PLCY 210: Policy Innovation and Analysis

The Statistical Abstract of the United States is a comprehensive collection of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States, with recent data for states and metro areas, as well as some on foreign countries.

Provides data from all US Census Bureau surveys and programs.

Customized Google search of 700 of the most important US and international think tanks. Think tanks are institutions affiliated with universities, governments, advocacy groups, foundations, non-governmental organizations, and businesses that generate public policy research and analysis.

Find information on academic areas of business, social sciences, humanities, general academic, general science, education and multi-cultural topics; resource provides access to major popular and scholarly journals with many full-text articles.

Major index to economic literature, produced by the American Economic Association. It includes citations and abstracts from 400 major journals as well as articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, book reviews, dissertations, and working papers. Full text articles are linked if they are available in any other EBSCO database to which we subscribe. Currently there are links to full text articles in approximately 200 journals.

Produced by the Educational Resource Information Center, ERIC provides indexing and abstracting for journal and report literature (1966 to the present) in education and related disciplines.

Note: Many full-text documents from ERIC are currently unavailable. For more information, see here.

Enables you to search specifically for scholarly literature, including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, preprints, abstracts and technical reports from all broad areas of research. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles available across the web.

Full-text consumer health magazines, reference books, current health pamphlets and guides; includes information on specific diseases aswell as overall health topics, such as fitness, nutrition, diabetes, aging, women's health, children's health, etc.

Provides an image archive of important scholarly journal literature in nearly all the humanities and social sciences disciplines, international and foreign areas studies, and many of the sciences. UNC patrons have access to extensive retrospective holdings of hundreds of journals, starting with the first issues. Excludes the most recent 2-5 years of currently available journals.

National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends providing information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in a variety of languages.

A bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. Includes full-text articles.

Database covering over 2500 journals in sociology, both theoretical and applied, and related disciplines including anthropology, economics, education, medicine, community development, philosophy, demography, political science, and social psychology. Articles in 30 different languages from about 55 countries.

Provides indexing and abstracts of the international journal literature in political science and related fields, including public administration and policy, law, and international relations.