Government Databases

The following is a list of some of the government electronic resources available in the Electronic Information Center at the Science, Industry and Business Library. Please see the complete list of electronic resources for descriptions of these resources.

Academic Search Premier
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
Provides full text for 4,000 scholarly publications covering academic areas of study including social sciences, humanities, education, computer sciences, engineering, language and linguistics, arts & literature, medical sciences, and ethnic studies.

AccessUN
Index, articles and full-text database of United Nations documents covering 1998-2003.

Alternative Press Index
Indexes and abstracts alternative, radical, and leftist publications.

Alternative Press Index Archive
Index of journals (1969-1990) covering cultural, economic, political & social change.

American State Papers, 1789-1838
U.S. legislative and executive materials originating from 1789 -1838 but not published until the second and third quarters of the 19th century.

Ancestry Library Edition
Access to more than 5 billion names in more than 4,000 genealogical databases including Census Records, Passenger Lists and UK & Ireland records. Library version of Ancestry.com.

Blackwell Synergy
Online journals from the publisher Blackwell. 300 print journal subscriptions are now newly available online at the Library.To access a publication, connect to Blackwell Synergy, and select "Subscribed Journals" from the drop down menu.

Bremen Emigration Lists, 1920-1939
Searchable database of passengers leaving Bremen for the years 1920 to 1939.

CASSIS: Classification and Search Support Information System
Indexing (1969 - Present) and abstracting (1994 - Present) for U.S. patents and current and pending federally registered Trademarks (1790 - Present), as well as information on patent classifications and assignments.

Castle Garden Immigration Center, 1830-1892
Index of more than 10 million immigrants who arrived at the Port of New York from 1830-1892. Searching via S. Morse's One Step Search Form.

Census CD
Includes the full set of Census data from Block Group level up to the nation, all 16 geographies included in the Census long form databases STF3A to D, all tracts, places, counties, states, Congressional districts, Zip codes, etc., for over 375,000 geographic locations in the US. It has all 3,500+ Census demographic variables for every area along with millions of street addresses from Tiger94, all distributed by the US Census Bureau.

Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Higher Education Online is published every weekday and is the top destination for news, advice, and jobs for people in academe. The Chronicle's Web site features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; vibrant discussion forums; and career-building tools such as online CV management, salary databases, and more.

CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)
A comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.

Congressional Documents & Debates, 1774-1875
This free site brings together online the records and acts of the U.S. Congress from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention through the 43rd Congress. Find congressional journals, debate proceedings, statutes, bills, and official reports.

Congressional Indexes 1789-1969
Includes U.S. House and Senate documents and reports, committee hearings, unpublished hearings, and commitee prints.

Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980
A digital reproduction of the key publications of the United States Congress, the Congressional Serial Set documents the official activities of the House and the Senate, including the journals, reports and documents. IN PROGRESS.

Congressional Universe
Provides comprehensive access to U.S. legislative information from Congressional Information Service, Inc.

CQ's Electronic Encyclopedia of American Government
Contains articles and illustrations on the history, structure, dynamics, operation, and personalities of the three branches of U.S. government.

Credo Reference
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
This database which includes bilingual and biographical dictionaries provides a full text collection for over 270 reference works covering art, biography, business, geography, history and social science, language, law, literature, medicine, music, philosophy and psychology, religion, science and technology.

Criminal Justice Abstracts
Criminal Justice Abstracts, the criminology database from SAGE Publications, contains comprehensive coverage of international journals, books, reports, dissertations and unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines.

EconLit
Indexes and abstracts international literature on economics.

Economist Intelligence Unit
Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU) includes Country Reports, Country Profiles, Views Wire, Risk Briefings, Country Commerce, Industry Briefings, Country Finance, and World Commodity Forecasts.

Eighteenth Century Journals II
Provides full-text, digital images from the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center collection of 17th and 18th century newspapers and periodicals. Topics covered include the writings of Sir Isaac Newton, the French Revolution, reviews of literature and fashion throughout Europe, political debates, and coffee house gossip and discussion.

Encyclopedia Judaica
Full-text searchable database of the 22 volumes.

Encyclopedia of Governmental Advisory Organizations
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
A directory of executive advisory bodies in the United States.

Environment Index EBSCO (formerly Environmental Issues and Policy Index)
Provides citations and selected full-text to articles from scientific, technical, and popular magazines and journals spanning a wide range of environmental topics.

Ethnic NewsWatch
Collection of ethnic, minority, and native newspapers, magazines, and journals published in America.

Europa: Gateway to the European Union
Current information on the member countries of the European Union, including statistical data, policies, news, official documents, legal texts, and other publications.

Foreign Relations of the United States
This digital facsimile of FRUS is a project of the University of Wisconsin-Madison Libraries in collaboration with the University of Illinois at Chicago Libraries. An almost complete run from 1861-1960 with missing volumes being added as they can be acquired.

Historical Census Browser
Provides population and economic census data for U.S. states and counties from the years 1790-1960.

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
Between 1715 and 2000, around 9.5 million pages for over 184,000 parliamentary papers were published. Since 2001, the number of papers has grown by approximately 4,000 for each parliamentary session. HCPP delivers searchable full text for each paper, along with a detailed subject index.

Infoshare Online
Provides a wide range of data on the neighborhoods of New York City -- population, immigration, land use, public assistance, birth, death, hospitalization and much else.

JSTOR
A searchable, digitized archive -- from the first date of publication to the last three to five years -- of major scholarly journals in many academic fields.

Lexis Nexis Digital Congressional Hearings Digital Collection
Provides access to published and unpublished hearings. When complete, the hearings collection will go back to 1824. The digital collection is in progress at this time: As of February 2008, hearings from 1961-2007 are available in PDF format, and may be accessed through searches from the Basic, Advanced, or Search by number forms. Retrospective files are being loaded monthly, mid-month. (Click on the down arrow next to date to search by a range of dates).

LRS- NY State Legislative Retrieval System
Full-text database of New York State legislative information. Access bill status, bill text, and summary. Includes Committee agendas, floor calendars, daily sheets, chapters for the current year, veto and approval messages, and related documents. Searchable by bill number, word or phrase, or search links. Provides NY State legislative information going back to 1995.

Monthly Catalog of the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)
Citations to publications of U.S. Government agencies.

MyCITI Map Portal
Through a partnership between the Municipal Art Society and the City of New York, users can access an enhanced New York City Map Portal for detailed maps, building and property data, subway information, community statistics and more.

Naturalization index to records at the Kings County Clerk's Office, 1907-1924
Index to the Kings County (Brooklyn) naturalization records located in the Kings County Clerk's Office.

New York City Census FactFinder
Department of City Planning reference collection including access to New York City population information from the 2000 U.S. Census.

PAIS Archive
Provides historical perspective on many of the 20th-century's public and social policies.

PAIS International
Indexes journals, reports, and other documents that cover public policy, cultural and social issues, and international relations.

Patents Searching
Searchable full text and bibliographic patent databases from the US Patent and Trademark Office, which covers the period from 1 January 1976 to the most recent weekly issue date. The full text database also includes links to full page images. This site is a resource for application and general information about patents.

Polling the Nations
Polling the Nations is an online database of public opinion polls containing the full-text of 500,000 questions and responses from 14,000+ surveys conducted from 1986 through the present in the United States and 100 other countries around the world.

Project Muse
This resource is available from home with a branch library card.
A full-text database of recent issues of journals in the humanities, social sciences, and mathematics.

ProQuest Research Library
Provides articles from periodicals covering arts, business, children, education, health, humanities, law, multicultural studies, sciences, social sciences, and general interest. Full text is available for nearly two-thirds of its titles.

PubWEST
Search patents using the public version of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s Web-based Examiners Search Tool database (PubWEST). This is one of the databases the USPTO makes available to professional searchers. Search and view all U.S. patents, applications published since March 15, 2001, and abstracts of European and Japanese patents. Images of many other foreign patents are available for viewing and printing.

Social Sciences Citation Index
Indexes articles and provides cited references found in over 1,700 leading social science journals in more than fifty subjects including anthropology, area studies, criminal justice, economics, education, environmental studies, ethnic studies, library science, history, international relations, political science, psychology, sociology, urban studies and women’s studies. The SSCI also includes selected, relevant articles from more than 3,000 science and technology journals.

Social Services Abstracts
Social Services Abstracts provides bibliographic coverage of current research focused on social work, human services, and related areas, including social welfare, social policy, and community development. The database abstracts and indexes over 1,300+ serials publications and includes abstracts of journal articles and dissertations, and citations to book reviews.

Sociological Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts literature in theoretical and applied sociology, and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences.

SourceOECD
SourceOECD is the online library of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. This library comprises 20 book collections by theme, containing all of the OECD monographs and reports, 24 periodicals, a reference title, and the OECD statistical databases.

State Capital Universe
Provides full-text access to state bills and laws, constitutions, regulations, articles about legislative issues and legislative membership.

Statistical Universe
Indexes and abstracts statistical sources from government and nongovernment agencies. Some graphs are available.

STAT-USA/Internet
International trade and export information from the U.S. Department of Commerce including the National Trade Databank (NTDB), Foreign Traders index, and market research reports by product and country. Other national economic statistics too.

Trademark Electronic Search System (Tess)
Searchable trademark database from the US Patent and Trademark Office, which includes the full bibliographic text of pending and registered trademarks. This site is a resource for application and general information about trademarks.

United Nations Documents and Publications Index
UN materials searchable by subject, session, document number, UN sales number, title and country.

United Nations Official Documents System (ODS)
United Nations Official Documents System (ODS) is a full-text repository of official documents published by the U.N. in all six official languages of the U.N. Documents are stored in two databases: UN documentation, with comprehensive coverage starting with 1993, and selected coverage for earlier years; UN Resolutions, including official records version of resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and Trusteeship Council since 1946.

United Nations Treaty Series
Collection of over 34,000 treaties and international agreements registered or filed and recorded with and published by the Secretariat since 1946

United States Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980

United States Exports History: Historical Summary
U.S. Bureau of the Census annual summaries of export shipments from 1991-1995.

United States Exports of Merchandise
From the Bureau of the Census, International Harmonized System, Commodity Classification and Harmonized Tariff Schedules by country and by customs district. Monthly and annual summaries.

United States Imports History: Historical Summary
From the U.S. Bureau of the Census: Annual import statistics for the years 1991 - 1995.

United States Imports of Merchandise
From the Bureau of the Census, International Harmonized System, Commodity Classification and Harmonized Tariff Schedules by country and by customs district. Monthly and annual summaries.

USATrade
Provides official exports and imports data on more than 17,000 commodities. Reveals what merchandise is being shipped, where it is being shipped, and how much it is worth. Includes quantity and value of exports and imports by 2-, 4-, 6-, and 10 digit Harmonized System codes plus the total quantity and value of exports and imports for more than 250 countries and each customs district

Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Indexes journals covering political science and related fields.