Yale University Library Research Guides: Public Policy Subject Guide: Public Policy

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Welcome to the Public Policy Subject Guide. In this guide, you'll find:

Tips and ways to policy papers, books and dissertations, Public Opinion information
Information on Government Documents, think tanks, IGOs and NGOs, data and Statistics
Recommended databases that you can access 24/7.
Ways to organize your research
Where to ask for help.

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CQ Researcher
Background Reports on current policy issues
CRS Reports
Policy documents shared with Congressional Committees to help inform them on topics
Find Policy
Search 17 think tanks for policy analysis on a variety of topics
HeinOnline
A major database for legal resources.
IssueLab (The Foundation Center)
"Access to thousands of case studies, evaluations, white papers, and issue briefs addressing some of the world's most pressing social problems."
National Journal
Covers politics, policy, and government; daily political news; and more. Provides a variety of levels of analysis, including Cook's Political Rating
News Resources
Link to a variety of news resources at Yale
Policy Archive
Policy Archive is an innovative, new digital archive of global, non-partisan public policy research. It makes use of the power, efficiency, and economy of modern Internet technology to collect and disseminate summaries and full texts, videos, reports, briefs, and multimedia material of think tank, university, government, and foundation-funded policy research.
PolicyMap
Years: 2000, post-2000 estimates and projections
Geographies: states, cities, counties, tracts, block groups, ZIP codes
Subscription resource with data on demographics, health, education, inequality, and more. For additional information about using PolicyMap: http://guides.library.yale.edu/policymap.
Formats: export maps as GIFs or PDFs; export shapefiles; export data to Excel.
ProQuest Social Science Search
Single search of many databases, including:

EconLit
IBSS (International Bibliography of the Social Sciences)
PAIS International (policy literature)
Sociological Abstracts
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts

...and more. To restrict your search to some or all of the databases above, click on "Searching: 25 databases" in the upper left of the screen.
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research: iPOLL database
U.S. national-level public opinion survey questions and responses, back to 1935. No raw data for analysis, but does provide links to raw datasets in the Roper Center's catalog.
Social Science Citation Index
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The ISI Web of Science provides seamless access to the Social Sciences Citation Expanded®, Science Citation Index®, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index™. It enables users to search current and r etrospective multidisciplinary information from approximately 8,500 of the most prestigious, high impact research journals in the world. ISI Web of Science also provides a unique search method, cited reference searching. With it, users can navigate forward, backward, and through the literature, searching all disciplines and time spans to uncover all the information relevant to their research. Users can also navigate to electronic full-text journal articles.

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