United States Government

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MAIN INDEXES AND DATABASES
American State Papers, 1789-1838 via Readex	1789-1838	Digital version of 38 volumes of the American State Papers. Contains 6,354 legislative and executive documents of Congress during the period 1789 to 1838: 1st Congress, 1st Session through 25th Congress, 2nd Session . Does not include House and Senate journals. The original publication was divided into ten topical classes or series: Foreign Relations; Indian Affairs; Finances; Commerce and Navigation; Military Affairs; Naval Affairs; Post Office Department; Public Lands; Claims; Miscellaneous. For Congress documents during the period 1817 to 1914 (15th Congress - 63rd Congress) see U.S. Congressional Serial Set. These two resources chronologically overlap from 1817 to 1838.
Congressional via LexisNexis	Varies	Database of U.S. congressional information, including papers, bills, and biographies.
CQ Weekly via CQ Press	1983-present	Weekly newsletter with in-depth reports on current and upcoming issues in the U.S. Congress, and a complete wrap up the previous week's news, including the status of bills in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates and all roll-call votes.
Declassified Documents Reference System via GaleNet	1941-1997	Provides online access to over 500,000 pages of U.S. declassified government documents. Covers major international events from Cold War to the Vietnam War and beyond.
Digital National Security Archive via ProQuest	Varies	Collection of primary documents. Includes more than 43,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions. To view the full text of a document click on its title.
FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service) Daily Reports, 1974 - 1996 via NewsBank	1974-1996	Full-text of theFBIS Daily Reports issued by the U.S. Government covering political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events throughout the world. Translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world. FIU has access to the "Middle East and Africa (1980-87)" and "Middle East and North Africa (1974-80)" Series.
GPO Access via GPO Access	Varies by Database	Provides free electronic access to government information databases, individual Federal agency files and much more. Consider aslo USA.gov.
GPO Monthly Catalog via FirstSearch	July 1976-present	Listings for documents of all kinds printed by the U.S. government and its agencies, some of which may be available at the FIU Libraries. The Libraries are a selective U.S. government depository and receive about 70% of the items in this database.
GPO Monthly Catalog via GPO Access	1976-present
PAIS International (Public Affairs Information Service) via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts	1972-present	Indexes 3,890+ international scholarly journals, government documents, Internet materials, and other publications from over 120 countries on current events in the political and social sciences.
Statistical via LexisNexis	Current	Indexes statistical data from U.S. government, international, professional, and other organizations.
STAT-USA via STAT-USA	Current	Financial and economic data, daily trade leads, important statistics and international trade documents. Access to State of the Nation and Globus & NTDB.
STAT-USA : CD-ROM via UP Gov Docs	Current
U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980 via Readex	1817-1941	Digital version of the bound, sequentially numbered volumes of all the reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. Includes committee reports related to bills and other matters, presidential communications to Congress, treaty materials, certain executive department publications, and Currently vols. 1 - 10440 are available: 15th Congress - 76th Congress, 3rd Session, 1817 - 1941. Upon completion, the digital version of the Serial Set will consist of approximately 13,800 volumes. For legislative and executive documents of Congress during the period 1789 to 1838 (1st Congress, 1st Session through 25th Congress, 2nd Session) see American State Papers.
SPECIALIZED INDEXES AND DATABASES
Academic via LexisNexis	Varies	Full-text access to a wide range of news, business, legal, medical, government, statistical, and reference information; federal and state case law.
AGRICOLA via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts	1970-present	Indexes publications in all aspects of agriculture and allied disciplines, including: food and human nutrition, farming and farming systems, agricultural economics, aquaculture, fisheries, and extension and education.
AGRICOLA via National Agricultural Library	1970-present
ERIC via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts	1966-present	Indexes scholarly and trade journals as well as unpublished documents in all aspects of education. Search the ERIC Thesaurus for subject terms. Select tab Search Tools, after that select tab Thesaurus.
ERIC via FirstSearch	1966-present
ERIC via Institute of Education Sciences	1966-present
MEDLINE via Cambridge Scientific Abstracts	1997-present; Last 10 years	Indexes 5,160+ international scholarly journals in medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the preclinical sciences.
MEDLINE via FirstSearch	1965-present
MEDLINE on Pubmed via National Library of Medicine	1950-present
MEDLINE via LexisNexis Select "Medline References" from the "Select Sources" drop-down menu.	1950-present
RELATED INDEXES AND DATABASES
Academic OneFile via InfoTrac	1980-present	Full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources in the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects. Indexes 11,000+ journals.
America: History and Life via ABC-CLIO	1954-present	Indexes 2,000+ scholarly journals in history covering the United States and Canada. If you use ABC-CLIO, select "United States and Canadian History" from the drop down menu next to "Search."
America: History and Life via EBSCOhost	1954-present
Encyclopaedia Britannica Online via Britannica	Current	Web version of the Encyclopedia Britannica. Includes multidisciplinary articles, internet links and images.
Ethnic Newswatch via ProQuest	1990-present	Articles from U.S. ethnic, minority and native presses. Search interfaces are available in English and Spanish.
General OneFile via InfoTrac	1980-present	Indexes 11,100+ multidisciplinary scholarly and trade journals, popular magazines, and newspapers. Includes 70+ reference sources. Covers topics in business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, etc. Formerly InfoTrac OneFile.
Legal Periodicals Full Text and Legal Periodicals Retrospective via WilsonWeb	1908-present; Full text: 1994-present	Indexes legal journals and other publications. Full text of nearly 270 periodicals, as far back as 1994.
NewsBank NewsFile Collection via NewsBank	1992-present	Articles from 500+ U.S. regional and national newspapers, wire services, and broadcasts.
New York Times via ProQuest	1999-present	Contains citations, abstracts, and full-text articles from the New York Times. Search this title alone or, click on "Databases selected" and choose other titles to search at the same time. Other titles include: ABI/Inform Global, ABI/Inform Trade and Industry, Criminal Justice Periodicals, ProQuest Newspapers, and the Wall Street Journal.
New York Times (Historical File) via ProQuest	1851-2004	Full-text digital archive of articles from the New York Times.
World Almanac via FirstSearch	1998-present	Includes Funk & Wagnall's New Encyclopedia and four almanacs. Facts, statistics, tables, charts of general information in all topics, including economics, environment, and social issues.
WorldCat via FirstSearch	Current	Catalog holdings for thousands of international libraries.