Comprehensive, timely collections of critical reviews written by leading scientists. Annual Reviews volumes are published each year for 30 focused disciplines within the Biomedical, Physical, and Social Sciences.
BJS collects, analyzes, publishes, and disseminates information
on crime, criminal offenders, victims of crime, and the operation
of justice systems at all levels of government.
The BLS is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal
Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.
Content Includes Consumer Price Index, Producer Price Index,
Monthly Labor Review, and Compensation & Working Conditions.
The Digital National Security Archive is the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945. DNSA currently contains twenty-nine collections. Each collection contains a diverse range of policy documents including presidential directives, memos, diplomatic dispatches, meeting notes, independent reports, briefing papers, White House communications, email, confidential letters and other secret material. Contextual and reference supplements are provided for each collection, including general introductory material, a chronology, glossary and bibliography. Content is carefully selected by top scholars in the field.
The United States Government's official web portal for providing
public access to useful government information for its citizens.
Locate data and statistics, federal forms and applications,
laws and regulations, historical documents and publications,
and much more!
Official Internet site for many United States Government
publications including: the Budget of the United States Government,
Economic Indicators, and the Economic Report of the President
Transmitted to the Congress.
NationMaster compiles data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, United Nations, World Health Organization, World Bank, World Resources Institute, UNESCO, UNICEF and OECD. Generate maps and graphs comparing countries on a variety of subjects.
Political and Economic risk analysis for 106 countries.
Each Country Report includes political and business information
on developing markets, currency movements, and capital investments.
Full-text and statistical business, economic and trade information from over 50 federal agencies; produced by the Economics and Statistics Administration of the Department of Commerce.
StateMaster is a statistical database which allows research and comparison of a multitude of different data on US states. Information is compiled from various primary sources such as the US Census Bureau, the FBI, and the National Center for Educational Statistics. Generate maps and graphs and other images.
More than 350 newspapers, both domestic and international,
many with same day publication coverage. On the "Guided
News Search" screen, select a "News Category" from
the drop-down list (ex. US News') as well as a "News
Source" from the drop-down list (ex. 'Northeast
Regional Sources' or 'Pennsylvania News Sources'). Finally, "Select
a Date" --the default is usually 6 months.
Cover-to-cover full text for 23 national (US) and international
newspapers, and selected full-text articles from more than
180 regional (US) newspapers.
Links to volumes for 2001-present
of Current Digest of the Post-Soviet Press are available
on the Web. To access volumes for 1982-2001
on CD-ROM, please come to the Library and request the CD-ROM at the Service Desk.
Illustrated collection of more than 50,000 specially
written biographies of the men and women who shaped all
aspects of Britain's past, from the
fourth century BC to the year 2001.
A collection of 275 reference books including
dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedias, books of quotations,
as well as subject-specific titles in the Geograpy collection,
the Law
collection and the Politics
collection.
Christopher O. Dixon
Government Information Services / Reference Librarian
Saint Joseph's University
