New for Politics test

Thomson Gale.
Available online.
This is a new article database for the college and university market, providing broad coverage of most academic disciplines, including social sciences, business and economics, arts and humanities, natural and physical sciences, etc. It includes articles from over 9,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers, of which nearly 7,000 are academic journals, and most are available in full-text formats.
This new database probably makes obsolete the same publisher's Expanded Academic ASAP, at least for W&L researchers.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

In addition to the previously-announced Historical Statistics of the United States, Leyburn Library recently has purchased online access to three statistical compilations in "electronic book" form:

• Baby Boom: Americans Born 1946 to 1964


• The Millennials: Americans Born 1977 to 1994


• Social Change in America: The Historical Handbook, 2006

University of California, Santa Barbara.
Available online.
Primarily useful as a compilation of documents, including a searchable database of thousands of presidential documents, including signing statements, speeches, fireside chats, etc. Also other documents, statistical data, audio and video archive.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

Cambridge University Press / NetLibrary.
Available online.
A concise account (2006) of international law, explaining how states and international organizations, especially the United Nations, make and use international law.
Links will be maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.

Council on Foreign Relations.
Available online.
"The U.S. midterm elections for Congress, typically dominated by domestic concerns, may turn on how the public views the role of majority Republicans on a wide range of foreign-policy-related issues, including the war in Iraq, national security, and immigration.”
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

International Institute for Strategic Studies / Taylor & Francis.
Available online.
This annual overview of strategic developments throughout the world long has been an essential one-volume analytical encapsulation of the year’s key events in international relations for students, scholars, policy-makers, journalists, business leaders and other leading think-tanks.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

Religion Newswriters Association.
Available online.
This is a fascinating compilation of voter guides that U.S. religious organizations are distributing "to inform the faithful about issues and candidates." Categories include conservative Christian, mainline Christians, watchdog groups, etc.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

Annenberg Public Policy Center, University of Pennsylvania.
Available online.
Non-partisan program funded by the Annenberg Foundation which monitors "the factual accuracy of what is said by major U.S. political players in the form of TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases." Recent discussions include claims in the Allen/Webb Senate race in Virginia and efforts to capture Osama bin Laden.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.