LibGuides: Public Administration: Find Articles

Search Strategies

Here are some tips for better search results in databases. This usage works on most databases, but you can also check the 'Help' sections for more detailed search strategies.

Boolean: (using operators: and, or, not)

health and medicine searches for occurrences of both words within scope defined.

health or medicine searches for one or all, but both are not required.

Truncation:

govern* searches for govern, government, governmental, etc.

Wildcard:

m?n searches for man and men.

Company and Industry research databases

Check these databases for company histories, annual reports, financial indicators, equity reports, and more.

Mergent Online
Mergent Online is a database of corporate information covering over 22,000 US and foreign public companies. Information available for each company includes corporate history, lists of subsidiaries, SEC filings, etc. LIU Library barcode required
Hoover's Online
Company information on public and private enterprises in the U.S. and around the world, including company profiles, in-depth and historical financials, lists of officers, and the ability to create lists of companies by location, industry, or sales. LIU Library barcode required

Articles in Databases

Academic Search Complete This link opens in a new window
Academic Search Premier provides full text for more than 4,500 publications, including full text for more than 3,600 peer-reviewed journals. PDF backfiles to 1975 or further are available for well over one hundred journals, and searchable cited references are provided for more than 1,000 titles. This database is updated on a daily basis via EBSCOhost.

Business Source Premier
Business Source Premier provides full text for nearly 8,350 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for more than 1,100 scholarly business publications. Coverage includes virtually all subject areas related to business. This database provides full text (PDFs) for more than 350 of the top scholarly journals dating as far back as 1922.
JSTOR
Provides access to long runs of backfiles of scholarly journals, making complete archives of full text available and searchable over the World Wide Web. Coverage begins with the very first issues, many of which date from the 1800s, and extends to a "moving wall" of 2 to 5 years prior to the most recently published issue. Includes 239 journals in economics, history, political science, sociology, ecology, mathematics, statistics, archaeology, classics, and Asian, African, Slavic, Latin American, and Middle Eastern studies, as well as in other key fields in the humanities and social sciences.
LexisNexis Academic Universe
Wide-ranging database of news, legal, and business information. Includes full text articles and information from magazines, newspapers, journals, directories, and financial reports. Access company profiles, medical and health topics, state and country profiles, state and federal case law, and much more.
Sage Journals Online
Full text articles on a range of topics including education, health sciences, psychology, and public administration.

Full text electronic journals

All of the following journals are available to read, save, and print online. The links below will take you to the library catalog record for each journal. Click on any of the "Full text available" links within the record to browse articles within each journal, then enter your LIU credentials for access (if you are working from off campus).