ADDITIONAL LINKS

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  CRS Reports
  Country Information
  Crime & Justice
  Education
  FastStats
  Health
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• Child Welfare Information Gateway
  • 32,000 abstracts/summaries of journal articles, books, technical reports with contact information on obtaining the materials.
  • 1960-current date.
  • ADVANCED SEARCH: Search by title, author, keywords, document type, year.
  • To limit search to journal articles, use ADVANCED search form and in DOCUMENT TYPE box enter journal article.
  • A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

CRIMINAL JUSTICE     top

• National Criminal Justice Reference Center Abstracts Database [NCJRS]
  • 160,000 citations to articles from scholarly journals, criminal justice trade publications, books, federal, state, and local government reports and unpublished research.
  • 1970's-current date.
  • Some full-text links to Department of Justice publications, 1995-current date.
  • To limit search to journal articles, include the word "journal" in the main search box along with your keywords.
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• NCJRS Virtual Library
  • 7,000 full-text publications.
  • Searches the NCJRS web site and the web sites of the agencies of the Office of Justice Programs and the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy.

EDUCATION     top

• National Center for Education Statistics [NCES]
  Search for statistics and full-text analytical publications from NCES, the primary federal entity for collecting and analyzing data related to education.
   
• Educator's Reference Desk [ERIC]
  • More than one million abstracts of education-related documents and journal articles.
  • Published and unpublished reports collected by ERIC Clearinghouses.
  • Curriculum materials and lesson plans.
  • Full-text ERIC Digests.
  • To limit to journal articles, at bottom of screen check LIMIT to JOURNAL ARTICLES.
  • Administered by the National Library of Education, U.S. Department of Education.
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• National Academies Press
  • 2500 full-text books in all science disciplines (behavioral science, biology, computer science, education, environment, mathematics, and more)
  • From National Academy of Sciences
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• Science Education (science.gov)
  • Resources for kids, parents, and teachers.
  • Full text and abstracts/citations.
  • Research reports and statistics.
  • This is a sub-page of science.gov.

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ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES     top

• Agricola
  • 3,600,000 citations to journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audio-visual materials, and technical reports, 1979-current date.
  • Indexes 850 journals.
  • To limit to journal articles, include Keyword: periodicals in your search.
  • A service of the National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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• Biology & Nature (science.gov)
  • Animals, plants, biocomplexity, biotechnology, ecology, genetics, natural resources, pest control, and more.
  • Full text and abstracts/citations.
  • This is a sub-page of science.gov.

• Congressional Research Service Reports [National Library for the Environment]
  • Full-text eports produced by the Congressional Research Service, a branch of the Library of Congress providing nonpartisan research reports to members of the House and Senate.
  • 1192 CRS Reports on environmental and related topics.
  • Search by title, author, keyword.
  • Browse Topics: Biodiversity, Climate Change, Economics & Trade, Wetlands and more.
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• EPA Publications: National Environmental Publications Internet Site [NEPIS]
  • Content-based access to the full text of over 9,000 archival and current EPA publications online.
  • Subject areas include water quality, wastewater, pesticides, ecological issues, wetlands, and many more environmental-related areas.
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• National Academies Press
  • 2500 full-text books in all science disciplines (behavioral science, biology, computer science, education, environment, mathematics, and more)
  • From National Academy of Sciences
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• Natural Resources and Conservation (science.gov)
  • Biocomplexity, ecosystems, energy, forestry, land and more.
  • Full text and abstracts/citations.
  • This is a sub-page of science.gov.
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• Plants National Database
  • Classification, phylogeny, images, information about plant research.
  • Focuses on the vascular and nonvascular plants of the United States and its territories. Includes checklists, species abstracts, distributional data, crop information, plants symbols, plant growth data, references and other plant information.
  • From USDA.

HEALTH/MEDICINE     top

• Combined Health Information Database
  • Bibliographic database produced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government.
  • Provides titles, abstracts, and availability information for health information and health education resources.
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• Medline Plus
  • Full text current, authoritative information from National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health
  • Health topics, drug information, medical encyclopedia, clinical trials, health news, directories of physicians/dentists.
  • Searchable and browsable.
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• National Academies Press
  • 2500 full-text books in all science disciplines (behavioral science, biology, computer science, education, environment, mathematics, and more)
  • From National Academy of Sciences
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• National Library of Medicine: Databases
  • Links to databases and electronic information
  • From National Institutes of Health.
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• NLM Gateway
  • Links to databases with articles, abstracts, on health issues.
     
• NLM/NIH Resources: Databases
  • Links to NLM/NIH databases.
  • Links to other federal government resources.
  • Links to other health-related databases (Merck, for example).
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• Nutrient Data Laboratory
  • Food composition and nutrition data.
  • From USDA.
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• PubMed  
  • 11 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's and additional life science journals.
  • Links to full-text in PubMed Central are available from PubMed citations.
  • To limit to a specific journal, click on LIMITS and select JOURNAL.
  • A service of the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.
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• Health & Medicine (science.gov)
  • Alternative medicine, biomedical technologies, diseases and medical conditions, drugs and pharmacology, food and nutrition, health care, diagnostic procedures, medical devices, mental health and behavior, occupational health and safety, surgery, therapies.
  • Full text and abstracts/citations.
  • This is a sub-page of science.gov.

HOUSING & COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT     top

• HUD User
  • Bibliographic database dedicated exclusively to housing and community development issues.
  • 8,000 full-abstract citations to research reports, articles, books, monographs, and data sources in housing policy, building technology, economic development, urban planning, and a host of other relevant fields.
  • Search by title, author, full text, date. Boolean.
  • Links to some full-text HUD publications.
  • Full-text periodicals at HUD User.
  • A service of the Office of Policy Development and Research, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development

LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES     top

•  Handbook of Latin American Studies [HLAS]
  • Online bibliography of Latin America selected and annotated by scholars.
  • Contains both humanities and social sciences literature, in disciplines including Anthropology, Art, Economics, Geography, Government & Politics, International Relations, Literature, Music, Philosophy and Sociology.
  • Approximately 300,000 citations to books, book chapters, journal articles, and published conference proceedings.
  • Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress

SCIENCE     top

• National Academies Press
  • 2500 full-text books in all science disciplines (behavioral science, biology, computer science, education, environment, mathematics, and more)
  • From National Academy of Sciences
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• Science.gov
  • Gateway to science information from U.S. government agencies.
  • Includes research and development results.
  • Two major types of information are included—selected authoritative science Web sites and databases of technical reports, journal articles, conference proceedings, and other published materials.
  • Participating agencies: Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health & Human Services, Interior, EPA, NASA, National Science Foundation..

• Science Accelerator
  Science Accelerator can search by keyword, author, title, date the following:
  • Electronic full-text research reports (including DOE scientific and technical information)
  • Energy citations (millions of them, going back to the Manhattan Project era)
  • Ongoing research project summaries (what's happening right now in DOE science research)
  • Wonderful DOE accomplishments in science
  • E-prints (journal article pre-publication drafts, scholarly papers, and more)
  • Proceedings and papers from science conferences
  • More resources
     
• PLos: Public Library of Science
  Full text: PLoS publishes peer-reviewed, open access scientific and medical journals that include original research as well as timely feature articles. All PLoS articles are immediately freely accessible online, are deposited in the free public archive PubMed Central, and can be redistributed and reused according to the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License.
   
• SciTechResources
  • Online databases that allow you to search ongoing or completed government research. These database resources allow you to quickly locate government publications, articles, and reports. For ongoing research, a point of contact is provided.
     
• Computer & Insormation Science: CiteSeer
  CiteSeer is a scientific literature digital library and search engine that focuses primarily on the literature in computer and information science. CiteSeer was developed in 1997 at the NEC Research Institute, Princeton, New Jersey, by Steve Lawrence, Lee Giles and Kurt Bollacker. It is now hosted at the Pennsylvania State University's College of Information Sciences and Technology under the direction of Professor Lee Giles. Isaac Councill is the CiteSeer adminstrator and technical director. The CiteSeer model was used to create a similar search engine, SmealSearch, for academic business documents. CiteSeer also provides mirrors at other sites.
   
• Energy: Department of Energy: For Researchers
  • Links to information on research grants.
     
• Energy: DOE Information Bridge
  • 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.
  • 1995-current date.
  • To limit to journal article, do an ADVANCED search and select DOCUMENT TYPE: journal article.
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• Energy: Energy and  Energy Conservation (science.gov)
  • Energy conservation, energy efficiency, energy policy, fossil use, nuclear power, renewable sources, and more.
  • Full text and abstracts/citations.
  • Includes sources from U.S. Dept. of Energy and other agencies.
  • This is a sub-page of science.gov.
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• Energy: Energy Citations Database
  • Bibliographic records of literature in disciplines of interest to Department of Energy such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines.
  • Citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents.
  • 1948-current date, with regular updates.
     
• Energy: Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC)  Report Collection. This full-text collection provides access to unclassified, unlimited documents. It is a growing subset of almost 42,000 reports referenced and available in STINET, which dates back to 1974. Subject areas include biological and medical sciences, environmental pollution and control, behavioral and social sciences, and patents and patent applications.
   
• Energy: DOE Information Bridge Report Collection. This site performs full-text searching across over 65,000 reports and over 4.3 million pages. Bibliographic citations are also available. Subject areas include physics, chemistry, materials, biology, environmental sciences, energy technologies, engineering, computer and information science, renewable energy, and other topics. Full text is available for reports from 1995 forward.
   
• Energy: EPA Publications: National Environmental Publications Internet Site [NEPIS]. This site offers an increasing number of archival and current EPA documents online. Subject areas include water quality, wastewater, pesticides, ecological issues, wetlands, and many more environmental-related areas. With over 9,000 documents, NEPIS is EPA's largest electronic documents site..
   
• Geology: Publications of the U.S. Geological Survey
  Catalogs, locators, and collections of U.S.G.S. publications.
   
• Nanotechnology [NTIS]
  NTIS has over 700 publications in its collection on the emerging field of nanotechnology. This broad and interdisciplinary field has been growing explosively in the past few years. While understanding of nanotechnology is just beginning to unfold, its tremendous potential for revolutionizing the ways in which materials and products are created is just beginning to show significant commercial impact.
   
• National Technical Information Service (NTIS)
  Comprehensive resource for federally funded scientific, engineering, and business-related information. The database provides some full-text access and indexes over two million publications back to 1990.
   
• NasaTechnical Reports Server [NTRS[
  NTRS provides access to NASA's current and historical aerospace research and engineering results. NTRS integrates three separate information collections and enables search and retrieval of information through a common interface:
  • NACA Collection: Citations and reports from the NACA Technical Report Server (TRS), http://naca.larc.nasa.gov, are now in NTRS. The NACA TRS site is retired and no longer in service following the consolidation of citations and reports into NTRS. The NACA collection is historical information from the NACA period lasting from 1915 to 1958.
  • NASA Collection: Citations and documents created or sponsored by NASA. The NASA collection time period starts in 1958 and continues to the present.
  • NIX Collection: Citations and images, photos, movies and videos downloaded from the NASA Image eXchange and served out through NTRS. NIX is a separate system and users can go directly to the NIX to search imagery as well as through NTRS.
     
• OSTI: Office of Science and Technology Information
  • The Office of Scientific and Technical Information (OSTI) leads Department of Energy (DOE) e-government initiatives for disseminating R&D information.
  • Links to citations, full text reports, scientific journals, preprint servers, information by subject, and R&D accomplishments.
     
• Patents: U.S. Patent Database.
  This site provides full image access to all U.S.-granted patents back to 1790, with full-text searching back to 1976 and the full-text of published applications. The database also enables searching for references, which can include articles, reports, and proceedings.
   
• Physics: Spires High-Energy Physics (HEP) Database.
  The SPIRES-HEP database has been run by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center(SLAC) since the late 1960's as a database of particle physics literature. This database comprehensively indexes over 500,000 articles, papers, preprints, and technical reports. Most of the materials are available in full text, with coverage extending back to 1974.
   
• Transportation Research Information Services (TRIS Online).
  This database provides access to nearly 500,000 records in transportation-related fields. Sources include books and articles as well as some full-text research studies, technical reports, and conference papers. Access: http://trisonline.bts.gov/sundev/search.cfm.

SOCIAL SCIENCES     top

• Access to Archival Databases (AAD) [National Archives]
  • Online access to more than 350 databases, which were created by over 20 Federal agencies. NARA plans to expand the system to more than 500 databases.
  • Notable databases in the initial release of AAD include:
    --Preservation survey of Civil War sites
    --Combat casualties from the Vietnam and Korean Wars
    --POWs from World War II and Korean War
    --Japanese-American Internee Files from World War II
    --Port of New York ship passenger lists,1846-1851 (Irish Famine database)
    --Death records from the Gorgas Hospital Mortuary in Panama, 1906-1991
    --Indexes to black and white and color NASA photographs, 1958-1991
    --After action combat and air sortie reports from the Vietnam War
    --Military Prime Contracts in excess of $10,000, 1965-1975
    --Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Ownership Reporting System, 1978-1998
    --SEC Proposed Sales of Securities System (Insider trading), 1972-1993
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• Alcohol & Alcohol Problems Science Database [ETOH]
  • Database of historic alcohol-related research information covering 1972-2003.
  • 110,000 abstracts and bibliographic references to journal articles, books, dissertation abstracts, conference papers and proceedings, reports and studies, and chapters in edited works.
  • Search by title, author, publication, year.
  • A service of the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism.

• National Academies Press
  • 2500 full-text books in all science disciplines (behavioral science, biology, computer science, education, environment, mathematics, and more)
  • From National Academy of Sciences
     
• National Archeological Database
  • The National Archeological Database, Reports module, is an expanded bibliographic inventory of over 350,000 reports on archeological investigation and planning, mostly of limited circulation. this "gray literature" represents a large portion of the primary information available on archeological sites in the U.S.
  • Search by keyword, state, county, author, title, publication date, worktype, cultural, material, and more.
     
• Child Welfare Information Gateway
  • 32,000 abstracts/summaries of journal articles, books, technical reports with contact information on obtaining the materials.
  • 1960-current date.
  • ADVANCED SEARCH: Search by title, author, keywords, document type, year.
  • To limit search to journal articles, use ADVANCED search form and in DOCUMENT TYPE box enter journal article.
  • A service of the Children's Bureau, Administration for Children and Families, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services

• PopLine
  • Bibliographic reproductive health database with citations and abstracts of worldwide literature in the field of population, family planning, and related health issues including teenage pregnancy and AIDS.
  • 285,000+ records including journal articles, newspaper articles, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations, conference papers, laws, bills, and court decisions, and limited-distribution unpublished reports.
  • Updated 1st and 3rd Monday of each month.
  • Use Expert Search to search by author, title, keyword, subject, language, source, and date.
  • This database is funded primarily by the United States Agency for International Development. 
     
• Population Index
  • Annotated bibliography of recently published books, journal articles, working papers, and other materials on population topics.
  • Searchable and browsable database containing 46,035 abstracts of demographic literature published 1986-2000.
  • Search by author, subject, region or free-text appearing anywhere in a citation. Limit by year or range of years.
  • Compiled by Office of Population Research, Princeton University, with support from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the U.S. Agency for International Development.

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