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19th Century Masterfile A large range of 19th century materials, including Poole's Index to Periodical Literature (1802-1906) as well as patent and government indexes.
Academic OneFile A collection of peer-reviewed, full-text articles from more than 5000 journals, plus indexing of an additional 4000+ journals, newspapers and wire services. Coverage from 1980 to the present. Extensive coverage of the social sciences and other disciplines. Use this database for a broad search to retrieve both first tier as well as second tier sources. For a less broad search of first tier sources only, use Expanded Academic ASAP (EXAC) .
AccessUN Indexes, with some full-text access to current and retrospective U.N. documents, publications, treaties, and resolutions. See also UNBISnet and United Nations Treaty Collection .
African American Reference Sources Electronics lists of references resources, in subject order, for scholarship in African American studies.
AGRICOLA (Community of Science) Provides access to the literature of agriculture in the broadest sense, including environmental issues and water resource information.
Air University Library's Index to Military Periodicals (AULIMP) Citations to articles, from 1988 to present, in English language military journals including Air Force Law Review, Armed Forces & Society, and various Jane's publications.
Almanac of American Politics Citations with abstracts from more than 1,100 journals; international in scope. Overviews of U.S. states, congressional districts and biographical sketches and political profiles of the current members of Congress and state governors.
America: History and Life Citations and abstracts from more than 2,100 journals published in approximately 40 languages covering the history of the United States and Canada.
American Diplomacy Concerned with the Foreign Service and diplomacy, but also includes dispatches and reports; maintained by U. of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
American National Election Studies (ANES) "... produces high quality data on voting, public opinion, and political participation to serve the research needs of social scientists, teachers, students, policy makers and journalists..." Provides current and historical longitudinal and time series data for analyses of public opinion and electoral behavior.
American Rhetoric – Online Speech Bank "Index to and growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events..." (Note the arrangement is alphabetical by first name.) Speeches by numerous American public figures.
Amnesty International Library Online Documentation Archive Publications including reports, news releases and urgent actions, 1996 to the present. Search by country, region, theme, etc. Documents are available in English, French, Spanish and Arabic.
Black Studies Center Combines three resources for research and teaching in Black Studies: Schomburg Studies on the Black Experience, International Index of Black Periodicals (IIBP), and The Chicago Defender. Fully cross-searchable gateway to scholarly essays, recent periodicals, historical newspaper articles, and much more.
Black Studies Database: Kaiser Index to Black Resources Over 170,000 citations from the Kaiser Index to Black Resources, 1948-1986 from the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture at the New York Public Library covering topics in African-American, African, and African Diasporan Studies. See also, the Black Studies Center .
Black Studies on Disc Bibliographic information on materials held in New York Public Library's Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture covering African-American, African, and African Diasporan studies. Also includes indexing of articles appearing in the Index to Black Periodicals. See also, the Black Studies Center .
Blackwell Dictionary of Political Science
BNA Labor and Employment Law Library Access to cases, manuals, newsletters, and analysis in U.S. Labor and employment law.
Budget of the United States Government Full-text and spreadsheet versions of the current US budget and previous budgets back to 1997.
Carter Center Publications Subjects include election assessments, human rights, conflict resolution, democratization, and global development.
Cities of the World 6th edition, 4 volumes, 2002
Collins Dictionary of Economics
Communication Abstracts Citations and abstracts of Mass Communication; Small Group Communication; Organizational Communication; Public Opinion; and other topics.
Compendex Covers engineering and related issues, including environmental science, air and water pollution, and hazardous waste.
Concise Oxford Dictionary of Politics
Congress and the Nation A component of the CQ Press Political Reference Suite . Contains coverage of events in the U.S. Congress and Presidency from the time of the Truman administration to recent. Analysis of legislation, organized by policy area, from each Congressional term.
Congressional Hearings Digital Collection, 1824-1979 LexisNexis "provides digital access to a retrospective collection of hearings as a module available through LexisNexis Congressional.... includes abstracting, indexing, bibliographic information, and searchable PDFs for Congressional hearings from 1824-1979."
Conversations with History: Institute of International Studies (UC Berkeley) Lively and unedited video interviews and printable transcripts, with distinguished men and women from all over the world. Includes over 300 diplomats, statesmen, stateswomen, soldiers, economists, political scientists, activists and artists. Click on "Interviews by Guest Name" for the alphabetical list.
Council on Foreign Relations
Countries and their Cultures 4 volumes, 2001
Country Profiles (BBC) "Instant guide" to statistics, history, news, politics, chronology of key events, leaders, media, and economics of countries of the world.
CQ Congress Collection An "analytical survey of the history and development, powers, personalities, current developments, and legislation considered and passed by the United States Congress." Organized into sections on public policy legislation, members of Congress, key votes, and the legislative branch.
CQ Historic Documents Series Online Edition Issued since 1972, each annual volume of which contains approximately 100 documents covering the most significant events of the year. The documents include presidential speeches, international agreements, Supreme Court decisions, U.S. governmental reports, scientific findings, and cultural discussions.
CQ Press Political Reference Suite Includes Congress and the Nation, Political Handbook of the World, Politics in America, Supreme Court Yearbook, Vital Statistics on American Politics, and Washington Information Directory.
CQ Researcher In depth coverage of current issues, with historical and current analysis, and pros and cons per topic, timelines, and extensive bibliographies.
CQ Voting and Elections Collection Research and documents organized into six categories: Presidential Elections; Congressional Elections; Gubenatorial Elections; Campaigns and Elections; Political Parties; and Voters and Demographics.
Declassified Documents Reference System - U.S. Provides access to the texts and images of select declassfied U.S. documents from diverse sources such as the CIA, Department of State, National Security Council, Department of Defense, and the FBI. Subject areas covered include international politics, international relations, U.S. foreign and domestic policy, strategy, diplomacy, and the military.
Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Provider of DoD scientific and technical information, reports, and summaries of ongoing research, host of 100 defense program web sites, and manager of 11 information analysis centers.
Demography and Population Studies Internet Guide
Department of Defense (DOD) Dictionary of Military Terms
Dictionary of American History, 3rd edition, 10 volumes, 2003.
Dictionary of Contemporary World History
Dictionary of Economics (Wiley)
Dictionary of Government and Politics (Collin Publishing)
Dictionary of Statistics
Digital National Security Archive Contains over 35,000 declassified national security documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act. Comprised of twelve collections -- Afghanistan, Berlin Crisis 1958-1962, Cuban Missile Crisis, El Salvador, Iran-Contra Affair, Intelligence Community, Iran Revolution, Military Uses of Space, Nicaragua, Nuclear Non-Proliferation, Philippines, and South Africa.
Dissertations -- Foreign Hundreds of thousands of foreign doctoral dissertations available through the Center for Research Libraries. If author is not found, read introductory note to take further action.
Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy: The Avalon Project at Yale Law School Dedicated "to providing access via the World Wide Web to primary source materials in the fields of Law, History, Economics, and Politcs, Diplomacy and Government. We intended to add value to these primary sources by linking to other documents expressly referred to in the body of the text." Includes pre-18th century through 21st century documents.
EconLit EconLit is a comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature.
Economic Report of the U.S. President " . . . overviews the nation's economic progress using text and extensive data appendices. The Economic Report of the President is transmitted to Congress no later than ten days after the submission of the Budget."
Economics. A listing of resources compiled by the NU Economics Bibliographer.
Economist Intelligence Unit on the Internet Economic data on 150 countries, from about 1980 to present.
Election Reports- Global (Carter Center Publications) In-depth pre and post-election assessments, in alphabetical order by country.
Elections — USA University of Michigan links to extensive information and comprehensive web sites in regard to current elections.
Elections Around the World
Elections of 2004 Resources on the presidential and congressional races from APSA.
Embassy World Directory & search engine of the world's embassies & consulates.
Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy, 2nd edition, 3 volumes, 2002
Encyclopedia of Ecology and Environmental Management (Blackwell)
Encyclopedia of Law and Economics
Encyclopedia of Terrorism Published in 2003.
Encyclopedia of the European Union
Encyclopedia of Third Parties in America
Energy Citations Database Bibliographic citations covering ecology and environmental issues.
Ethnic NewsWatch Full-text articles from 200+ newspapers and magazines of the ethnic and minority press. Once connected, click on either 'English' or 'Español' to begin.
European Union Official websites of the European Union. See, too, the Encyclopedia of the European Union .
o EUROPA Gateway to the European Union.
o EU Commission An a-to-z thematic index.
o EU Documents This site provides guidance to tracking EU documents. Divided into three sections: law, documents of individual institutions, and documents common to all institutions.
o EU Enlargement Official information about the process to add new countries. Includes an overview of the enlargement and provides country profiles, arguments and public options, and documents.
o The ABC of the European Union The EU at-a-glance.
Eurostat Staff in the Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department must log-in for patrons to gain privileged access to all Eurostat publications that are available in PDF format. For assistance, please visit the Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department or contact staff at govpubs@northwestern.edu.
Expanded Academic ASAP (EXAC) This is an important database for social sciences (political economy, gender studies, development, etc) with more than 20 years of coverage of about 3,500 first tier, indexed, and full-text titles, of which 2,100 are peer-reviewed. For a broader search which will retrieve both first tier as well as second tier sources, see Academic OneFile .
FBI Files Online Thousands of Federal Bureau of Investigation files, released through the Freedom of Information Act (content continues to be added). Includes historical events (16,277 pages on Watergate), political movements (2,895 pages on the Black Panther Party of North Carolina), as well as files on individuals (activists, artists, entertainers, politicians, etc.) such as Groucho Marx and Joseph McCarthy.
Fed in Print: An Index to Federal Reserve Economic Research Databases of the U.S. Federal Reserve Banks.
Find Law Extensive Federal and State law resources and specialized guides.
Gallup Brain A searchable database containing the results from over 125,000 Gallup opinion questions dating back to 1935.
GATT Digital Library
Gender Studies Resources compiled by NU Bibliographer for Gender Studies.
Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department in the NU Library Includes U.S. government, State of Illinois, and international documents, maps and geographical information as well as data services and more.
GPO Access Provides access to U.S. Government legislative, executive, judicial, regulatory and other publications.
HAPI Online: Hispanic American Periodical Index Citations to worldwide information about Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean basin, the United States-Mexico border region, and Hispanics in the United States. Coverage is 1970 to the present. See, too, Latin American Studies, Volume 1 which HAPI expands on.
History and Politics Out Loud Searchable multimedia database documenting and delivering authoritative audio relevant to American history and politics. Website support includes Department of Political Science, Northwestern University Library, School of Communication, Office of the Provost, and Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences. (Project Director: NU Professor Jerry Goldman)
House of Commons: Index to Current House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Electronic index to the microfiche edition of the parliamentary papers published from the 1991/92 session onwards and for the same period, all papers ordered to be printed by the House but not necessarily yet published. Housed in the Library, Reference Department. See, too, the House of Commons Library Parliamentary Data (POLIS) database for the full text of Early Day Motions (since May 1997) and an index to proceedings and publications of both the Commons and the Lords.
Human Development Report Includes statistics and indices to measure development in economic and cultural terms. For assistance with this resource, please visit the Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department at the Main Library or write to govpubs@northwestern.edu.
ICPSR, Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research For use with statistical software such as SPSS or SAS, "ICPSR maintains and provides access to a vast archive of social science data for research and instruction, and offers training in quantitative methods to facilitate effective data use."
Illinois Blue Books-1900-2000 Online historical articles, biographies of legislators, extensive indexes, a chronological outline of Illinois history and information on legislative apportionments, etc.
Index to Current Urban Documents A "regularly published guide to the reports and research that are generated by local government agencies, civic organizations . . . metropolitan and regional planning agencies in approximately 500 selected cities in the United States and Canada."
Index to United Nations Documents Citations to current and retrospective U.N. publications, including full-text UN Resolutions from 1994 forward and Summary Records (SR) containing voting records beginning in 1997. Five years of retrospective indexing will be added each year until the index covers documents back to 1945.
Intelligence Resource Program-Federation of American Scientists
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences Citations from an international selection of publications, including over 2600 journals, in all areas of the social sciences with emphasis on economics, political science, sociology and anthropology.
International Documents Collection--Northwestern University Library Contains publications and documents of about 25 intergovernmental organizations (IGOs).
International Index to Black Periodicals Full Text Citations from over 150 scholarly and popular journals including 40 with full text articles. See also, the Black Studies Center .
International Political Science Abstracts Provides indexing and abstracting of articles from English and non-English language, major journals in political science, international public law, and international relations.
Inter-Parliamentary Union International organization of 130 Parliaments of sovereign states; supported by UN; contains information and data such as number of women in parliaments.
InvestorWords Glossary of financial and investment terms.
IPOLL Roper Center for Public Opinion accesses over 500,000 survey questions since 1935 broken down by percentages for each value.
JSTOR Provides electronic access to back issues of core scholarly journals including almost 30 in Political Science. To browse the list of archives, click here. Articles have been digitized, providing full-image access.
Law- Current and Historical:
o Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Citations to articles as well as book reviews from more than 450 legal periodicals, essay collections, festschrifts, and congress reports from 1985 to the present. Covers international law (public and private), comparative law, and municipal law of countries other than the United States, British Isles, and British Commonwealth.
o Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Indexes articles from over 800 legal periodicals, from 1918 to the present; and works from major law books, since 1993. "Open Database Selection Area" to include materials older than 1981. Links to some full text sources available.
o Making of Modern Law More than 22,000 legal treatises on British Commonwealth and American law; full-text, fully searchable works published between 1800 and 1926.
o Pritzker Legal Research Center at NU School of Law Most resources are available to all -- some are restricted to NU School of Law community.
o Supreme Court Decisions FindLaw's searchable database of U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1893. Browsable by year and US Reports volume number. Searchable by citation, case title and full text.
League of Nations Statistical and Disarmament Documents
Left Index Citations, abstracts and selected full text from over 260 publications of the political left.
LexisNexis Congressional (formerly Congressional Universe) Congressional publications on key American public policy issues. Full text of proposed legislation and its status in the legislative process and the full text of recently signed law. Also contains full-text of U.S. Congressional Serial Set and American State Papers of 1789-1969 (to be completed by Dec. 2005).
LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index (formerly Government Periodicals Universe) Index of periodicals published by the U.S. Government.
LGBT, Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America 3 volumes, 2004
Lijphart Elections Archive A "research collection of district level election results for approximately 350 national legislative elections in 26 countries."
Making of the Modern Economy. The Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature, 1450-1850 " Digital facsimiles of literature on economics and business published from the last half of the 15th century to the mid-19th century from the collections of the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London and the Kress Collection of Business and Economics at the Harvard Business School; with supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University, and from Sterling Library at Yale University.... documents the dynamics of Western trade and wealth; focuses on economics interpreted in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology.... Includes facsimiles of rare books and primary source materials such as political pamphlets and broadsides, government publications, proclamations, and a wide range of ephemera." (H. Lightman)
Men's Studies Database This resource is accessed via the Gender Studies Database and contains "over 45,850 citations & abstracts" and covers "250 core and hundreds more important periodicals providing access to the full diversity of literature including journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, theses, dissertations, bulletins, newsletters, internet documents and numerous other sources on men's studies from 1990 to the present."
Microform Collections of the NU Library This electronic guide provides information on historical resources in area studies including Latin America, East and South Asia, Europe, and America as well as sources on topics such as gender studies.
Microform and CD-ROM Collections of the U of C Guide to resources in political science and history in these formats at the University of Chicago (to which NU faculty and students have access via reciprocal privileges).
National Election Studies NES Guide to Public Opinion and Electoral Behavior (1948-2002). Pre-arranged tables provide survey data on U.S elections over time.
National Security Archive
New Electronic Titles (NET) from GPO Access Lists new additions to the Federal Depository Library Program Electronic Collection. Can also access NET archives from this site.
New York Review of Books Searchable archive of articles and reviews from 1963 to present.
Nonprofits: Literature of the Nonprofit Sector
OECD Index Bibliographic database containing descriptions of documents and publications issued by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and related agencies such as the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the European Conference of Ministers of Transport. Search the Library catalog NUcat for the titles you want. For assistance with this resource, please visit the Government and Geographic Information and Data Services Department or contact staff at 847-491-3130 or govpubs@northwestern.edu. See also SourceOECD .
Opensecrets.org Research on campaign finance issues and reports on political contributions.
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) resources at NU: A thorough guide to OECD materials available to the NU community; compiled by the Main Library's Government and Geographic Information and Data Services.
OriginalSources In Their Own Words Significant publications of the U.S. government and its history including the Papers of the Presidents, the Federalist Papers, National Party Platforms, 1840-1996, 100 Key Documents of American History, quotes and speeches.
Oxford Companion to the Politics of the World, 2nd Edition
Oxford Guide to the United States Government
Oxresearch - Oxford Analytica Research papers, source intelligence, and global strategic analysis on issues in current business, security studies, development, world politics, developing countries, and economic history. Bridges the time-gap between newspaper reporting of current events and the appearance of scholarly works.
OYEZ Project OYEZ Project Multimedia database of information about the United States Supreme Court providing abstracts of all recent cases and selective abstracts for older cases, digital audio of the Oral Arguments in all recent cases either streamed or as MP3 downloads, several recordings of the announcement of the Court's opinion, and links to the written opinions of the court in all cases since 1791, through Justia. Contains access to more than 3000 hours of Supreme Court audio. Objective is to make accessible all audio from 1955 to the present. Before 1980, the audio collection is selective. The project will ultimately be a complete audio archive of the Court spanning from October 1995 to the present. (Principal Investigator: NU Professor Jerry Goldman)
PAIS International Bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. Journal articles, books, government documents, statistical compilations, committee reports, directories, serials, reports of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations, and most other forms of printed literature from all over the world are indexed. This database covers 1972 to the present. Go to PAIS International Archive for coverage from 1937-1976. (The archive will eventually cover 1915 through 1976.)
Penguin Dictionary of Economics
Pew Global Attitudes Project A series of worldwide public opinion surveys, of almost 75,000 people among 50 populations (49 countries plus the Palestinian Authority). Includes large array of subjects, e.g., people's assessments of their own lives, views on globalization, changes in attitudes toward democracy, views on the place of Islamic faith in public policy within countries with significant Muslim populations, and opinions toward the United States.
Philosopher's Index Citations and abstracts to articles from books and over 480 journals dealing with philosophy and political and social theory.
Policy File Offers "access to U.S. foreign and domestic policy papers and gray literature, PolicyFile is updated weekly with abstracts and links to the latest reports, papers, and documents from think tanks, research institutes, and agencies."
Political Americana The Cornell University Collection of Political Americana includes digitized objects such as bandanas and bumper stickers as well as cartoons, prints, posters, and other campaign ephemera to " . . . enhance and illuminate the study of more conventional documentary sources on American political history." The collection includes items from 1789 to 1972.
Politics in America A component of the CQ Press Political Reference Suite . "... source for information on members of the U.S. Congress and their districts... contains in-depth profiles of every member as well as data on their constituencies, apportionment, and redistricting."
PollingReport.com An independent, nonpartisan resource on trends in American public opinion. For additional data, see Polling Report Subscriber Pages.
Polling Report Subscriber Pages user name: northwestern; password: 1904. See, too, PollingReport.com.
Polling the Nations Searchable and browseable database of over 350,000 questions from more than 14,000 public opinion surveys conducted by more than 700 different organizations in the U.S. and abroad.
Pollution Abstracts Citations and abstracts from journal articles, conference proceedings, and hard-to-find documents. Topics cover pollution and environmental issues, including atmosphere, emissions, mathematical models, effects on people and animals, and environmental action.
Poly-cy: Internet Resources for Political Science Metasite for Political Science containing links to useful information for faculty and students under such heading as "The Profession" (e.g., institutes, jobs, conferences), "Research" (e.g., data sources, methods, grants), "Government" (e.g., foreign governments, US counties), etc.
Popline More than 300,000 citations with abstracts to articles, books and reports on population, family planning, demography, and related health issues.
Post-United States Elections Survey: A Survey of Public Opinion in France, Germany, and the United States, 2004 Poll of the attitudes of the public in the U.S., France, and Germany after the re-election of President George W. Bush in the 2004 presidential election. Click for full description and the links to resources.
Prickly Paradigm Pamphlet publications by leading scholars. Critiques of subject disciplines and the world. Ordered through and distributed by University of Chicago Press.
Program on International Policy Attitudes Project of the Center on Policy Attitudes (COPA) and the Center for International Security Studies (CISSM). Conducts polls, domestic and across nations, to international issues.
Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States Currently "covers the published speeches and documents of Presidents Hoover, Roosevelt, Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton." Search "across all volumes at the initial screen or search within a volume. Basic searches are amplified by boolean and proximity searches. Results can be sorted by author, title, date, and frequency."
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
Social Science Information Gateway Browse by Subjects including Politics, Research Tolls and Methods, Statistics, and Women's Studies.
Social Sciences Citation Index (Web of Science) Provides bibliographic information and some abstracts from articles from more than 1,700 in the social sciences. Search by topic, author, source title, or by cited reference: authors and titles from the bibliography of an article. Searches may also lead to related records: articles with citations in common. Results may be printed, saved to a text file, exported in a delimited format for import into personal bibliographic programs like EndNote or ProCite, or may be sent via email. (For more information, see citations to faculty publications.)
SourceOECD Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Full-text of periodicals and statistics. See also OECD Index .
Speeches and Speechmakers Excellent gateway, from the University of Iowa, to collections on the web. Includes, for example, links to an archive of speeches by the African National Congress, speeches on human rights from the U.K., and the Social Activism Sound Recording Project (UC Berkeley).
Speeches & Video A large archive of speeches primarily by politicians, and sound clips of primarily political events, available via The History Channel.
State and Local Governments in the U.S.
St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide
Supreme Court Audio Archive See OYEZ Project
Supreme Court Yearbook A component of the CQ Press Political Reference Suite . Case summaries, essays, tables and figures on voting patterns, and overviews of Supreme Court terms from 1989 to recent.
Television News Archive (Vanderbilt University) World's most extensive and complete archive of television news. Includes more than 30,000 individual network evening news broadcasts from the major U.S. national broadcast networks: ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN, and more than 9,000 hours of special news-related programming including ABC's Nightline since 1989. See "Important Note" on front page of website (NU affiliates have free access).
Terrorism: Essential Primary Sources
THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet Access bill summaries and statuses, the Congressional Record, and information about House and Senate committees.
UNBISnet Catalog of UN publications and documentation indexed by the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva, and non-UN publications in the Dag Hammarskjöld Library, Voting Records, and an Index to Speeches. See also AccessUN and United Nations Treaty Collection .
United Nations Treaty Collection There are three databases in this collection: 1) Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General; 2) United Nations Treaty Series; 3) Texts of Recently Deposited Multilateral Treaties. See also AccessUN and UNBISnet.
U.S. Department of Labor Includes information on general employment trends.
U.S. Federal Resource Online A good index to online Government Printing Office publications (GPO Access) and other resources by topic.
U.S. Government Information--Northwestern University Library.
U.S. Supreme Court Multimedia Database See OYEZ Project. Multimedia database of information about the United States Supreme Court providing abstracts of key constitutional cases, digital audio of the Oral Arguments in many important cases, several recordings of the announcement of the Court's opinion, and links to the written opinions of the court in all cases since 1893, through the FindLaw project.
U.S. Supreme Court Records & Briefs, 1832-1978 "This database contains nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978. The collection is derived from two essential reference sources. For the period 1832 (when printed Court records began) through 1915, the documents are based primarily on the holdings of the Jenkins Memorial Law Library, America’s first law library, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For 1915-1978 the source is the Library of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, a nationally recognized research facility and the single largest member supported law library in the United States." (Publisher’s web site)
Vital Speeches of the Day Look for the "Business Source Premier" option among the multiple subscriptions offered by NU, because this is the most comprehensive with speeches dating back to 1934 (including speeches by Churchill, Hitler, Mussolini) to the present day (including Blair and Benedict XVI). Also contains speeches by academics and others on important topics.
Vital Statistics on American Politics A component of the CQ Press Political Reference Suite . Over 200 data tables and statistics on politics dating back to 1788. Organized by topics such as elections, campaign finance, parties, the military, the media, and foreign policy.
Voting Records in Congress Available through LexisNexis Congressional (1988 - current).
Washington Information Directory A component of the CQ Press Political Reference Suite . Contact information—email, addresses, faxes—on over 10,000 federal government offices, congressional committees, NGOs, IOs, regulatory agencies, etc., searchable and browsable.
Watching America: Foreign Press Accounts WatchingAmerica reflects what the world thinks of current issues that involve the U.S., by providing foreign press articles including many translated into English.
Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 Primary source documents and "mini-monographs" on topics in women's history and American social movements.
Women's Speeches from Around the World – Gifts of Speech A good base of speeches by contemporary leaders in politics, literature, and other fields.
Women's Studies Resources compiled by NU Bibliographer for Gender Studies.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Citations with abstracts from more than 1100 journals in political science and related disciplines. Coverage is international in scope.
World War I Document Archive An extensive archive of primary documents, from telegrams to treaties, of WWI. International in focus.

E-DICTIONARIES & ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Language Dictionaries & Quotations

Bilingual Dictionaries--Oxford English to French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish and vis versa.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. 10th Edition, 1919
Cambridge Dictionary of American English
Cambridge Klett Compact, French-English
Cambridge Klett Compact, Spanish-English
Foreign Languages for Travelers Includes basic phrases with pronunciations in Real Audio in over sixty languages and links to language services and translating dictionaries.
German Reference Database: Xipolis
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary and Thesaurus
Online Dictionary Net Links to many online dictionaries covering many languages and topics.
Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations
Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
Oxford English Dictionary: OED Online This contains two separate texts, the complete Second Edition and the New Edition in progress. The first set is a complete A to Z sequence of entries, while the second is incomplete, but growing every quarter.
WWW Virtual Library Web Gateways to English and foreign language dictionaries, acronyms and abbreviations, subject lexicons, glossaries, thesauri, quotations, and rhyming dictionaries.

Biographical Dictionaries & Encyclopedias

American National Biography Articles and portraits of about 19,000 historically noteworthy Americans.
Biographical Dictionary Covers more than 28,000 notable men and women from ancient times to the present day. Can be searched by birth years, death years, positions held, professions, literary and artistic works, achievements, and other keywords.
Biography Resource Center Biographical information on nearly 275,000 people from throughout history; includes some full-text feature-length biographical articles and links to selected web sites.
Colegrove, Kenneth (1886-1975) Papers A finding aid to the papers of a Political science professor at Northwestern (1919-1952) and expert in Japanese politics and law. 90 boxes (30 linear feet).
Conversations with History: Institute of International Studies (UC Berkeley) Lively and unedited video interviews and printable transcripts, with distinguished men and women from all over the world. Includes over 300 diplomats, statesmen, stateswomen, soldiers, economists, political scientists, activists and artists. Click on "Interviews by Guest Name" for the alphabetical list.
Dictionary of American History, 3rd edition, 10 volumes, 2003
Dictionary of Political Biography
Encyclopedia of U.S. National Security
McGovern, William M. (1897-1964) Papers, 1919-1967 A finding aid to the papers of a Professor of Political Science at Northwestern, known for his travels to Tibet in the 1920s. 6 boxes (2 cubic feet.)
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

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