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AGENCY, LIBRARY, COOPERATIVE, & PROPRIETARY SOURCES
Digitized Historical Government Documents
Cooperatives
Google Book Project: http://books.google.com/
Cooperatives, cont.
Open Content Alliance / Internet Archive: http://www.archive.org/details/USGovernmentDocuments Has separate section for digitized U.S. Government
Documents Librarians can submit materials for digital archive Better understanding of copyright-free status
Federal Agencies
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
Publications Warehouse: http://pubs.usgs.gov/ Annual Reports Bulletins Circulars Open-File Reports Water Supply Papers Water-Resources Investigations Reports
Census Bureau
Digitized copies of historical statistical volumes: http://www.census.gov/history/ Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the
United States, Colonial Times to 1970 Historical Census Reports Statistical Abstract of the U.S.: 1878-present (
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/past_years.html)
Forest Service
Treesearch: http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/ Research station publications
Forest Service publicationsare highly dispersed. It canbe useful to visit individualforest or research stationwebsites.
National Agricultural Library Digital Repository
Many core USDA series: http://naldr.nal.usda.gov/ Agriculture Handbooks Yearbook of Agriculture Reports of the Secretary Agriculture Agricultural Economic Report Miscellaneous Publications Technical Bulletins
NASA
NASA Technical Report Server: http://ntrs.nasa.gov NASA technical reports, 1958-present NACA collection, 1915-1958
NASA Images: http://www.nasaimages.org/ NASA's images, videos and audio collections Cooperative project with the Internet Archive
Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis
FRASER: http://fraser.stlouisfed.org/publications/ Banking & monetary statistics, 1896-1970 Economic Indicators, 1948-2008 Economic Report of the President, 1947-2008 Survey of Current Business, 1921-1999
ALFRED: http://alfred.stlouisfed.org/ Sets of current and “vintage” data
Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
Electronic Reading Room: http://www.foia.cia.gov/ Family Jewels UFOs Psychological warfare Space weapons Memos about other countries
Smithsonian Institution
Smithsonian Digital Library: http://www.sil.si.edu/Galaxy.cfm?id=1.1 Contributions series U.S. Exploring Expedition Biodiversity Heritage Library Collection Mosaic of Science
Department of Labor
Wirtz Labor Digital Library: http://www.dol.gov/oasam/library/digital/main.htm Department of Labor publications Trade union and labor history materials Labor leaders’ biographies Statistical abstracts
Bureau of Land Management
General Land Office records: http://www.glorecords.blm.gov/ Land Patent search for all available states Plat maps for some states
Montana plat maps: http://glo.mt.gov/
Library of Congress
American Memory collection: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
Universities & Academic Libraries
University of North Texas
Government information digital collections: http://www.library.unt.edu/govinfo/digital-collections CRS reports Experiment Station Publications Federal Newsmaps FCC Record USDA publications
University of Wisconsin
Foreign Relations of the United States: http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/
University of California, Santa Barbara
American Presidency Project: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Washington to
Taft (1789-1913) Public Papers of the Presidents: Hoover to Bush (1929-
1993) Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents:
Clinton to G.W. Bush (1993-2008)
Oklahoma State University
Digital Collections: http://digital.library.okstate.edu Kappler’s Indian Affairs: Laws & Treaties Indian Claims Commission Decisions
Cornell University
Making of America: http://cdl.library.cornell.edu/moa/
The Cornell site has the War of the Rebellion series for the Army and Navy.
University of Virginia
Digital Collections: http://lib.virginia.edu/digital/collections/ Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery
Historical Census Browser: http://fisher.lib.virginia.edu/collections/stats/histcensus State and county data for common topics,
1790-1960
George Washington University
National Security Archive: http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/index.html Declassified intelligence documents Selected documents online for free, others accessible
through Digital National Security Archive database
University of Maryland School of Law
Special Collections and Digital Projects: http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/specialcollections/ Historical Publications of the United States
Commission on Civil Rights Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports
Virginia Commonwealth University
VCU Libraries Digital Collections: http://dig.library.vcu.edu/index.php PS Magazine, the Preventive Maintenance Monthly
Yale University
Avalon Project: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
Text versions of important legal documents
Other favorites
David Rumsey Map Collection: http://www.davidrumsey.com/
Other Favorites, cont.
Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Reports (French National Library): http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37575968z/date
Proprietary
Digital Serial Set (Readex or Lexis)Hein OnlineProQuest Monthly CatalogLexis Congressional Hearing CollectionDigital Congressional Record (LexisNexis;
Hein)