St Mary's High School (CAPP)
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St Mary's/Fall 2023
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CQ Researcher explores important issues ranging from social and teen issues to environment, health, education and science and technology.
Gale Virtual Reference Library
Gale's Virtual Reference Library is a collection of electronic reference books in the areas of history, arts, medicine, and science.
Congressional Research Service Reports (CRS)
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) serves as shared staff to congressional committees and Members of Congress. CRS experts assist at every stage of the legislative process — from the early considerations that precede bill drafting, through committee hearings and floor debate, to the oversight of enacted laws and various agency activities.
CRS approaches complex topics from a variety of perspectives and examines all sides of an issue. Staff members analyze current policies and present the impact of proposed policy alternatives.
CRS services come in many forms including reports on major policy issues
The UWO Libraries provide access to a number of specialized article databases focusing on scholarly peer-reviewed articles around a specific discipline. The resources listed below use the EBSCO interface. For more information on using the EBSCO interface see Finding Full Text Articles in EBSCO (Google Drive
Business Source Premier (Cigarettes/Ban, Concealed Carry use Concealed Weapons, energy crisis, EV Infrastructure, Health Care, Metric System, Minimums Wage, Nuclear reprocessing, Pay Parity -Wage gap or equal pay, Tech industry, Data Mining, Right To Repair, Veteran Services use instead Veteran Benefits, Willow Project do instead (oil well drilling or Petroleum) and Alaska
Business Source Premier provides full text for more than 2,300 journals, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed titles.
Computers and Applied Sciences Complete (Tech Industry, Data mining, Right To Repair, Broken Access Control)
Covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines.
Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text ( Police Funding, Prison Reform)
Contains more than 400,000 records selected from the most important sources within the discipline
Environment Complete ( Clean Water, Dam Removal, energy Crisis EV Infrastructure, National Parts Willow Project do instead (oil well drilling or Petroleum) and Alaska
Environment Complete contains more than 2.4 million records from more than 2,200 domestic and international titles going back to 1888 including full text from over 900 journals.
ERIC (School Lunches)
ERIC, the Education Resource Information Center, provides access to more than 1.3 million records related to education literature and resources.
Medline with Full Text (Cigarettes/Ban, Euthanasia, Universal Health Care))
Medline with Full Text offers indexing for over 4,800 biomedical journals, with full text for over 1,500 journals.
Political Science Complete (Term Limits Rank Voting use also PREFERENTIAL ballot, House Seats)
Provides indexing and abstracting for 800 journals, with full-text coverage for 350 of those journals.
PsycINFO (Mental Health/Athletes, Mental health Policies)
Provides citations and summaries of journal articles, book chapters, books, and technical reports in the field of psychology and related disciplines.
SocINDEX with Full Text ( Anti-homeless Architecture do a search for (Hostile or defensive or anti-homeless) and architecture, Concealed Carry use Concealed Weapons, Police Funding, Gun Control or Gun Laws, Health Care, Mental health Policies, Minimums Wage, Pay Parity -Wage gap or equal pay, Euthanasia, Term Limits, Prison Reform, Rank Voting use also PREFERENTIAL ballot, School Lunches, Senior Care, Universal Health Care, Veteran Services use Veteran Benefits )
Contains over 2 million records from 1,200 core journals including full text from 700 journals.
SPORTDiscus ( College Athletes Pay, Mental Health/Athletes)
Provides full text for 400 journals and 700,000 full-text articles dating back to 1985.
Academic Search Complete (paparazzi laws, Community Service )
Academic Search Complete contains full text, indexing and abstracts, monographs and reports from more than 13,000 publications.
Materials such as eBooks are available on the topics below using the Search@UW search box. For more information on using this resource see the video tutorial Finding Ebooks (YouTube).
- Nuclear Energy
- Flat Tax
- Gun Control
- Mental Health
- Minimum age
- Health Care
- Term Limits
- Equal Pay
- Prison Reform
- Universal Health Care
- Veteran Benefits
Government materials can be a great resource for topics related to government or public policy. Below is a list of resources related to a number of your topics. For more information on how to locate government materials using a Google search see the video tutorial Finding Government Information ( Google Drive)
- Nuclear Regulatory Commission-Governing Legislation
- State and Local Government Expenditures on Police Protection in the U.S., 2000-2017 (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
- Minimum Wage( Department of Labor)
- Office of Nuclear Energy (Dept of Energy)
- Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (Dept of Energy)
- Term Limits for Members of Congress (Congressional Research Service)
- U.S. Gun Policy: Framework and Major Issues
- Universal Health Care
- Mandatory Minimums Sentencing (United States Sentencing Commission)
- National School Lunch Program (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture)
- Preventing Web Applications Access Control Abuse (Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency)
- Is There a Right To Repair ( House Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet Hearing)
- The Willow Project: History and Litigation (Congressional Research Service)
- 2023 Record of Decision - Willow Master Development Plan (Bureau of Land Management)
- Veteran Services (Dept of Veteran Affairs)
- Highlights of Women's Earning in 2021 (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
- Statistical Abstract of the United States
- The authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
Accessing Government Documents Online
A large amount of information is produced and disseminated by government Institutions at the international, national, state and local levels and are often accessible from the agency’s website
These materials including statistics, guidelines and reports can be located using a Google search.
- To limit to federal, state, and local government documents include site:.gov in your search
Government Information Examples
Federal –Federal Railroad Administration-High Speed Rail Overview
State-California High Speed Rail Authority
Local-City of Minneapolis Bicycle Master Plan
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