Federal Government Documents and Information: Databases

Official record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress, published daily when Congress is in session. 1936-present.

Provides full text of the United States Congress legislation; Congressional Record, committee information, and historical documents.

United States Courts Opinions (USCOURTS) collection is a pilot project between the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) and the Administrative Office of the United States Courts (AOUSC) to provide public access to opinions from selected United States appellate, district, and bankruptcy courts. The content of this collection dates back to April 2004, though searchable electronic holdings for some courts may be incomplete for this earlier time period.

Provides information about U.S. Federal Courts and their judges, court records from 1999 to the present, where to locate federal courts and more.

Agriculture related citations for journal articles, monographs, proceedings, theses, patents, translations, audiovisual materials, computer software, and technical reports.

Statistics on agricultural production, supplies, consumption, facilities, costs, and returns.

Federal budget publications for fiscal years 1996 to present and the Economic Report of the President for calendar years 1995 to the present.

Provides timely, relevant, and accurate economic accounts data.

Contains descriptive records for historical and current federal publications and provides direct links to those that are available online.

Links to interactive database systems that contain continuously updated data and provide data reports.

Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1789-1924 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Chronicling America is sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

The World Factbook provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

Online access to authenticated versions of the basic federal government documents that define our democratic society, including the Federalist Papers, Articles of Confederation, and the papers of George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and Abraham Lincoln.

Datasets generated and held by the Executive Branch of the Federal Government.

The DSLD provides product information that can be organized and searched and utilized to determine total nutrient intakes from food and supplements or the content of the products.

Search the ERIC database through the EBSCO platform

Information on federal programs and services providing assistance or benefits to the American public.

Official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.

An online bibliographic (citations only) database that contains a large collection of building and fire research materials from many sources. The database reflects the 80,000 holdings (published reports, journal articles, conference proceedings, books, and audio/visual items) that have been collected by the Engineering Laboratory's Research Information Service.

Official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity.

Contains reports on audits, surveys, investigations, and evaluations of federal programs conducted by the General Accounting Office (GAO) from fiscal year 1995 through the present.

GovInfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

The CGP is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive information for historical and current publications as well as direct links to the full document, when available.

Index to all types of government documents printed by the US Government Printing Office.

Medline is the National Library of Medicine journal citation database. It provides more than 24 million references to biomedical and life sciences journal articles back to 1946. MEDLINE includes citations from more than 5,600 scholarly journals published around the world. Medline citations are a subset of the PubMed database (q.v.)

NTRS provides access to aerospace-related citations, full-text online documents, images, and videos. The types of information included are: conference papers, journal articles, meeting papers, patents, research reports, images, movies, and technical videos – scientific and technical information (STI) created or funded by NASA.

The National Security Archive combines a range of functions including investigative journalism center, research institute on international affairs, library and archive of declassified U.S. documents, leading non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act, public interest law firm defending and expanding public access to government information, global advocate of open government, and indexer and publisher of former secrets.

The North American Industry Classification System (NAICS) is the standard used by Federal statistical agencies in classifying business establishments for the purpose of collecting, analyzing, and publishing statistical data related to the U.S. business economy.

Public Access search interface (click blue button) contains an initial collection of DoD-funded published journal articles and accepted manuscripts. Additional metadata, full-text, and links to documents will be added as they are submitted to DTIC. Access to the full-text of items in this collection will be available after a maximum embargo of 12-months.

PubMed comprises over 26 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. PubMed citations and abstracts include the fields of biomedicine and health, covering portions of the life sciences, behavioral sciences, chemical sciences, and bioengineering. PubMed also provides access to additional relevant web sites and links to the other NCBI molecular biology resources.

Science.gov localizes the search functionality of over 60 databases and over 2,200 scientific websites to provide users with access to more than 200 million pages of authoritative federal science information including research and development results.

SciTech Connect connects users with science, technology, and engineering research information from the U.S. Department of Energy.

CTD contains manually curated data describing cross-species chemical-gene/protein interactions and chemical- and gene-disease relationships. The results provide insight into the molecular mechanisms underlying variable susceptibility and environmentally influenced diseases.

Full text of the Code of Federal Regulations.

Official handbook of the Federal Government with comprehensive information on agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. Also includes information on quasi-official agencies, international organizations in which the United States participates, boards, commissions, and committees.

The PLANTS Database provides standardized information about the vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its territories. It includes names, plant symbols, checklists, distributional data, species abstracts, characteristics, images, crop information, automated tools, onward Web links, and references. This information primarily promotes land conservation in the United States and its territories, but academic, educational, and general use is encouraged. PLANTS reduces government spending by minimizing duplication and making information exchange possible across agencies and disciplines.

This page lists all breaches of unsecured protected health information affecting 500 or more individuals reported within the last 24 months that are currently under investigation by the Office for Civil Rights.