Digitized Historical Government Documents

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)