LibGuides: COM322 Public Policy Advocacy (Bruner): Library Guides

Current Daily & Weekly Newspapers: Las Vegas

You can easily find official statistics by adding .gov to your search. Let's say I wanted to investigate crimes in Las Vegas:

Data Planet This link opens in a new window
Data Planet has changed names. Please see Sage Data.

PAIS International This link opens in a new window
1972-
Index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general.
From the Public Affairs Information Service, this database provides access to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. It includes records from journals, books, conference proceedings, research and government reports, and directories.
Gale OneFile: Environmental Studies and Policy This link opens in a new window
Investigate environmental issues with diverse perspectives from the scientific community, policymakers, and corporate interests.
Policy Commons: North American City Reports This link opens in a new window
Provides the full text of surveys, budgets, statistical records, case studies, planning documents, training manuals, policy guidelines, reports, and news from the five hundred largest cities in North America, including select materials from hundreds of related agencies and non-governmental organizations.
With more than 200,000 documents, it provides a new and typically unmined source for observing policy in action.

An easy way to find government information (federal, state, and local) is to go to Google and limit your search to only government sources.

For example, let's say you want to focus on global warming--Type in "global warming" site:.gov to limit only to government resources.

You can also specify finding statistics on Google and limiting it to .gov sources.

For example, if you want to find out about recycling statistics, type in "recycling statistics" site:.gov

UNLV Government Information Resource Guide
NELIS (Nevada Electronic Legislative Information System)
Information about the current session as well as past sessions, search for your representatives, and more.
Nevada Legislature
UNLV Libraries Government Information Portal
Information on how to find publications that are produced by government agencies covering a wide variety of topics
Congress.gov
The CONGRESS.GOV website, from the Library of Congress, provides a wealth of legislative history information from current and past years. The site provides the full text of public laws, legislative bills (as well as summaries and status information for these bills), legislative debates, and committee reports. For the debates and reports, links are provided to a PDF version of these documents.
The Supreme Court Database
This database includes information about Supreme Court decisions from 1946 to the present.
General Accounting Office (GAO)
Site provides both summaries and full text files of reports and testimony dating back to fiscal year 1979. GAO posts full-text files on its website daily, often within 24 hours of when a report or testimony is publicly released.

Congressional Publications (ProQuest Congressional) This link opens in a new window
1789-
U.S. legislative information, including access to many full-text Congressional publications, bills, laws, regulations, committee information, and more. Includes the U.S. Serial Set.
Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information, including access to many full-text Congressional publications, bills, laws, regulations, committee information, and more. Additionally, searchers can retrieve CIS Legislative Histories for public laws. Contains an index of congressional publications from 1789 to the present and locate information about members and committees. Statutes at Large and Congressional Indexes from 1789-1969 are included.

Guides & Handouts for ProQuest Congressional & Executive Branch Documents
Use this guide for information on how to search in the Congressional interface, and for links to information on the digital collections.
Video: Short ProQuest Congressional Tutorial

CQ Magazine This link opens in a new window
1983-
Comprehensive roundup of virtually all Capitol Hill activity from the previous week.
Excellent source of current information on hot legislative topics in the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate.
CQ Press Library This link opens in a new window
Resources on public policy and American government, including deep dives into hot topics for policymakers in CQ Researcher Plus Archive and brief legislative analysis in the CQ Magazine (formerly CQ Weekly).
Legislative Insight This link opens in a new window
Legislative Insight includes all congressional publications that pertain to an enacted law, 1929 to current and includes all bills, reports, hearings documents and signing statements.

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