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PAIS Archive (PAISArchive)

Retrospective database chronicling global public policy and social issues from the early twentieth century through the mid-1970s

Why select this database?

  • Provides selective subject and bibliographical access to periodicals, books, hearings, reports, gray literature, government publications, and other English-language materials published around the world.
  • Contains approximately 1,000,000 records, originally published in the PAIS Bulletin, 1915-1976.
  • Complements the contemporary coverage of the PAIS International database, also available on FirstSearch.
  • Links to external resources (JSTOR, NYPL Express).
Database details
Subjects

administration of justice
agriculture, forestry and fishing, and agricultural policy
banking and public and private finance
business and service sector
culture and religion
economic conditions and policy
education and education policy
energy resources and policy
environment and environmental policy
government
health conditions and policy
human rights
international relations
labor conditions and policy
law and ethics
manufacturing and heavy industry
media, telecommunications, and information policy
military and defense policy
politics
population groups, population policy, and demographics
science and technology policy
social conditions and policy
trade and trade policy
transportation and transportation policy

Note: Subject headings reflect terminology in use at the time of publication.

Sources

Over 5,000

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Number of records Over 1,200,000
Dates covered 1915-1976
Updated

Currently contains records from 1937-1976;
Future update will add records for 1915-1936.
Producer information

Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA)
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Keyword kw: agrarian policy
[keyword search can produce information from the Author, Note, Source, Standard Number, Subject, Title and Year indexes]
Accession number no: 1976-000586
Analytic source as: issues in illinois policy, volume 1 (1974)
Author au: bradley
Author phrase au= bradley, c paul
[last name first]
Corporate author co: external trade
Corporate author phrase co= japan external trade org
Document type phrase dt= monograph
First page pg: 450
Historical descriptors hd: tax relations
Historical descriptors phrase hd= intergovernmental tax relations
Issue is: 34
Notes/comments nt: translated from kommunist 1975
Publication date pd: Nov 16 '56
19561116
Publisher pb: north-holland publishing company
Series se: sage professional pas. in internat. studies
Source so: latin american research
Source phrase so= latin american research review
Special features phrase sf= bibl
tables
Standard number sn: 0094-0852 [use hyphens with ISSN numbers]
74-16933 [use hyphens with LC numbers]
0801817048 [omit hyphens with ISBN numbers]
Subject su: china
Subject phrase su= china people's republic
Subject all phrase sa= china people's republic armed forces
Title ti: nationality and citizenship
Title phrase ti= recent changes in nigerian nationality and citizenship law
Volume vo: 12
Year yr: 1957
1972-1973