LibGuides: Election 2016: Find scholarly articles, news articles, & other sources

Find scholarly articles, news articles, & other sources

America: History & Life (EBSCO) - Access ends 9/30/24 This link opens in a new window
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Indexes and abstracts articles in over 2,000 journals published worldwide in U.S. and Canadian history. Also indexes essays, books, dissertations, and conference papers. Coverage: 1964-present. 6 simultaneous users
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Gale Onefile: News (formerly InfoTrac Newsstand) This link opens in a new window
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A full-text database which allows searching of more than 1,000 newspapers by title, headline, date, newspaper section or other assigned fields.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
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Online access to core scholarly journals in business, education, health, arts & humanities, life sciences, literature, physical sciences, and social sciences. Coverage begins with the first issue of each journal.
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Includes: Arts & Sciences 1-15, Business 2-4, & Life Sciences
Newsbank This link opens in a new window
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Current full-text access to six Kansas newspapers: Emporia Gazette (2002- ), Kansas City Star (1991- ), Lawrence Journal-World (1990- ), Manhattan Mercury (1997- ), Topeka Capital-Journal (2002- ) and Wichita Eagle (1984- ). Also accessible, Access World news, which is a comprehensive news collection of local, regional, national, and international topics. Terms of Use
Newspaper Source Plus This link opens in a new window
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Includes more than 860 full-text newspapers, providing more than 35 million full-text articles, and features more than 857,000 television and radio news transcripts.
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New York Times (1851-3 years ago) with Index (1851-1993) (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) This link opens in a new window
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Provides access to the New York Times online for the years 1851-three years ago. This database offers full-page-images and article images. Digital reproductions of every page from every issue, cover to cover, in downloadable PDF files.
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Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
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NexisUni, formerly LexisNexis Academic, Includes access to over 5,600 news, business, legal, medical and reference publications (most full-text, the rest abstracted), primarily newspapers, magazines and journals. Covers local, regional and international newspapers (in English and non-English languages). Includes broadcast transcripts, case law, legal codes, regulations, Shepard's Citations to Supreme Court cases (back to 1789), company financial information, and SEC filings and reports.
Readers' Guide Full Text This link opens in a new window
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Indexes and abstracts general periodicals with some full-text access. Focus on current events and curriculum support. Coverage of indexing: 1983-present; full-text: 1994-present. Terms of Use

America at the Polls, 1960-2004 by Alice V. McGillivray; Richard M. Scammon; Rhodes Cook
Call Number: JK524 .A73
ISBN: 1568029772
Publication Date: 2005-12-21
Tells the story of US presidential elections through informative statistics gathered from many official sources. This title presents a set of historical tables and lists summarizing the state-by-state popular vote, the Electoral College vote, and minority candidates for each election.
America Votes by Rhodes Cook / SAGE Publications
Call Number: JK1967.A8
ISBN: 9781483383033
Publication Date: 2016
This series provides data on American Elections from 1956 to the present. Volumes 30 & 31 available online in ebook. Volumes 1-30 available in print.
Elections A to Z by Bob Benenson (Editor); David Tarr (Editor)
Call Number: JK1976 -- .T37 2012eb
ISBN: 9780872897694
Publication Date: 2012-07-03
Elections A to Z explains how campaigns and elections, the hallmark of any democracy, are conducted in the United States.
Encyclopedia of U. S. Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior by Kenneth F. Warren
ISBN: 9781412963886
Publication Date: 2008-04-04
Focuses on American campaigns, elections, and electoral behavior but also provides a culturally and politically diverse perspective of American democratic practices and institutions. Offers a rich campaign history. Provides a description and scholarly analysis for all presidential elections, including state and general elections. Presents and simplifies complicated election laws that govern federal, state, and local elections.

FDsys
Track Congressional bills, court opinions, budget, public and private laws, and more.
Congress.gov
If a candidate is a former member of congress, locate the legislation that he/she has sponsored or voted on.