1.AGENCY, LIBRARY, COOPERATIVE, & PROPRIETARY SOURCES Digitized Historical Government Documents

2. Cooperatives

Google Book Project:http://books.google.com/

3. 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

4. Federal Agencies 5. 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

6. 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 )

7. Forest Service

Treesearch:http://www.treesearch.fs.fed.us/

• Research station publications

Forest Service publications are highly dispersed. It can be useful to visit individual forest or research station websites.

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)

Electronic Reading Room:http://www.foia.cia.gov/

• Family Jewels

• UFOs

• Psychological warfare

• Space weapons

• Memos about other countries

12. 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

13. 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

14. 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/

15. 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

16. Universities & Academic Libraries 17. 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

18. University of Wisconsin

Foreign Relations of the United States:http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/FRUS/

19. 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)

20. Oklahoma State University

Digital Collections:http://digital.library.okstate.edu

• Kapplers Indian Affairs: Laws & Treaties

• Indian Claims Commission Decisions

21. 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.

22. 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

23. 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

24. 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

25. Virginia Commonwealth University

VCU Libraries Digital Collections:http://dig.library.vcu.edu/index.php

• PS Magazine, the Preventive Maintenance Monthly

26. Yale University

Avalon Project:http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm

Text versions of important legal documents

27. Other favorites

David Rumsey Map Collection:http://www.davidrumsey.com/

28. Other Favorites, cont.

Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Reports (French National Library):http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/cb37575968z/date

29. Proprietary

Digital Serial Set (Readex or Lexis)

Hein Online

ProQuest Monthly Catalog

Lexis Congressional Hearing Collection

Digital Congressional Record (LexisNexis; Hein)