PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) indexes articles, books, studies, selected official documents and other resources on public policy issues, public administration, law, politics and government.

Collection of primary source documents tracing the end of British India and the emergence of modern Pakistan.

Collection consists of materials from the years 1913 through 1998 that document African American author and activist Amiri Baraka. Includes poetry, organizational records, print publications, articles, plays, speeches, personal correspondence, oral histories, and personal records. The materials cover Baraka's involvement in the politics in Newark, N.J. and in Black Power movement organizations such as the Congress of African People, the National Black Conference movement, the Black Women's United Front. Later materials document Baraka's increasing involvement in Marxism.

Full text and translation of the meetings of the English parliaments from Edward I (1272 - 1307) to the reign of Henry VII (1485 - 1509). 

Please note: Euromonitor allows access to IU faculty, staff, and students only.  Authorized users may utilize the information obtained from this resource for academic, non-commercial purposes only, and only during the time of official affiliation with IU. Global market research database encompassing historical and forecasted statistics, reports & interactive tools on industries, economies and consumers in 210 different countries and territories. Passport also tracks the effects of COVID-19 for 50 different countries

Collection of primary source full-text electronic editions in philosophy. Includes full corpora of figures in the history of the human sciences, including published and unpublished works, articles, essays, reviews, and correspondence. Works are in the original languages, with some translations included. 

Electronic version of the first edition of Jacques-Paul Migne's Patrologia Latina, published between 1844 and 1855, and the four volumes of indexes published between 1862 and 1865. Covers the works of the Latin Fathers from Tertullian in 200 A.D. to Pope Innocent III in 1216. Includes the complete Patrologia Latina, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes. Migne's column numbers, essential references for scholars, are also included.

This collection assembles hundreds of documentary films and series from the history of the Public Broadcasting Service into one online interface.

Bibliographic database with materials on peace and conflict resolution research. Indexes thousands of journal articles and other sources covering peace-related topics, including nonviolence, war, international affairs and peace psychology. 

The Pennsylvania Gazette covered colonial America, the revolution and the early republic. Includes articles, editorials, letters, news items and advertisements. Also included in the Gazette are the texts of such important writings as the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, Letters from a Farmer, Thomas Payne`s Common Sense, The Federalist Papers and other documents.

Please note: select “please click here to enter if your library/institution subscribes the database” to access database. Daily newspaper providing a platform for the central government and the Communist Party of China to announce their respective policies and disseminate governmental, political, and economic messages to the public and the world. People's Daily is the official voice of the central government of the People's Republic of China. 

Provides digital access to manuscripts written or compiled by women in the British Isles during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, sourced from archives and libraries across the United Kingdom and the USA.

Covers the arts and entertainment industry, including dance, film, television, drama, theatre, stagecraft, musical theatre, broadcast, circus, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic, and more.

Previously known as PCI Full Text, Periodicals Archive Online offers backfiles of over 400 humanities and social sciences journals.

Index to millions of articles published in over 6,000 periodicals in the humanities and social sciences. Encompasses three centuries of scholarly publication in over 60 languages and dialects, including English, French, German, Italian, Spanish and other Western languages.

Consists of 249 volumes (189 works) originally published by the Written Heritage Research Institute (Miras Maktoob), a non-governmental organization in Tehran. Includes works in both Persian and Arabic on Islamic history and culture.

Includes over 100 practice tests and courses and information on over 4,000 accredited schools. PLEASE NOTE: Users must create individual accounts to take practice tests.

A bibliographic database with abstracts covering scholarly research in philosophy since 1940. Cites works in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Russian, Chinese and Japanese.

PhilPapers is a comprehensive index and bibliography of philosophy maintained by the community of philosophers.

Complete archive of the popular British photojournalism magazine, from its first issue in 1938 to its last in 1957.  Includes full text and full color.

Pinkerton's National Detective Agency, the oldest company of private investigators in the United States, pursued some of the nation's most notorious criminals including Butch Cassidy, the Sundance Kid, Jesse James, Alfred Brady, John Dillinger, and countless others. The collection consists of an Administrative File, Criminal Case Files, and the Family Directors File. 

Please note:  New users must first register from a computer on campus. After registering, users may log into their account to access the database from anywhere. IU users must create an individual account using their iu.edu email.  Access to data, research and technology covering private capital markets, including venture capital and private equity.

Full page and article images with searchable full text from the Pittsburgh Courier, African-American weekly newspaper published in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

The Office of the Vice Provost for Research and the IUPUI Office of the Vice Chancellor for Research jointly funds Indiana University's subscription to Pivot for all IU campuses.  Pivot is a database of funding opportunities for research.

Indexes classic and historical plays, along with the works of contemporary playwrights. Includes new editions and translations, as well as descriptive annotations to summarize the plot and indicate musical requirements.

Collection of classic and contemporary poems, short stories, biographies, and essays on such topics as poetic forms, movements, and techniques.

Resource that present multiple sides of an issue, helping students assess and develop persuasive arguments and essays, better understanding of controversial issues, and develop analytical thinking skills.

Resource for U.S. public policy research. Users are able to access timely, updated information from over 350 public policy think tanks, nongovernmental organizations, research institutes, university centers, advocacy groups, and other entities.

Primary source documents related to the Portuguese colonial government and its policies and activities in Africa, 1910-1929.

Primary source documents related to unorthodox (by contemporary standards) fringe groups from both the right and left of the political spectrum. Content supports scholars and students answering questions on philosophical, social, political, and economic ideologies as well as on contemporary issues surrounding gender, sexuality, race, religion, civil rights, universal suffrage, and more.

An historical guide to the wars of the United States from the Revolution to the present

Texts in political philosophy, including the major works of: Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), Jeremy Bentham (1748-1832), Edmund Burke (1729-1797), Thomas Paine (1737-1809), David Hume (1711-1776), John Locke (1632-1704), John Stuart Mill (1806-1873), Alexander Hamilton (1757-1804), John Jay (1745-1829), James Madison (1751-1836), and Jean-Jacques; Rousseau (1712-1778).

Access to political science, public policy, and international relations journals. Also includes thousands of recent full-text doctoral dissertations on political science topics, together with working papers, conference proceedings, country reports, policy papers and other sources.

Covers international literature in political science and public administration/policy, along with related fields. Includes abstracts, indexing and full text coverage of journal articles, country reports, dissertations, think-tank reports, working papers, government documents and more.

Public opinion surveys conducted by polling organizations in the United States and other countries. Aggregated from more than 1,000 sources, these polls cover breaking-news events, and various topics, including affirmative action, criminal justice reform, drugs, foreign policy, immigration, race relations, the United Nations, and voting rights.

Access to original archival materials related to popular culture in the U.S. and U.K. from 1950-1975.  Includes color images of manuscript and rare printed material as well as photographs, ephemera and memorabilia.

Documents the history of ‘popular’ remedies and treatments in nineteenth century America, through primary source materials drawn from the extensive collections at the Library Company of Philadelphia and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

An archive of primary source documents, covering the repatriation and emigration of the Displaced Persons and survivors of the Holocaust and World War II.

Primary source materials documenting the interactions between government policy and public philanthropy in Victorian and early twentieth-century society.  Covers a shift in welfare reform and the social tensions surrounding poverty and public welfare.

Access to e-books and reference materials covering international affairs, foreign policy, security, military, and history.

Digital archive of Pravda (Правда, Truth), the central daily of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Coverage is 1912-2009. Throughout the Soviet era, party members were obligated to read Pravda. Today, Pravda remains the official organ of the Communist Party of the Russian Federation, an important political faction in contemporary Russian politics.

Established in 1938 in Kyiv, Pravda Ukrainy (originally Sovetskaia Ukraina) was a Russian-language Soviet Ukrainian daily and a newspaper of record, serving as the official organ of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Ukraine and Supreme Soviet of the Ukrainian SSR. As such the newspaper was the Ukrainian Communist Party’s leading print media agent in the dissemination of the party’s opinions about politics, culture, economics and other important issues.

Multidisciplinary collection of preprints from a wide range of preprint repositories. Each record contains standard bibliographic metadata such as author, abstract, keywords, descriptor terms, and more. Enhanced metadata includes full author addresses, grant funding and cited references. Coverage includes research areas in the life sciences, mathematics, computer science, engineering, social science, and humanities.

Access to previous versions of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. Note: current editions of DSM can be found in PsychiatryOnline.

Primary Search is a full text database providing popular children’s magazines, easy-to-read encyclopedic entries and an image collection containing relevant photos, maps and flags.

PLEASE NOTE: INDIVIDUAL REGISTRATION WITH AN OFFICIAL INDIANA UNIVERSITY EMAIL ACCOUNT IS REQUIRED TO ACCESS THIS RESOURCE. PrivCo is a source for business and financial data on major, non-publicly traded corporations, including family owned, private equity owned, venture backed, and international unlisted companies.

Access to procurement reports covering a multitude of indirect purchasing lines. Reports range from 15-20 pages, cover product/service pricing dynamics, product characteristics that affect the purchasing decision, supplier benchmarking and supply chain risks, and negotiation questions and tactics.

For professional educators. Over 515 full text journals including 350 peer-reviewed titles.

Access to digital collections on the Progressive Movement. The collections cover women's right to vote, the Standard Oil monopoly case, the efforts of journalist Henry Demarest Lloyd, the University Settlement Society of New York City, prohibition, reform of law enforcement, the Teapot Dome bribery case regarding petroleum reserves on government lands, and regulation of food and drugs.

Digital access to the papers of Congressman, Governor, and United States Senator, Robert Marion La Follette, one of the crucial figures of the Progressive Movement of the early twentieth century. La Follette’s papers focus on his fight to reform corruption and injustice in the political system of the state of Wisconsin. They include correspondence with Andrew Carnegie, William McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, and other major figures of the Progressive Era.

Digital access to correspondence, writings, speeches, diaries and photographs of five leading members of the Progressive movement: John R. Commons, Charles R. Van Hise, Richard T. Ely, Edward A. Ross and Charles McCarthy. Covers the growth of industrialization following the Civil War in areas like employment and child labor, education, taxation, elections, conservation, and regulation of food, public utilities, and corporations. 

Full-text journal literature from society and independent publishers on mathematics and statistics

Free, full text, downloadable ebooks for books out of copyright in the U.S. Project. Project Gutenberg has the goal of making information, books, and other materials available to the public in forms that are easy to read, use, quote, and search. Includes  access to electronic text listings, recent releases, newsletters, articles, and other archives.

Provides full text access and indexing for e-journals and e-books from a variety of scholarly publishers. Covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

News commentaries intended for a global audience. Features contributions by prominent political leaders, policymakers, scholars, business leaders, and civic activists from around the world.

Access to Projekt Dyabola: The Archaeological Bibliography (formerly known as the Subject Catalogue of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Rome).

Allows users to search across six ProQuest business databases: ABI/INFORM Complete‎, EconLit‎, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences (IBSS)‎. ProQuest Dissertations & Theses Global: Business, ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Wall Street Journal, and The Women's Wear Daily Archive.

Provides easy access to congressional publications since 1789 and some full-text of reports, bills, resolutions, and laws to the present.

Comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, including millions of works from thousands of universities.  Each dissertation published since July, 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637.

Digital archive of historical newspapers.  Each issue of each title includes the complete paper, cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images.

Archival collections documenting topics in eighteenth- through twentieth-century American history. Provides access to digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and many more primary source materials taken from the University Publications of America (UPA) Collections.

Provides access to United States Federal legislative history documents

Allows users to simultaneously search a collection of ProQuest Social Science databases.

Online tables and charts of basic statistics about the social, political and economic conditions of the United States.

ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the World aggregates the statistical abstracts of approximately 70 countries and makes the content available through a single-search interface.

Access to statistical content  information produced by U.S. federal agencies, states, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. Includes tables, statistical reports, publication abstracts, and datasets. Results are ranked by relevance. Faceted search results can then be filtered by document type, source, date published, geographic area, and more.

Comprehensive collection of Supreme Court documents. Includes full opinions from Supreme Court argued cases, including per curiam decisions, dockets, oral arguments, joint appendices and amicus briefs.

Allows users to search across ProQuest databases with an emphasis on the arts.

REGISTRATION REQUIRED FOR INDIVIDUAL USERS. Prowess_dx delivers data for about 34,000 Indian companies. This includes listed companies, unlisted public companies and private companies. All companies listed on the National Stock Exchange and the Bombay Stock Exchange are covered. The coverage includes companies of all sizes and ownership.

Online access to psychiatric textbooks, journals, and professional development tools. Includes the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of Mental Disorders fifth edition.

Multimedia collection that synthesizes psychological experiments of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Includes access to full-text psychology journals, with particularly strong coverage in child and adolescent psychology and counseling.

Provides access to psychology and psychosomatic publications.

Collection of streaming videos of actual psychotherapy sessions.  Includes experts discussing their thoughts behind their interventions.

Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, PTSDpubs provides citations and abstracts to the international literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental health sequelae of traumatic events.

Documents the rise of the twentieth-century public health system in the United States through correspondence, reports, pamphlets, ephemera, and more. Includes primary sources covering the evolution and impact of public health legislation, policies, and campaigns at the local, national, and federal levels.

Published since 1872, Publishers Weekly contains news and book reviews, and ongoing coverage of the British book trade. The complete archive includes nearly 200,000 book reviews, and bestseller lists from 1895 forward.

Free resource supporting the search and retrieval of biomedical and life sciences literature with the aim of improving health–both globally and personally.  Contains more than 30 million citations and abstracts of biomedical literature.

Includes the complete run of Punch, a popular satirical magazine. Although it was known for it's political cartoons, it also included prose, parodies, parliamentary sketches, social satire, and illustrations.

Access to freely available e-books in the fields of humanities, social sciences, fine arts, and architecture & design.  punctum focuses on authors who want to publish books that are genre-queer and genre-bending and take experimental risks with the forms and styles of intellectual writing.