HON 499: Issue & Policy Resources

Congressional Quarterly's CQ Press Library contains full-text articles and bibliographic citations. It provides web access to :
-CQ Public Affairs Collection (provides access to material on key public policy topics).
-CQ Researcher (covers weekly in-depth original reporting on major, controversial issues with complete summaries and bibliographies)
-CQ Weekly (focuses primarily on legislative news and analysis)

Policy File Index indexes, abstracts, and links to research on a large diversity of public policy issues. Both domestic and international organizations are covered. Features include: direct links to the full texts of policy research reports and studies available online and direct links to the homepages of policy-related organizations. Among represented organizations are: the Hoover Institution, the International Monetary Fund, OECD, the RAND Corporation, and the World Bank.

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