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Subject Librarian Nancy Turner Myers

Nancy Turner Myers
(573) 882-3342
myersn@missouri.edu


Social Sciences : Public Policy

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Databases for Articles

Databases for Articles

Databases for Public Policy
CIAO - Columbia International Affairs Online Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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 Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is the most comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. Access provided by the MU School of Law Library. [more]

CQ Almanac Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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CQ Researcher Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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 Each week, CQ Researcher writes a detailed, 20+ page analysis of "hot issue" from the news. Each analysis includes pro/con and an annotated bibliography. Many bioethics topics are included, such as embryo research, women's health, Medicare reform, and many more. [more]

CQ Weekly Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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 CQ Weekly provides the CQ Weekly Congressional Quarterly’s magazine on government, commerce and politics. Complete source for expert coverage of the U.S. Congress, including status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering. [more]

Digital National Security Archive Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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 The Digital National Security Archive is a comprehensive collection of significant primary documents central to US foreign and military policy since 1945. The Archive is organized into dozens of topical collections, each containing government documents declassified under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA). [more]

Gale Virtual Reference Library Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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 Search every word in over 200 encyclopedias and reference books covering all disciplines, including the Encyclopedia of Bioethics, the Encyclopedia of Cancer, the Cambridge Historical Dictionary of Disease, the Encyclopedia of Health and Behavior, The Encyclopedia of Sociology, and many more. A complete list of titles can be found here. The text can be translated into Spanish, French, German, Italianb, Portuguese, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, or Korean. English language MP3 audiofiles are also available from the Tools menu. [more]

GenderWatch Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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 GenderWatch is a database of periodicals and newsletters that focus on women and women's issues. [more]

Google Scholar CD/DVD based resource available only from within the Ellis Library.
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 Google Scholar Instructions are provided for setting up Find it at MU in your Google Scholar search. This will enable you to link from your Google search results to the full-text resources provided by the MU Libraries. [more]

JSTOR Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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 A full-text database consisting of the Arts and Sciences I, II, III, IV, Ecology & Botany and General Science Collections which provide access to the back files of over 300 scholarly journals. Areas included are history, sociology, business, economics, ecology, literature, mathematics, music, political science, population studies, Asian studies, philanthropy and finance. Coverage begins with volume one of each title and continues to within 4-5 years of the present. [more]

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
http://www.ncjrs.org
  
 Also Known as: NCJRSSearch over 180,000 publications in alll areas of criminal justice and law enforcement including forensics, corrections, courts, police, and crime prevention. From the U.S. Department of Justice. [more]

NCJRS National Criminal Justice Reference Service Database Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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 Also Known as: ncjrsCovers over 189,000 criminal justice publications dating back to the 1970s. Subject areas include corrections, courts, drug abuse, law enforcement, juvenile justice, crime statistics, domestic preparedness, and victims. In addition to journal articles, federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, and unpublished research are also included. From the U.S. Department of Justice. [more]

PAIS Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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 Covers the full range of political, social, and public policy issues, including economic, political, and social issues, business, finance, law, international trade and relations, public administration, government, political science, and any topics that are or might become the subject of legislations. [more]

ProQuest Congressional Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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 Also Known as: Lexis Nexis CongressionalProQuest Congressional indexes congressional publications from 1789 to date and provides full text for much of it. This database also includes biographical, financial and voting information on current members of Congress. [more]

Scopus Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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 Search 33 million journal articles, cited references, and patents. Cover-to-cover indexing 1996-date for 14,000 (mostly scientific) journals, with some retrospective coverage compiled from cited references and free web sources. Compile a table of citation counts for a given author showing cited references by year. Discover the h-index for a given author. Search for all cited references for a given author, just a combination of selected references, or a single reference, with an option to exclude self-citations. Locate an article to see Findit@Mu links to all its cited references. [more]

U.S. Congressional Serial Set Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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 The U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980 is a vast primary source collection for U.S. political, social, cultural, military and ethnic history, as well as international relations, explorations, genealogy, commerce, industrial development and more. [more]

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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 Worldwide Political Science Abstracts 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. [more]

Journals

Journals for Public Policy
Browse Journals on Public Policy Sciences Restricted to faculty, students, and staff at The University of Missouri
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eBooks / Books

eBooks / Books for Public Policy
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    • If no resources are found in MERLIN, the search moves to the MOBIUS catalog (a catalog of many Missouri libraries).
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