Listed below are some federal resources useful to researchers in an
array of general and specific subject areas. Most of these resources
will provide the researcher with full-text, agency derived information,
but a number of them will also provide periodical, or non-government
information as
well. This web
page is not a product of the Cline Library or the U.S. Documents
Collection at Northern Arizona University. This page is updated on an
annual basis, but on occasion, bad links may be encountered. Over time,
several of these databases have evolved into different products or
simply ceased to exist. If you have any questions or comments regarding
this page, or the information contained herein, please feel free to
contact me at: sean.evans@nau.edu
GPO
Access
Online Resources: A-Z Resource List (U.S. Government Printing Office)
This service arranges U.S. Government sites by topic. The main list of
topics is based upon the current Guide
to U.S. Government Information, also known as The Subject Bibliography
Index (SuDoc number GP 3.22/2:996/IND.)
www.gpoaccess.gov/databases.html
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
The Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance is a government-wide
compendium of Federal programs, projects, services, and activities
which provide assistance or benefits to the American public. It
contains financial and nonfinancial assistance programs administered by
departments and establishments of the Federal government.
www.cfda.gov/
Catalog of United States Government Publications
The Catalog of United States Government Publications indexes print
and electronic Government information products created by Federal
agencies. Many of these products were distributed through the Federal
Depository Library Program. The Catalog data set contains authoritative
bibliographic records generated since January 1994 and is updated daily.
catalog.gpo.gov/F
ChildStats.gov
This web site offers easy access
to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their
families,
including: population and family characteristics, economic security,
health,
behavior and social environment,and education.
www.childstats.gov/
More than 70 agencies in the United States Federal Government
produce statistics of interest to the public.
The Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy maintains this
site
to provide easy access to the full range of statistics and information
produced by these agencies for public use.
www.fedstats.gov
FedWorld
In 1992, FedWorld was established by The National Technical Information
Service(NTIS), an agency of the U.S
Department of Commerce, to serve as the online locator service for a
comprehensive inventory of information disseminated by the Federal
Government.
www.fedworld.gov
GPO Access (U.S.
Government Printing Office)
GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that
provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information
products produced by the Federal Government.
The information provided on this site is the official, published
version
and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without
restriction, unless specifically noted. This free service is funded by
the Federal Depository Library Program and has grown out of Public Law
103-40, known as the Government Printing Office Electronic Information
Enhancement Act of 1993.
www.gpoaccess.gov/
GrayLit Network (Department of Energy)
The GrayLIT
Network makes the gray literature of U.S. Federal Agencies easily
accessible over the Internet. It taps into the search
engines of distributed gray literature collections, enabling the user
to
find information without first having to know the sponsoring agency.
The
GrayLIT Network is the world's most comprehensive portal to Federal
gray
literature. By offering a mode of communication for this hard-to-find
class
of literature, the GrayLIT Network enables convenient access by the
American
public to government information.
www.osti.gov/graylit/
State Fact Sheets (U.S.
Dept. of Agriculture)
State fact sheets provide information on population, employment,
income, farm characteristics, and farm financial indicators for each
state in
the United States.
www.ers.usda.gov/StateFacts/
AGRICOLA (National
Agriculture Library)
AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a bibliographic database of
citations to the agricultural literature
created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators.
Production
of these records in electronic form began in 1970, but the database
covers
materials in all formats, including printed works from the 15th
century.
The records describe publications and resources encompassing all
aspects
of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary
sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and
fisheries,
farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and
education,
food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
AGRICOLA
does not contain the materials, but it does identify and help locate
them.
agricola.nal.usda.gov/
National Agricultural
Statistics
Service
NASS publishes U.S., state, and county level agricultural statistics
for many commodities and data series. Your
custom, query dataset will be available in a file for easy use in your
database
or spreadsheet.
www.nass.usda.gov/
Plants Database
The PLANTS Database is a single source of standardized information
about plants. This database focuses on vascular plants, mosses,
liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its
territories. The PLANTS Database includes names, checklists, automated
tools, identification information, species abstracts, distributional
data,
crop information, plant symbols, plant growth data, plant materials
information,
plant links, references, and other plant information.
plants.usda.gov/
TEKTRAN Technology Transfer Automated Retrieval System
TEKTRAN summaries on the Internet are "snapshots in time" -- selected
pre-publication notices -- of recent research results from the
Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department
of Agriculture.
www.ars.usda.gov/services/TekTran.htm
EDGAR Database
of Corporate Information
EDGAR, the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval system,
performs automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and
forwarding submissions by companies and others who are required by law
to file forms with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
Its primary purpose is to increase the efficiency and
fairness of the securities market for the benefit of investors,
corporations,
and the economy by accelerating the receipt, acceptance, dissemination,
and analysis of time-sensitive corporate information filed with the
agency.
www.sec.gov/edgarhp.htm
Trade Information Center
The Trade Information Center (TIC)
is a comprehensive resource for information on all U.S. Federal
Government export assistance programs. The Center is operated by the
International Trade Administration of the U.S. Department of Commerce
for the 20 federal agencies comprising the Trade Promotion Coordinating
Committee (TPCC).
These agencies are responsible for managing the U.S. Government's
export
promotion programs and activities.
www.ita.doc.gov/td/tic
BJA Law
Enforcement Training Database
The BJA Training Database is a catalog of all federally funded and
supported training available to state and
local law enforcement officials. Each database listing includes the
training
provider, a course description, eligibility criteria, and contact
information.
bjatraining.aspensys.com/
National
Archive of Criminal Justice
Data (NACJD)
The National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) is a special
topic archive of the Inter-university Consortium
or Political and
Social Research (ICPSR) at the University of Michigan. NACJD acquires,
archives, processes, and
provides access to
electronic criminal justice data collections for research and
instruction. The NACJD Web site provides
downloadable access
to hundreds of criminal justice data collections free of charge.
www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/archive.html
ChildStats.gov
This web site offers easy access to federal and state
statistics and reports on children and their families, including:
population and family characteristics, economic security, health,
behavior and social environment,and education.
www.childstats.gov/
Office of Post Secondary Education College Search
Security Database
Searchable database for
Campus security.
www.ope.ed.gov/security/search.asp
COOL- College Opportunities Online Locator
COOL
College Opportunities
On-Line is your direct link to nearly 7,000 colleges and universities
in the United States. If you are thinking about a large university, a
small liberal arts college, a specialized college, a community college,
a career or technical college or a trade school, you can find them all
here.
nces.ed.gov/ipeds/cool/
Career Guide to
Industries (U.S. Department of Labor)
The Career Guide to Industries provides information on available
careers by industry, including the nature of the industry, working
conditions, employment, occupations in the industry,
training and advancement, earnings and benefits, employment outlook,
and
lists of organizations that can provide additional information.
www.bls.gov/oco/cg/
Occupational Outlook Handbook (U.S. Department of Labor)
The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a nationally recognized
source of career information, designed to provide valuable assistance
to individuals making decisions about their future
work lives. Revised every 2 years, the Handbook describes wgat
workers do on the job, working conditions, the training and education
needed,
earnings, and expected job prospects in a wide range of occupations.
www.bls.gov/oco/
O*NET OnLine (U.S. Department of Labor)
Welcome to O*NET OnLine, your window on the world of work. O*NET OnLine
is an application that was created
for the general public-to provide broad access to the O*NET database of
occupational information.
online.onetcenter.org/
Related
Database. See: CareerOverview.com
CareerOverview.com
is a non-commercial website dedicated to providing aspiring career
professionals and students with relevant, reliable and up-to-date
career and job information whereby helping them to make better, more
informed career choices. While not a federal site, much if the
information found in CareerOverview .com is sourced from federal
resources. This makes it a good companion to O*Net Online, and the Occupational Outlook Handbook.
www.careeroverview.com
DOE Information Bridge
The DOE
Information Bridge provides free and convenient access to
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.
www.osti.gov/bridge/
Energy Citations Database
The
Energy Citations Database (ECD) is designed and developed by the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Scientific and Technical
Information (OSTI) with the science-attentive citizen in mind. Its
creation is consistent with OSTI's objective to provide easier and
faster access to the Department's scientific and technical information.
Energy Citations is publicly available without charge to users. Energy
Citations contains bibliographic records for energy and energy-related
scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy
(DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research &
Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission
(AEC). The Database provides access to DOE publicly available citations
from 1948 through the present, with continued growth through regular
updates.
www.osti.gov/energycitations/
GrayLit Network (Department of Energy)
The GrayLIT
Network makes the gray literature of U.S. Federal Agencies easily
accessible over the Internet. It taps into the search
engines of distributed gray literature collections, enabling the user
to
find information without first having to know the sponsoring agency.
The
GrayLIT Network is the world's most comprehensive portal to Federal
gray
literature. By offering a mode of communication for this hard-to-find
class
of literature, the GrayLIT Network enables convenient access by the
American
public to government information.
www.osti.gov/graylit/
Department of Energy OpenNet
Database
The
Department of Energy is committed to openness. In support of that
commitment, we have developed OpenNet to provide easy, timely
access to recently declassified information, including information
declassified in response to Freedom of Information Act requests. This
database will be updated regularly as more information becomes
available.
www.osti.gov/opennet/
Envirofacts
Data Warehouse and Applications
The
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created the
Envirofacts Warehouse to provide the public with direct access to the
wealth
of information contained in its databases. The Envirofacts Warehouse
allows
you to retrieve environmental information from EPA databases on Air,
Chemicals,
Facility Information, Grants/Funding, Hazardous Waste, Superfund, Toxic
Releases, and Water Permits, Drinking Water, Drinking Water Contaminant
Occurrence, and Drinking Water Microbial and Disinfection Byproduct
Information
(Information Collection Rule [ICR]). You may retrieve information from
several
databases at once, or from one database at a time. Online queries allow
you to retrieve data from these sources and create reports, or you may
generate
maps of environmental information by selecting from several
Mapping
Applications.
www.epa.gov/enviro/index.html
HazDat Database (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry)
HazDat,
the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry's
Hazardous Substance Release/Health Effects Database, is the scientific
and administrative database developed to provide access to information
on the release of hazardous substances from Superfund sites or from
emergency events and on the effects of hazardous substances on
the health of human populations.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov/hazdat.html
Mohave Desert Ecosystem Program (Department of Defense)
The Mojave
Ecosystem Database Program (MEDP)
represents the Department
of Defense's (DOD) first attempt to meld together a shared scientific
database that can be used to affect dynamic sustainable land management
decisions. MDEP is not in and of itself a management process, but
a tool to make possible more accurate modeling of environmental factors
that will facilitate data driven management within the Mojave
Ecoregion. Additionally, MEDP fits within the
framework more broadly based management plans being promulgated under
the Department of the Interior.
www.mojavedata.gov/dataindex.php
ToxFAQs (Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry)
ATSDR
ToxFAQsTM is a series of
summaries
about hazardous substances being developed by the ATSDR Division of
Toxicology. Information for this series is excerpted from the ATSDR
Toxicological Profiles and Public Health Statements. Each fact sheet
serves
as a quick and easy to understand guide. Answers are provided to the
most
frequently asked questions (FAQs) about exposure to hazardous
substances
found around hazardous waste sites and the effects of exposure on human
health.
www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxfaq.html
Toxic Release Inventory
The
Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) contains
information about more than 650 toxic chemicals that are being used,
manufactured,
treated, transported, or released into the environment.
www.epa.gov/enviro/html/toxic_releases.html
GATHER Map Servers
at
CDC
The
Geographic Analysis Tool for Health and Environmental Research
(GATHER) is a software application that facilitates the viewing and
analysis of geographic information system data over the intra/internet
via an easy-to-use Java interface with a graphic web browser.
gis.cdc.gov/
GEO-DATA Explorer
Use GEO-Data Explorer (GEODE) to
access, view, and download information
from geo-spatial databases containing a broad spectrum of data produced
by the USGS and other government agencies.
dss1.er.usgs.gov
Geographic Names
Information
System
The
Geographic Names Information System (GNIS), developed by the USGS
in cooperation with the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN), contains
information about almost 2 million physical and
cultural geographic features in the United States. The Federally
recognized
name of each feature described in the data base is identified, and
references are made to a feature's location by State, county, and
geographic coordinates.
http://geonames.usgs.gov/gnishome.html
National Atlas
Work
on a new National Atlas of the
United States® began in 1997. This Atlas updates a large bound
collection
of paper maps that was published in 1970. Like its predecessor, this
edition promotes greater national geographic awareness. It delivers
easy to use, map-like views of America's natural and sociocultural
landscapes.
www.nationalatlas.gov
Online Maps and Aerial Photo Images Online
The
links will take you to selected USGS Business and Cooperative
Research and Development Agreement partner sites where you may view
USGS maps and aerial photo images from your Web browser.
mapping.usgs.gov/partners/viewonline.html
Official Federal Lands Patent Database
We provide live database access to Federal land conveyance records for
the Public Land States. Image access is provided to more than two
million Federal land title records for Eastern Public
Land States, issued between 1820 and 1908.
www.glorecords.blm.gov
TIGER Map Service
Welcome to the home page for the
TIGER Map Service, a
project sponsored
by the U.S. Bureau of the Census. The
goal of this service is to provide a public resource for generating
high-quality, detailed maps of anywhere in the United States, using
public geographic data.
tiger.census.gov/cgi-bin/mapbrowse-tbl
Earthquake
Hazards Program (USGS)
This
page provides access to all sorts of current and historic
information regarding earthquakes.
earthquake.usgs.gov/index.html
Mineral Resources Program (USGS)
The Mineral Resources Program provides and
communicates current, impartial information on the occurrence, quality,
quantity, and availability of mineral resources.
minerals.usgs.gov/
USGS Surface-Water Data
for the Nation
This database is a
collection of international water research compiled by the Water
Resources Scientific Information Center (WRSIC) of the USGS. The
research abstracted in this database covers a wide variety of topics
that span
the time period from 1967 to October, 1993. This database
contains over 265,000 abstracts and citations. Enough information is
given in each citation so that the user can locate titles of
interest.
purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS14628
American Memory (Library
of Congress)
The American
Memory Historical Collections, a major
component of the
Library's National Digital Library Program, are multimedia collections
of digitized documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures,
and text from the Library's Americana collections. There are currently
more than 80 collections in the American Memory Historical Collections.
memory.loc.gov/
Archival Research Catalog (ARC)
NAIL is the working prototype for a
future online catalog of holdings in Washington, DC, the regional
records
services facilities, and the Presidential libraries. Until a full
catalog
is developed, NAIL will continue to serve as the NARA's on-line
information
system. NAIL contains information about a wide variety of NARA's
holdings
across the country. Although NAIL contains more than 3,000 microfilm
publications
descriptions, 400,446 archival holdings descriptions, and 124,000
digital
copies, it represents only a limited portion of NARA's vast holdings. www.archives.gov/research/arc/
Core Documents of
U.S.
Democracy
To provide
American citizens direct
online access to the basic Federal Government documents that define our
democratic society, a core group of current and historical Government
publications
is being made available for free, permanent, public access via the GPO
Access service. These titles contain information which is vital to the
democratic process and critical to an informed electorate. They support
the public's right to know about the essential activities of their
Government. Immediate, online access to authenticated versions of these
Core Documents of Democracy increases in importance
as Americans grow ever more dependent on remote electronic access to
basic information resources -- both past
and present.
www.gpoaccess.gov/coredocs.html
Country Studies (Library of Congress)
This website
contains searchable on-line versions of
books previously
published in hard copy by the Federal Research Division of the Library
of Congress under the Country Studies/Area Handbook Program sponsored
by the U.S. Departmentof Army. Because the original intent of the
Series' sponsor was to focus primarily on lesser known areas of
the world or regions in which U.S. forces might be deployed, the series
is not all-inclusive. At present, 101 countries and regions are
covered.
Notable omissions include Canada, France, the United Kingdom, and other
Western nations, as well as a number of African nations.
lcweb2.loc.gov/frd/cs/cshome.html
U.S. Department of State Electronic Research
Collection
The
ERC Electronic Research Collection (ERC) is a partnership of US
State Department, the University of Illinois at Chicago Library and the
Federal Depository Library Program. The ERC collection mainly includes
the archived electronic documents from the US State Department website
and US Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
dosfan.lib.uic.edu/ERC/index.html
National Fallen
Firefighters Memorial Database
USFA
is in the process of building a database containing information about
firefighter fatalities in the United States. Currently, the database
includes the names of firefighters honored from 1994-1999, the most
recent year. We will continue to add
information to the database over the next several months.
http://www.usfa.fema.gov/fatalities/
Official Federal Lands Patent Database
We provide
live database access to Federal land
conveyance records for
the Public Land States. Image access is provided to more than two
million Federal land title records for Eastern Public
Land States, issued between 1820 and 1908.
www.glorecords.blm.gov
Department of Energy OpenNet
Database
The
Department of Energy is committed to openness. In
support of that
commitment, we have developed OpenNet
to
provide
easy, timely access to recently declassified information, including
information declassified in response to Freedom
of
Information Act requests. This database will be updated regularly as
more information becomes available.
www.osti.gov/opennet/
Smithsonian History
Databases
An array of historical data of
material from the
Smithsonian
Institution covering a wide variety of historical
topics.
www.si.edu/archives/ihd/ihdb.htm
Vietnam-Era Prisoner-of-War/ Missing-in-Action Database (Library
of Congress)
This
database has been established to assist researchers interested in
investigating the U.S. Government documents pertaining to
U.S. military personnel listed as unaccounted for as of
December 1991. The title of this collection is
"Correlated and Uncorrelated Information Relating to Missing Americans
in Southeast Asia."
lcweb2.loc.gov/pow/powhome.html
Virtual Smithsonian
The Virtual
Smithsonian highlights over 360
artifacts from the 14
Smithsonian museums along with a virtual walk to the Castle. This
website is based on the traveling exhibit, Celebrating 150 Years,
America’s Smithsonian. Included in the exhibit are high resolution
images, video and audio clips, and artifacts which rotate in 3-D
and morph into other artifacts.
2k.si.edu/
Voyager, National Park Service Library Catalog
Provides
access to the records of the holdings of
libraries within the
National Park Service.
www.library.nps.gov
FedLaw
FedLaw
was developed to see if legal resources on the Internet could be
a useful and cost-effective research tool for Federal lawyers and other
Federal employees. Fedlaw has assembled references of use to people
doing Federal legal research and which can
be accessed directly through "point and click" hypertext connections.
www.thecre.com/fedlaw/default.htm
GPO
Access
GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that
provides free electronic access to a wealth of important information
products produced by the Federal Government.
The information provided on this site is the official, published
version
and the information retrieved from GPO Access can be used without
restriction, unless specifically noted. This free service is funded by
the Federal Depository Library Program and has grown out of Public Law
103-40, known as the Government Printing Office Electronic Information
Enhancement Act of 1993.
www.gpoaccess.gov/
Thomas
Legislative information from the Library of Congress.
thomas.loc.gov
Alcohol and Alcohol
Problems Science Database (ETOH)
The Alcohol and Alcohol Problems Science Database, commonly referred to
as ETOH, is the most comprehensive online resource covering all aspects
of alcohol abuse and alcoholism. Produced
by the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA), ETOH
contains approximately 100,000 records and is accessed by both
researchers
and clinicians worldwide. Included in ETOH are abstracts and
bibliographic
references to journal articles,books, dissertation abstracts,
conference
papers and proceedings, reports and studies, and chapters in edited
works.
Updated monthly, ETOH contains research findings from the late 1960s to
the present, as well as historical research literature.
etoh.niaaa.nih.gov/
Carcinogenic Potency Project
The Carcinogenic Potency Database (CPDB) is a widely used resource on
the results of chronic, long-term animal
cancer tests. It provides a single, standardized and easily accessible
database that includes sufficient information on each experiment to
permit
investigations into many research areas of carcinogenesis. Both
qualitative
and quantitative information on positive and negative experiments are
given, including all bioassays from the National Cancer
Institute/National Toxicology Program (NCI/NTP) and results from the
general literature that meet a set of inclusion criteria. Analyses of
5152 experiments on 1298
chemicals are presented.
potency.berkeley.edu/cpdb.html
Drug Information from MedlinePlus
Information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter
medications is provided through two drug resources -- MedMaster™†, a
product of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) ,
and the USP DI® Advice for the Patient® ‡, a product of the
United States Pharmacopeia (USP).
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
www.foodsafety.gov
Gateway to government
food safety information.
http://www.foodsafety.gov/
GATHER Map Servers at CDC
The Geographic Analysis Tool for Health and Environmental Research
(GATHER) is a software application that facilitates the viewing and
analysis of geographic information system data over the intra/internet
via an easy-to-use Java interface with a graphic web browser.
gis.cdc.gov/
MEDLINE plus Health Information
Welcome to MEDLINEplus, a gold mine of up-to-date, quality health care
information from the world’s largest medical library, the National
Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. MEDLINEplus
is for anyone with a medical question. Both health professionals and
consumers can depend on it for accurate, current, medical information.
This service provides access to extensive information about specific
diseases and conditions and also has links to consumer health
information from the National Institutes of Health, dictionaries, lists
of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish and other
languages, and clinical trials.
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/
National Center for Biotechnology Information
Established in 1988 as a national resource for molecular biology
information, NCBI creates public databases, conducts research in
computational biology, develops software tools for analyzing genome
data, and disseminates biomedical information - all for the better
understanding of molecular processes affecting human health and disease.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
National Women's Health Information Center
The NWHIC provides a gateway to the vast array of Federal and other
women’s health information resources. Our site on the World Wide Web
can help you link to, read, and download a wide variety of women’s
health-related material developed by the Department of Health and Human
Services, the Department of Defense, other Federal agencies, and
private sector resources.
www.4woman.gov/index.htm
Online
Mendelian Inheritance in Man
This database is a catalog of human
genes and genetic disorders authored and edited by Dr. Victor A.
McKusick
and his colleagues at Johns Hopkins and elsewhere, and developed for
the
World Wide Web by NCBI, the National Center for Biotechnology
Information.
The database contains textual information, pictures, and reference
information. It also contains copious links to NCBI's Entrez database
of MEDLINE articles and sequence information.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?db=OMIM
PubMed
PubMed is the National Library of Medicine's search service that
provides access to over 11 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE,
and other related databases, with links to participating online
journals.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/PubMed
CDC HIV, STD, TB
Prevention
News
Update Database
The Prevention News Update databases contains over 26,000 abstracts of
articles about HIV/AIDS-, STD-, and
TB-related events in the news; trends in these epidemics; and research
findings from major newspapers, wire services, medical journals and
news
magazines.
www.cdcnpin.org/scripts/news/NewsList.asp
CDC Wonder
CDC WONDER furthers CDC's mission of health promotion and disease
prevention by speeding and simplifying access to public health
information for state and local health departments, the Public Health
Service, the academic public health community, and the public at large.
CDC WONDER can be valuable in public health research, decision making,
priority setting, program evaluation, and resource allocation.
wonder.cdc.gov
(U.S. Bureau of the Census) American
Factfinder
A site where full-text Census reports are available, as well as
specific, user defined data. The site provides access to 1990 Census
reports and data, as well as between Census estimates and 2000 Census
data as it becomes available.
factfinder.census.gov/java_prod/dads.ui.homePage.HomePage
ChildStats.gov
This web site offers easy access
to federal and state statistics and reports on children and their
families,
including: population and family characteristics, economic security,
health,
behavior and social environment,and education.
www.childstats.gov/
Recreation.Gov
Recreation.Gov is a partnership among federal land management agencies
aimed at providing a single, easy-to-use web site with
information about all federal recreation areas. The site
allows you to search for recreation areas by state, by
recreational
activity, by agency, or by map.
www.recreation.gov/
AGRICOLA
(National
Agriculture Library)
AGRICOLA (AGRICultural OnLine Access) is a bibliographic database of
citations to the agricultural literature
created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators.
Production
of these records in electronic form began in 1970, but the database
covers
materials in all formats, including printed works from the 15th
century.
The records describe publications and resources encompassing all
aspects
of agriculture and allied disciplines, including animal and veterinary
sciences, entomology, plant sciences, forestry, aquaculture and
fisheries,
farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, extension and
education,
food and human nutrition, and earth and environmental sciences.
AGRICOLA
does not contain the materials, but it does identify and help locate
them.
agricola.nal.usda.gov/
DUCKDATA (U.S. Department of the Interior)
DUCKDATA provides a comprehensive bibliography of published literature
on the ecology, conservation, and management of North American
waterfowl and their wetland habitats. Staff at the U.S.
Geological Survey's (USGS), Biological Resources Division (BRD), the
USGS
Patuxent Wildlife Research Center (PWRC), and the USGS National
Wetlands
Research Center (NWRC) are pleased to make this data base available for
online searching and downloading.
http://www.pwrc.usgs.gov/library/duckdata/
National Climatic Data Center Online Document Library
The National Climatic Data Center is providing no charge access for the
Federal depository libraries to access the Online Document Library
located at http://www5.ncdc.noaa.gov/pubs/publications.html Libraries
may access the Monthly Climatic Data for the World, Storm
Data, and Local Climatological Data via this controlled
access site.
Note:
Go to the "FREE access by certain agencies and individuals" under each
title.
www5.ncdc.noaa.gov/pubs/publications.html
NASA Extragalactic Database
Welcome to the NASA/IPAC Extragalactic Database (NED). It is built
around a master list of extragalactic objects for which
cross-identifications of names have been established, accurate
positions and redshifts entered to the extent possible, and some basic
data collected. Bibliographic references relevant to individual objects
have been compiled, and abstracts of extragalactic interest are kept on
line.
Detailed and referenced photometry, position, and redshift data, have
been
taken from large compilations and from the literature. NED's data and
references
are being continually updated, with revised versions being put on-line
every
2-3 months.
nedwww.ipac.caltech.edu/NED.html
NOAA Photo Collection
The NOAA photograph and image collection has been produced to help
those interested in studying our natural world learn more about our
oceans, the atmosphere, and the history of the pioneers who began the
study of our environment in the United States. Presently
there are approximately 16,000 digitized images on this site - and this
number will continue to grow.
www.photolib.noaa.gov
Department of Energy OpenNet
Database
The Department of Energy is committed to openness. In support of that
commitment, we have developed OpenNet
to provide easy, timely access to recently declassified information,
including information declassified in response to Freedom of
Information Act requests. This database will be updated regularly as
more information becomes available.
www.osti.gov/opennet/
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Patent Database
Effective 1 October 2000, the database now offers all US patents issued
since 1790, in the form of searchable patent numbers and current US
classifications hyperlinked to full-page
images of each page of each patent.
www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html
PLANTS Database
The PLANTS Database is a single source of standardized information
about plants. This database focuses on vascular plants, mosses,
liverworts, hornworts, and lichens of the U.S. and its
territories. The PLANTS Database includes names, checklists, automated
tools, identification information, species abstracts, distributional
data,
crop information, plant symbols, plant growth data, plant materials
information,
plant links, references, and other plant information.
plants.usda.gov/
Species
Information, Threatened and Endangered Animals and Plants
(U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service)
Our listing
program follows a strict legal
process to determine whether to list a species, depending on the degree
of threat it faces. An “endangered” species is one that
is in danger of extinction throughout all or a significant portion of
its range. A “threatened” species is one that is likely to become
endangered in the foreseeable future.
endangered.fws.gov/wildlife.html
Tree Database
This Forest Service database lists trees by their botanical names, and
provides access to data regarding: Distribution and Occurence;
Value and Use; Botanical and Ecological Characteristics; Fire Ecology;
Fire Effects, and includes bibliographic references.
www.fs.fed.us/database/feis/plants/tree/