POLI 102: Doing Research

Newspaper sources

Access World News This link opens in a new window
This news collection provides full text content for local, regional, national and international news sources. Include print and online-only newspapers, blogs, newswires, journals, and broadcast transcripts. Provides a map-based interface to search and sort. Coverage date vary, 1978 - Current.
Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
This database features more than 15,000 news, business and legal sources, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions dating back to 1790. Formerly LexisNexis Academic
News & Newspapers from ProQuest This link opens in a new window
This database provides current and historical newspapers from across UCSC's collection of Proquest databases, including Historical Newspapers, Black Newspapers, Ethnic NewsWatch, International Newsstream and others. Access to these databases is ongoing.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports This link opens in a new window
Access to all Daily Reports except Western Europe. Date range: 1941–1996
FBIS Daily Reports issued by the U.S. Government. Translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world . "The United States' principal record of political and historical open source intelligence"—Readex

Historical newspapers—international
Full-text historical archives of newspaper content across the world
Pravda (1912–present)
Pravda (or “Truth”) was the official voice of Soviet communism and the Central Committee of the Communist Party between 1918 and 1991, when Boris Yeltsin signed a decree closing Pravda down. Founded in 1912 in St. Petersburg, Russia, Pravda originated as an underground, daily workers’ newspaper, and soon became the main newspaper of the revolutionary wing of the Russian socialist movement.

Polls and Polling

Polling the Nations This link opens in a new window
(Note: online version of American Public Opinion Index). Compilation of 14,000+ surveys and polls conducted in the U.S. and 80+ other countries from 1986 to the present. Each record includes question, responses given, and sources.
Roper Center for Public Opinion Research This link opens in a new window
Public Opinion Research Archive. Includes iPOLL databank and Gallup public opinion surveys conducted in the U.S. since the 1930s. Topics include politics, science, religion, current events, etc.

US government documents

Congressional Publications This link opens in a new window
Contains bill tracking services, congressional publications, congressional committee reports and testimony, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, Congressional Record, National Journal.
HeinOnline Academic Core Plus This link opens in a new window
Database featuring government document and legal research. It contains comprehensive coverage from inception of both U.S. statutory materials, U.S. Congressional Documents and more than 2,500 scholarly journals, all of the world's constitutions, all U.S. treaties, collections of classic treatises and presidential documents, and access to the full text of state and federal case law. Offers special collections on Criminal Justice, Religion and the Law and Women and the Law among others.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set This link opens in a new window
Searchable, full text database of House and Senate committee reports, documents, maps, and journals (1817-1980). Primary documents ordered printed by Congress such as reports of executive departments, and special investigations of Congress. Covers a wide range of topics such as the Armed Forces, Education, Health, and Economics.
U.S. Declassified Documents Online This link opens in a new window
Includes a broad range of previously classified federal records spanning the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The collection brings together documents from all the presidential libraries and numerous executive agencies in a single database.

CRS Reports
Research reports from the Congressional Research Service covering a variety of topics: foreign policy, environment, trade, etc.

Historical documents archives

Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960 - 1974 This link opens in a new window
Key events and movements in 1960s America as documented in diaries, letters, autobiographies and other memoirs, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary.
Archives Unbound This link opens in a new window
This database is made up of small, discrete archival collections. UCSC owns selected titles from the full Archives Unbound Collection. Tutorials on using Archives Unbound are available here.

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