In PolicyFile, professionals find information on both sides of a public policy debate. They get immediate access to over 386 think tanks, research organizations, and advocacy groups including the Hoover Institution, International Monetary Fund, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, RAND Corporation, and the World Bank.

PolicyFile indexes, abstracts, and links directly to current research on virtually every public policy issue--domestic and international. A database of over 106,000 records is updated weekly, and more than 50 percent of the abstracts link directly to the full text of research reports and studies.

PolicyFile provides:

-Fully searchable access to the research and analysis of leading policy-shaping organizations

-Access to more than 106,000 abstracts on a complete range of 75 public policy issues, both domestic and international--with 1,000 added each month

-Direct links to the full texts of policy research reports and studies available on the Web

-Direct links to the homepages of policy-related organizations and other relevant sites

-Direct links to email addresses of leading authorities and organizations in policy research

-An annual subscription to HEADLINES, an electronic newsletter featuring new records added to the database in the past week

-Powerful search and retrieval software that allows the user to retrieve information by keyword, phrase, Boolean operator, proximity, or fuzzy request.