AGENCY, LIBRARY, COOPERATIVE, & PROPRIETARY SOURCES Digitized Historical Government Documents

Cooperatives Google Book Project:

Cooperatives, cont. Open Content Alliance / Internet Archive:  Has separate section for digitized U.S. Government Documents  Librarians can submit materials for digital archive  Better understanding of copyright-free status

Federal Agencies

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Publications Warehouse:  Annual Reports  Bulletins  Circulars  Open-File Reports  Water Supply Papers  Water-Resources Investigations Reports

Census Bureau Digitized copies of historical statistical volumes:  Bicentennial Edition: Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970  Historical Census Reports  Statistical Abstract of the U.S.: 1878-present ( statab/past_years.html) statab/past_years.html

Forest Service Treesearch:  Research station publications Forest Service publications are highly dispersed. It can be useful to visit individual forest or research station websites.

National Agricultural Library Digital Repository Many core USDA series:  Agriculture Handbooks  Yearbook of Agriculture  Reports of the Secretary Agriculture  Agricultural Economic Report  Miscellaneous Publications  Technical Bulletins

NASA NASA Technical Report Server:  NASA technical reports, 1958-present  NACA collection, NASA Images:  NASA's images, videos and audio collections  Cooperative project with the Internet Archive

Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis FRASER:  Banking & monetary statistics,  Economic Indicators,  Economic Report of the President,  Survey of Current Business, ALFRED:  Sets of current and “vintage” data

Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) Electronic Reading Room:  Family Jewels  UFOs  Psychological warfare  Space weapons  Memos about other countries

Smithsonian Institution Smithsonian Digital Library:  Contributions series  U.S. Exploring Expedition  Biodiversity Heritage Library Collection  Mosaic of Science

Department of Labor Wirtz Labor Digital Library:  Department of Labor publications  Trade union and labor history materials  Labor leaders’ biographies  Statistical abstracts

Bureau of Land Management General Land Office records:  Land Patent search for all available states  Plat maps for some states Montana plat maps:

Library of Congress American Memory collection: A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation:

Universities & Academic Libraries

University of North Texas Government information digital collections:  CRS reports  Experiment Station Publications  Federal Newsmaps  FCC Record  USDA publications

University of Wisconsin Foreign Relations of the United States:

University of California, Santa Barbara American Presidency Project:  Messages and Papers of the Presidents: Washington to Taft ( )  Public Papers of the Presidents: Hoover to Bush ( )  Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents: Clinton to G.W. Bush ( )

Oklahoma State University Digital Collections:  Kappler’s Indian Affairs: Laws & Treaties  Indian Claims Commission Decisions

Cornell University Making of America: The Cornell site has the War of the Rebellion series for the Army and Navy.

University of Virginia Digital Collections:  Lewis and Clark and the Corps of Discovery Historical Census Browser:  State and county data for common topics,

George Washington University National Security Archive:  Declassified intelligence documents  Selected documents online for free, others accessible through Digital National Security Archive database

University of Maryland School of Law Special Collections and Digital Projects:  Historical Publications of the United States Commission on Civil Rights  Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports

Virginia Commonwealth University VCU Libraries Digital Collections:  PS Magazine, the Preventive Maintenance Monthly

Yale University Avalon Project: Text versions of important legal documents

Other favorites David Rumsey Map Collection:

Other Favorites, cont. Bureau of American Ethnology Annual Reports (French National Library):

Proprietary Digital Serial Set (Readex or Lexis) Hein Online ProQuest Monthly Catalog Lexis Congressional Hearing Collection Digital Congressional Record (LexisNexis; Hein)