content from newspapers, newswires, and news sites in active full-text format. This product provides one of the largest collections of news from the U.S., Canada, Europe, Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Australia. All titles are cross-searchable on the ProQuest platform allowing researchers easy access to multiple perspectives, resources, and languages on the topic they are researching.