Research Guides: Public Policy and Administration: Finding Databases for articles and reports

Finding Databases

ABI/INFORM Complete (ProQuest)
Access to full text articles from over 1000 worldwide business publications on advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, taxation, computers, and information on 60,000+ companies.
Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
This multi-disciplinary database provides access to full-text articles from popular magazines and scholarly journals (including peer-reviewed) journals. Includes topics in social sciences, humanities, science, education, and most areas of academic study.
Business Source Complete (EBSCO)
Includes scholarly business articles in virtually every business discipline e.g. accounting, finance, management, marketing, MIS, and beyond. Also trade news and industry research reports, country reports, and company SWOT analyses are available.
California Newspapers (NewsBank)
Contains links to full text articles in 100+ California newspapers from both large cities (LA, SF, SD, Sacramento etc.) and smaller towns (Eureka, Ft. Bragg, Los Banos, etc.) throughout the state. Each paper provides unique coverage of local and regional news, including companies, politics, sports, industries, cultural activities, and people in the community. Paid ads are excluded
CQ Researcher (CQ Press)
CQ Researcher, providing balanced research about current controversial issues of public interest, with full text articles from November 1991 to the present
EconLit (EBSCO)
EconLit is the world's foremost source of references to economic literature and indexes and abstracts more than 450 international economic journals and other resources in economics and related areas.
JSTOR (All Subjects)
JSTOR is an independent not-for-profit organization which provides an electronic archive to specific scholarly journals. There is typically a gap from 1 to 5 years between the issues being published and the content becoming available in JSTOR. Artstor images also included.
Project Muse
Project Muse offers some 600 journal titles from 260 scholarly publishers including from the Johns Hopkins University Presss which began this project in 1995. The journals included in this database are in the areas of the humanities, social sciences and the arts.
ProQuest Recent Newspapers: Major U.S. Dailies
Provides cover to cover images of the daily Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post newspapers.
Coverage: 2008 - three weeks ago
SAGE Journals Online
Full text to journals in public administration, urban planning, business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology and medicine
Social Sciences Full Text (EBSCO)
Social Sciences Full Text™ provides access to a wide assortment of the most important English-language social science journals.
State Statistics
Formerly RAND State Statistics, this is a subscription-based service related to California economic and public policy issues. Contains time series data for nearly 200 social, business, economic, health, education, environmental and government measures for all 50 states and an additional 80 measures specific to California. Data may be available annually, quarterly or monthly for the US, individual states, counties, cities and zip codes.
WestlawNext Campus Research
Legal research database that contains case law, state and federal statutes, administrative codes, public records, law journals, law reviews, treatises, and legal forms. Also includes newspaper and magazine articles as well as businesses search.
Wiley Online Library (Wiley)
Wiley Online Library is the online journals service from John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Subjects covered are business, computer science, education, engineering, law, life and physical sciences, math, and psychology. Sacramento State users have full-text access 30 titles and open access content only.

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