Options for cross-searching:
- Harvard Kennedy School Think Tank Search A custom Google search of more than 575 think tank websites. The list represents a mixture of partisan and non-partisan think tanks.
- Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is designed to be "a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs." CIAO provides access to a broad range of scholarly materials published from 1991 onwards, including "working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs [non-governmental organizations], foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals, and policy briefs." Maps, country data, topical course-packs, case studies, and a schedule of events and conferences are also available on this site, as is a monthly update service for new content.
- CQ Researcher Covering today's most important issues and controversial subjects. Each weekly issue—written by an experienced journalist—is an in-depth, single-topic report featuring more than 12,000 words of text and extensive bibliographies.
- CQ Weekly reports on the activities of the United States Congress. Each issue provides announcements of upcoming Congressional events as well as a summary of the previous week's news, including the status of bills, committee and floor activity, debates and roll-call votes. This online, full-text version of the printed CQ Weekly includes an archive dating back to 1983 that is searchable by keyword and by floor vote. Users can also browse issues by date or by topic.
- National Journal Group's Policy Central National Journal’s Policy Central is a collection of resources on U.S. politics and policy, including the National Journal with archives dating back to 1977; the Hotline, a daily briefing on U.S. politics; CongressDaily, a twice daily update on activity in the U.S. Congress; Technology Daily; Poll Track; Markup Reports; Ad Spotlight; and the Almanac of American Politics.
- PAIS -- Public Affairs Information Service International indexes the public and social policy literature of public administration, political science, economics, finance, international relations, law, and health care. PAIS International, 1972-current; PAIS Archive, 1915-1976. Updated monthly.
- PolicyArchive, a non-partisan public policy research digital archive, collects videos, reports, briefs, and multimedia material of think tank, university, government and foundation-funded policy research.
- PolicyFile PolicyFile provides abstracts (more than half of the abstracts link to the full text documents) of domestic and international public policy issues. The public policy reports and studies are published by think tanks, university research programs, research organizations which include the OECD, IMF, World Bank, the Rand Corporation, and a number of federal agencies. The database search engine allows users to search by title, author, subject, organization and keyword.
- World Bank eLibrary The eLibrary offers full-text access to the complete backlist of all books, working papers, and journal articles published by the World Bank since the 1990s.
Examples of policy organization websites: