Government, Law, Politics, & International Affairs
Specific Subjects
Article Databases
CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
http://0-www.ciaonet.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
Conference proceedings and working papers from participating institutes around the world. Includes the full text of books and book summaries, journal abstracts, links to websites and a calendar of conferences and seminars.
http://0-www.eenews.net.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
Provides comprehensive, daily coverage of environmental and energy politics and policy. Includes articles, webcast video, and transcripts, presented under the titles Environment and Energy Daily, Onpoint, Greenwire, E&ENews PM, E&ETV news, and Land Letter.
http://0-www.heinonline.org.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/HOL/Welcome
Dates vary
One of the premier sources for legal and political information. Full text law journals are a major part, but HeinOnline also includes deep historical collections of U.S. federal government documents. Titles digitized include the Congressional Record, the Federal Register, bills and public laws in the Statutes at Large, the United States Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, selected legislative histories, Supreme Court documents, Presidential documents, and more. Search the Sources of Compiled Legislative History database by Public Law or Bill number, from the 37th to the 107th Congress. The U.S. Federal Legislative History Title Collection has full text legislative histories on significant legislation in banking, civil rights, labor, digital rights, the USA PATRIOT act, and other selected laws.
HeinOnline U.S. Statutes at Large
http://www.heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome
Comprehensive full text coverage of the Statutes at Large from 1789-2005, including statutes by Popular Name, Indian Treaties by tribe name (Treaty with the Creeks and Seminoles), and Other Treaties by country name. If you have an exact citation, e.g. 5 Stat. 449, the Citation Navigator tool will find the electronic version (PDF) of the citation.
http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/aulimp/search.html
1990- .
A subject index to significant articles, news items, and editorials from English language military and aeronautical periodicals.
International Political Science Abstracts 
http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=ijh
1989- .
An abstract of periodical articles on political science, government, international relations, and area studies. Indexes more than 1,000 international journals. The printed version (1951-1997) is available
Jane's Defence Magazine Library
http://0-jdin.janes.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
1990s- (varies)
The database contains the fulltext of 11 Jane's magazines in the defense industry
http://0-vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/hww/jumpstart.jhtml?un=AXC30&pw=UNDC091445
1908- .
Citations to articles from over 700 legal publications, plus monographs published in 1993 or later. Periodical coverage begins in 1908.
http://0-find.galegroup.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/itx/start.do?prodId=LT&userGroupName=gtown_law
1980- .
Cumulative indexing of approximately 800 legal publications and law related articles from more than 1,000 additional business and general interest periodicals. Coverage begins in 1980. Includes some fulltext.
LexisNexis Environmental
http://0-nationaljournal.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
Current; some archives.
This group of databases provides very current news and analysis of politics, policy and government topics. The suite of titles consists of American Health Line, Congress Daily, Greenwire, The Hotline and Technology Daily. National Journal Group Inc.'s online sources provide briefings that are updated on a daily or weekly basis with a focus on news from Washington and Capitol Hill.
http://0-proquest.umi.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/login?COPT=U0ZEPTImU01EPTYmSU5UPTAmVkVSPTImREJTPTNBMjM@&clientId=5604
1984- .
Offers objective and authoritative analysis of international and country events in the areas of economics, politics, public policy and business. Updated weekly, but with 3 month embargo. Covers events back to 1984.
http://0-www.csa.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=hoya&access=hoya202&db=pais-set-c&db=paisarc-set-c&adv=1
A subject guide to journals, books, pamphlets, and government publications relating to economics, social conditions, and international relations since 1915.
http://0-www.policyfile.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/
1990- .
Indexes otherwise hard to obtain research and publications from public policy think tanks, university research programs, research organizations, and publishers. Each item includes an abstract and, where available, access to the full-text of the report and/or the homepages and electronic mail addresses of the authoring institution.
http://0-isiknowledge.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/wos
1980- .
Web of Science is part of the ISI Web of Knowledge, a multidisciplinary bibliographic database that indexes and abstracts journals in the arts, humanities, sciences and social sciences. It cumulates three databases: Arts and Humanities Citation Index, Science Citation Index Expanded and Social Sciences Citation Index. In addition to traditional author, title and keyword searches, the citation databases offer access to articles' cited references (the footnotes from authors' bibliographies). You may take a known, relevant paper and find other, more recent papers that cite it.
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
http://0-www.csa.com.library.lausys.georgetown.edu/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=hoya&access=hoya202&db=polsci-set-c&adv=1
1975- .
Indexes and abstracts articles from over 1,400 political science and international relations journals.
