Government & Foreign Affairs
| Government & Foreign Affairs Subject Librarian | ||
|---|---|---|
| Gary Treadway | Alderman Library | 924- |
Indexes and Abstracts
WebSPIRS
Allows you to search multiple databases simultaneously. Available from UVA libraries
and offices, and through the UVA modem pool.
UnCover
Indexes 17,000 journals and provides table of contents alert services and article
delivery to UVA faculty and graduate students who register with UnCover.
JSTOR
The full text of key journals in political science and other disciplines, from
the first volume up to the late 1980's or early 1990's. Includes the American
Journal of International Law, American Journal of Political Science, American
Political Science Review, Journal of Politics, Journal of Asian Studies, Australian
Journal of Chinese Affairs, etc.
GPO Monthly Catalog 1976+
Citations for US government documents in all subjects. Updated monthly.
InfoTrac
SearchBank [Web browsers only]
Provides indexing with abstracts for over 2700 journals and full text of articles
for over 1200 of those journals. Includes Books in Print.
New York
Times
Index to the Late City Edition with brief abstracts for most articles. Updated
daily.
PAIS
PAIS is an international database of journal articles, government publications,
books, and conference proceedings on political, economic, and social issues.
American Government
Government Information Resources
Home page of the Government Information Resources Department in Alderman Library.
Provides access to resources published by the U.S. government, the Commonwealth
of Virginia, the United Nations, the European Communities, and other international
governmental organizations. Includes the Geospatial and Statistical Data Center, as well as links to other relevant Web sites.
VIRGINIA Government
Information Resources
Provides an extensive gateway to information about Virginia state government and
politics, and to Alderman Library's Government Information Resources Department's
holdings on Virginia government. Commonwealth
of Virginia Homepage provides access to individual state agencies, and county
and city governments. Its search engineallows
you to easily search its contents.
Electronic Encyclopedia of American
Government
Provides articles on the American Presidency, Congress, Supreme Court, and elections.
You can search the entire database by keyword or you can browse each article.
Links to other sites about American government are also included.
Hotline
Daily analysis of the American political scene. UVA faculty, students and staff
only.
Congressional Research
Service (CRS) Reports
Contains several hundred CRS reports online, accessible by report name, number,
subject or keyword search. Congressional Research Service is a non-partisan research
and reference arm for Congress.
LEXIS/NEXIS Academic Universe
Up-to-the minute news from sources around the world; information on government
and politics, companies, industries; legal news, country profiles, biographical
and other reference sources; U.S Code, court cases, etc. Most entries are full-text,
some are updated daily.
Congressional Universe
Extensive information about the U.S. Congress. Search an index of Congressional
publications since 1970, retrieve CIS Legislative Histories for public laws since
1970, find testimony from Congressional hearings, track bills. You can also search
Congressional Record, the Federal Register and the National Journal. (VIVA users
only.)
THOMAS: Legislative Information on the
Internet
Provides schedule of House and Senate floor activities for the week, summaries
and full text of bills, the Congressional Record, and searchable text of committee
reports.
Politics on the Web: Project
Vote Smart
Fair as a general site, but very good for state government home pages. Also see
"Issue Information" for links relevant to public issues currently being
debated, such as abortion, affirmative action, term limits, etc.
Electronic Policy Network
A good site for public policy and public administration issues. Offers links to
public policy institutes and think tanks, and to sources on major policy issues,
such as welfare reform, health care, etc.
U.S. Supreme Court
Decisions, 1937-1975
Provides full text of U.S. Supreme Court decisions from 1937 to 1975. Decisions
may be accessed through a search interface that allows querying by keyword or
case name.
International Relations
WWW Virtual Library: International Affairs
Resources
Contains over 1000 annotated links arranged according to types of governmental
organizations, regions and countries, and special topics.
CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
An extensive source for research in international affairs. Includes working papers,
occasional papers, conference proceedings, tables of contents and abstracts for
selected journals, and full-text of selected books. UVA only.
Digital National Security Archive
Contains over 35,000 declassified documents used in foreign policy decision-making
by the U.S. government. These documents have been gathered since 1985 through
the use of the Freedom of Information Act by the National Security Archive, located
in Washington, D.C. at George Washington University. UVA only.
Foreign Affairs
Online
Offers brief annotations and recommendations on a wide variety of international
affairs resources. Includes official government sites, UN sites, NGO and IGO sites,
think tanks, human rights sources, news sites, and map sources.
World News
Connection
University of Virginia Only. Offers time-sensitive information gathered from thousands
of foreign media sources, including political speeches, television programs, radio
broadcasts, and articles from newspapers and periodicals.
PARLINE Database
Provides information about national legislatures, giving for each general information
about the various chambers, description of the country's electoral system, results
of the most recent elections, etc.
Political Theory
Political Theory Resources
A good general site for links to other political theory sites.
Philosophy on the Web:
Past Masters Full Text Database
View and search the full text of the works of philosophers and political theorists
such as Aristotle, Plato, Hume, Locke, Nietzsche, Machiavelli, Wittgenstein, and
others.
Newspaper and Electronic Journals
Newspapers and News Services
A selective list of on-line newspapers from Virginia, the United States, and abroad.
Government
and Foreign Affairs Electronic Journals
A list of electronic journals dealing with political science and international
relations to which the Library subscribes.
Government and Foreign
Affairs Department Home Page
Miller Center of Public Affairs
This page contains resources for those interested in Government studies at the University of Virginia. It is revised and updated regularly. Please feel free to make any suggestions that you feel will enhance the usefulness of this page.
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