News Sources
-
New York Times This link opens in a new windowFull access to The New York Times and International New York Times content. Access also includes unlimited access to the Archives and learning tools such as the Learning Network and the New York Times inEducation website.
Note: First time users will need to create a one year renewable account using these instructions -
Wall Street Journal This link opens in a new windowAn online version of the Wall Street Journal
Note: First time users will need to create a personal account using these instructions. -
Washington Post This link opens in a new windowFull access to The Washington Post online coverage, including unlimited access to interactives and videos. Access is available in the Library Catalog but you can also sign up for an individual account for more streamlined and personalized access. Note: To create an individual account use these instructions.
-
The Economist This link opens in a new windowFull access to The Economist. First-time users must create an individual account using these instructions.
-
Access World News This link opens in a new windowFull text collection of international and local news sources.
-
Alternative Press Index & Archive This link opens in a new windowBibliographic database for international alternative, radical, and left periodicals covering socialism, revolution, ecology, anarchism, feminism, sexuality, and organized labor.
-
Ethnic NewsWatch This link opens in a new windowFull text for ethnic, minority, and international newspapers and magazines.
-
Factiva This link opens in a new windowBusiness resources including full text periodicals, news photographs, company reports, and financial data.
-
ProPublicaProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
Policy Resources
-
Opposing Viewpoints In Context This link opens in a new windowSecondary and primary sources concerning current social issues, such as gun control, genetic engineering, censorship, the environment, and terrorism, containing everything from biographies to court cases and magazine articles.
-
Policy Commons This link opens in a new windowA one-stop community platform for objective, fact-based research from the world’s leading policy experts, nonpartisan think tanks, IGOs and NGOs.
-
HeinOnline Academic This link opens in a new windowFully searchable, image-based government document and legal research database containing U.S. statutory materials, scholarly journals, all of the world's constitutions, U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, and the full text of state and federal cases.
-
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowContains several full-text databases: current news, laws and legislation, business and company information, country and state profiles, tax information, biographies, and more.
-
CQ Press Congress Collection This link opens in a new windowNon-biased analysis of votes and other data relating to the U.S. Congress and its legislation.
-
CQ Press Electronic Library This link opens in a new windowReference works and historical documents on issues in U.S. politics, health care, education, economics, bioethics, environment and society.
Public Opinion Polls
-
Pew Research CenterPew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that informs the public about the issues, attitudes and trends shaping the world. We conduct public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.
-
Gallup PollsPublic opinion polls on a variety of issues in the United States.
Watchdog Groups
-
U.S. Government Accountability Office (GOA)GAO provides Congress, the heads of executive agencies, and the public with timely, fact-based, non-partisan information that can be used to improve government and save taxpayers billions of dollars.
-
Follow the MoneyThe National Institute on Money in State Politics provides this "free, nonpartisan, verifiable archive of contributions to political campaigns in all 50 states", with an extensive range of searchable data and reports.
-
OpenSecretsNonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, OpenSecrets is the nation's premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy.
-
Vote SmartReports independent, factual information on over 13,000 candidates and elected officials.
-
MapLight.orgMapLight.org, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization, provides transparency tools to shine a light on the influence of money on politics.
-
Project on Government Oversight (POGO)POGO is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that champions good government reforms. POGO’s investigations into corruption, misconduct, and conflicts of interest achieve a more effective, accountable, open, and ethical federal government.
-
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP)The Center conducts research and analysis to help shape public debates over proposed budget and tax policies and to help ensure that policymakers consider the needs of low-income families and individuals.