Post-Graduation Resources for Public/Nonprofit/Health Administration: Home
You've graduated! But now where can you go for information? Look no further!
Library Services for Alumni
Library Services Lost:
You will no longer be able to access full-text journal articles in many of the databases to which the library subscribes.
Library Services You Still Have:
If you live in the Grand Rapids area, you may still visit the GVSU Libraries, use our computer lab, and check out books. Your loan period will be 4 weeks, and you may have 10 items checked out at one time. More policies can be found here.
How to Stay Informed
- National Institute of Health Directory of Listserv Discussion GroupsOver 1,000 discussion lists from the National Institute of Health.
- Political Science ResourcesThis gateway is a meta-index of Internet sites for users interested in politics and political science.
Government Information
- Census DataDemographic and economic information, data, and maps from U.S. Federal decennial censuses and the American Community Survey.
- City Code LibraryGood source for local policies throughout the U.S.
- FDSYS - Federal Digital SystemGovernment hearings, reports, public and private laws, the Federal Register and the U.S Code.
- Free Public Records ResourceThis site is designed to help you find property, criminal, court, birth, death, marriage, divorce records, licenses, deeds, mortgages, corporate records, business registration, and many other public record resources quickly, easily, and for free. Take note that more advanced searching on this site does ask for a fee.
- GovTrack.us: Tracking the U.S. CongressGovTrack.us is a free tool which lets you track the activities of the U.S. Congress.
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)Summaries of the more than 195,000 criminal justice, juvenile justice, and substance abuse resources housed in the NCJRS Library collection.
- OpenSecrets"Your guide to the money in American elections."
- Congress.govCongress.gov offers full-text searching for bills and resolutions from 1989 to the current Congress, bill summary and status from 1973 to present, and full-text committee reports from 1995 to present.
Institutes and Think Tanks
- American Enterprise Institute For Public PolicyAEI research covers economics and trade; social welfare; government tax, spending, regulatory, and legal policies; U.S. politics; international affairs; and U.S. defense and foreign policies.
- Brookings InstituteIndependent policy research institute
- Cato InstituteNonprofit policy research institute
- IdealistLinks to 16,000 nonprofit sites and other resources.
- Institute For Government InnovationResearch on innovative government initiatives.
- Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute Of GovernmentCenter for the study of state government.
- RANDFree online research reports, commentary and reprints on topics covering population and aging, child policy, health and healthcare, and substance abuse.
- The Foundation CenterThe nation's leading authority on institutional philanthropy
- Urban InstituteEconomic and social policy research organization.
Free Research Databases
- Google Public DataProvides a few data resources like OECD, World Bank, United Nations and U.S. Census.
- The Henry J. Kaiser Family FoundationThe Kaiser Foundation website offers a wealth of information on health care policy and reform with fact sheets, statistics, tutorials, polls, maps and reports.
- Pew Charitable Trusts Resource LibraryThe Pew Charitable Trusts seek to 1.) Improve Public Policy; 2.) Inform the Public; 3.) Stimulate Civic Life.
- PubMed CentralNational Institute of Health (NIH) repository for peer-reviewed primary research reports in the life sciences.
- World Bank Data CatalogFreely available international economic, environmental and social data provided by the World Bank.
Grant Resources
- GuideStarview nonprofit 990s
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