Find Research - Assignment | Political Platform Paper (Bishop) - Research Guides at Lone Star College

Suggested Library Databases

Opposing Viewpoints (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
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Provides topic overviews as well as collects a variety of sources, including statistics, reference materials, journal articles, news articles, images, and audio broadcasts.
CQ Researcher This link opens in a new window
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Full-text, balanced, comprehensive journalistic reports and analysis of current and controversial issues of the day.

Hint: you can search the following EBSCO databases [and others!] at the same time!
Click into one to start with, then click on "Choose Databases" (appears right above the search bar) to add in the others.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Multi-disciplinary database; full text of articles from over 5,300 journals, magazines and newspapers, plus image collections.
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Nearly 575 full-text publications, including some 550 peer-reviewed journals, in psychiatry, psychology, and related fields.
Military & Government Collection (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Full-text journal articles and magazines on military and political topics, plus books, reports, government documents, etc.

Platform Documents

Democratic Party Platform
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Republican Platform - OCR'd
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The Republican Party decided to re-adopt their 2016 platform for 2020. The original document was not searchable: this version is.

Party Platform Cheat Sheet from Prof. Bishop

Congressional Materials (Transcripts, Legislation)

govinfo
Use the Advanced Search to filter results to Congressional Hearings, or other documents.
Congress.gov
Look up bills and resolutions with status tracking and full text for different versions.
Congressional Record
Proceedings and debates of the US Congress

White Papers

White papers tend to be hosted on agency/department websites.

USA.gov A-Z Index of Government Agencies
Browse alphabetically or search for a term to locate US government agencies that relate.

Impact Data

Impact data is different from performance data, which measures factors like the number of computers, classes, or services available at public libraries. Instead, impact data focuses on the difference that these factors have made for individuals or communities.
Using Impact Data in Advocacy

GSS Data Explorer Trends
Pew Research Center
Non-partisan, non-advocacy public opinion resource. Analysis of polling and data-driven social science research.

News Sources

US Major Dailies (ProQuest) This link opens in a new window
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US Major Dailies provides access to The New York Times, Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune. The content is available by 8 a.m. each day and provides archives stretching as far back as 1985.
Newspaper Source Plus (EBSCO) This link opens in a new window
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Selected full-text from 30 US national and international newspapers and 200 regional papers, plus TV & radio news transcripts.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale in Context) This link opens in a new window
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Provides topic overviews as well as collects a variety of sources, including statistics, reference materials, journal articles, news articles, images, and audio broadcasts.

Google Smarter

You can streamline Google searches by specifying the site domain you want, whether it's broad (.gov) or specific (congress.gov).

Accessing the Databases

Access online library materials through the library databases!

To access the databases from off-campus, you will be prompted to enter your LSC email/password or your 14-digit library barcode.

Discovery Search Search (nearly) all the library collections from one place, including articles, books and e-books, videos, and more.
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You can search without signing in, but once you click to access something, you'll be prompted to use your library barcode number or your LSC username/password.
A-Z Database List Sort & filter by subject and content types to find the specific collection you need.

Assignment | Political Platform Paper (Bishop): Find Research