LibGuides: Government, Politics and Public Administration: Public Administration

The following resources from Seneca Libraries and beyond have been selected by librarians (often in consultation with faculty members) as relevant and reliable information on public administration.

Public Administration Resources

Canada Commons This link opens in a new window
(Coherent Digital / Trojman Corporation) Canada Commons contains Canadian e-books, government documents, and grey literature, primarily on health, government, and public policy. New in April 2022, this database contains the content formerly found in the Gibson Canadian Electronic Library desLibris platform.
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Academic OneFile This link opens in a new window
(Gale) Provides access to a large multidisciplinary collection of more than 9600 magazines, journals, newspapers, podcasts and transcripts (NPR, CNN, CBC).
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Academic Search Premier This link opens in a new window
(EBSCO) Provides access to a large multidisciplinary database of more than 3900 magazines, journals, newspapers and trade publications.
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Canadian Reference Centre This link opens in a new window
(EBSCO) Provides access to Canadian and international magazines, newspapers, newswires, reference books and company information.
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JSTOR This link opens in a new window
(ITHAKA) Provides access to a multidisciplinary collection of over 4000 journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences.

- JSTOR does not include current issues of journals (2 to 11 year gap depending on the title).
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SAGE Journals This link opens in a new window
(SAGE Publications) A collection of full-text online scholarly journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities.

- Before running a search, check "Only content I have full access to" to retrieve only the content to which Seneca subscribes.
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Taylor & Francis Online This link opens in a new window
(Taylor and Francis) Access to three large collections from T&F: Social Science and Humanities Library, with over 1470 journals, Science and Technology Library, with over 530, and Medical Library, with over 200 titles.

- After running a search, click "Only show content I have full access to" to retrieve only the content to which Seneca subscribes.
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Wiley Online Library Journals This link opens in a new window
(Wiley) Full-text journals in the humanities, social sciences, and the pure and applied sciences.

- In this database, there is no way to limit a search to our subscribed content only. Only those results with the words "Full Access", "Open access", or "Free Access" are content to which we have access.
"Request Permission" links within search results are not applicable to Canadian institutions. For information on permitted use, please see the Licensing Terms here -- Details and Terms of Use -- or contact copyright@senecacollege.ca

Recommended Public Administration Scholarly Journals:

QP Briefing This link opens in a new window
(Toronto Star Newspapers) A news service monitoring political activity at Queen's Park and throughout the province of Ontario.
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Canadian Newsstream (formerly Canadian Major Dailies) This link opens in a new window
(ProQuest) Part of ProQuest Central. Canadian Newsstream provides access to 700 Canadian newspapers from Canada's leading publishers, including the Globe and Mail and the Toronto Star. This full-text database includes electronic compilations from most newspapers, providing access to articles, columns, editorials, and special publications from each. Some compilations date from the late 70s.
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Search Canadian Government Documents
Search multiple levels of Canadian government web sites using an amalgamated keyword search in Google.
GALLOP Portal: Association of Parliamentary Libraries in Canada
The GALLOP Portal is intended as a one-stop access point to full-text searchable electronic government documents collected by Legislative libraries in Canada for their jurisdictions.
CPAC Digital Archives
Parliament… Politics… Public Affairs… CPAC is Canada’s independent, commercial-free politics in action, providing around the clock programming focused exclusively on the people and processes shaping our country each day.

Office of the Auditor General of Canada
Publications, including searchable full text of the Reports of the Auditor General.
Office of the Auditor General of Ontario
The Office of the Auditor General is an independent office of the Legislative Assembly that conducts value-for-money and financial audits of the provincial government, its ministries and agencies.
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada
The Privacy Commissioner of Canada is an Officer of Parliament who reports directly to the House of Commons and the Senate.
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Ontario
Since January 1, 1988, the IPC has acted independently of government to uphold and promote open government and the protection of personal privacy in Ontario.
Ontario Ombudsman
Since 1975, the Ombudsman has helped Ontarians tackle problems with their government.

Enabling Legislation:

Think tank: A body of experts providing advice and ideas on specific political or economic problems.(From Oxford Dictionary of English)

Here is a list of Canadian think tanks operating in Canada. Compiled by McGill University Career Planning Service.

Click here for the portal to over 590 think tanks and research centres.

C.D. Howe Institute
An independent not-for-profit organization that aims to raise Canadians’ living standards by fostering economically sound public policies. Right of centre.
Canada West Foundation
The Canada West Foundation is an independent, non-partisan public policy think tank that focuses on the policies that shape the West, and by extension, Canada.
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Independent, non-profit research organization, to promote research on economic and social policy issues from a progressive point of view. Centre-left.
Canadian Labour Congress
The Canadian Labour Congress is the largest labour organization in Canada, bringing together dozens of national and international unions, provincial and territorial federations of labour and community-based labour councils to represent more than 3 million workers across the country.
Conference Board of Canada
An independent, applied research organization in Canada.
Fraser Institute
Conducts peer-reviewed research into critical economic and public policy issues. Right of centre.
International Labour Organization
The only tripartite U.N. agency, since 1919 the ILO brings together governments, employers and workers of 187 Member States, to set labour standards, develop policies and devise programmes promoting decent work for all women and men.
Institute for Research on Public Policy
Seeks to improve public policy in Canada by generating research, providing insight and influencing debate on current and emerging policy issues facing Canadians and their governments.
Policy Research International (PRI)
PRI is a Canadian company that specializes in the activities of research, strategy, policy and program design, evaluation and implementation of projects in the thematic areas of economics, education, energy, environment, health, social policy and technology transfer.
Wellesley Institute
A Toronto-based non-profit and non-partisan research and policy institute. Left of centre.