LibGuides: Public Policy: Getting Started

New Databases

Border and Migration Studies Online
A collection that explores and provides historical background on more than thirty key worldwide border areas, including: U.S. and Mexico; the European Union; Afghanistan; Israel; Turkey; The Congo; Argentina; China; Thailand; and others.
Environmental Issues Online
Includes multimedia materials (text, archival, primary sources, video and audio) around key environmental challenges, including climate change, water/air pollution, biodiversity, conservation, agriculture, deforestation and more from the 20th and 21st centuries,
Global Issues Library
Primary sources, books, and more on a variety key issues including border and migration studies, human rights studies, security issues, environmental issues, and revolution and protest.
Human Rights Studies Online
Provides comparative documentation, analysis, and interpretation of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide from 1900 to 2010.
Mass Incarceration and Prison Studies
Provides a rare breadth of study on both crucial global trends in mass incarceration, and the detailed prison infrastructure of specific countries.
Security Issues Online
It is a subset of the Global Issues Library. It reflects the key world security issues. Through historical and contemporary events found in this database, you can learn about the issues that have transformed the human experience globally.

General Social Survey (GSS)
"For more than four decades, the General Social Survey (GSS) has studied the growing complexity of American society. It is the only full-probability, personal-interview survey designed to monitor changes in both social characteristics and attitudes currently being conducted in the United States."
Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC)
"The Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank. We are dedicated to informing and improving public policy in California through independent, objective, nonpartisan research."
Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (FEVS)
"The Office of Personnel Management Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey (OPM FEVS) measures employees' perceptions of whether, and to what extent, conditions characteristic of successful organizations are present in their agencies."
Pew Research Center
The Pew Research Center conducts public opinion polling, demographic research, content analysis and other data-driven social science research.
PolicyMap LibGuide
Find and create map-based data on a wide variety of topics from demographics to income to housing to education and more.