News Sources
 Academic Search Complete  Indexes several thousand magazines and scholarly journals, many full text.- Lexis Nexis Academic Full text for thousands of newspapers in the U.S. and around the world.
- Access World News (NewsBank) Full text access to 269 newspapers, including 47 California titles.
- NewsLink - links to free sites of newspapers
About the News
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News sources also cover the covering of the news; the above all have articles about news, news sources, and political reporting. Search the name of the news source by subject (ie, go to Academic Search Complete, search a news source (Fox News,New York Times,etc...)and search by SUBJECT TERMS.
Academic/Scholarly Sources
Indexes research publications related to political science and society.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts . Official "subjects" used to describe articles in the database include elections, political campaigns, election campaigns, persuasion, propaganda, publicity, rhetoric, claims making, debate, content analysis, discourse analysis, etc...
- EconLit .
- America:
History and Life Indexes research in US history and culture.
- PAIS
International Public affairs, international.
- CIAO
Book Reviews
- Academic Search Complete Maybe the most comprehensive source for book reviews. See also the newspaper index and academic/scholarly indexes above.
- Book Review Digest . Indexes book reviews; not necessarily comprehensive.
- Lexis Nexis Academic Full text for thousands of newspapers in the U.S. and around the world.
- Access World News (NewsBank) Full text access to 269 newspapers, including 47 California titles.
Primary Sources
- USA.gov Official portal to U.S. federal government. Guide to all things government, including agencies such as Social Security Administration, Congressional Budget Office, the White House, and Budget of the United States Government.
- THOMAS official records of Congress. Includes all bills and bill status, laws, references to committee work, and transcripts of the floors of Congress.
- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Official records of the President. Speeches, interviews, laws signed (with remarks if made), executive orders, etc.
- Federal Election Commission FEC administers campaign laws. Disclosure of campaign funding. See also OpenSecrets.org, a popular interface to FEC data.
- STAT-USA The State of the Nation section includes latest economic data.
- U.S. Census Bureau
- U.S. Code - U.S. statuatory law currently in force. For instance, see the law on federal campaign finance disclosure (amended by Public Law 107-155), and 527s.
Organizations and Business
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OpenSecrets.org - OpenSecrets compiles data about political giving by various types of organizations, including '527s', a category of advocacy non-profits defined by tax law, and federal PACs, Political Action Committees, who operate under the regulation of the FEC.
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LexisNexis Academic US Public Companies
Covers approximately 10,000+ U.S. companies.
From the BUSINESS tab, select COMPANY PROFILES, then search in "US Public Companies" for access to reports from Disclosure
Reports, Hoover's, Standard and Poor's, and several other major business directories.
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LexisNexis Academic US Private Companies
From the BUSINESS tab, select COMPANY PROFILES, then search in "US Private Companies" the US Business Directory, featuring
information by 6 digit SIC, name, or location. Note that the Santa Barbara Public Library subscribes to more robust version of the US Business Directory (one that includes a handy parents/affiliates feature), but you need a library card to use it.
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Dun & Bradstreet's Million Dollar Database
Covers 1.6 million public and private companies in the U.S. and Canada. More companies, less detail than Disclosure. Access is only to North American section of the database. Company information includes industry information with up to 24 individual 8-digit SICs, size criteria (employees and annual sales), type of ownership, principal executives and biographies. Please note that we only purchased access for one (1) user at a time. So, if you can't log it, please try again later, and when you finish searching, please log off. The corresponding print resource, the D & B Million Dollar Directory is available at Ref HC 102 .M54.
- Associations Unlimited
Comprehensive directory of organizations around the world, leads to websites of various organizations, including political organizations.
Analysis
- Congressional Research Service Reports -via Memory Hole. CRS Reports are good, non-partisan summaries of an issue, prepared for members of Congress. But they are difficult to find.
- CQ Electronic Library CQ (Congressional Quarterly) publishes the CQ Researcher (analysis of issues from all sides) and CQ Weekly (non-partisan Congressional roundup).
Voting Statistics and Polls, Current and Historical
- Polling the Nations
- America Votes [biannual] 1956- . JK 1967 A8 Main Reference
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Election Data Book: a statistical portrait of voting in America. Main Ref JK1967 .E43
- Electoral College Box Scores and electoral Votes by State , 1789-
Official Political Sites
- John McCain's Campaign
Website
- Barack Obama's
Campaign Website
- Ralph Nader's Campaign
Website
- Bob Barr's Campaign
Website
Interesting Partisan Sites
- Media Transparency:
The Money Behind the Media
- Federation of
American Scientists
- The Heritage Foundation
(Top Conservative Think Tank)
- Democratic Leadership Council
(Top Democratic Think Tank)
- Fairness and Accuracy in
Reporting (Left-leaning Media Watchdog)
- Media Matters for America
(David Brock's Media Watchdog)
- Media Research
Center (Conservative Media Watchdog)
- Accuracy in Media
(Conservative Media Watch Dog)
- Political
Humor.Com
Useful Links
- PollingReport.Com
- FactCheck.Org
- List of Links
titled "Places Journalists Should Go for Politics
- Living
Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2004
- MSNBC First
Read: Compilation of Daily Political News
- Washington
Post Politics Page (News and Links)
- Comprehensive
List of Links to Government and Political Sites Compiled by the New York Times
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