Reference Sources and Reports
- Gale eBooksA great place to begin your research, Gale eBooks offers thousands of authoritative articles published in academic encyclopedias, and written by subject experts. Gale eBooks provides information you can not only trust, but cite in a paper as well. Formerly called GVRL: Gale Virtual Reference Library.
- Oxford BibliographiesAnnotated bibliographies, updated regularly, of the best scholarship in multiple disciplines. Ideal for approaching new/interdisciplinary fields, and to guide faculty to key readings for courses.
- Annual ReviewsEach year, Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to guide researchers to the principal contributions of their field and help them keep up to date in their area of research. Each article is its own search engine, providing a gateway to the essential primary research literature referenced within each topic.
- Oxford Handbooks OnlineOxford Handbooks Online brings together the world's leading scholars to write review essays that evaluate the current thinking on a field or topic, and make an original argument about the future direction of the debate.
- Gale In Context: Global IssuesProvides access to information about important issues of the modern world from a global perspective. Topics explore issues within government, law, health, science and technology, society and culture, and more by way of news, global viewpoints, reference materials, country information, primary source documents, videos, and statistics.
- ProQuest Trends & Policy
Trends & Policy is a series of in-depth primary source collections to support research and learning on policy related to today’s most pressing issues. It connects policies implemented by the U.S. government with the results and trends of those policies. The database also provides context with analytical reports, news articles, timelines, topic pages, and data tools. Includes the following collections: U.S. Environment, U.S. Healthcare, U.S. Immigration, U.S. Criminal Justice, and U.S. Civil Rights.
- World Bank Open Knowledge RepositoryThe World Bank is the largest single source of development knowledge. The World Bank Open Knowledge Repository (OKR)is The World Bank’s official open access repository for its research outputs and knowledge products. Through the OKR, The World Bank collects, disseminates, and permanently preserves its intellectual output in digital form.
- Digital National Security ArchiveThe Digital National Security Archive contains the most comprehensive set of declassified government documents available. The resource now includes 44 collections consisting of over 104,000 meticulously indexed documents, with more than 733,000 total pages.
CRS Reports
Full collection of Congressional Research Service Reports provide nonpartisan and objective research and analysis on all public policy issues.
Foreign Governments (Northwestern University Library)
Provides links to national agencies for most countries in the world.