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Library Handouts:
Midcat (Library Catalog)
Where do I find articles on social issues, successful social programs, community-level issues, and public policy?
Lexis Nexis Academic Universe (for full-text coverage of news articles, business & legal articles, and abstracts of medical articles)
Burlington Free Press/Rutland Herald Index (back to '85/'84)
Use the index to indentify articles, then go to the microfilm to view the articles.
Burlington Free Press - Microfilm #205
Rutland Herald - Microfilm #27
Addison Independent (local newspaper). No real index. Search the archive for major news stories that appeared on their web version (basically front-page stories written by their staff), back to mid-1998. If you have heard of a specific article but don't know when it was published, you can request the article by e-mailing news@addisonindependent.com and they will e-mail it to you if they can find it (staff time permitting).
The Middlebury Campus (search archives back to July 2001)
Expanded Academic Index (academic and popular magazines & journals in all disciplines - some full-text)
PAIS (public policy in ALL AREAS, political science, economics, international affairs, social sciences)
EconLit (citations to academic Economics journals, books, documents, working papers)
Education-specific
Education Index (indexes over 550 education journals)
ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center contains more than 1 million abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice.)
Environment-Specific
Environmental Issues & Policy Index
"Provides abstract/index information for over 1000 titles in the area of environmental policy and studies." - from database.
Health-Specific
Lexis Nexis Academic Universe (listed above). Click on the medical link.
PubMed (Medline) (covers the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences from over 4,600 biomedical journals).
Health & Wellness Resource Center
(mainly practical health info but you can search health news for issues)
Where do I find articles on issues before congress as well as congressional publications, such as hearings, reports, laws, etc.? CQ Weekly
(full-text of Congressional Quarterly Weekly Reports which follow congressional actions. Includes floor votes. 1983 to current). Also in PRINT Ref. JK1 C15
CQ Researcher (covers current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, pros and cons, bibliographies, timelines, and more).
Lexis Nexis Congressional Universe (full-text of U.S. Congress documents, bill, reports, hearings, etc.)
Lexis Nexis Academic Universe (listed above). Click on News, then choose General News. then choose Policy Papers.
Policy institutes and think tanks (some more non-partisan than others):
The Rand Corporation
The Heritage Foundation
The Urban Institute
The Electronic Policy Network
The Cato Institute
American Enterprise Institute
Brookings Institute
Speakout.com
National Center for Public Policy Research
Public Policy Forum
Institute for Public Policy & Social Research
Economic Policy Institute
Specific to Health Care Policy
The Kaiser Family Foundation
Duke Health Policy CyberExchange
Agency for Health Care Policy Research
US Dept of Health and Human Safety
Additional policy sites: C-Span's list of policy organizations
Where do I find statistics on Addison County (including Middlebury & other towns), Vermont, and the New England Region?
U.S. Census Bureau:
For population demographics (age, sex, race), economic and social statistics (housing, income & poverty, etc.) at the U.S., state, local, and neighborhood (block) level.
State and County Quick Facts - Vermont
American FactFinder - data from the 2000 Census
Statistical Abstract of the U.S. (also in PRINT Ref HA202 .U5 2002 and CD-Rom)
County and City Data Book (also in PRINT Ref HA202 .A36 2000 )
Social Explorer
Provides interactive U.S. census demographic data maps, 1940 - 2000. See data at the national level or zoom in as far down as the census tract level. View data on maps or create customized reports.
Vermont Agency of Human Services
Community Profiles (for all 60 school supervisory unions)
AHS Publications
Center for Rural Studies - also see their Vermont Indicators Online
State and Local Government on the Net (Vermont) - use to link to state agency websites, get their phone numbers, etc.
New England Economic Indicators
Vermont Housing Awareness Campaign
Report: Not the Non-Sector: The Facts About the Charitable Nonprofit Community in Vermont
Also in print: Main Library Vt. Collection (1st floor) HD2769.2.U6 L65 2002
Where do I find U.S. & international statistics? **Start with the Library's Statistics Guide for economic, social, health, education, crime, and other statistics.
Fedstats (find statistics for all subjects)
U.S. Census Bureau
For population demographics (age, sex, race), economic and social statistics (housing, income & poverty, etc.) at the U.S., state, local, and neighborhood (block) level.
Other Resources:
Economic Statistics Briefing Room (from the Whitehouse)
Social Statistics Briefing Room (from the Whitehouse)
Bureau of Labor Statistics. U.S. Dept. of Labor
Characteristics of Minimum Wage Earners, 2003, U.S. Dept. of Labor
A Profile of the Working Poor, 2002, U.S. Dept. of Labor
Highlights of Women's Earnings, 2003, U.S. Dept. of Labor
Minimum Wage Resources, U.S. Dept. of Labor
Making Work Pay: The Case for Raising the Minimum Wage
State of Working Vermont 2006 (other states)
Bureau of Economic Analysis. U.S. Dept. of Commerce
BEARFACTS, interactive summaries of personal income by state
One Town, One Job; A Profile of Low-Wage America. Noah Adams, National Public Radio, 2003. Includes audio files and profiles of low-wage workers.
Poverty in the US, 2000, U.S. Census Bureau
Poverty Guidelines, Research and Measurement. U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services.
Poverty-Related Links. Institute for Research on Poverty, Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison.
Homelessness, Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty
Living Wage Resource Center
Living Wage, Economic Policy Institute Issue Guide
Living Wage Debate, Alternet, June 2005
"Maid for a Day", USA Today, March 25, 2005
The Center for Working-Class Studies, Youngstown State University
30 Days, FX Network. Premiere episode: 30 Days on Minimum Wage. Includes minimum wage calculator.
Library Databases:
Lexis Nexis Statistical Universe
Government websites: Vermont nonprofit websites: Other Resources:
Map of all Vermont Counties and Towns (Vermont Center for Geographic Information)
Map of Addison County (showing borders of Regional Planning Commissions):
Style & Citation Guides
For links to Refworks (citation software) and examples for MLA, Turabian, and APA style.
How to Recognize Plagiarism
(from Indiana Univ. Bloomington)
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