Social Policy

Key Databases for Journal Articles:

• Social Work Abstracts
• Social Services Abstracts
• PAIS Index
• Sociological Abstracts
• Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database

Other Key Databases:

• Canadian Public Documents Collection
• Conference Board of Canada e-Library

Additional Databases:

• Policy Commons
• Policy File Index
• Canadian Research Index
• Gender Studies Database
• World Development Indicators

• Search ODESI for social data.
• Canada
  • Canadian Council on Social Development - Statistics Archives of tables (Archived at Internet Archive Feb. 5, 2014)
  • Open Data Portal of Open Government
  • Statistics Canada
    • Canadian social trends
• Foreign
  • Afrobarometer
  • The Pew Project - Global Attitudes Project
  • UK Data Archive
  • UK Data Service
• United States
  • Data.gov
  • National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
  • National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
  • U.S. Census Bureau
• International
  • Eurostat - Population and social conditions
  • Sustainable Development Goals (formerly Millennium Development Goals statistics)
  • OECD iLibrary Statistics
  • Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (requires login to download data - free)
  • UN Data
  • World Bank Data Catalog
  • World Health Organization

Canadian Government Policy Cycle Guide

• Canadian Council on Social Development
• Employment and Social Development Canada
• Government of Canada Publications
• Library of Parliament research publications
• Parliament of Canada
• Policy Horizons Canada
• Statistics Canada - Canadian Social Trends
• Government of Ontario Publications

Policy Institutes

• Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
• C.D. Howe Institute
• Conference Board of Canada
• Fraser Institute
• Institute for Research on Public Policy

Legislative Process Guide

• Congress.gov (formerly Thomas.gov)
• Federal Digital Systems (FDsys)
• USA.gov (search across all levels of government)
• Library of Congress Public Policy Topics Web Archive

Policy Institutes

• American Enterprise Institute
• Brookings Institution
• Cato Institute
• Policy File Index
• RAND Corporation

• 2014 Global Go To Think Tank Index Report (listing of top international think tanks)
• European Policy Centre
• European Union European Social Policy Network
• International Labour Organization
  • World Social Security Report
• International Social Security Association
• Institute for Public Policy Research
• Organisation for Economic co-operation and Development (OECD) - social and welfare issues
• Policy Commons
• Political Party Platforms at Elections
• Think Tank Search (custom Google search, Harvard Library)
• Carleton Library Think Tanks Page
• United Nations
  • Sustainable Development Goals (formerly Millennium Development Goals)
• World Bank Social Development / Social Protection and Labor
• World Bank Working Papers
• World Health Organization