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A Starting Point?

*University of Washington Digital Library (great for archival research!) http://content.lib.washington.edu/index.html

Research Funding Agencies http://www.ncura.edu/resources/agencies.htm

The Center for Data Insight http://www.insight.nau.edu/default.asp

Concept Definitions

A Psychology Resource Site http://www.psy.pdx.edu/PsiCafe/

Stanford Institute for the Quantitative Study of Society http://www.stanford.edu/group/siqss/home/home.htm

Public Administration & Policy Dictionaries, Encyclopedias & Resources http://library.albany.edu/subject/guides/paguide.htm

Government 101 http://www.vote-smart.org/resource_govt101_01.php

Guide to Public Administration & Government http://langsdale.ubalt.edu/howto/publicadministration_guide.htm

Finding USEFUL Information on the Web

Verifiable Information & the Web http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rse/verifiable_information.htm

Documenting Electronic Resources http://owl.english.purdue.edu/handouts/research/r_docelectric.html

Annotated Bibliographies (Useful for Lit Review Starters)

Bibliographies in Public Administration: Bibliographies are compilations of publications relating to given subjects. Bibliographies in specific fields offer an overview of this field or certain topics, which can be utilized as a starting point for researchers in examining their topics of interest and developing research questions. The following is a list of bibliographies relevant to public administration and public affairs that have been edited by librarians and scholars.http://unpan1.un.org/intradoc/groups/public/documents/aspa/unpan020143.pdf

How to write an Annotated Bibliography http://www.library.cornell.edu/olinuris/ref/research/skill28.htm#what

Writing Style Manuals

APA: How to cite electronic sources http://www.apastyle.org/elecref.html

The Internet Writing Workshop http://www.internetwritingworkshop.org/

How to Write a Term Paper http://www.gale.com/free_resources/term_paper/index.htm

Purdue Writing Lab http://owl.english.purdue.edu/

General Statistics Available

University of Michigan Statistical Resources on the Web http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/statsnew.html

National Center for Policy Analysis http://www.ncpa.org/newdpd/index.php

Brookings Institute http://www.brookings.edu/default.htm

Tribal Research Resources

WA Governor's Office on Indian Affairs: Treaties http://www.goia.wa.gov/Treaties/Treaties.htm

WA Governor's Office on Indian Affairs: Tribal Lists http://www.goia.wa.gov/Tribal-Information/

Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission http://www.critfc.org/index.html

Indian Policy and Support Services: WA Social & Health Services http://www1.dshs.wa.gov/ipss/index.htm

National Council of Urban Indian Health http://www.ncuih.org/index.html

Digital Library of Indian Studies http://www.digital-librarian.com/american_indian_studies.html

Institute for Native Americans http://www4.nau.edu/ina/

American Indian Higher Education Consortium http://www.aihec.org/

Native American Political Systems and the Evolution of Democracy http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/NAPSnEoD.html

Iriquois Democratic Traditions http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/grassroots.html

The Six Nations: Oldest Living Democracy on Earth http://www.ratical.org/many_worlds/6Nations/index.html

UCLA American Indian Studies Center http://www.aisc.ucla.edu/

Center for American Indian Economic Development http://www.cba.nau.edu/caied/index.asp

Lakota Winter Counts http://wintercounts.si.edu/

National Museum of the American Indian http://www.nmai.si.edu/

We the People: American Indians and Alaska Natives in the United States — A portrait of the American Indian and Alaska native population in the United States, providing data on the largest specified tribal groupings, reservations, Alaska Native Village Statistical Areas (ANVSAs) and areas outside reservations and ANVSAs at the national level. It is part of a special report series that presents data collected from Census 2000 on demographic, social and economic characteristics.
Internet address: http://www.census.gov/prod/2006pubs/censr-28.pdf

Federal

Statistics from Over 100 U.S. Federal Agencies http://www.fedstats.gov/index.html

Federal Information Resources http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~rse/databases.htm

The U.S. Government official web site http://www.firstgov.gov/

U.S. Government Printing Office Archives of all 3 branches http://www.gpoaccess.gov/

U.S. Code of Federal Regulations http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html

Core Documents of U.S. Democracy http://www.gpoaccess.gov/coredocs.html

U.S. Constitution http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/index.html

U.S. Government Manual http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gmanual/index.html

U.S. Department of Labor http://www.bls.gov/iif/oshoiics.htm

Budget of the United States, FY 2007 http://www.gpoaccess.gov/usbudget/index.html

Government Accountability Office (GAO, formerly General Accounting Office) http://www.gao.gov/
You can order their reports and testimonies for free

Liber8, The Research Library of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis http://liber8.stlouisfed.org/
Liber8 is a portal that links to economic information from the Federal Reserve System, government agencies, and international economic data sources. Included within the Liber8 site is the International Economic Statistics Database. The IES database is a union catalog for international economic data with individual records for each broad category of economic indicators (GDP, CPI, employment, etc.) from every country with English language information available. The database is title, country, subject and keyword searchable.

Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights (via University of Maryland School of Law)
http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/usccr/index.asp

State of the Union Addresses, 1992 - Present http://www.gpoaccess.gov/sou/index.html

National Priorities Project- Turning Data Into Action http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_wrapper&Itemid=182

Office of Policy, Social Security Administration http://www.ssa.gov/policy/

FRASER: Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/

National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections, Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/coll/nucmc/
Allows you to find information pertaining to manuscripts and collections from former U.S. House and Senate members among them.

Poverty Guidelines, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services http://aspe.hhs.gov/poverty/index.shtml

The ultimate Political Science Links page http://www.rvc.cc.il.us/faclink/pruckman/PSLinks.htm

Raw Data from the NationalAtlas.gov http://nationalatlas.gov/atlasftp.html
Contains a myriad of topics in shapefiles so you can create your own maps. You will be to find income and employment information as recent as 2002, poverty & median income, historical maps from the 2000 elections by state and county, crime data, food stamp recipients by county, forest cover types, invasive species, land cover, and much more.

Tulane University Government Affairs Resources http://www.tulane.edu/~govtaff/resources.shtml

Washington

Washington Data Book http://www.ofm.wa.gov/databook/default.asp

State and County QuickFacts: Washington http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/53000lk.html

Washington State Newspapers http://www.secstate.wa.gov/library/newspapers_wsl.aspx

Washington State Library's online catalog at http://www.secstate.wa.gov/library/catalog.aspx

Listing of Washington State Counties http://www.evergreen.edu/library/govdocs/wastate/countygovt.html

Listing of Washington State Cities http://www.evergreen.edu/library/govdocs/wastate/citygovtindex.html

Census

U.S. Census Bureau http://factfinder.census.gov/home/saff/main.html?_lang=en

Statistical Abstrat of the U.S. http://www.census.gov/statab/www/

Historical Census Browser http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus/

109th Congressional District Summary Files from the Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2005/109th.html

Census Download Center http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/DownloadDatasetServlet?_lang=en
Download raw census data from the U.S. Bureau of the Census

Hurricane Katrina Data from the U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2005/katrina.htm

U.S. Gazetteer: 2000 and 1990, U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html

Census in Schools http://www.census.gov/dmd/www/teachers.html

Using Data Effectively@Census.gov (Case Studies) http://www.census.gov/mso/www/casestudies/index.html

Census Information on Minorities http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/hotlinks.html

Subjects A to Z, U.S. Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/main/www/subjects.html

Constitutions

Constitution Finder http://confinder.richmond.edu/

Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project http://thorpe.ou.edu/

Constitution of the Iriquois http://www.constitution.org/cons/iroquois.htm

The Code of Hammurabi http://www.constitution.org/ime/hammurabi.htm

Download the Book "The Constitution of the United States: A Brief Study of the Genesis, Formulation and Political Philosophy of the Constitution" http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/10065

Researching Constitutional Law on the Internet http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/conlaw.html

The U.S. Constitution Online http://www.usconstitution.net/

University of Michigan Documents Center http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/state.html

Bureau of Justice Statistics http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/

U.S. Department of Labor http://www.bls.gov/home.htm

Legal

Law Documents Search Engine http://www.searchlaw.com/

U.S. Department of Justice Disability Rights Law http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/cguide.htm#anchor62335

Water Law Summaries, Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Department of the Interior http://www.blm.gov/nstc/WaterLaws/index.html

Global Legal Monitor, Law Library of Congress http://www.loc.gov/law/public/law.html
The Law Library of Congress announces a new electronic publication, the Global Legal Monitor, which will track new legal developments from around the world. The first issue of the Global Legal Monitor may be accessed from the Law Library of Congress's opening web page by clicking on the link labeled "NEW: Global Legal Monitor (GLM).

Global Legal Information Network (GLIN), Law Library of Congress http://www.glin.gov/
The Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) is a public database of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations. These GLIN members contribute the official full texts of published documents to the database in their original language. Each document is accompanied by a summary in English and subject terms selected from the multilingual index to GLIN. All summaries are available to the public, and public access to full texts is also available in participating jurisdictions.

International

International Statistical Agencies http://www.census.gov/main/www/stat_int.html

CIA World Factbook http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html

Country Studies http://lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html

CIA Handbook of International Economic Statistics http://www.cia.gov/cia/di/products/hies/

World Bank online data http://www.worldbank.org/data/dataquery.html

World Bank Development & Economics http://econ.worldbank.org/

Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS), U.S. Department of State, annual report. 1969 - Present: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ho/frus/
1861 - 1960: http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/

Digest of International Law, Office of the Legal Adviser, U.S. Department of State http://www.state.gov/s/l/c8183.htm

Health

Center for Disease Control & Prevention http://wonder.cdc.gov/data2010/

National Center for Health Statistics http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nvss.htm

International Committee of the Red Cross http://www.icrc.org/eng

Health Library from Healthfinder.gov, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services http://www.healthfinder.gov/library/
The webpage includes information alternative medicine, diseases & conditions, drug database, medical dictionaries, and a drug interaction checker to name just a few.

Education

National Center for Education Statistics http://nces.ed.gov/

Professional Organizations

American Political Science Association http://www.apsanet.org/

Association for Political Theory http://organizations.oneonta.edu/apt/

American Society for Public Administration http://www.aspanet.org/scriptcontent/index.cfm

International City Managers Association http://www.icma.org/main/sc.asp?t=0