PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) International
Database Description
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Access:
CONNECT to the database (CURRENT, 1972-present)
CONNECT to the database (ARCHIVE, 1915-1976)
Description:
The PAIS International database from CSA contains references to more than 553,300 journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference reports, publications of international agencies, microfiche, Internet material, and more. Newspapers and newsletters are not indexed.
PAIS International includes publications from over 120 countries throughout the world. In addition to English, some of the indexed materials are published in French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish.
The PAIS Archive database comprises a retrospective conversion of the PAIS Annual Cumulated Bulletin, Volumes 1-62, published 1915-1976. At completion of this conversion, the PAIS Archive contains over 1.23 million records.
The PAIS Archive database contains references to monographs, periodical articles, notes and announcements, and analytics. The original historical subject headings have been retained in the file.
Since its establishment in 1914, PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) has chronicled issues in the public debate through highly selective coverage of a wide variety of sources. The PAIS Archive provides historical perspective on many of the 20th century's public and social policies.
Major areas of coverage include:
- Affirmative action
- AIDS
- Asbestos removal and health related issues
- Assisted Suicide
- Campaign Funding
- Child Labor
- Child Sexual Exploitation
- Citizen Militia
- Climate Change
- Cybercops
- Disaster Relief
- Ethnic Cleansing
- Female Circumcision
- Free Speech
- Generation-X
- Genetic Engineering
- Globalization
- Growth Hormones
- Gun Control
- Home Drug Testing
- Intellectual Property Rights
- Internet
- Neo-Nazis
- Ozone Depletion
- Patenting Human Genes
- Political Correctness
- Political Persecution
- Privatized Space Exploration
- Recycling
- Spousal Abuse
- Street Children
- Teen Pregnancy
- Violence on TV
- Virtual Reality
- Waste Minimization
- Weapon Stockpiles
- Workplace Violence
Archive topics include:
- Atomic Age
- China's cultural revolution
- Civil rights movement
- Cold War
- Communism, Socialism, Nationalism
- Great Depression
- Israeli-Palestinian conflict
- Korean War
- McCarthyism
- Prohibition
- Religion and public schools
- Space exploration
- United Nations and League of Nations
- Vietnam conflict
- Watergate
- Women's movement
- World Wars I and II
Coverage
- Indexing: 1915-
Information Type:
- Citations? Yes
- Abstracts? Yes
- Full Text? Via links
Frequency of Updates:
- Monthly
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