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• Raad voor het openbaar bestuur
• Opmaat
• Politiek compendium
• ikregeer.nl: kamerstukken en kamervragen
• Staten-Generaal Digitaal 1914-1995
• Politiek Archief
• Vereniging van Nederlandse Gemeenten

Articles and bibliographical databases

• Online Contents
• PiCarta
• Sociological Abstracts
• Web of Science
• Documentatiecentrum Nederlandse Politieke Partijen (DNPP)- in Dutch
• International Political Science Abstracts (IPSA)
• PA@BABEL: Public Administration's database for accessing academic publications in European languages

Information of the European Union

• European Union
• Eur-Lex: acces to European Union Law
  
• European Countries (with links to the official websites of the EU-countries)

Full-text journals

• Full-text periodicals in the field of public administration, policy and governance
  Select the discipline 'Policy and Governance' and click on 'Search'.
• Complete list of full-text periodicals

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• Internet for Government and Politics

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• JSTOR: archives
• Project Muse: scholarly journals online
• IngentaConnect
• Complete list of UL databases

Internet Sources

• American Society for Public Administration
• Binnenlands Bestuur
• CPolitiek compendium
• European Group of Public Administration
• International Institute of Administrative Sciences
• Policy Studies Commons
• Politicologie.nl
• Political Studies Association Gateway
• Sociosite
• United Nations Public Administration Network
• Vereniging voor Bestuurskunde

Other resources

Reference works

• The concise Oxford dictionary of politics
• Encyclopedia of Digital Government
• Encyclopedia of Political Science
• Encyclopedia of Urban Studies
• International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences

Graduation papers, dissertations and working papers

• Graduation papers EUR Public administration
• Repub: EUR Repository
• Narcis: Gateway to Dutch scientific information
• Social Science Research Network

Newspapers

• Newspapers: Dutch and International
• Press Display
• Times Digital Archive

Statistical information and datasets

• Eurostat: Government Finance Statistics
• DANS: Data Archiving and Networked Services (The Netherlands)
• ICPSR: Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
• Databases for the social sciences (EDSC)
• StatLine: Statistics Netherlands
• SourceOECD
• UNSTAT: United Nations Statistics Division
• Worldwide Governance Indicators: 1996-2008

Top journals in the field of Public Administration – based on Impact Factor (2009)

Based on the Journal Citation Reports; some journals are available from more than one provider!

• Philosophy & public affairs
• Journal of public administration: research and theory
• Governance
• Journal of policy analysis and management
• Climate policy
• Journal of European public policy
• Journal of European social policy
• Public administration
• Public administration review
• Administration & society

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Dutch journals in the field of Public Administration

• B en M
• Bestuurskunde
• Bestuurswetenschappen
• Res publica
• Tijdschrift voor bestuurswetenschappen en publiek recht

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