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| By Database Name | By Database Topic | Government Main Page |
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| Access to Archival Databases | National Archives and Records Administration; public access, varies; bibliographic records, searchable, grouped by series (subject, geographic, time span, etc.); once retrieved, records may be internally searchable |
| Advanced Fuels Properties Database | Office of Transportation Technologies, Department of Energy; public access, current; Advanced Petroleum Based Fuels data on the physical, chemical, operational, and environmental, safety, and health properties |
| Agricola | National Agricultural Library, USDA; public access, 16th century forward; bibliographic records; describe publications and resources encompassing all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including plant and animal sciences, forestry, entomology, soil and water resources, agricultural economics, agricultural engineering, agricultural products, alternative farming practices, and food and nutrition |
| Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database (ETOH) | National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism, NIH; public access, [1965] forward; bibliographic records; alcohol research relating to medicine, sociology, anthropology, criminology, and other disciplines |
| Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles Data Center | Alternative Fuels Data Center, Department of Energy; public access, current; search information on-line at the AFDC; includes the web pages and documents (citations with abstracts and many full-text articles) |
| American FactFinder | Census Bureau; public access, 1990 forward; summary data products (such as: 1990 Decennial Census Detailed Files, American Community Survey Summary Tables, Census 2000 Dress Rehearsal Summary Files, 1997 Economic Census Summary Files) derived from data sets with pre-aggregated, or summarized, data records; search, browse, retrieve, view, print, save, and download data; request tabulations online or obtain an extract of the data set (tables) |
| American Memory: Historical Collections for the National Digital Library | Library of Congress; public access, c1400 forward; cross discipline, including topics ranging from games to technology, agriculture to education; formats include: text, maps, sound, motion pictures, photographs |
| Antarctic Names: Geographic Names Information System | USGS; public access, current; geographic names in Antarctica which are approved by the U.S. Board on Geographic Names for use by the Federal Government |
| Atomic Spectra Database | NIST; public access, current; spectroscopic data; NIST Standard Reference Database #78 |
| Budget of the US Government | Office of Management and Budget; public access, FY1996 forward; economic overview, baseline projections, statistical data, specific related documents |
| A-B | C | D-E-F | G-H-I | J | K-L | M-N | O-P-Q | R-S | T-U | V-W | X-Y-Z |
| CBER | Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, Food and Drug Administration; public access, current; under Section 351 of the Public Health Service Act and sections of the Food Drug and Cosmetic Act; information on blood, therapeutics, vaccines, products, manufacturers, etc. |
| Census 2007 Data Tables | Census Bureau; public access, 2007; data from the 2007 Census |
| Charities and Non-Profits | IRS; public access, current; electronic version of the Publication 78 Cumulative List of Organizations |
| Chemical Effects in Biological Systems | National Library of Medicine; public access, current; studies relating to environmentally associated disease and dysfunction |
| Clinical Trials | National Library of Medicine; public access, current; clinical research studies |
| Code of Federal Regulations | National Archives and Records Administration; public access, current; codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government |
| College Navigator | Department of Education; public access, current; directory of US colleges and universities |
| Commerce Business Daily | CBDNet; public access, December 1996-2002; official, free electronic version of Commerce Business Daily; proposed government procurement actions, contract awards, sales of government property, and other procurement information; replaced by Federal Business Opportunities |
| Congressional Bills | US Congress; public access, 1993 forward; published versions of bills of the House and Senate | Congressional Documents | US Congress; public access, 104th Congress forward; Congressional documents printed by the USGPO; updated irregularly, as electronic versions of the documents become available; also known as Senate, House and Treaty Documents |
| Congressional Record | US Congress; public access, 1994 forward; official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress; published daily when Congress is in session |
| Congressional Record Index | US Congress; public access, 1983 forward; official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress; published daily when Congress is in session |
| Congressional Reports | US Congress; public access, 104th Congress forward; House, Senate and Executive reports; updated irregularly as electronic versions become available |
| County Business Patterns | Census Bureau; public access; data on business establishments by state and county; includes employment size, payroll |
| CRIS: Current Research Information System | National Agricultural Library, USDA; public access, current; descriptions of current, publicly-supported research projects of the USDA agencies, the State Agricultural Experiment Stations, the State land-grant colleges and universities, State schools of forestry, cooperating schools of veterinary medicine, and USDA grant recipients |
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| Dietary Supplements Labels Database | National Library of Medicine; public access, current; ingredients for more than 3000 brands of dietary supplements |
| Drug Information Portal | National Library of Medicine; public access, current; information on over 12,000 selected drugs |
| Duckdata | Biological Resources Division, Department of the Interior; public access, varies to [1999]; bibliographic citations for North American waterfowl related literature |
| EDGAR Database | US Securities and Exchange Commission; public access, 1996 forward; submissions by companies and others who are required by law to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |
| Energy Citations Database | Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Department of Enegy; public access, 1943 forward; bibliographic records for energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy predecessor agencies |
| Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) Database | Environmental Protection Agency; public access, current; information on "greener" products and services |
| E-print Network Search | Office of Scientific and Technical Information, Department of Enegy; public access, current; browses / searches databases and websites containing records for about one million e-prints |
| ERIC | Department of Education; public access, [1966] forward; bibliographic database of education literature |
| ERIC Digests | Department of Education; public access, 1980 forward; full-text, short reports on topics of prime current interest in education |
| Federal Advisory Committee Act | GSA; public access, current; manages approximately 1,000 advisory committees government-wide |
| Federal Business Opportunities | GSA; public access, 2002 forward; government procurement actions over $25,000, contract awards, sales of government property, and other procurement information; replaced Commerce Business Daily |
| Federal Register | National Archives and Records Administration; public access, [1994] forward; official daily publication for Rules, Proposed Rules, and Notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as Executive Orders and other Presidential Documents |
| FLITE [Federal Legal Information Through Electronics] | Department of Commerce; public access, 1937-1975; Supreme Court decisions |
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| GAO Reports | US General Accounting Office (GAO); public access, [FY1994] forward; publicly released reports, sometimes referred to as "blue books"; most reports are done at the request of members of Congress |
| Gateway to Astronaut Photography of Earth | Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center; public access, [1960] forward; photographs of Earth taken by astronauts including images taken from the International Space Station |
| GenBank | National Center for Biotechnology Information; public access, current; annotated collection of publicly available DNA sequences |
| Genetic Alterations in Cancer | National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences; public access, current; "genetic alterations in tumors associated with exposure to specific chemical, physical, or biological agents" |
| Geographic Names Information System | USGS; public access, current; information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States |
| GEOnet Names Server | National Imagery and Mapping Agency; public access, current; database of foreign geographic feature names; approximately 20,000 of the database's 3.5 million features are updated monthly |
| HazDat Database [Hazardous Substance Release/Health Effects Database] | Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry; public access, current; information on release of hazardous substances from Superfund sites or from emergency events; effects of hazardous substances on the health of human populations; site and substance characteristics, activities and site events, contaminants found, contaminant media and maximum concentration levels, impact on population, community health concerns, etc. |
| Health Services/Technology Assessment Text | National Library of Medicine; public access, various dates; databases include: Surgeon Generals' Reports, Evidence Reports, ATIS publications, etc. |
| HEP Search | Fermilab; public access, [1960s] forward; high-energy physics literature database; part of the SPIRES bibliographic services |
| History of Bills and Resolutions | US Congress; public access, 1983 forward; part of the Congressional Record; published daily when Congress is in session |
| HLAS: Handbook of Latin American Studies Online | Library of Congress; public access, 1939 forward; bibliography on Latin America, citations and annotations; searchable in English, Spanish and Portuguese |
| Household Products Database | National Institutes of Health, National Library of Medicine; public access, current; safety and handling, health effects, and other information about common household products; searchable by brand / produce name, manufacturer; linked to bibliographic resources |
| Images from the History of Medicine | National Library of Medicine; public access; prints and photographs collection of the National Library of Medicine |
| Index to Marine and Lacustrine Geological Samples | US National Geophysical Data Center; public access; [1977] forward inventory information for 100,000 plus seafloor and lakebed cores, grabs, dredges, and drill samples worldwide |
| Information Bridge | Department of Energy; public access, 1948 forward; full-text and bibliographic records, research and development reports in physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics |
| Integrated Taxonomic Information System | Smithsonian Institution et al.; public access, current; taxonomic information on animals, fungi, plants and microbes; includes common and scientific names |
| International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements | National Institutes of Health; public access, 1986 forward; bibliographic information on published, international, scientific literature relating to dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals; updated quarterly |
| International Data Base | Census Bureau; public access, current; statistical tables of demographic, and socio-economic data for 200 plus countries and areas of the world |
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| MEDLINE / PubMed | National Library of Medicine; public access, 1966 forward; bibliographic citations covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, and the preclinical sciences |
| Metro Business Patterns | Census Bureau; public access; data on business establishments by Metropolitan Statistical Areas and New England County Metropolitan Areas; includes employment size, payroll |
| NASA Technical Reports Server | NASA; public access, dates vary; experimental service that allows users to search the many different abstract and technical report servers maintained by various NASA centers and programs |
| National Archeological Database | National Parks Service; public access, [1900] forward; archeological reports, permits, and maps relationg to archeological investigation and planning |
| National Geologic Map Database | USGS; public access, current; information about maps and related data for: geology, hazards, earth resources, geophysics, geochemistry, geochronology, paleontology, and marine geology |
| National Plant Germplasm System | GRIN, USDA; public access, historical, current; bibliographic and other information about plant varieties, taxonomy, research crops, etc. |
| National Register Information System | National Parks Service; public access, current; places listed in or determined eligible for the National Register of Historic Places |
| National Renewable Energy Laboratory Publications Database | National Renewable Energy Laboratory ; public access, 1977 forward; citations to technical reports, conference papers and other material relating to sustainable energy |
| National Sea Grant Library Database | NOAA with the University of Rhode Island; public access, [1970] forward; bibliographic citations, abstracts and some full-text; subject coverage includes: oceanography, aquaculture, fisheries, limnology, coastal zone management, marine recreation and law |
| National Vulnerability Database | CERT / NIST; public access, current; "standards based vulnerability management data" |
| NCJRS Abstracts Database | National Criminal Justice Reference Service; public access, c1970 forward; summaries of more than 150,000 publications on criminal justice, including Federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research; some full-text |
| NEPIS: National Environmental Publications Internet Site | Environmental Protection Agency; public access; 9000 plus full-text EPA technical and public information documents |
| North American Non-Indigenous Arthropod Database | USDA; public access; data on 2,200 plus species of non-indigenous insects and arachnids |
| NTSB Aviation Accident/Incident Database | National Transportation Safety Board; public access, 1983 forward; official repository of aviation accident data and causal factors |
| A-B | C | D-E-F | G-H-I | J | K-L | M-N | O-P-Q | R-S | T-U | V-W | X-Y-Z |
| OSHA/EPA Occupational Chemical Database | OSHA / EPA; public access, current; reference information and data compiled from several government sources on a variety of chemicals |
| Pacific Walrus International Database | USGS; public access, current; comprehensive set of Pacific walrus (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) biological data collected in the Bering and Chukchi Seas |
| Patent Databases | US Patent and Trademark Office; public access, 1976 forward; bibliographic and full-text patent databases |
| PILOTS Databases | Veterans Affairs; public access, [1990s] forward; bibliographic index of literature relating to post-traumatic stress disorders |
| PLANTS National Database | USDA; public access, current; focuses on vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens, US and territories; includes names, checklists, automated tools, identification information, species abstracts, distributional data, crop information, plant symbols, growth data, etc. |
| POPLINE | National Library of Medicine; public access, [1886] forward; citations to literature relating to population, family planning, and related health issues, including family planning technology and programs, fertility, and population law and policy |
| Poisonous Plant Database | FDA; public access, current; citations to literature relating to toxic properties and effects of plants and plant parts; links to GRIN (Germplasm Resources Information Network) where available |
| POW / MIA Database | Library of Congress; public access, [1991]; documents address treatment, location and condition information; include intelligence reports; service records; loss incident reports; loss investigations; refugee reports; past and current recovery efforts; case analysis; loss site excavation reports and archival documents found in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos; many documents are case specific, however, a large collection of documents pertain to POW/MIA policy, POW/MIA release negotiations, diplomatic activities, Senate Select Committee on POW/MIA Affairs depositions, and others that only address the Vietnam-era POW/MIA issue in general |
| Public and Private Laws | National Archives and Records Administration; public access, 1995-96 forward; enacted by Congress |
| Public Library Locator | Department of Education; public access, FY2000; search for a public library or public library outlet by state, library services, size, operating expenditures, etc. |
| Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States | National Archives and Records Administration; public access, 1996 forward; papers and speeches issued by the Office of the Press Secretary during the President's tenure |
| Public Technical Reports | Defense Technical Information Center; public access, [1994] forward; Scientific and Technical Documents; bibliographic access to DTIC's technical reports collection; some full-text |
| PubMed Central | National Library of Medicine; public access, [1997] forward; digital archive of life sciences journal literature |
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| Science Accelerator | Office of Scientific and Technical Information; public access, varies; portal site; bibliographic information for federally funded R&D, projects, etc. |
| Science Tracer Bullets Online | Library of Congress; public access, 1989 forward; an informal series (International Standard Serial Number ISSN 0090-5232) of literature guides designed to help someone begin to locate published materials on a subject about which he or she has only a general knowledge |
| Senate, House, and Treaty Documents | US Congress; public access, 104th Congress forward; Congressional documents printed by the USGPO; updated irregularly, as electronic versions of the documents become available; also known as Congressional Documents |
| Significant Earthquake Database | National Geophysical Data Center, NOAA; public access, 2150 BC forward; information on "destructive" earthquakes meeting particular criteria of damage, death, magnitude, etc. |
| Standard Industrial Classification Search | Occupational Safety and Health Administration; public access, 1987 SIC manual; search by keyword, to access descriptive information for a specified 4-digit SIC, and to examine the manual structure |
| Substance Abuse Information Database | Department of Labor; public access, [1980s forward]; educational materials, research reports, and similar resources relating to the development of a "drug-free" workplace |
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| Taxonomy: NCBI Entrez Taxonomy Homepage | National Center for Biotechnology Information; public access, current; organisms represented "in the genetic databases with at least one nucleotide or protein sequence" |
| TESS | US Patent and Trademark Office; public access, updated every one to two months; full bibliographic text of pending and registered trademarks |
| TRIS Online | Transportation Research Board, Department of Transportation; public access, current; bibliographic database, records of published and ongoing research on all modes and disciplines in the field of transportation; web-based version of TRIS |
| US Coal Resource Databases: USCOAL | USGS; public access, [1928] forward; location, quantity, and physical and chemical characteristics of U.S. coal and coal-related deposits |
| US Code | Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of
Representatives; public access, 1994 forward; general and permanent laws of the United States |
| US Gazetteer | Census Bureau; public access; places, counties, zip codes |
| USA Counties | Census Bureau; public access; data items including population and housing by state and county |
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| Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents | National Archives and Records Administration; public access, 1993 forward; published every Monday by the Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration; statements, messages, and other Presidential materials released by the White House during the preceding week |
| World Ocean Database 2005 | NOAA; public access, 2005; historical and modern observations |
| Wreck and Obstruction Information System | Office of Coast Survey, NOAA; public access; approximately 10,000 submerged wrecks and obstructions in the coastal waters of the United States; search by name, latitude, longitude |
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| Zip Code Business Patterns | Census Bureau; public access; data on business establishments by zip code; includes employment size, payroll |
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Created: 1999/09/05 Last updated: 2009/03/24
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