Indexes and Databases for Federal Publications
The United States Government is the largest publisher of information in the world. Its many agencies and departments routinely distribute data in the forms of reports and annual publications.
The following list of databases are provided by the U.S. Government to assist in finding and distributing that information. If you have any questions about which database to use or how to use a database, please ask a librarian.
For a full list of library databases, check on Databases.
| Full Text Available | Access Restrictions | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AGRICOLA Coverage: 1970 - Present | F | Open Access | ||
| Scope: prvides access to citations on agricultural literature created by the National Agricultural Library (NAL) 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. | ||||
| ArXiv Coverage: 1991 - Present | Open Access | |||
| Scope: this e-print service in the fields of physics, mathematics, non-linear science, computer science, and quantitative biology. Access Note: Originally established at Los Almos, arXix is now hosted by the Cornell University. | ||||
| Cold Regions Bibliography Coverage: 1800 - Present | Open Access | |||
| Scope: covers all disciplines related to the region including biological and geological sciences, medical sciences, meteorology, oceanography, atmospheric and terrestrial physics, expeditions, logistics equipment and supplies, and tourism. The Antarctic Bibliography is produced with support from the National Science Foundation with contributions from the Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge. | ||||
| Dryden Flight Research Center: Technical Reports Coverage: 1947 - Present | F | Open Access | ||
| Scope: covering reports ranging from validation of advanced aeronautical and control systems concepts and atmospheric flight testing of future space-access technology demonstrators to Earth science experiments. | ||||
| EDGAR: SEC (Securities and Exchange Commission) Coverage: 1994 - Present | F | Open Access | ||
| Scope: an automated collection, validation, indexing, acceptance, and forwarding of 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. | ||||
| Energy Citations Database (U.S. Dept. of Energy) Coverage: 1948 - Present | Open Access | |||
| Scope: includes bibliographic records of literature in disciplines of interest to DOE such as chemistry, physics, materials, environmental science, geology, engineering, mathematics, climatology, oceanography, computer science and related disciplines. It includes citations to report literature, conference papers, journal articles, books, dissertations, and patents. | ||||
| ERIC Coverage: 1966 - Present | F | M | ||
| Scope: provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. | ||||
| GLTRS (Glenn Technical Reports Server) Coverage: 1962 - Present | F | Open Access | ||
| Scope: a service that allows users to search available online technical reports and abstracts. It is provided by Glenn's Logistics and Technical Information Division. | ||||
| Homeland Security Digital Library Coverage: 2000 - Present | F | M | ||
| Scope: provides quick access to important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies. The resources are reviewed and selected by a team of homeland security researchers and organized in a unique homeland security taxonomy. | ||||
| Hourly Precipitation Data Publications Coverage: 1951 - Present | F | O | ||
| This publication contains hourly precipitation amounts obtained from recording rain gages located at National Weather Service, Federal Aviation Administration, and cooperative observer stations. Published data are displayed in inches to tenths or inches to hundredths at local standard time. HPD includes maximum precipitation for nine (9) time periods from 15 minutes to 24 hours, for selected stations. Access Note: On campus access is free. There is a fee for off campus access. Please contact the reference desk if you have any questions. | ||||
| Information Bridge (U.S. Dept. of Energy) Coverage: 1995 - Present | F | Open Access | ||
| Scope: provides 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. | ||||
| IUPAC-NIST Solubility Database Coverage: | F | Open Access | ||
| Scope mutual solubilities and liquid-liquid equilibria of binary, ternary and quaternary systems are presented. Typical solvents and solutes include water, sea water, heavy water, inorganic compounds, and a variety of organic compounds such as hydrocarbons, halogenated hydrocarbons, alcohols, acids, esters and nitrogen compounds. For many systems, sufficient data were available to allow critical evaluation. Data are expressed as mass and mole fractions as well as the originally reported units. | ||||
| Journal of Physical and Chemical Reference Data (reprints) Coverage: 1972 - 1998 | F | Open Access | ||
| Scope: to provide critically evaluated physical and chemical property data, fully documented as to the original sources and the criteria used for evaluation. Critical reviews of measurement techniques, whose aim is to assess the accuracy of available data in a given technical area, are also included. | ||||
| NASA Astrophysics Data System Coverage: 1975 - Present | Open Access | |||
| Scope: contains four bibliographic databases containing more than 3.6 million records: astronomy & astrophysics, instrumentation, physics & geophysics, and the Los Alamos e-print server. Also provides links to astronomical data catalogs and data archives. | ||||
| NTIS/GPO DARTS (Depository Access to Reports, Technical and Scientific) Coverage: 1964 - 2000 | F | M | ||
| Scope: This is a pilot NTIS and GPO project which includes documents from the Department of Energy (DOE), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), and NTIS. The documents in the NTIS collection with the PB accession number prefix are the products of many different Federal agencies and include both agency and contract studies. Most reports from 1997-2000 are scanned into the image system. | ||||
| NTRS: NASA Technical Reports Server Coverage: | Open Access | |||
| Scope: to provide students, educators, and the public access to NASA's technical literature. NTRS also collects scientific and technical information from sites external to NASA to broaden the scope of information available to users. | ||||
| Patents database from US Patent and Trademark Office Coverage: 1790 - Present | F | Open Access | ||
| Scope: US patents are primarly covered. Provides both bibliographic and full-text searching. Access Note: Viewing full-page images requires a TIFF image browser plug-in. Links to plug-ins are at http://www.uspto.gov/web/menu/plugins/index.html | ||||
| PubMed (MEDLINE/National Library of Medicine) Coverage: 1966 - Present | Open Access | |||
| Scope: a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. | ||||
| Science.gov Coverage: | F | Open Access | ||
| Scope: contains reliable information resources selected by respective government agencies as their best science information. 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. | ||||
| SPRILIB Antarctica Coverage: 1602 - 2001 | Open Access | |||
| Scope: provides comprehensive coverage of works on Antarctica and the southern oceans up to 1962. There is selective coverage after that because it is intended to complement rather than duplicate items included in the Cold Regions Bibliography which is at: http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/coldregions/ | ||||
| STAT-USA Coverage: 1985 - Present | F | L | ||
| Scope: delivering reliable, timely, and authoritative statistics from across the Federal Government since 1985. Today, several thousand direct customers ranging from the largest Fortunes 500 companies, to small and medium sized businesses, libraries, universities, other government agencies, and individuals use STAT-USA/Internet to meet their business and education needs. Includes access to USA Trade database. Access Note: Available on several workstations in the Library. Please ask for assistance at the Reference Desk (906) 487-2507. | ||||
| TOXNET Coverage: 1973 - Present | Open Access | |||
| Scope TOXNET (TOXicology Data NETwork) is a cluster of databases covering toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health and related areas. It includes Hazardous Substances Data Bank (HSDB), Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS), International Toxicity Estimates for Risk (ITER), Chemical Carcinogenesis Research Information System (CCRIS), Genetic Toxicology (Gene-Tox), Tox Town, Household Product Database, Haz-Map, and TOXMAP. In addition it includes TOXLINE, DART/ETIC, Toxics Release Inventory. Finaly, TOXNET also includes ChemIDplus. | ||||
| TranStats: The Intermodal Transportation Database Coverage: 1990 - Present | F | Open Access | ||
| Scope: for transportation researchers and analysts, aimed at providing "one stop shopping" for transportation data. | ||||
| Treesearch Coverage: 2004 - Present | F | Open Access | ||
| Scope: online system for locating and delivering publications by Research and Development scientists in the USDA Forest Service. Publications in the collection include research monographs published by the agency as well as papers written by our scientists but published by other organizations in their journals, conference proceedings, or books. Research results behind these publications have been peer reviewed to ensure the best quality science. | ||||
| TRIS Online (Transportation Research Information Service) Coverage: 1960 - Present | Open Access | |||
| Scope: a comprehensive transportation database contining almost half a million records of references to books, technical reports, conference proceedings, journal articles and on-going research in the field of transportation. | ||||
| USGS Surface-Water Data for the Nation Coverage: | Open Access | |||
| Scope: Nationally, USGS surface-water data includes more than 850,000 station years of time-series data that describe stream levels, streamflow (discharge), reservoir and lake levels, surface-water quality, and rainfall. The data are collected by automatic recorders and manual measurements at field installations across the Nation.. Access Note: Tutorial Link | ||||
