Wilson's Social Sciences Abstracts Provides access to citations for articles and book reviews published in over 415 major international English-language scholarly journals in the social sciences. A great database for beginning research on topics in anthropology, sociology, psychology, political science and many other disciplines in the social sciences. Such agencies can be at international, national, state, regional, county, or local levels. In addition to typical government documents such as laws, congressional hearings, and court reports, there are a variety of materials on a wide range of topics. These include such things as census data, economic data, educational reports, environmental studies, industrial surveys, health information, marketing research, legal materials, and statistics on just about any subject imaginable.
Government information is considered to be a primary source.
Primary sources are defined as the raw, unanalyzed material that is the starting point and basis of all good research. A primary source can also be anything that offers a first-hand account, such as letters, maps, photographs, paintings, a poem, the manuscript of a novel, a newspaper advertisement, a diary, transcripts of congressional hearings, census data, statistics or a report. Generally, you should search Blais for government publications owned by the libraries. Also, look in Finding Government Publications in the Libraries of the Claremont Colleges. Not all of the government's publications are in Blais, and some require special finding tools to locate them.