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• Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP)
  Bibliographic information for federal documents cataloged by the Government Printing Office. Covers 1976 to present.

• USA.gov
  Portal to government web sites.

• GPO Access and FDsys
  GPO Access databases contain the full text of some of the most frequently used government information sources. GPO Access databases are being moved to a new platform called FDsys. Provided by the Government Printing Office.

• LexisNexis Academic
  Provides full text of many legal pubications, including federal and state case law, bills, and statutes. Sections include General News, Government & Political News, Legal News, and Federal Case Law.

• Google: Uncle Sam (United States Government Search)

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Crime & Justice

• Crime & Justice Data Online

• National Archive of Criminal Justice Data

• National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS)
  Database of NCJRS reports. Contains more than 7,000 full-text publications.

• NCJRS: National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts  
  Information clearinghouse for research, policy, and practice related to criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control. Coverage includes books, research reports, journal articles, and federal, state, and local government reports.

• American Memory

• Century of Lawmaking

• LexisNexis Congressional
  Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information. Includes information on members of Congress and Congressional committees, a hot topics list, and full text of bills and laws. Indexes Congressional publications back to the earliest days of the government. Includes regulations

• LexisNexis Primary Sources in U.S. History
  Provides finding aids and indexes for major microfilm research collections.

• Making of America

• Nineteenth Century Masterfile
  Includes records from these sources: Congressional Record File, Descriptive Catalogue of the Government Publications of the U. S. (1774-1881; compiled by Benjamin Poore), A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents (1789-1897; compiled by James D. Richardson), Subject-matter Index of Patents for Inventions Issued by the United States Patent Office from 1790 to 1873, and Cumulative Title Index to United States Public Documents, 1789-1976 (compiled by Daniel W. Lester).

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• LexisNexis Congressional
  Comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information. Includes information on members of Congress and Congressional committees, a hot topics list, and full text of bills and laws.

• LexisNexis State Capital
  Covers state bills, laws, and statutes.

• LexisNexis Academic
  Legal Research section contains case law from all jurisdictions.

• CQ Researcher Plus Archive

• CQ Weekly

• Homeland Security Digital Library

• THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet
  Legislative information on the Internet from the Library of Congress. Includes full text of House and Senate bills and Public Laws, Bill Summary and Status database, and much more.

• World News Connection
  An online news service that covers non-U.S. media sources. Sources include English-language information and translations of non-English-language information. Content includes newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports.

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• DOE Information Bridge (Department of Energy)
  Full text and bibliographic records of Department of Energy (DOE) research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics.

• Patents Database
  In order to view the full patents, you need a TIFF viewer, such as AlternaTIFF, a free software plug-in. Note: the full-text images from 1790 - 1975 are accessible only by patent number and class number.

• Google patents

• PubMed  
  A bibliographic database providing information about articles from peer-reviewed journals covering the medical sciences. PubMed covers the mid-1960s to present. From the National Library of Medicine. See also, the PubMed Journals database.

• NTIS Database
  A selective index of titles available from the NTIS Database. Contains references to material added to the NTIS collection since 1990.

• MedlinePlus
  Health information from the world's largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine.

• Science.gov
  Highly recommended! Portal to government web sites dealing with science and research topics.

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• Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals
  Index to military periodicals. Provides to articles in English language military and aeronautical journals and magazines. Coverage: 1990 to present.

• Energy Citations Database
  Energy Citations Database (ECD) indexes technical reports and journal articles. The technical DOE technical reports are available full text. Covers 1948 to present.

• International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS)
  IBIDS contains citations and abstracts published in international scientific journals on the topic of dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, herbal and botanical supplements.

• LexisNexis Government Periodicals Index
  Indexes articles appearing in almost 180 periodicals published by federal agencies. Former names: U.S. Government Periodicals Index; Government Periodicals Universe.

• PubMed  
  A bibliographic database providing information about articles from peer-reviewed journals covering the medical sciences. PubMed covers the mid-1960s to present. From the National Library of Medicine. See also, the PubMed Journals database.

• World News Connection
  An online news service that covers non-U.S. media sources. Sources include English-language information and translations of non-English-language information. Content includes newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports.

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• American FactFinder (AFF)
  The primary distribution system for Census data. Use it to find statistics about population, housing, industry and business.

• LexisNexis Statistical
  Database has two important components: "Search Tables Research Edition" and "Search Abstracts." The database covers statistical publications from the federal government (ASI), state governments and private publishers (SRI), and intergovernmental organizations, such as the United Nations (IIS).

• EDGAR: SEC Filings & Forms
  Provides access to the complete text of all SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) filings for corporations participating in EDGAR (Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval).

• Equal Employment Opportunity File (2000)
  Tabulations of race, ethnicity, and sex composition of the labor market; includes data within a specified geography and job category. Also see Census '90: Detailed Occupation by Race, Hispanic Origin and Sex.

• O-Net (Occupational Information Network)
  "O-NET is the nation's primary source of occupational information." It is a comprehensive database system for collecting, organizing, describing and disseminating data on job characteristics and worker attributes. Replaces the Dictionary of Occupational Titles (DOT).

• Regional Accounts Data
  Presents Gross State Product, State Personal Income, and Local Area Personal Income. Data are available for multiple years. Produced by the Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA). The section on Local Area Personal Income is also known as Regional Economic Information System (REIS). Also see Morris Library, Microforms CD-ROM 28.

• STAT-USA
  Business, trade and economic information from more than 50 federal agencies.

• USA Trade Online
  The resource to go to for import and export statistics. Available only in the Morris Library.

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Taxes

• RIA Checkpoint

• Search for Charities
  Searchable database of organizations eligible to receive tax-deductible charitable contributions. Replaces: Publication 78, Cumulative List of Organizations described in Section 170(c) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 (no longer available in print). Updated by: Recent Revocations of 501(c)(3) Determinations.

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