Gender and Politics

News Coverage

• Lexis/Nexis Academic
  Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information. Covers many news sources for 20 years. Court cases and statutes from all federal and state jurisdictions are included. Most resources can be searched in full text.
• America's Newspapers
  Complete full-text content of many local newspapers as well as a selection of key national newspapers. This includes a wide range of local and regional newspapers, including the Centre Daily Times. Use this database to locate newspaper articles related to community events, schools, politics, government policies, cultural activities, local companies, state industries, and people in the community. Paid advertisements are excluded.
• ProQuest National Newspapers
  Indexes articles and provides the full text of more than twenty-five national, regional, financial, and ethnic newspapers. Includes the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times.
  Coverage: 1989 to the present. Full text for most newspapers begins with 1997.

Election year background and issues

• National Journal
  Full text of key magazines, newsletters, books, and directories from the National Journal Group. Focused on government, politics, and public policy. Includes general public policy as well as focused publications on health policy and technology policy.
  Publications include:
  • The National Journal — weekly journal on politics and government
  • Congress Daily — twice daily covering Congressional activity
  • Campaign information with links to candidate Web sites and the Democratic and Republican National Campaign Committee Web sites
  • Poll Track — polls related to government, politics, and public policy
  • Political Ads — watch the candidates in key ads
• CQ Weekly
  A weekly news magazine reporting on the activities in the U.S. Congress including the status of bills, committee and floor activity, debates, roll-call votes, and congressional-executive branch relations
• Washington Post Elections Page
  information on key races, regularly updated
• Project Vote Smart
  lots of information on candidates including biographies, interest group ratings, issue positions, campaign finance information, etc.

Tracking Legislation

• Lexis/Nexis Congressional
  LexisNexis Congressional provides access to the best web resources for congressional and legislative information. This includes services available only to users with a Penn State Access Account, such as Congressional publications (1789 to the present) as well as other free services that provide similar or related information such as Thomas (1993 to the present) and GPO Access (1993 to the present).
• CQ Electronic Library
  A reference source for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. The suite includes the online version of CQ Weekly, CQ Researcher, CQ Congress Collection, and CQ Voting and Elections Collection.

Women's Organizations

• Associations Unlimited
  information and locations on nearly 144,000 nonprofit membership organizations worldwide: International and U.S. National, Regional, State, and Local. It covers everything from local Chambers of Commerce to the American Medical Association, and beyond.
• Contemporary Women's Issues
  This database provides access to full-text sources covering global information on women. The sources include periodicals, newsletters, reports, fact sheets, and pamphlets. Topics covered range from human rights to health and reproductive issues to legal information.
• PolicyFile
  PolicyFile draws its content from public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations, and publishers. Use this database to see what type of material your organization produces.