Finding Research Resources

Free online access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government.

The finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive records for historical and current publications and provides direct links to those that are available online; Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general key word, or click on "Advanced Search" for more options.

Hosted by UNT Libraries; The Congressional Research Service (CRS) does not provide direct public access to its reports, requiring citizens to request them from their Member of Congress; Some Members, as well as several non-profit groups, have posted the reports on their Web sites; This site aims to provide integrated, searchable access to many of the full-text CRS reports that have been available at a variety of different Web sites since 1990.

Free online access to official Federal Government publications from all three branches of the Federal Government; Search or browse for documents and publications; Access metadata about documents and publications; Consider also USA.gov

Population, housing, economic, and geographic data in the form of maps, tables, and reports from a variety of Census Bureau sources.

Website offers easy access to statistics and reports on children and families, including: family and social environment, economic circumstances, health care, physical environment and safety, behavior, education and health.

Provides information on the history, people, government, economy, geography, communications, transportation, military, and transnational issues for 267 world entities.

Searchable database which provides patients, family members and the public with information about current ongoing clinical research studies; ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details.

Includes facts about the land, people, history, government, political conditions, economy, and foreign relations of independent states, some dependencies, and areas of special sovereignty; The Background Notes are updated/revised by the Office of Electronic Information and Publications of the Bureau of Public Affairs.

The official web site for the Department of Defense and the starting point for finding U.S. military information online.

Directory of what the U.S. Government is buying, selling, and awarding in contracts. Replaces Commerce Business Daily.

The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication; The series is produced by the State Department's Office of the Historian and printed volumes are available from the Government Printing Office.

Electronic documents made available by the Dudley Knox Library at the Naval Postgraduate School, searchable by keyword or by topic, including general U.S. policy documents, national strategy documents, theses and research papers from the Center for Homeland Defense and Security and the Naval Postgraduate School, and homeland security executive orders; Also includes notices of events and conferences pertaining to homeland security, and news items drawn from various news sources.

Disclosing chemical ingredients in products provides essential information throughout the supply chain from raw material supplier to consumers. Infor­mation about the ingredients of products and their health effects allow con­sumers to make better informed choices. The development of this database was initiated in 1994 by DeLima Associates of McLean, Virginia, USA in response to a need for a database (identified by the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention), that related household product types, brand names, chemical constituents, health-related information (acute and chronic effects and target organs), and exposure minimization techniques. This database has been supported by the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), U.S. Public Health Service, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services.

Provides a single point of access to current HRSA information, health resources, and demographic data for reporting on HRSA activities; Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) is an Agency within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; As the Nations Access Agency, HRSA focuses on uninsured, under-served, and special needs populations.

Search and browse by lawmakers name, issue area, or bill number; Allows anyone to follow legislation in Congress, from bill introduction to floor vote.

PMC is a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature at the U.S. National Institutes of Health's National Library of Medicine (NIH/NLM).

Department's mission is to shape and sustain a peaceful, prosperous, just, and democratic world and foster conditions for stability and progress for the benefit of the American people and people everywhere.

The mission of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is to protect investors, maintain fair, orderly, and efficient markets, and facilitate capital formation.