Tuesday, May 01, 2007

Finding Survey or Poll information for your speech/paper

Lexis- Nexis has a number of polls from The Roper Center for Public Opinion Research. To quote from Lexis-
It covers the full spectrum of public interest including politics and government, public institutions, international relations, business, social affairs and consumer behavior and preferences. ... includes actual data from a wide variety of sources in opinion polling such as Gallup, Harris, Roper; ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC; Los Angeles Times, NewYork Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal.
So how do you get to the polls? Well - go to Lexis-Nexis from the library homepage, either by the drop down menu or under Find Articles and more by title.

Once you are at Lexis-Nexis Academic, click on Reference (below)


After you click on Reference - from the center of the list choose Polls & Surveys (below)


Then try searching to see what is available - you may find some good stuff for your speech or paper. If you have any questions, contact the library.

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