Indexes & Databases
Online government information indexes and databases
- AccessUN
- Access to current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications. Accessible to the Rice community or at the Library only.
- Agricola Web Gateway
- Database of bibliographic records created by the National Agricultural Library and its cooperators.
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- Access to extensive data in the areas of labor, economics and statistics. Includes links to state and regional resources.
- Census Bureau
- Use Access Tools for a selection of ways to locate and use census data. The Censtats database is also available, but can only be accessed in the Government Publications and Special Resources Department.
- Declassified Documents Reference System
- Full text of selected declassified documents from a variety of different government agencies from the post-WWII period.
- DOE Information Bridge
- Electronic collection of DOE sponsored full-text reports and accompanying bibliographic records processed by the Department of Energy since 1996.
- Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis, and Retrieval (EDGAR)
- Contains Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings.
- Energy Citations Database
- Energy and energy-related scientific and technical information from the Department of Energy (DOE) and its predecessor agencies, the Energy Research & Development Administration (ERDA) and the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) 1948 - present.
- Entrez Database
- Search and retrieval system from the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) integrates information from databases such as PubMed, Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, and others.
- Environmental Health Perspectives
- Searchable directory includes a monthly journal and supplement that provides the latest environmental research articles and news. Access to some data may be available only in the Government Publications and Microforms Department with librarian assistance.
- E-Print Network
- Searchable gateway to e-prints that deal with scientific and technical disciplines of concern to DOE including physics, materials, and chemistry, as well as portions of biology, environmental sciences and nuclear medicine.
- ERIC (Education Resources Information Center)
- Public Web site providing at no charge approximately 1.2 million citations and more than 110,000 full-text materials dating from 1966 forward.
- ERIC (CSA Illumina)
- Contains over 800,000 references to thousands of educational topics. The sources it indexes include journal articles, books, theses, curriculi, conference papers, and standards and guidelines. (Alternate interface languages include: French, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese and Korean). (1966- updated monthly).
- ERIC (EBSCOhost)
- Contains over 800,000 references to thousands of educational topics. The sources it indexes include journal articles, books, theses, curriculi, conference papers, and standards and guidelines. (1966- updated monthly )
- ETDEWEB
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- Includes more than 3,908,000 bibliographic records and more than 187,000 full text documents in the areas of energy R&D; energy policy and planning; basic sciences and materials research; the environmental impact of energy production and use, including climate change; energy conservation; nuclear, coal and fossil fuels; and renewable energy technologies.
- EuroTrade
- Contains import and export data for each of the fifteen major European countries and over 12,000 commodities up to the 8-digit European Harmonized System classification level.
- FCC Electronic Document Management System (EDOCS)
- Provides access to Daily Digest entries for Federal Communications Commission documents posted to the FCC web site since March 1996. Citations to the FCC Record Index, FCC Reports 2nd Series, and the Federal Register are included back to 1982. Federal Research in Progress
- No account or password necessary.
Provides access to important information about ongoing federally funded projects in the physical sciences, engineering, and life sciences. Project descriptions generally include: project title, keywords, start date, estimated completion date, principal investigator, performing and sponsoring organizations, summary, and progress report. Record content varies depending on the source agency. - Federal Reserve Archival System for Economic Research (FRASER )
- Contains links to scanned images (PDF format) of historic economic statistical publications, releases, and documents including the annual Economic Report of the President. Coverage starts with the 19th and early 20th century for some economic and banking reports. Includes a link to Allan Meltzer’s A History of the Federal Reserve Volume 1: 1913-1951.
- Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED®)
- Contains data of over 3000 U.S. economic time series. Download in Microsoft Excel and text formats and view charts of data series. For “vintage” data beginning Jan. 17, 1996, see Archival Federal Reserve Economic Data (ALFRED™).
- FEDSTATS
- Includes statistical information from 14 United States agencies. Provides links to many additional agencies.
- Geographic Names Information System (GNIS)
- Contains information about almost 2 million physical and cultural geographic features in the United States. Identifies the federally recognized name of each feature described in the data base, and refers to a feature's location by state, county, and geographic coordinates.
- GPO Access
- Includes the full text of bills from the 103rd Congress to the current Congress; the full text of the Congressional Record and Congressional Record Index for the 103rd Congress to the current Congress; Public Laws, U.S. Code and more.
- Homeland Security Digital Library
- Multimedia collection of homeland security policy and strategy related documents. Popular features include a meta-search engine for searching across multiple databases at once, a reference page for quick retrieval of selected categories of documents, and a news and reports page for accessing the latest homeland security information.
- Index to Current Urban Documents
- No account or password necessary.
- ICUD Online is a fully searchable index of reports and research generated by local government agencies, civic organizations, academic and research organizations, public libraries, and metropolitan and regional planning agencies in approximately 500 selected cities in the United States and Canada.
- INIS: International Nuclear Information System | includes Full Text
- No account or password necessary.
- The International Nuclear Information System, INIS, is the leading information source for scientific and technical literature published worldwide on the peaceful applications of nuclear science and technology. Currently contains over 2.8 million references with English abstracts from 1970 to the present.
- LexisNexis Academic
- Includes government and legal information with access to government and political news, legal news, and state and federal statutes and case law. Also includes law reviews, state and country profiles and other news and reference resources. Accessible to the Rice community only.
- LexisNexis Congressional
- Provides full-text access to historical (1789- ) and current U.S. Congressional publications including committee hearings, committee prints, Congressional Research Service reports, the American State Papers, the Serial Set (House and Senate documents and reports, Senate executive reports and treaty documents), Serial Set maps, Congressional news, and information about members of Congress and Congressional committees. Accessible to the Rice community or at the Library only.
- LexisNexis Environmental
- Includes environmental abstracts and selected full text, federal and state codes, case law, and waste site data. Accessible to the Rice community or at the Library only.
- LexisNexis Statistical
- Provides indexing and abstracts for a wide range of statistical sources from U.S. federal, U.S. state, and international/non-governmental organization publications. Corresponds to the print indexes American Statistics Index, Index to International Statistics, and Statistical Reference Index. Accessible to the Rice community or at the Library only.
- Marcive
- Search tool for U.S. Government Publications from July 1976 to present. Accessible to the Rice community or at the Library only.
- NASA Scientific and Technical Information
- Access point for searching NASA technical databases.
- National Climatic Data Center Online Document Library
- Online access to daily, monthly, and yearly international, national, state, and county climatic data including climatic atlases of the United States and the world.
- National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database
- Contains summaries of more than 170,000 criminal justice publications including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.
- National Technical Information Service
- Coverage includes abstracts of U.S. Government Agencies' technical publications from 1964-present. Accessible to the Rice community or at the Library only.
- Nineteenth Century Masterfile
- Descriptive catalog of U.S. Government Publications 1774-1881. Also includes a compilation of the messages and papers of the Presidents 1789-1897. Accessible to the Rice community or at the Library only.
- PubMed
- National Library of Medicine biomedical and life science database that provides access to over 12 million MEDLINE citations back to the mid-1960's. Includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
- PubMed Central
- Digital archive of life sciences journal literature developed by the National Center for Biotechnology Information at the U.S. National Library of Medicine.
- Science.gov
- Gateway to selected authoritative science information provided by U.S. Government agencies. Includes research and development results.
- STAT-USA
- U.S. Department of Commerce collection of business, economic, and trade databases that includes information from over 40 government agencies. Archived economic information including America's Top 50 Releases is available through its State of the Nation Archive. Also includes U.S. travel and tourism (arrivals/departures) statistics, primary market transactions, and a monthly U.S. Treasury yield chart based on CMT (Constant Maturity Treasury) rates. ( Accessible to the Rice community or at the Library only.
- Statistical Abstract of the United States
- Known as "the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States." Includes data from the Census Bureau, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Bureau of Economic Analysis, and other Federal agencies and private organizations. Includes State Abstracts.
- Trade Dataweb
- International Trade Commission's online database for current trade (1999+) and tariff statistics.
- THOMAS
- Legislative information databases including current activities in Congress, bills, the Congressional Record, committee information, and historical documents.
- TOXNET: Toxicology Data Network
- National Library of Medicine databases on toxicology, hazardous chemicals, environmental health, and toxic releases.
- United Nations Treaty Collection
includes Full Text
- Password required
- This database provides indexing of and access to: United Nations Treaty Series (over 40,000 bilateral and multilateral treaties and subsequent actions in their authentic language(s), along with a translation into English and French, as appropriate), Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General, and texts of recently deposited multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General that have not yet been published in the UNTS.
Account/password: On campus/VPN and proxy users. - University of Virginia Geospatial and Statistical Data Center (Geostat)
- Provides historical census data, geospatial data, and social science data sets.
- U.S. Consumer Gateway
- One-stop access to federal information resources for consumers organized by category.
- USA.gov (Formerly Firstgov)
- Official U.S. gateway to government information including federal and state governments, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories.
- USGS Publications Warehouse Database
- Searchable by author, title, series, and report number for historical and current documents.
- Wage Determinations OnLine
- Provides a single location for federal contracting officers to use in obtaining appropriate Service Contract Act (SCA) and Davis-Bacon Act (DBA) wage determinations (WDs) for each official contract action. Also available to the general public.
- Westlaw Campus
- Includes U.S. (including Supreme Court) and state case law after 1944. Also includes access to: United States Code Annotated, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register (fulltext after 1980), state administrative codes and statutes. Contains secondary legal materials including the American Jurisprudence encyclopedia, American Law Reports (2d series+ and Federal) and several hundred journals and law reviews. Users may search by citation, parties to legal cases, and by subject. Accessible to the Rice community or at the Library only.
- World News Connection
- National Technical Information Services' database of foreign news resources.
- Additional online indexes and databases accessible at Rice
- Indexes and databases are grouped by subject area. Accessible to the Rice community or at the Library only.
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