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Public Policy & Administration

Finding Articles

2023 Top 20 Journals in Public Administration: This list was created by the Journal Citation Reports Public Administration subject heading found on Clarivate's Web of Science. There is not a subject heading for Public Policy, but you can build a list yourself. For the full list or to create your own, directions can be found below.

Below you will find a few other journals that cover the large interdisciplinary area of the Biden School. If you visit the E-Journals page (under the search bar on the Library homepage), you can bring up a list of journals with subject content of "Law, Politics, & Government." You can also search for a specific journal title from the E-Journals page.

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:

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." 

Tips & Tricks for Searching for Articles

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 quotations around a phrase to "tell" the database or journal that you want these words to remain together.
    • Ex: "Public Health" 
  • Think of synonyms to your keywords!
  • Use AND/OR to connect words, concepts, and phrases together to receive specified results.
    • Ex: Racial Inequality AND Public Health

Use the Advanced Search option in databases and journals to narrow down by date, region, type of document, and more!