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Subject Guide for Journalism and Mass Communication
Finding Public Opinion Information
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Data Sets and Archives
- ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research)
Databases
- CU Polling the Nations
- CU LexisNexis Academic (Information from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research)
- From the News menu, select "Reference" from the menu on the left, then "Polls and Surveys"
- CU PAIS International
- search for articles: "public opinion" and [your topic here]
Print Indexes
- American Public Opinion Index [Norlin Reference, HM261 .A463, 1981 - 2000]
- The Gallup Poll [Norlin Reference, HN90.P8 G3, 1935 - present]
- The Gallup Poll Tuesday Briefing [Norlin Reference, HM261 .G34, Oct 2003 - present]
- Index to International Public Opinion [Norlin Reference, HM261 .I552, 1979 - 1997]
Reference Works
- Voter's Guide to Election Polls [Norlin Stacks, HN90.P8 T73 2000]
- Polling and the Public: What Every Citizen Should Know [Norlin Stacks, HM261 .A74 1998]
- Dictionary of Polling [Norlin Stacks, HM261 .Y684 1992]
- National Council on Public Polls
Periodicals
- World Opinion Update
- Print: Norlin Periodical Room, AP2 .W6, 1977 - present
- National Journal
- Print: Norlin Periodical Room, JK1 .N28, 1970 - present
- Online: Academic Search Premier [2000 - 14 days ago], Expanded Academic ASAP [1998 - 2001]
- Public perspective: a Roper Center review of public opinion and polling
- Print: Norlin Periodical Room, HM261 .P84, 1989 - 2003
- Online: LexisNexis Academic [Nov 1989 - June 2003]
- Public Opinion Quarterly
Internet Resources (Domestic)
- Pew Research Center for the People and the Press
- Public Agenda
- PollingReport.com
- Program on International Policy Attitudes
- American National Election Studies
- The Odum Institute Data Archive
- Harris Poll
- Zogby International
Internet Resources (International)

