Public Policy is an interdisciplinary field, it might help to consult research guides and subject specific databases related to the area you are researching. Click on the second tab labeled "Subject Specific Databases" to see a small sampling of potential databases that you can use to expand your search.
While you connect automatically to our subscribed databases on campus, off campus access requires you to verify your affiliation with UD. Before entering a database, a log-in screen will appear requesting you to log in using your UD ID and password. For more information about off campus access, click here. Still experiencing issues? Get in touch with Ask the Library!
Google Scholar is a great resource if you are looking to find broad articles across the field. While on campus, Google Scholar will recognize and automatically tell you if UD has access to the article, then link to the article directly.
Keep in mind, for a more accurate search, conduct your research through the Library's website.
Key areas include: diplomacy and international relations, energy, environment and development, international economics, trade and business, international and national politics, international security and law, and global health security.
CIAO is divided into the following categories: working papers, conference proceedings, journals (i.e., abstracts of journal articles), books, policy briefs, economic indicators, links and resources, schedule of events, and maps and country data.
Contains thousdand of law-related journals on a variety of subjects, all dating back to inception with over 90% available through the current issue or volume. Subject related collections are often curated and made available.
Vendor Lyrasis. Publisher LexisNexis.
Country studies, forecasting publications, periodicals, socio-economic reports as well as podcasts from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Topics covered include agriculture, developing economies, education, employment, energy, the environment, migration, social issues, and sustainable development.
Includes:
This collection of databases is but a small sample of what UD subscribes to. For a full list of what we have, go to our "Databases" page and search for "Government, Law, & Politics" from the "Browse by Subject" list.
Disaster Studies:
Environmental:
Education:
Engineering:
Public Health:
Leadership:
Journals give you the ability to search for articles on a specific topic or event. It can be an easier way to find relevant information because you are usually not sifting through a large pool of results. If you visit the E-Journals page, you can bring up a list of all the journals with subject content in Law, Politics, & Government. You can also search for a specific journal title from the E-Journals page or in DELCAT.
You can search for individual newspaper titles via the E-Journals page found under the Research tab. This can be an easier way for you to find where specific titles "live."
The database also contains Ethnic NewsWatch: A History, which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals.
Ethnic NewsWatch™ comprehensively covers these ethnic categories:
New Subscribers: (have never had a personal or UDel account)
To create your new, free account, use this link: www.nytimes.com/activate-access/edu-access.
Existing New York Times Online Subscribers
Note: If you have an existing, paid NYT subscription, you must cancel it before you can activate the free UD Library provided subscription. You may cancel by emailing customercare@nytimes.com, connecting with a chat agent on the site, or calling 800-591-9233.
After cancelling your existing account:
Tips and Troubleshooting:
Full-text journals available for searching from commencement year to present:
Registration Instructions
*If you already have a personal membership to the WSJ, call 1-800-JOURNAL and to inform the WSJ that you are switching to the membership provided by the University of Delaware.*
Select earlier content is accessible, particularly investigative journalism content related to U.S. President Richard Nixon and Watergate dating back to 1968. Search features do not enable limiting to specific date ranges, so the extent of this content is unknown.
Washington Post articles and indexing are also available from:
Daily updates were discontinued after December 31, 2013, but researchers can still access the Archive, which contains over 1 million foreign newspaper articles, broadcast transcripts and datelines from Beijing, Beirut, Bogota, Cairo, Jakarta, Iraq, Mogadishu, Qatar, Ramallah, Sarajevo, Vienna, and hundreds of other locations around the world.
Finding articles within databases and journals is not the same process you would use to conduct a search in Google or an internet search engine. You cannot type in a question, but rather need to choose specific keywords and phrases to find results. These tips are similar to how you would search for material in DELCAT Discovery.
Helpful Ways to Search:
Use the Advanced Search option in databases and journals to narrow down by date, region, type of document, and more!