CRS Reports

Information from the congressional research service (which is a component of the Library of Congress) that conducts research and analysis for Congress on a broad range of issues of national policy.

• If you click the question mark next to the search bar, you will be able to see tips on how to search.
• Under the appropriations status tab, you can see the status of appropriations bills, as well as continuing resolutions, supplemental appropriations, and budget resolutions.

Congressional Digest

Guides readers through both sides of current legislative, judicial, and international policy debates.

• Publishes Congressional Digest, Supreme Court Debates, and International Debates.
• The front page has current “hot topic issues.”
• In the upper left hand corner, you can search using keywords.
• If you click “chronological index” at the top of the webpage, you can browse recent pro/con issues in congressional digest, supreme court debates, and international debate archives.

Gale OneFile: News

Access major U.S. and international newspapers online.

• If you sign in with your St. Edwards email address, you will be able to see search history, which could be helpful if you are doing research projects.
• Search tools include topic finder, Subject Guide Search, and publication search.
  • In the Topic Finder, you can input keywords and the database will generate a wheel of topics relating to those keywords.
  • In the subject guide search you can search by subject as well as narrow your search to publication date, peer reviewed journals, and full text articles.
  • In the publication search section you can search for specific publications as well as narrow your search by date, peer reviewed journals, type of publication, etc.

Military & Government Collection

Provides full text for journals, newspapers and other periodicals relating to all branches of the military.

• You can log in with your St. Edward’s Gmail if you want to be able to save articles to the database itself.
• You can search by keywords or you can click search options below the basic search bar for more options.
• For more information on how to search the database, click the question mark on the right hand side of the search bar.

Military and Intelligence OneFile

Search scholarly journals, magazines, and reports covering all aspects of past and present military affairs.

• If you sign in with your St. Edwards email address, you will be able to see search history, which could be helpful if you are doing research projects.
• Search tools include topic finder, Subject Guide Search, and publication search.
  • In the Topic Finder, you can input keywords and the database will generate a wheel of topics relating to those keywords.
  • In the subject guide search you can search by subject as well as narrow your search to publication date, peer reviewed journals, and full text articles.
  • In the publication search section you can search for specific publications as well as narrow your search by date, peer reviewed journals, type of publication, etc.

Newspapers+

Includes articles from many national, international and regional newspapers, as well as television and radio news transcripts from major networks.

• You can log in with your St. Edward’s Gmail if you want to be able to save articles to the database itself.
• You can search by keywords or you can click search options below the basic search bar for more options.
• For more information on how to search the database, click the question mark on the right hand side of the search bar.