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Search Geisler Library's catalog to find the books, journals, audiovisuals and other materials owned by the library. Search by keyword, subject, title or author for materials on your topic. To find journal articles, use one of the indexes listed below.
- Encyclopedia of Conflicts Since WWII R 909.82 En 2 c
- Encyclopedia of Government and Politics R 320.03 En2 g 2nd ed.
- Encyclopedia of the United Nations and International Agreements R341.23 Os 5 e
- Encyclopedia of U. S. Foreign Relations R 327.73 En 2 u
- Europa World Year Book R 909.09 Eu 7 y (1976- present)
- Information Sources of Political Science R 320 Ho 5 i 5th ed (2005)
- World Encyclopedia of Parliaments and Legislatures R 328.03 Wo 7 e
- World Encyclopedia of Political Systems and Parties R 324.202 Wo 7 e
International Politics
- Canadian Institute of International Affairs: Canadian forum for discussion, analysis, and debate of international affairs.
- Constitutions, Treaties, and Official Declarations: Links to websites from around the world.
- International Affairs Virtual Library: Links to information on demography, population, European integration, Francophonie, international affairs, migration, ethnic relations, and much more.
- EUROPA: Portal site of the European Union, providing up-to-date coverage of European Union affairs and essential information on European integration, legislation, policies, statistics, and more.
- G8 Information Centre: Information regarding the annual meeting of the world's major industrial nations.
- INCORE Internet Country Guides: Provides information about Internet resources on conflict and ethnicity specific to particular countries and regions.
- Marxists' Internet Archive: Search for information on Marxism.
- REESWeb: Search for information on Russian and East European Studies, searching by culture, time period, subject, and/or geographical region.
- United Nations Scholars' Workstation: Search the collection of texts, finding aids, data sets, maps, and pointers to print and electronic information on a variety of topics, including disarmament, economic and social development, environment, human rights, international relations, international trade, peacekeeping, and population and demography.
- National Parliaments: Access the websites of the world's parliaments.
- World Bank Data by Country: The most widely-used, official-source development data from the World Bank and other international agencies.
United States Politics / Government
- ACCESS Federal Government information
- Almanac of American Politics
- American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
- American Political Thought on the Web
- Avalon Project at Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
- Center for American Women and Politics
- CNN/Time ALL POLITICS
- C-SPAN
- FirstGov: the U.S. government portal
- Internet Law Library (formerly U.S. House of Representatives Law Library)
- National Election Studies
- Miller Center of Public Affairs: Scripps Library and Multimedia Archive -- American politics and history with focus on the American Presidency, including recordings, speeches, documents, oral histories
- Presidential Timeline of the Twentieth Century
- RollCall: Congressional news and information
- THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
Political Parties / Elections / Candidates / Campaigns / Issues
Law
- Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe: click on "legal research" in left column
- Famous trials
- FedLaw: Federal law and legislation, case law, federal courts, other federal legal information
- Findlaw: legislation, case law, other info on the law and legal practice
- FirstGov legal section
- Supreme Court cases (MP3 files)
Organizations
Iowa
- SETA (from the Iowa State University Department of Sociology)
- State Data Center of Iowa (State Library of Iowa)
United States Government
- Budget of the United States Government
- Bureau of Economic Analysis
-- Survey of Current Business
-- National Accounts Articles- Bureau of Labor Statistics -- employment and unemployment, income, spending, industries, etc.
- Bureau of Justice Statistics
-- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
-- Morbidity & Mortality Weekly Report
-- National Center for Health Statistics
-- Vital Statistics- FedStats: the gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies
- Health Track: The Environment and Chronic Diseases
- Mental Health, United States from DHHS Center for Mental Health Services
- National Center for Education Statistics
- OFFSTATS
- SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission)
- Social Statistics Briefing Room
- Statistical Abstract of the United States
- Statistical Resources on the Web
- Uniform Crime Reports
International
- Information Please Almanac International Data Collection
- ICPSR Data Archive
- Intergovernmental Organizations Data
- Non-Governmental Organizations Research Guide
- Social Science Data on the Internet
- State of Food and Agriculture: Click on
"Publications" under "Advanced" and do a title search.- World Health Statistics (from World Health Organization
- EBSCOhost databases including Academic Search Premier
- Lexis Nexis: provides access to national & international news, legal, business, medical, & reference information. Many items are in full text online. (Guide to using Academic Universe and Source List for Academic Universe)
- ACCESS GPO Federal Government information
- America History and Life
- Annual Review of Political Science -- also indexed in Academic Search Premier, 1998- (one year embargo)
-- no full text available- FirstSearch
- GPO (U.S. government publications)
- Ingenta: indexes nearly 30,000 periodicals, reports, book chapters, more.
- Newsbank U.S. regional and national newspapers including the Des Moines Register (2002- )
- PAIS Public Affairs Information
- Population Index: the primary reference to the world's population literature, including books, journals and other sources. Includes demographics and related subjects such as health, human biology, human migration, sociological aspects of population, 1986-
- More electronic and print periodical indexes are available via Geisler Library.
Created by L. Smith. Revised 30 Oct 2007. sls