Topic Overviews
These will help you identify, from policy areas, laws and acts related to them:
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CQ Almanac The CQ Almanac is arranged in topical chapter format, providing an overview of the year's issues and political action. Navigate through 60 years of congressional coverage, browse by subject, decade or by a particular year's table of contents.
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HeinOnline HeinOnline indexes legal and legislative information available for U.S. states and territories including bills and laws, constitutions, regulations, legislature membership, public policy, state newspapers of record, and more.
Review of the Legislative Process
For more detail and transcripts: https://www.congress.gov/legislative-process
Law Inforgraphic
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For more information about government information:
Beginner's Guide to Federal Statutes
Newspapers
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Access World News Provides full-text information and perspectives from over 600 U.S. and over 700 international newspapers.
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Illinois Newspapers Full-text electronic access to over 90 regional daily and weekly newspapers across Illinois. Advertisements are not included.
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ProQuest Newsstream ProQuest Newsstream is the online gateway to over 850 international, national, and regional newspapers, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post, The Guardian, El Norte, Jerusalem Post, and South China Morning Post. Over 575 are full-text titles and many with backfiles dating back to the 1980s and 1990s.
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Washington Post 1977-current Complete full-text electronic access to the Washington Post 1977-current. Advertisements are not included.
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Washington Post Historical Complete full text electronic access to the historical Washington Post from 1877-2002.
Other newspapers can be found on the News Resources Guide.
Free Full Website and Mobile App Access:
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New York Times Website Loyola students, faculty, and staff have unlimited access to NYTimes.com, including archives from 1851 to the present (articles from 1923 to 1980 are limited to five per day per user; unlimited access is available through ProQuest Newstream). First time users need to create an account from this link: http://accessnyt.com to gain access. Returning users will have to "renew" their account once a year using the link above with their same login information.
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Wall Street Journal The Wall Street Journal is the world's leading business publication with coverage from the last 90 days and search abilities back to 2008. See Factiva for archives to 1997. Every 180 days users must refresh (or click through the Libraries’ link again). Please register here: WSJ.com/LUC before attempting to access this resource.
Databases for Public Policy, Political and US Government
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Global-Regulation.com Global-Regulation.com is an index that allows you to search (in English) the full text of over 250,000 statutes and regulations, with links to official, full-text sources (translated into English) from over 30 jurisdictions (including the United States).
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GPO: Monthly Catalog Includes references to congressional committee reports and hearings, debates, documents from executive departments, and more.
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Political Science Abstracts - World Wide Provides citations, abstracts, and indexing of the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.
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Major Acts of Congress An illustrated encyclopedia of congressional acts from the earliest days of the American republic up through recent years.
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Nexis Uni Formerly LexisNexis Academic. Database of news, business and legal information. Includes Company News and Financial Information, Country and State Profiles, Law Reviews, Federal Case Law, U.S. Code, Constitution and Courts Rulings, State Legal Research.
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ProQuest Legislative Insight ProQuest Legislative Insight is a Federal legislative history service that provides access to thoroughly researched compilations of full text publications created by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws. Compiled histories include the Public Laws (covering 1929 to the present), along with related bills, hearings, Congressional Research Service reports, committee prints, committee reports, Congressional Record sections, and Presidential Signing Statements, with all documents available as fully-searchable PDF files. ProQuest Legislative Insight also connects to ProQuest Regulatory Insight for access to related administrative law resources. Access is available on campus, or off campus with a valid Loyola ID and password.
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ProQuest Congressional Formerly LexisNexis Congressional. Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information. Includes congressional publications, Legislative Histories for public laws, testimony from congressional hearings, bill tracking and research reports from the Congressional Research Service and LRS.
Also use the databases under the databases tab above.