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- CQ Public Affairs Collection
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CQ Press publications on current affairs 
- CQ Public Affairs Collection brings together CQ Press's current affairs content in a single integrated reference tool. Organized by 22 key public affairs subject headings�like Advocacy and Public Service, Education, Energy, the Environment, Health, and Transportation. Includes in-depth reporting on vital issues, statistical and historical analyses, historic documents and primary source materials, as well as a directory of key government, nonprofit, and private organizations in each of the major policy areas. CQ Researcher, CQ Weekly, and some other CQ publications covered in this resource are also available separately in GALILEO.
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: CQ Press
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=cqpb-uga1
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- Policy File
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Full text and citations of works covering all public policy issues.
- Policy File covers all public policy issues and provides bibliographic citations to the work of 300 public policy think tanks, university research programs, and non-governmental research organizations. Examples of the contributors include the American Enterprise Institute, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), RAND, and the United States Institute of Peace. Links are provided to organization web sites and full-text reports.
- Coverage Dates: 1990-
- Updated: Weekly
- Database Provider: chadwyck_healey
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xpol-uga1
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- Political Science Complete (EBSCO)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to medium for this database to function properly.Citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields.
- Political Science Complete provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration / policy. The serials list of the new database is actively under construction, with a focus on expanding international coverage. Electronic full text may be available for records with ISSNs added to the database since January 2001.
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- Coverage Dates: 1920-present
- Updated: Monthly
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: EBSCO
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xwps-uga1
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- Public Administration Abstracts (EBSCO)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to medium for this database to function properly.Index and abstracts for articles on public administration.
- Public Administration Abstracts provides indexing and abstracts for scholarly journals and magazines in public administration, public policy, government finance and budgeting, personnel management, civil service, organizational behavior, and other topics in government and nonprofit administration in the United States and worldwide.
- Coverage Dates: 1974-
- Title List
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=pubj-uga1
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- Public Affairs Index (EBSCO)
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Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to medium for this database to function properly.Index to articles on national and international public policy.
- Public Affairs Index covers magazines, academic journals, trade publications, and conference papers on United States and global public affairs and public policy issues. Topics include armed conflict, economic issues, housing, refugees, public health, human rights, and more.
- Coverage Dates: 1960s-
- Title List
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=pubx-uga1
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- American Antiquarian Society (AAS) Historical Periodicals Collection (EBSCO)
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Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to medium for this database to function properly.American periodicals published between 1691 and 1877.
- American State Papers (1789-1838)
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U.S. Congressional and Executive Department documents from 1789 to 1838.
- The American State Papers include approximately 6280 numbered publications, largely Congressional but also Executive Department materials, covering the areas of foreign relations, Indian affairs, finance, commerce and navigation, military affairs, naval affairs, the post-office department, public lands, and claims. Unlike the U.S. Congressional Serial Set, the publications in the American State Papers are not divided into reports and documents and do not include House and Senate journals. Approximately two-thirds of the publications cover the first 14 Congresses (1789-1817), whereas the remaining third chronologically overlap with the Serial Set from 1817-1838.
- Coverage Dates: 1789-1838
- Updated: Monthly until all years have been entered
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: Readex/NewsBank
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=ame7-uga1
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- Arte Publico Hispanic Historical Collections Series 1 (EBSCO)
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Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to medium for this database to function properly.Full-text resources for U.S. Hispanic history, literature and culture.
- CQ Almanac
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Annual summary of Congress by topic.
- CQ Almanac provides an annual review of Congressional action in nineteen policy areas. An appendix includes tables of floor votes, excerpted presidential messages, and interest group ratings. CQ Almanac is a companion to CQ Weekly.
- Coverage Dates: 1975 - present
- Updated: Irregular
- Database Provider: CQ Press
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=cqal-uga1
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- CQ Homeland Security
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Homeland security legislation and news.
- CQ Homeland Security is a Web-based intelligence service that provides up-to-date and comprehensive homeland security information. The database includes real-time daily news, tracking of homeland security legislation, and analysis of the latest homeland security spending and policy issues.
- Coverage Dates: 2002- (107th Congress-)
- Updated: Daily
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: CQ Press
- Ten concurrent users.
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=cqho-uga1
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- Digital National Security Archive (DNSA) (Chadwyck-Healey, ProQuest)
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Full-text primary documents concerning U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945.
- The Digital National Security Archive contains over 58,000 declassified documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. The documents were collected by the National Security Archive, a non-profit research institute, through the extensive use of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). DNSA is comprised of a series of collections, each focused on a single topic. Each collection contains a diverse range of policy documents including presidential directives, memos, diplomatic dispatches, meeting notes, independent reports, briefing papers, White House communications, email, confidential letters and other secret material.
- Coverage Dates: 1945 to the present
- Updated: New topic collections are added annually.
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: Chadwyck-Healey, ProQuest
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=digt-uga1
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- Historical Statistics of the United States
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Historical statistical data for the United States
- Historical Statistics of the United States presents the numerical history of the United States. The database contains over 37,000 tables of quantitative historical data covering population, the economy, social conditions, health, and governance. Each topic area includes introductory essays to place the data in historical context.
- Coverage Dates: 18th - 20th centuries
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: cambridge_univ
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=hioo-uga1
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- Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL)
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Materials for homeland security research
- Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) provides access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized sources such as theses and reports from universities, organizations, and local and state agencies. Also includes journal articles. HSDL supports the curriculum of the Center for Homeland Defense and Security.
- Coverage Dates: 1990-present (some older documents)
- Updated: Daily
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Ten concurrent users.
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=home-uga1
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- Humanities & Social Sciences Index Retrospective (EBSCO)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to medium for this database to function properly.Index to articles from 1907-1984.
- Coverage Dates: 1907-1984
- Updated: Daily
- Title List
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: EBSCO
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=hume-uga1
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- International Security & Counter-Terrorism Reference Center (EBSCO)
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Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to medium for this database to function properly.Articles, reports, and background summaries on security and terrorism.
- International Security & Counter-Terrorism Reference Center provides the full text of both primary and secondary publications, with articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers; books; analyst reports; government documents; country reports; background information summaries; blogs; images; and news feeds. Topics covered include terrorism and counter-terrorism, regional conflicts, homeland security, risk management, bioterrorism, cyberterrorism, public health threats, WMDs, civil liberties, disaster planning, and related law and policy.
- Coverage Dates: 1980s-
- Title List
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=inrr-uga1
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- iPoll (Roper Center)
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U.S. opinion polls on major issues, politics, and society
- iPoll is a database of public opinion polls from the Roper Center archive taken in the United States on a variety of subjects. Each record in the database consists of one poll question and the participants' responses. Records are indexed by topic, publication date, and sponsor. Other information provided includes: source name, sample size, and notes on the sample population. From the results list users can also retrieve the complete list of questions asked in a specific poll.
- Coverage Dates: 1935 - present
- Updated: Daily
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: Roper Center
- Enter your email address at the iPoll Authorized Access screen.
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- Peace Research Abstracts (EBSCO)
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Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to medium for this database to function properly.Indexes and summarizes articles related to peace research.
- Peace Research Abstracts includes bibliographic records covering essential areas related to peace research, including conflict resolution, international affairs and law, peace psychology, diplomacy, arms control, international organizations, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline.
The index contains more than 245,000 records which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline, including Journal of Peace Research, Journal of Conflict Resolution, International Journal of Refugee Law, and others. Thirteen core journals are indexed and abstracted in their entirety (i.e. cover to cover). Selected articles from an additional 107 journal are also indexed and abstracted.
- Coverage Dates: 1964-
- Title List
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=peac-uga1
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- Polling the Nations (public opinion)
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Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to low for this database to function properly.U.S. and international opinion polls on major issues, politics, and society.
- Polling the Nations is a database of opinion polls taken on a variety of subjects all over the world. Each record in the database consists of one poll question and the participants' responses. Records are indexed by subject matter, publication year, general and specific location, and survey method. Other information provided includes: source name and contact information, sample size, and notes on the sample population.
- Coverage Dates: 1986-
- Updated: Monthly
- Languages: English
- 4 concurrent users
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xptn-uga1
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- ProQuest Congressional (formerly LexisNexis Congressional)
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Coverage of U.S. Congress; hearings, prints, reports, bills, Congressional Record, CRS Reports, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations
- ProQuest Congressional provides extensive historical indexing of Congressional documents. It also provides the full text of recent hearing transcripts, committee reports, bills, bill tracking reports, the Congressional Record, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Code, and public laws, as well as the complete historical archives of CRS (Congressional Research Service) reports and Committee Prints. Additional coverage includes biographical profiles of congressmen and senators, committee assignments, voting records and financial data.
- Coverage Dates: Dates vary
- Updated: Ongoing
- Database Provider: proquest
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- ProQuest Statistical Insight ((formerly LexisNexis Statistical Insight))
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Statistics published by the U.S. government and other agencies.
- ProQuest Statistical Insight consists of,
Search Tables Base Edition:
selected statistical tables drawn mainly from sources published by the U.S. government since about 1998.
Search Abstracts:
American Statistics Index (ASI) abstracts (1970-) and full text (ca 2004-) of Federal government sources
Statistical Reference Index (SRI) abstracts (1980-) of state and private sources
Index to International Statistics (IIS) abstracts (1983-) of international and intergovernmental sources
Coverage ranges across many topics including income, production, retail and wholesale trade, interest rates, economic indicators, demographics, energy, environmental protection, agriculture and fisheries, crime, medicine, and education.
- Coverage Dates: 1970s-
- Updated: Biannually
- Database Provider: proquest
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xstu-uga1
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- U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1994)
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Reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Congress from the 15th Congress (1817) through the 103rd Congress (1994).
- The U.S. Congressional Serial Set consists of the all the Reports, Documents and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives from the 15th Congress (1817) through the 103rd Congress (1994), including some post-1816 content published in the American State Papers (a retrospective collection of materials originating from 1789 through 1838 but published in the second quarter of the 19th century). During much of the 19th century, especially in the pre-Civil War era, the Serial Set also included key Executive Department publications that were published only or primarily in the U.S. Congressional Serial Set. The Serial Set constitutes a rich collection of primary source material on all aspects of American history, including approximately 52,000 maps.
- Coverage Dates: 1789-1994
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: Readex/NewsBank
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=usco-uga1
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- Urban Studies Abstracts (EBSCO)
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Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to medium for this database to function properly.The most comprehensive source for published research in urban studies.
- Urban Studies Abstracts covers essential areas related to urban studies, including urban affairs, community development, urban history, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. Topics covered in the database include architecture and urban design, business and employment, crime, education, environment and resource conservation, housing and real estate, politics, government, social and public services, social issues, transportation and communication, trends in urbanization and urban society, urban and regional economics, urban development and redevelopment, urban fiscal and budgetary policy, urban planning, and land use.
The index contains more than 45,000 records which are carefully selected from over 200 journals and other periodicals, including the most important sources within the discipline such as Urban Affairs Review, Urban Studies, Journal of Urban Affairs, and more.
- Coverage Dates: 1973-
- Updated: Monthly
- Title List
- Languages: English
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=urbn-uga1
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Broader Databases
- Academic Search Complete
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Articles from some peer-reviewed journals as well as monographs, reports, conference proceedings, and other sources.
- Academic Search Complete is a comprehensive scholarly, multi-disciplinary full-text database, with more than 5,300 full-text periodicals, including 4,400 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text, this database offers indexing and abstracts for more than 9,300 journals and a total of 10,900 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc. The database is updated daily and features PDF content going back as far as 1865, with the majority of full-text titles in native (searchable) PDF format. Searchable cited references are provided for nearly 1,000 journals.
- Coverage Dates: Dates vary. Some content goes as far back as 1865.
- Updated: Daily
- Title List
- Database Provider: ebsco
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=zbac
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- JSTOR
Online Access: On/Off Campus. GALILEO Password required for off campus access.
Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to low for this database to function properly.Access to back issues (from the date of first publication) of selected, core journals.
- JSTOR provides electronic access to back issues (from the date of first publication) of selected, core journals. The goal of the project is to build a reliable and comprehensive archive of important scholarly journal literature. The journals are organized into the Arts and Sciences Collections I & II, the General Sciences Collection, the Ecology and Botany Collection, the Business Collection, the Language and Literature Collection, the Mathematics and Statistics Collection, and the Music Collection.
- Coverage Dates: 1800s- (dates vary)
- Updated: Ongoing
- Title List
- Database Provider: jstor
- URL: http://www.galileo.usg.edu/express?link=xjst-uga1
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- Web of Science (at Web of Knowledge)
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Internet Explorer Users: cookies must be set to medium for this database to function properly.Provides access to the combined Science Citation Index, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts and Humanities Citation Index.
