Public Administration Databases

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ArchiveGrid
ArchiveGrid provides access to detailed archival collection descriptions, allowing you to search for historical documents, personal papers and family histories held in archives throughout the world. It includes nearly a million descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives.
Business Source Premier
This business database provides full-text for more than 2,100 business journals dating back to 1965, including full-text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed scholarly business publications. In addition to business journals, Business Source Premier also includes a rich collection of country, industry, company and market research reports, as well as SWOT analyses.
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Fdsys
Provided by the United States Government Printing Office, the Federal Digital System (FDsys) provides online access to official publications from all three branches of the federal government, including the Congressional Record, the Code of Federal Regulations, the U. S. Code, text of congressional bills, court opinions, and much more.
GreenFILE
GreenFILE is a citation database covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes citations of content on global warming, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more.
HeinOnline
HeinOnline is a very large database for government documents and legal research. It contains comprehensive coverage from inception of both U.S. statutory materials, U.S. Congressional Documents and more than 2,400 scholarly journals, all of the world's constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, and access to the full text of state and federal case law powered by Fastcase.
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Military and Government Collection
Offers current research and news pertaining to all branches of the military and government, including nearly 300 journals and other periodicals.
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Nexis Uni - formerly LexisNexis Academic
Nexis Uni features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790, national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, U.S. federal and state case law, codes, regulations, legal news, law reviews, and international legal information. Shepard's Citations for all U.S. Supreme Court cases back to 1789. Business news journals, company financial information, SEC filings and reports, and industry and market news.
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SAGE Premier
SAGE Premier is a collection of over 600 scholarly journals from one the world's largest and most respected publishers of academic information, with particular strengths in education, criminal justice and the social sciences.
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Academic Search Premier
A great first stop when looking for scholarly journal articles, Academic Search Premier contains full text content across all academic disciplines from over 4,600 periodicals. Also contains some popular magazines. Most content is from the last twenty years.
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Academic Writer (formerly APA Style Central)
Academic Writer helps you develop your writing and research skills, combining sophisticated learning and teaching tools, advanced authoring technology, and full integration of the APA manual.
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Christian Periodical Index
Published by the Association of Christian Librarians, CPI is an interdisciplinary index of Christian periodicals. Search here if you're looking for articles or reviews written from an evangelical perspective.
Credo Reference
Credo Reference is a powerful source of introductory and reference information across all academic disciplines. Combining cross-searchable content from over 500 encyclopedias and other reference sources, Credo will also connect you to related materials in other library databases and collections.
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Dissertations and Theses
The world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses includes 3 million citations, over 1.5 million of which are available in full-text.
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Ebook Central
Ebook Central is a database of over 130,000 e-books in all academic areas. This collection is also searchable via OneSearch and the OneSearch Catalog.
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Films on Demand
This database includes over 20,000 online streaming educational videos from providers like PBS and Films for the Humanities & Sciences. Includes coverage of nearly all academic disciplines. Instructors can embed films in Blackboard for easy course integration. These videos are also discoverable through OneSearch and the library catalog (Webcat).
Database includes video.
Gale eBooks (formerly Gale Virtual Reference Library)
A cross-searchable collection of more than 2,500 reference volumes, including encyclopedias across all academic disciplines.
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Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints (formerly Opposing Viewpoints in Context)
Gale In Context: Opposing Viewpoints is a great starting point for all of today's most common research topics. Featured "viewpoints" provide accessible overviews, which are supplemented by many articles from popular magazines and academic journals, as well as books, newspapers, statistics, videos and even audio recordings. A good way to get started is to click "Browse Issues".
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Google Scholar
Google Scholar is a broad index of scholarly content across many different fields and content types.
JSTOR
JSTOR is an interdisciplinary database of back issues from the most important scholarly journals in many fields. Coverage of most journals begins with volume one and ends four or more years ago. The library currently provides access to twelve JSTOR collections: Arts & Sciences I-X, XII, and the Life Sciences collection.
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OneSearch
OneSearch is a discovery service that lets you search across just about all of the library's collections at once. It includes everything in the library catalog, most databases, and much more. For finding books in our collections, use OneSearch Catalog or the "CBU Catalog Only" limiter. Databases that are not included in OneSearch include Dissertations and Theses and U.S. Major Dailies.
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Scopus
A comprehensive general index of scholarly publications. Includes bibliographic records for academic journal articles primarily, but also for peer-reviewed books and conference proceedings. Scopus also provides advanced tools for analyzing the significance of individual journals, articles, scholars and institutions. Some journals are indexed as far back as 1823, but comprehensive coverage begins in 1996.

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