Databases for Public Administration
Best Bets
| Database | Description | Coverage | More Info |
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| Public Administration Abstracts |
Includes journal articles covering essential areas related to public administration, including public administration theory, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. |
1974-present |
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| ABI/Inform Complete |
Full text for more nearly 4,000 business publications, and citations with abstracts to 1,000 more business titles. |
Full text 1991-present | Indexing 1905-present |
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| Business Source Complete |
Provides full text access for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. |
1886-present |
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| Political Science Complete |
This database contains full text articles from over 500 scholarly journals and and indexing and abstracts from 2,900 journal titles. |
1989-present |
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Also Useful
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| Academic OneFile |
Contains more than 11,000 academic jounals, the majority in full text and peer-reviewed, and podcasts and transcripts from major news sources. |
1980-present |
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| Academic Search Complete |
Provides full text for over 8,500 magazines and journals, and indexing for 4,100 more titles. |
1980-present |
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| EconLit with Full Text |
Provides full text to nearly 500 journals plus citations, with abstracts, to over 600 journals, books, and working papers. |
1969-present |
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| JSTOR |
JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of academic journals (over 1,000) in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. |
Coverage is the beginning of the journal until two to five years ago. |
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| LexisNexis Academic |
News, business information, medical and health topics, and law-related resources |
1990s-present |
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| North Carolina General Assembly |
North Carolina Statutes; NC Statutes and Session Laws; Legislation/Bills; Committee Assignments; audio broadcasts of House and Senate sessions; Legislative Calendar; Citizen Guide |
1985-present |
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| Sociological Abstracts |
Sociological Abstracts indexes the international literature in sociology and related disciplines. |
1952-present |
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| Westlaw Campus Research |
Subjects covered in Westlaw's Campus Research include law-related resources,news, and business information. |
1990's-present |
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| WorldCat |
Contains over 50 million records cataloged by OCLC member libraries throughout the world: Appalachian State University Library is a member (OCLC member code=NJB). |
1000 BC-present |
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Even More
| Database | Description | Coverage | More Info |
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| Gallup Brain |
Searchable database of more than 70 years of public opinion, including questionnaires, which are the surveys Gallup uses to collect data from respondents, and documents, which include Gallup Poll, |
1935-present |
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| ICPSR |
ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) offers more than 500,000 digital files containing social science research data. |
1940-present |
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| Roper Center for Public Opinion Research |
The Roper Center archives datasets from thousands of surveys with national adult, state, foreign, and special subpopulation samples. |
1935-present |
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